Posted in Security, Technology, tagged citrix, cloud computing, DaaS, HAL 9000, Microsoft, skynet, the Death Star, Virtualization, VMWare on June 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Systems and security management is difficult, ineffective, costly and becoming ever more so in increasingly distributed, heterogeneous, complex, and mobile computing environments…
98% of all external attacks take advantage of poorly administered, misconfigured, and unmanaged systems (Source: Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2009)
A locked down and well managed PC can cost 42% less than an unmanaged [...]
Posted in Security, Technology, tagged anti-virus, biodiversity, citrix, Data Breach, Data security, diversity, Gartner, HVD, IBM, Microsoft, standardization, VDI, Verizon, Virtualization, VMWare on June 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Consolidation is the major benefit or “killer app” for server/data center virtualization. Standardization is the major benefit or “killer app” for client-side virtualization.
As I was pondering the challenges of current systems management processes, researching the latest and greatest from the client-side virtualization vendors, and talking to a lot of large organizations I was trying to [...]
Posted in Rants, Security, Technology, tagged application virtualization, AppV, citrix, FAIL, Gartner, HyperV, Hypervisor, life cycle Management, Microsoft, Security, systems management, ThinApp, VDI, Virtualization, VMWare, XenDesktop on June 9, 2009 | 5 Comments »
To address the increasing cost and complexity of managing dynamic IT environments organizations are trying to understand how to adopt virtualization technologies. The value proposition and “killer app” are quite clear in the data center, however less attention has been given to the opportunities for endpoint virtualization. Even though there are multiple methods to address [...]
Posted in Security, tagged Amazon, cloud computing, endpoint security, evolution, Google, hype, information technology, Microsoft, mobile computing, smart phones, Trend Micro, VC, VDI, Virtual Center, Virtualization, VMWare on February 19, 2009 | 9 Comments »
I had an interesting conversation with a peer recently that started with a statement he made that “innovation was all but dead in security”. The implication was that we had done all we could do and that there was very little more that would be accomplished. Of course I felt this was an overly simplistic [...]
Posted in Security, tagged Chris Hoff, Complexity, cost reduction, cost savings, Les Grossman, linked clones, patch management, ROI, Security, systems management, TCO, tiger balm, Tropic Thunder, vcenter, vddk, VDI, Virtualization, VMSprawl, VMWare on September 26, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Thanks to VMware you can barely turn around today without someone using the V-word and with every aspect of the English language, and some from ancient Sumeria, now beginning with V it will only get worse. There is no question that virtualization holds a lot of promise for the enterprise, from decreased cost to increased [...]
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