How much insight are we missing from our environments? That is a question I find myself asking after being bitten by a new “bug” found in VMware vCloud Automation Center (vCAC). There seem to be many people like me who discovered their morning was wrecked when the vCloud Automation Center 6.0 tenants became inaccessible and …
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User experience drives virtual desktop deployments and can either make or break them. If the user experience is awful, users will find other, often less secure methods for doing their jobs. VDI sits at an interesting crossroads where storage, memory, networking, CPUs, and GPUs must be properly tuned. Any adverse impact from any one of …
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The much-heralded XPocalypse—the end of extended support for Windows XP—is practically upon us. After thirteen years of service—beyond Microsoft’s normal service window by a good three years—Windows XP patching will finally stop. How will this affect those of us whose virtualized desktop infrastructures may still be tied, for various reasons, to the old OS?
Have you ever wondered what was going on within a cloud regardless of type? SaaS? PaaS? IaaS? Do you need to audit these environments to ensure compliance with your security policy (not to mention the subset of your security policy that contains regulatory compliance)? To provide solutions for these issues, a number companies both new …
It has now been a few weeks since RSA Conference 2014. A number of very disparate items to consider were announced at the conference. We covered some of them on the Virtualization Security Podcast held at the NSS Labs hospitality suite at the conference. Yet there is still more to consider. The impact of the …
AFORE Solutions’ goal has been to provide not only data at rest encryption but also data in motion encryption at all levels of the cloud stack, such that not even the cloud providers can see or change your data. This level of confidentiality does not exist within existing public or private clouds without a little …
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