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Ransomware, zero-day exploits keep network security pros scrambling

Network World

By comparison, the firm saw data theft in only about 40% of cases in a mid-2021 analysis. It was pretty easy to do segmentation when you had a three-tiered architecture, and every tier of the architecture ran on a dedicated piece of hardware.

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Benchmarks without context are meaningless: The pitfalls of data without insight

CIO Business Intelligence

But here’s the challenge: Business leaders tend to look for quick comparisons. Under pressure, IT leaders often reach for the same easy comparisons — benchmarks that tell them how their spending or innovation stacks up. Executives and boards want hard data, and benchmarks offer an easy way to provide seemingly objective metrics.

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Your biggest barriers to digital transformation aren’t technical…they’re cultural

CIO Business Intelligence

In comparison, there were only 66 years between the Wright brothers’ first flight and humans landing on the moon (See belief #1). We even copied that perimeter defense strategy to our cloud environments by building virtual firewalls to control access to those applications. And not only in terms of architecture and technology.

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VMworld 2014 Day 2 Keynote

Scott Lowe

Fathi re-emphasizes that VMware’s SDDC vision is an architecture, one built on the “power of AND.” ” vCloud Suite (and vCloud Air) is a manifestation of the SDDC vision/architecture. VMware’s SDDC vision/architecture delivers the power of “AND.” betas of vSphere and VSAN).

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Technology Short Take #63

Scott Lowe

Russell Pope at Kovarus recently wrote about using security groups to manage the VMware NSX distributed firewall. Personally, I think it’s an apples-to-oranges comparison, since Kubernetes is more than just a scheduler (think about replication controllers and services and such), but to each his own. Servers/Hardware.

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Technology Short Take #49

Scott Lowe

Anthony Burke (disclaimer: Anthony works for VMware in the NSBU) has a post on how to use Python to automate the bulk creation of firewall rules for use with the VMware NSX distributed firewall. I found this post comparing Ansible and Salt to be quite helpful, particularly given some of the comparisons with Puppet.

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