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Edward Haletky
Edward HaletkyEdward L. Haletky, aka Texiwill, is the author of VMware vSphere(TM) and Virtual Infrastructure Security: Securing the Virtual Environment as well as VMware ESX and ESXi in the Enterprise: Planning Deployment of Virtualization Servers, 2nd Edition. Edward owns AstroArch Consulting, Inc., providing virtualization, security, network consulting and development and The Virtualization Practice where he is also an Analyst. Edward is the Moderator and Host of the Virtualization Security Podcast as well as a guru and moderator for the VMware Communities Forums, providing answers to security and configuration questions. Edward is working on new books on Virtualization. [All Papers/Publications...]

Cisco Nexus 1000v: Free unless you want Security

October 17, 2012
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VirtualizationSecurity

While not particularly new news, the next version of the Cisco Nexus 1000v will be free, unless you want the security features. This is an interesting shift from Cisco with respect to VMware vCloud Director, the Nicira purchase, furthering UCS, and Cisco within non-UCS data centers. However, given other announcements, with respect to OpenStack, perhaps…

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Licensing your Private Cloud

October 4, 2012
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DataCenterVirtualization

Both Microsoft and VMware have revamped their product suites and therefore their licensing once more and how you buy will dictate how you license (as always). It has taken a bit of time for all the information to percolate through to each corporate site and all the issues to be addressed. As we did before,…

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New Breed of Replication Receiver Clouds

September 28, 2012
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VirtualizationBackup

There is an ever increasing number of data protection providers creating replication receiver clouds as they team up with cloud service providers. This could herald the end of on premise tape use for some enterprises, leaving tape to be used primarily by cloud providers. There are major benefits for Quantum, Zerto, Veeam, and others to…

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Defense in Depth: Bromium vSentry for End User Computing

September 21, 2012
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VirtualizationSecurity

On the 8/9 Virtualization Security podcast we continued our discussions on defense in depth with a look at end user computing devices, specifically laptops and end point desktops, with Simon Crosby, CTO of Bromium. While we did also discuss phones and tablets we were focused more on the technology preview that now is Bromium vSentry.…

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Defense in Depth: Authentication and Authorization

September 13, 2012
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VirtualizationSecurity

On the 7/29 Virtualization Security podcast we continued our discussions on defense in depth. We discussed authentication and authorization with IdentityLogix. IdentityLogix provides a unique solution that correlates users and groups against VMware vSphere's own role based access control stores. In other words, IdentityLogix can identify if a user or group within active directory has…

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VMworld 2012: Innovation Wrap Up

September 4, 2012
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VMworld2012150x27

As I walked the VMworld 2012 show floor, I was looking for innovation or something new and interesting. I found it in several unexpected locations. There were quite a few of the expected vendors at VMworld, but there were gems here and there. There was innovation from HotLink to VMware. All in all a great…

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VMworld 2012: vCloud Networking and Security Enhancements

August 27, 2012
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VMworld2012150x27

There are several improvements in virtual networking and security within the latest vSphere and vCloud products. vCloud Networking and Security lowers of the overall cost to implement endpoint security within a vSphere environment. VMware has accomplished this by including vShield Endpoint into vSphere. There by lowering the cost to offloaded antivirus and malware to just…

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VMworld 2012: Important New Features in vSphere 5.1

August 27, 2012
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VMware100x30

The vSphere 5.1 enhancements are more designed to better fit vSphere into the vCloud Suite as well as move the bar further on virtualizable workloads. vSphere 5.1 allows the virtualization of high performance graphics, real-time, HPC, and big data workloads.

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Code Management in the Cloud

August 23, 2012
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Code Management in the Cloud

Effective code management tools and practices are key for successful agile. Their migration to the cloud brings benefits and concerns for organizations

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