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How to manage cloud exploitation at the edge

CIO Business Intelligence

Small- and medium-sized businesses and enterprises have accelerated their move into the cloud since the global pandemic. The Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing model enables remote working, supports digital transformation, provides scale, increases resilience, and can reduce costs. Watch on-demand here.

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5 open source security tools too good to ignore

Network World

Open source is a wonderful thing. A significant chunk of today’s enterprise IT and personal technology depends on open source software. But even while open source software is widely used in networking, operating systems, and virtualization, enterprise security platforms still tend to be proprietary and vendor-locked.

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Technology Short Take 175

Scott Lowe

Here’s your weekend reading—a collection of links and articles from around the internet on a variety of data center- and cloud-related topics. Networking The good folks over at Packet Pushers have compiled a list of open source networking projects. Michael Levan insists that cloud-native is in shambles.

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Technology Short Take 173

Scott Lowe

Tom Hummel finds himself veering back into a hardware-based home lab (instead of a cloud-based lab). A set of vulnerabilities in the open source reference implementation of the UEFI specification has been uncovered. Operating Systems/Applications Julia Evans has a lovely article on Git commits that is well worth reading.

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Technology Short Take 176

Scott Lowe

The vulnerability affects virtually all Linux distributions and allows attackers to bypass the secure boot protections and insert a low-level bootkit. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management Mina Abadir shares some experiences around migrating from PlanetScale to Amazon Aurora. Rory McCune explains Kubernetes authentication.

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Critical Xen hypervisor flaw endangers virtualized environments

Network World

A critical vulnerability in the widely used Xen hypervisor allows attackers to break out of a guest operating system running inside a virtual machine and access the host system's entire memory. The new vulnerability affects Xen 4.8.x, x, and 4.4.x x and has existed in the Xen code base for over four years.

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Four Attributes of Openness in Modern Communications

CTOvision

By Prayson Pate Openness is one of the most-cited advantages of cloud-based applications, Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). In this context, what does open really mean? A Milestone – Open Source. One might argue that Linux is open but not standardized.