As we launch into the world of automation, we are faced with waves of technology, each one better than the last. Some vendors start from scratch to develop an entirely new product, foregoing the old for the new. With all this technology, we often look at what we need and how we get it. We …
Edward L. Haletky, aka Texiwill, is an analyst, author, architect, technologist, and out-of-the-box thinker. As an analyst, Edward looks at all things IoT, big data, cloud, security, and DevOps. As an author, he has written about virtualization and security. As an architect, Edward creates peer-reviewed reference architectures for hybrid cloud, cloud-native applications, and many other aspects of the modern business. As a technologist, Edward creates code prototypes for parts of those architectures. Edward is solving today’s problems in an implementable fashion.
Beyond Virtualization: Security within the Guest
The October 12, 2017 virtualization and cloud security podcast moved up the stack. In it, we discussed security within the guest operating system. This approach to security applies to clouds, virtualization, and physical systems. Unlike Software as a Service (SaaS), all other forms of infrastructure or platform involve an operating system you can control. That is …
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Keeping Up with the Joneses: A Cloud Story
Many companies go to the cloud to keep up with the Joneses or others. Some go to the cloud to keep up with their own needs. Others set impossible requirements that preclude the cloud. Yet others set goals that make creating on-site difficult. Many who go to the cloud, however, go without thought. There are …
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Data Protection Coverage: Anti-Ransomware
Since ransomware is a crucial topic, phase 3 of our Data Protection Coverage report delves into anti-ransomware technologies. The disaster recovery and business continuity software used within an enterprise is in a unique position, one that allows easy detection of ransomware. There are several approaches to detection, and often more than one approach needs to be …
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Virtualization and Cloud Security: Back to Basics
Every time I talk virtualization and cloud security, I am surprised by the number of people who do not follow the basics. The basics have been around since 2004. The funny thing is, I also see the basics misquoted all the time. People try to interject their language into something already simple, yet by doing …
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Where, When, How to Gain Knowledge
In my last few articles, we have gone through some of the economics of IT: specifically, around the changes taking place in IT. My last article focused on the need to gain new knowledge in order to transform your career while IT is changing around you. That raises the question of how to gain the …