Network World

MARCH 20, 2017

Two teams of researchers managed to win the biggest bounties at this year's Pwn2Own hacking contest by escaping from the VMware Workstation virtual machine and executing code on the host operating system. That's why VM escape exploits are highly prized, more so than browser or OS exploits.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2025

More specifically, the 3Rs mandate that you: Rotate system credentials every few minutes or hours. Repair vulnerable operating systems and application stacks consistently within hours of patch availability. Prior to joining VMware, she was CEO of Cavirin, a cloud security company, where she drove a turnaround.

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Network World

MAY 16, 2024

The system can be centrally managed via Cisco’s cloud-based Intersight management platform, and it supports Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) and VMware vSphere hypervisors. Customers can now integrate ACI and Nutanix AHV, the vendor’s hypervisor that lets customers to run multiple virtual machines on a single physical server.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Over the weekend, security researchers discovered that malicious actors are remotely exploiting a bug in VMware ESXi servers from two years ago. VMware's ESXi is a hypervisor that allows a server to host multiple virtual machines running various operating systems. Read Entire Article

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The move could boost Amazon’s cloud business by reducing a major hurdle for customers to move away from data centers and servers running on Microsoft’s operating system.

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Fountainhead

MARCH 18, 2013

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Two recent announcements lead me to making an interesting business strategy observation about two opposing approaches to dominating these markets: VMwares recent announcement that it intends to venture into the public cloud ( assessment courtesy of James Staten ).

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Network World

JULY 17, 2024

Interest in the open-source network operating system SONiC is rising as major networking vendors and start-ups look to offer resources to help enterprises give SONiC a try. SONiC is seen as a significant alternative to more traditional, less flexible network operating systems. What is SONiC?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 11, 2022

Incompatibility and unreliability caused by configuration differences such as versions of compilers, loaders, runtime libraries, middleware, and operating systems in new environments contributed to increased project effort, cost, and timelines. They don’t need to utilize the same resource as virtual machines do. Challenges.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 7, 2024

VMware Workstation lets you run Windows, Linux, and a host of other operating systems side-by-side on the same PC. Switch between OS instantly, share files between VMs with drag-and-drop functionality, create clones and more. Read Entire Article

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Network World

JUNE 6, 2024

Broadcom’s VMware unit: VMware SASE was developed in-house and includes SD-WAN, ZTNA, CASB, FWaaS, and SWG. In addition to the standard SASE features, VMware offers DLP, URL filtering, and remote browser isolation. VMware is a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure. FWaaS is not offered.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

Microsoft only licenses Windows 10 on ARM to PC makers to preinstall on new hardware, and the company hasn’t made copies of the operating system available for anyone to license or freely install. VMWare Fushion. Microsoft only licenses Windows 10 on ARM to OEMs,” says a Microsoft spokesperson in a statement to The Verge.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 28, 2022

This fragmented approach inhibits innovation, because so much time and energy are diverted into configuring, initializing, and managing separate operating systems, and establishing best practices for each. In fact, the HPE solution delivers superior storage efficiency as compared to alternate VMware backup solutions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 22, 2022

As VMware has observed , “In simple terms, a DPU is a programable device with hardware acceleration as well as having an ARM CPU complex capable of processing data. Adam Stern ( @iv_cloudhosting ), Founder and CEO of Infinitely Virtual, said that when deployed wisely and well, DPUs can prove to be a godsend.

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Virtualized Greek

MARCH 26, 2013

Mirantis, a large OpenStack consulting organization, announced that PayPal will be rolling 10,000 nodes running some variant of OpenStack “Cloud Operating System” They look to have a total of 80,000 nodes managed by OpenStack at the end of the Cloud deployment. Cloud Computing Virtualization OpenStack VMWare'

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Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Server virtualization can do the trick for you if you also struggle to scale your applications to meet growing demands without breaking the bank. Server virtualization is a game-changing technology that has revolutionized the way organizations deploy and manage their IT infrastructure.

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Virtualized Greek

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

I’m a huge fan of VMware products. VMware has long been the thought leader in x86 virtualization products both on the desktop and in the data center. Add to it the vSphere suite and it’s pretty difficult to find a better virtualization solution. This is where I believe VMware is having difficulty in their vision.

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Galido

APRIL 11, 2017

Virtualization is popular these days for businesses for several reasons, but primarily to reduce hardware and infrastructure costs, performance, backups and redundancy, while being able to scale infrastructure and provide resources on demand. . What is Virtualization? There are two methods of running virtualized software.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2013

I try to keep the information linked to data center technologies like networking, storage, virtualization, and the like, but occasionally other items slip through. Some good advice here on scaling/sizing VXLAN in VMware deployments (as well as some useful background information to help explain the advice). Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

I adopted OS X as my operating system of choice in 2003 because I wanted a stable, powerful, UNIX-based operating system. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Apple and VMware…or Xen? Apple and Virtualization. Apple on Intel.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Bruce Davie and Martin Casado (with Nicira, now part of VMware) have written a post comparing the VXLAN and STT tunneling protocols. Operating Systems/Applications. I found this article on imperative vs. declarative system configuration is quite helpful in understanding Puppet’s declarative model. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Brad Hedlund (who will be my co-worker starting on 2/11) created a great explanation of network virtualization that clearly breaks down the components and explains their purpose and function. Operating Systems/Applications. Greg Schulz (aka StorageIO) has a couple of VMware storage tips posts you might find useful reading.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

The vulnerability affects virtually all Linux distributions and allows attackers to bypass the secure boot protections and insert a low-level bootkit. VMware is patching a set of severe “sandbox escape” bugs. out of 10, and even VMware’s flagship ESXi hypervisor is affected. Read more about it in this post.

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Storage IO Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

This means that the drives should be transparent to the operating systems or hypervisors on servers or storage controllers without need for special adapters, controller cards or drivers.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2024

In this Technology Short Take, I have links on things ranging from physical network designs to running retro operating systems as virtual machines. Operating Systems/Applications Julia Evans digs into what “current branch” means in Git. Virtualization Talk about a blast from the past!

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Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 14, 2013

I am thinking that maybe 2013 will finally be the year of virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI) enabled BYOD. This is not because of some fancy new feature in VMware View or Citrix XenDesktop but due to a new feature of Windows 8. This means that basically, just like Hyper-V the hypervisor is native to the operating system.

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Virtualized Greek

DECEMBER 4, 2013

For example, a question I get all the time is “Have I missed the boat on VMware?” vSphere is the best overall technical solution for virtualized environments – today. But, just as Novell was the best network operating system in the late 90’s/00’s, timing is everything. General Cisco OpenStack SDN VMWare'

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

He describes cloud as the synthesis of many different forms of innovation within IT , pulling together things like open source, virtualization, distributed programming, NoSQL, DevOps/NoOps, distributed teams, dynamic languages, and Big Data (among others). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Interesting.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Nice use of VMware Fusion in part 2, by the way.). VMware, Vagrant, and Docker together is the subject of this blog post by Fabio Rapposelli. Operating Systems/Applications. It makes me wonder when VMware will announce support for CoreOS on vCloud Air. Virtualization. Here’s one such example.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 30, 2013

Following on the heels of this week’s VMware NSX announcement at VMworld 2013, I had someone contact me about a statement this person had heard. Basically, the statement was that it was possible to create do-it-yourself network virtualization. What are the core components of a network virtualization solution?

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

Ben Cherian, Chief Strategy Officer for Midokura, helps make a case for network virtualization. Note: Midokura makes a network virtualization solution.) If you’re wondering about network virtualization and why there is a focus on it, this post might help shed some light. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Some folks from Nicira (now part of VMware) recently published a blog post discussing the OVSDB IETF draft (see here ). Erik Smith, notably known for his outstanding posts on storage and FCoE, takes a stab at describing some of the differences between SDN and network virtualization in this post. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

Tom Nolle asks the question , “Is virtualization reality even more elusive than virtual reality?” I talked before about the difference between network virtualization and SDN, so no need to mention that again. I missed this on the #vBrownBag series: designing HP Virtual Connect for vSphere 5.x. Virtualization.

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Dataconomy

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In the rapidly evolving IT industry, virtualization has become a common presence in enterprise data centers, however, leaving such large amounts of valuable data unprotected, which would be a serious mistake. Hyper-V backup solutions When it comes to backing up Hyper-V or VMware VMs, there are basically two general types.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Operating Systems/Applications Decisions, decisions— which immutable Linux to use ? Virtualization Allen from Humbled Geeks shows how to create a VMware vSwitch using Ansible. Þórarinn Sigurðsson talks about Garden’s plugin for Pulumi. That’s all for this time!

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

A fan of network virtualization might also say that decomposing today’s complex physical networks into multiple simple logical networks on top of a simpler physical transport network—similar to Mike’s suggestion of converging on a smaller set of reference architectures—might also help. (Of Here’s a good source.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Anthony Burke has written a script that uses VMware NSX to protect VMware Log Insight instances. The first article provides a blueprint for migrating applications to VMware NSX ; the second article supplies some tips for creating filtering policies in VMware NSX. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

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Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

These areas of IT include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Operating System & Software Blogs. TechWorld – Operating Systems. Virtualization Technology Blogs.

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