the State of Security

Virtual Infrastructure

Introducing vWire!

by ~Previous Contributers

For some time now here at Tripwire there has been a team working on what has been known internally as Project Spitfire. You have seen part of this team here at the Virtual Black Hole but today is a significant coming out party for the entire team. What we announced today is the first phase [...]

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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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Cheap NAS storage for Virtual Infrastructure…

by ~Previous Contributers

One of the problems users face when trying out Virtual Infrastructure solutions is the requirement of centralized storage in order to utilize the enterprise class goodies–functions like Vmotion, HA and DRS in VMware for example. I ran into this when first constructing a lab environment for my team. SAN storage is not cheap and quite [...]

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Who Owns Virtualization Security, the VI Admin or the Security Group?

by ~Previous Contributers

Depending on the situation and who you listen to, you can get different answers to this question. This is not the same debate that Simon Crosby (Citrix CTO) and Chris Hoff have been having. This question is aimed at the customer – who cares about virtualization security today and who will care about virtualization security [...]

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