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RSA Day 4…The Ninjas are gone…bring in the vultures!

by Chris Orr

RSA is a long conference. Holy cow…day four was the final stretch of the marathon of security tracks and other talks. Virtualization was of interested to nearly everyone of course. At this point of the show though it was mostly roving bands of shirt hunters. It was almost like a scene from Mutual of Omaha…you [...]

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Sometimes the Pirate is you…Virtualization Security includes the host too you know…

by Chris Orr

So lately I have been harping on the whole Pirates versus Ninja thing. IT Ninjas are tasked of course with protecting your super secret corporate data from the Pirates who would plunder that booty. Now here at Tripwire I speak to Ninjas all day long. And lately its been all about compliance and IT audits. [...]

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IT Security Should Own Virtualization Security–Period!

by Michael Lohr

I was reading an article today about VMware announcing a new virtual appliance called VMware vShield Zones. Per the announcement this will be made available via the virtual datacenter operating system and will allow an organization to apply security policies to user data. I was reading this article and really wondering do I want to [...]

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Tripwire updates ConfigCheck to include ESX 3.0

by Gavin Millard

Today is a good day. Not only is the sun shining in England which, for anyone else who lives here knows is about as frequent as a heart felt apology from a politician, but Tripwire has also released ConfigCheck for ESX 3.0 to compliment our coverage of ESX 3.5. One of the most frequent requests [...]

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The Virtualization Administrator is Dead: Long Live Virtualization!

by ~Previous Contributers

By: Mark Gaydos While I was at the Gartner IT Operations and Management conference this week in Orlando, I spoke to a particular industry analyst. This analyst suggested that in a very short time frame, as virtualization gains even greater adoption, that the role of the virtualization administrator will actually disappear. That as virtualization becomes [...]

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Virtualization and vendors: in the world, or of it?

by Dwayne Melancon

Once upon a time, every vendor published a paper about SOX, and some made very convoluted connections to how they could “do SOX.” Sometimes, it seemed like the only thing the vendor had to offer that had anything to do with SOX was the white paper. Is the same thing happening with virtualization? I’ve run [...]

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