Cisco – VMware – NetApp an Interesting Approach to Secure Multi-Tenancy

March 3, 2010
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The Cisco-VMware-NetApp (CVN) was discussed on the Virtualization Security Podcast as it pertains to Secure Multi-Tenancy (SMT). This is a major concern that was also discussed at RSA Conference 2010 within the Cloud Security Alliance Summit. The question still remains how to achieve this goal however. CVN is a very good start, but as we…

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CA Buys Cloud Platform Vendor, 3Tera

March 2, 2010
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The acquisition of 3Tera by Computer Associates signals an intent to move beyond traditional Systems Management, into something that may almost be viewed as Operating System: a layer of software called AppLogic that sits above the virtualization stack, and provides a consolidated abstraction against which composite applications may be built within the Cloud. Essentially the…

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HyTrust Funded by Cisco and Others

March 1, 2010
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HyTrust has announced Series B Financing in the amount of $10.5 Million with participation from Cisco, Granite Ventures as well as existing investors Trident Capital and Epic Ventures. This is very good news for HyTrust. While the Series B Funding was not much of a surprise given that HyTrust fits into the Virtualizaiton Security within…

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News: VMware to Acquire IT Management Products From EMC

February 26, 2010
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VMware and EMC today announced that the two companies have entered into a definitive agreement for VMware to acquire certain software products and expertise from EMC's Ionix IT management business, including solutions aimed at delivering improved management and deployment of servers and applications in a virtualized data center.

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Reflex Systems vTrust Technology in Use by Third Parties

February 25, 2010
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When I first interviewed Reflex System's CEO he had a desire for the vTrustTM VMsafe-Net driver be the defacto standard for all such VMsafe-Net drivers. While others may not agree with this desire and will create their own VMsafe-Net drivers, TippingPoint is the first to integrate into Reflex's VMC product to leverage the vTrust VMsafe-Net…

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Virtualization Aware APM Advances

February 24, 2010
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Virtualization Aware APM Advances

We categorize the vendors that do performance and availability monitoring for virtualization and cloud computing into four categories: Resource and Availability Monitoring – This is primarily about taking data from the hypervisor vendor (most often the VMware vCenter API data), storing it, trending it, reporting on it, analyzing it, and alerting on it. Infrastructure Performance…

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VMware Buys Key Assets of RTO Software

February 23, 2010
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VMware has acquired the Virtual Profiles, Pinpoint, and Discover assets of RTO Software. This will raise the bar on the other vendors of desktop virtualization platforms (Microsoft and Citrix), but will also leave room for more granular User Environement Management approaches from vendors like RES Software, LiquidWare Labs, Tricerat, and when they ship - UniDesk.

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Life in IT is like a Day at the Amusement Park

February 23, 2010
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One of my favorite movie lines is, “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get” from the movie Forrest Gump. So for me and my observation of the day I declare that “Life in IT is like a day at the amusement park. It is a life…

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Citrix/Novell Partnership SLES and PlateSpin

February 22, 2010
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In a slightly strange "didn't they already have Xen in the kernel" kind of way, Novell has certified Suse Linux Enterprise Server as a "perfect guest" running on Citrix XenServer, allowing joint support of the combined solution. The deal is asymmetric (it wouldn't really make sense to run XenServer on SLES) but it reflects an…

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