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VMware ESXi gets critical patches for in-the-wild virtual machine escape attack

Network World

Broadcom released emergency patches for its VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion products to fix three vulnerabilities that can lead to virtual machine escape and are actively being exploited by attackers. Hypervisors, or virtual machine monitors, are the virtualization software used to create and run virtual machines.

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Nutanix offers virtual private cloud HCI, multicloud workload management

Network World

Nutanix is releasing enhancements to its AOS operating system and Era database-management service designed to make it easier for enterprises to manage data, workloads, and business-continuity security tools in hybrid cloud environments via software-defined networking capabilities AOS and Era are both components of the Nutanix Cloud Platform.

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How to install Qubes OS as a virtual machine

Tech Republic Security

Qubes OS defines itself modestly as "a reasonably secure operating system." It might actually be one of the safest operating systems, often used by pros who are most concerned with computer security.

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Nutanix offers virtual private cloud HCI, multicloud workload managemant

Network World

Nutanix is releasing enhancements to its AOS operating system and Era database-management service designed to make it easier for enterprises to manage data, workloads, and business-continuity security tools in hybrid cloud environments via software-defined networking capabilities AOS and Era are both components of the Nutanix Cloud Platform.

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Palo Alto Networks firewall bug being exploited by threat actors: Report

Network World

Admins with firewalls from Palo Alto Networks should make sure the devices are fully patched and the management interface blocked from open internet access after the discovery this week of a zero-day login authentication bypass in the PAN-OS operating system.

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Broadcom EMEA CTO: ‘When it comes to building private clouds, we are first’

Network World

When I joined VMware, we only had a hypervisor – referring to a single software [instance] that can be used to run multiple virtual machines on a physical one – we didn’t have storage or networking.” We have gone from choosing an operating system to being able to run any application anywhere and on any cloud by virtualizing storage.”

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Fortinet consolidates SD-WAN and SASE management

Network World

Tighter integration between Fortinet's SASE and SD-WAN offerings is among the new features enabled by the latest version of the company's core operating system. FortiOS version 7.4 also includes better automation across its Security Fabric environment, and improved management features.

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