the State of Security

hypervisor

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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Will the Service Console based version of ESX go away now?

by ~Previous Contributers

Now that VMW is going to make ESX 3i free as of July 28th I have to wonder if they will stop developing and selling ESX 3.5 (the service console based version)? Functionally both versions perform the same, they can both be managed by Virtual Infrastructure, they both support functions like vmotion, HA, DRS, etc.. [...]

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Security app vendors will need to change their thinking around Virtualized Security…

by ~Previous Contributers

I was just reading an article by Ted Julian talking about what he thought was a real highlight at Gartner’s IT Security Summit; Neil MacDonald’s presentation titled “Radically Transforming Security in a Virtualized World.” I wish I could have been there as I imagine that this was an excellent presentation where Neil laid out some [...]

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Seconds Away from Failure…

by Gavin Millard

One of our marketing guys always uses the mantra when discussing Tripwire “You are only days, minutes or seconds from a change that could cause your systems to fail”. Now I’m not easily marketed to, I don’t have great abs in less than 7 minutes a day or any collectable porcelain figurines of the Royal [...]

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