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RSA, VMware and Intel securing Private/Public Clouds

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:59:39 +0000

So – today RSA, the security division of EMC announced a very cool capability – a simple VMware security dashboard that integrates with vCenter, ESX/ESXi, with vCenter, RSA Data Loss Prevention suite, VMware’s vShield family (more on that soon), VMware vCloud Director, VMware vCenter Configuration Manager, EMC Ionix portfolsio, and HyTrust appliancevShield family of products (along with other partners). It brings everything up to a high level dashboard which continuously assess state – and helps remediate (aka “fix”) problems. It’s a solution for Cloud Security and Compliance. We also showed the next step of the evolution of “Project Roswell” – an ongoing effort between VMware/RSA/Intel to bring an unbelievable set of compliance capabilities to public clouds, enforced in a hardware root of trust. There will also be an RSA Securebook on Cloud Security published in October that covers these topics for people who are in the security business… Ok a bit of background… So – I asked in the open “VirtualGeek 2010 Survey” (full results here ) 2 basic questions. “Is security an issue for you”. Of the 121 respondents to that question – it turns out it is (to varying degress) to 71% of the people. Then I asked people to be a bit more specific about degree of “security pain”.

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Of Mainframes And Clouds

admin — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:07:20 +0000

When I speak in front of audiences, I usually try and push the boundaries a bit by being intentionally controversial. Today was no exception. I spoke at a partner event (GreenPages) in front of about 100 people about the journey to the private cloud. Some of my comments even made it to CRN in real-time — scary thought.

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Careers In The Clouds

admin — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:49:09 +0000

Everyone watches keynotes with varying degrees of interest, but when Sanjay Mirchandani took the stage at EMC World, and started sharing how EMC IT's move to private cloud was creating entirely new hard-to-fill roles in his organization, I could sense that the audience might be paying a bit more attention than usual. And why not? If you've made your career in IT, you know that it makes sense to invest in skills and roles ahead of market demand — if at all possible.

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Bringing Oracle To The Private Cloud

admin — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:37:30 +0000

Another announcement from EMC (and, indirectly, VMware) that deserves some elaboration.

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Backup Isn’t Dead, It’s Just Evolving

admin — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:44:22 +0000

The blogosphere can be a crowded, noisy place — especially when it comes to storage-related topics. Sometimes I think people say outrageous things intentionally. I suppose if your goal is to draw attention to yourself, the tactic might make sense. But if your goal is to help others, saying outrageous things just adds to the noise and confusion — especially around a relatively important topics such as backup — and really doesn't help anyone

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Storage Caching 101

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:41:42 +0000

If you've been following the storage banter over the last few weeks, this issue has been hotly debated back and forth. Rather than weigh in on one side or another, I thought I'd take a few moments to share the basic concepts, and to shine a light as to why different vendors are lining up on one side or another of the discussion. Now, since this is a simple treatment, I'm sure that others will want to either extend or amend some of my comments here. And, yes, this is an over-simplified treatment — that's the point. Please feel free to do so.

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Cloud Security Takes A Big Leap Forward

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:20:58 +0000

Yesterday, I posted on how clouds need to be better than the traditional physical environments they replace. I made a long list of areas where that was either the case today, or would be relatively soon.

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Not All Clouds Are Private Clouds

admin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:22:45 +0000

I've been trying to lay low on the whole private cloud things for a while — really I have. But then I stumbled across a blog post that brought some key points into focus for me, and did a lot to reinforce some of my fundamental beliefs. Not that I need any more reinforcement, mind you … A Cloudy Headache Before we get started, you should go read this post from Alan Williamson. Alan brings three interesting perspectives to this discussion

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The Petabyte Era is Dead

admin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:53:04 +0000

Sometimes numbers have a symbolic value beyond any real meaning they contain. Like when your odometer rolls over to a hundred thousand miles.

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Additional Postings

admin — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:56:38 +0000

For the last few weeks, I've divided my blogging time between this site and a new one I've been helping with: privatecloud.com Thought I'd give you quick view into some of my more recent posting over there — if you're interested! " A Real Private Cloud " — I interview Matt Coviello of EMC who has successfully built and operated a private cloud for internal use. " The Economist Debates Clouds " — an interesting discussion from outside the industry, but useful insight into alternative perspectives. " The Industrialization of IT " — fresh from a Goldman Sachs investor conference, I share my thoughts about the major themes and trends.

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