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Your biggest barriers to digital transformation aren’t technical…they’re cultural

CIO Business Intelligence

In comparison, there were only 66 years between the Wright brothers’ first flight and humans landing on the moon (See belief #1). We even copied that perimeter defense strategy to our cloud environments by building virtual firewalls to control access to those applications. And it worked.

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Technology Short Take #63

Scott Lowe

Russell Pope at Kovarus recently wrote about using security groups to manage the VMware NSX distributed firewall. Personally, I think it’s an apples-to-oranges comparison, since Kubernetes is more than just a scheduler (think about replication controllers and services and such), but to each his own. Virtualization.

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Technology Short Take #50

Scott Lowe

This article by Russell Bryant is a great overview and update of the work going on with Open Virtual Network (OVN). This is kind of cool, and (in my humble opinion) a sign of changing times: Juniper has Vagrant boxes as well as a Vagrant plugin for working with vSRX (virtual firewall) VMs (via this article from Matt Oswalt).

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Technology Short Take #49

Scott Lowe

What’s really interesting to me is the (completely uncoordinated) alignment between Matt’s list of skills for networking pros and the list I provided to virtualization pros in a series of recent VMUG presentations (refer to slide 15, but the list is software development basics, Linux, automation/orchestration, and public cloud services).

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Technology Short Take 139

Scott Lowe

In this post , Jakub Sitnicki digs way deep into the Linux kernel to uncover the answer to the question, “Why are there no entries in the conntrack table for SYN packets dropped by the firewall?” Patrick Kremer writes about using vRealize Log Insight Cloud to monitor for firewall changes in a VMware Cloud on AWS environment.

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VMworld 2014 Day 2 Keynote

Scott Lowe

Poonen revisits the VMware Workspace Suite announcement from yesterday, drawing a comparison between vCloud Suite for SDDC and the Workspace Suite for EUC. Colbert next dives into more detail on Project Fargo, which enables vastly faster provisioning of virtual desktops by via cloning process. VMworld 2014 Day 2 Keynote.

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Fountainhead: Follow IT's Money: A Survey of IT Financial.

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. One missing component I see is a means of tracking KPIs again, real time activity both behind the firewall and in the Cloud. Virtualization. (31). Virtual Enthusiasm. Virtual Geek. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead.

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