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A tale of three cities

by Dwayne Melancon

In the past few weeks, I have been at a VMware partner conference, the RSA security conference, and (this week) the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) event. This has meant travel to Orlando, San Francisco, and Las Vegas. It’s been interesting to see what themes or trends are the same across these three events, and which [...]

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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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Coming to your VMotional rescue…

by Dwayne Melancon

You may have seen Matt’s post earlier today about vWire, the community, and all that. The big “what’s new” for you today is OpsCheck. With apologies to the Rolling Stones, OpsCheck is like your knight in shining armor – coming to your vMotional rescue. Let me explain… In conversations at VMware user groups, it’s pretty [...]

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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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Virtual Mythbusting and Overcommitment

by Dwayne Melancon

On Network World’s Microsoft Subnet, there is a very solid article on “9 Myths of Microsoft Virtualization -  Busted or Confirmed."  It’s actually an interview with Microsoft’s Mike Neil (general manager of Microsoft virtualization) and it is a fun read. One of the myths I was very interested in was this one: No. 3. VMware [...]

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Virtualization: Conflicting signals

by Dwayne Melancon

Just catching up on my virtualization news feeds after a week of heavy travel, and I noticed that there are a lot of interesting things going on – mostly involving mixed messages: A well-known research firm, IDC is apparently providing some numbers around virtualization adoption that aren’t sitting well with VMware. They think IDC is [...]

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