I heard a story recently about an enterprise with “ESX hosts running with uptimes of almost 6 years.” The relater of the story “saw hosts with 2031 days, and lots in the 1900 and 1800 days,” meaning “no patching… no upgrades to take advantage of new features or even new hardware.
Not to mention the [...]
As I mentioned in my last post, I submitted two session abstracts for consideration for VMworld 2011. I hope you’ll take a peek at them and consider voting for them. Search for me by session ID (“3029”, “3054”) or last name (“Lute”) with a Ctrl-F. You vote by clicking the thumb icon to [...]
VMworld session voting for VMworld 2011 sessions is open through 5/18/2011 (this Wednesday). Anybody with a VMworld.com account (past attendees, upcoming attendees, potential attendees, interested parties) is eligible to vote for the sessions they would like to be available in Vegas this August/September.
I submitted two session abstracts for consideration, and I hope you’ll [...]
As a follow-up to my previous advertisement of this webcast, I wanted to let you know that a recording of it has now been posted by Cisco. This will be very beneficial for me, [...]
The notification emails being sent by the various vendors affected by the Epsilon breach share pretty similar messaging and language, suggesting that Epsilon probably crafted a master messaging template for their clients, as you might expect.
The individual vendors (i.e., Epsilon customers) do each put their own little spin on it, though, with a [...]
In a couple of weeks Cisco and company (including Verizon, EMC, RSA, HyTrust, and VCE) will be presenting a 90-minute webinar:
Simplify PCI Compliance: A Holistic Approach to Meeting the 2.0 Mandate
Live Webcast, April 14, 2011, at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time
Register
I’ve not worked directly on this project, but I [...]
In one of Michael White’s (@notesfvm) recent Notes From VMware newsletters, he mentioned some new training for vShield Edge, the network firewall in the vShield product suite. That got me thinking I should spread the word, not just on this course, but on other security training available for VMware.
For those unaware, VMware first [...]
A few hours from now Mike Foley (@mikefoley) and Gennaro Scalo of RSA will be presenting an EMC Live Webcast: Secure the VCE Vblock and Virtual Data Center. They’ll be discussing and demoing some of the tools and approaches they’ve created to assist with security and compliance efforts for the Vblock and Vblock-based [...]
…and dark gray, and light gray, and four different shades of blue, and a bit of yellow. Have you seen the new logo and web site? VCE the Coalition has become VCE the Company.
Though I had never specifically posted on the role change, the last time that I posted in October, I had [...]
From virtualization.info | McAfee releases MOVE antivirus, optimized for XenDesktop:
A couple of weeks ago McAfee completed the first step, announcing the availability of its new Management of Optimized Virtual Environments (MOVE) antivirus.
MOVE is based on a lightweight agent… that doesn’t carry on the scanning and removal engine.
The core activities are in [...]
