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Let the Doves Fly: Tripwire Enterprise 7.5V Announced!!!

by ~Previous Contributers

By: Mark Gaydos Today Tripwire announced release 7.5V of it’s flagship product, Tripwire Enterprise. This release provides new functionality specifically for VMware environments. Seamlessly integrating in with VMware VirtualCenter, release 7.5V enables organizations to see and monitor more of their virtual infrastructure inside the Tripwire console. This means companies will be able to more efficiently [...]

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Early thoughts around VMware ESX vs MS Hyper-V..

by ~Previous Contributers

I was reading through this well done article by the Network World Labs comparing the performance between Microsoft’s Hyper-V and VMware’s ESX 3.5.0 Hypervisor and got to thinking about some of my own experiences in the lab with the two products. I have had 4 ESX servers and VirtualCenter running in my lab for a [...]

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Virtualization and PCI: Your Jedi Mind Tricks Won’t Work Forever

by Michael Lohr

IT Jedi Knight: These are not the servers you are looking for. Auditor: (To other auditor) These are not the servers we are looking for. IT Jedi Knight: There is no need to audit the hypervisor. Auditor: We do not need to audit the hypervisor. IT Jedi Knight: Now move along. Auditor: (To IT Jedi [...]

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Free ESXi was a foregone conclusion.

by ~Previous Contributers

It has long been thought that they hypervisor would be a commodity. This week that thought became a reality when VMware took the price of ESXi to zero. With ESXi for free and Hyper-V for only $28, I have heard the argument that it will be impossible make any money on a box that just [...]

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Iron Chef Virtualization

by Dwayne Melancon

As was posted here yesterday, there were a lot of changes at VMware this week, prompting lots of speculation and (in my opinion) premature declarations of the end of VMware. For example, as CNet’s Matt Asay mentions in his post “VMware feeling the open-source sting,” It was great while it lasted, VMware. Who knows? Maybe [...]

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Guarding the Keys to the Kingdom

by Michael Lohr

We often hear that you need guard the keys to the kingdom but depending on what you do the kingdom can very different. If you are a Windows administrator then protecting the file system is of utmost importance however if you are a DBA then your world is the database. I could go on and [...]

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