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VMworld 2012: VMware Launches the vCloud Suite

August 27, 2012
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With the vCloud Suite as a family of three SKU's, VMware has executed the most significant re-packaging of its software products in its history. The high end of the suite now includes vSphere, vCloud Director, and most of VMware's management offerings.

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Code Management in the Cloud

August 23, 2012
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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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Your VMworld 2012 Virtualization Management Sponsors and Exhibitors Short List

August 22, 2012
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VMworld 2012 is upon us. Use this list to figure out which booths should be on your short list for creative and new solutions. With over 230 booths to choose from this is a daunting task. If you are interested in management, monitoring, deployment, security, data protection, and desktop management problems, this list will help…

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News: Splunk Releases Splunk App for VMware – More than just Logs

August 21, 2012
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The new Splunk App for VMware adds a significant new capability to the Splunk offerings, opens a new Operations Management frontier for Splunk and creates a new standard for functionality in the Operations Management space.

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Defense in Depth: Intelligence Gathering

August 17, 2012
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Intelligence gathering is an oft overlooked aspect of system and data defense in depth. On the 7/12 Virtualization Security podcast we discussed new and old sources of such intelligence. We were joined by Urvish Vashi, VP of marketing, Alert Logic. Alert Logic has updated their report on cloud based security attacks. Add to this the…

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Software Defined Security: Is it Achievable?

August 8, 2012
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Cloud based security is about securing the data, yet compliance requirements are often about securing the environment, such as PCI's requirement for web application firewalls, which protect web servers and perhaps applications and imply protection of data. But they do not directly protect data. How can a Software Defined Data Center implement a form of…

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VMware’s Heterogeneous Virtualization Management Strategy

August 6, 2012
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Acquiring DynamicOps has kick-started VMware into a heterogeneous virtualization management strategy. This will be demonstrated in detail at VMworld this Fall. We now face a dramatically different virtualization landscape. The focus has now shifted to management - of business critical applications running on multiple virtualization platforms and potentially distributed across internal data centers and public…

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Is the Software Defined Data Center the Future?

August 1, 2012
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VMware purchased Nicira, backed the Openflow Community, and is now touting software defined data centers (SDDC). But what is a software defined datacenter? Is it just virtualization or cloud with a software defined network? Or is it something more than that? Given heavy automation and scripting of most clouds, do we not already have SDDC?…

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Defense in Depth: Know Your Attack Surfaces

July 12, 2012
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The 6/28 Virtualization Security Podcast we spoke about attacks, defense in depth, and compliance with Davi Ottenhiemer and Matt Wallace. Davi and Matt just published a book on how to defend your virtual environment against attack. Unlike other books, this approaches the problem from the point of view of well know attacks. It even gives…

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