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VMware patches critical virtual machine escape flaws

Network World

VMware has released critical security patches for vulnerabilities demonstrated during the recent Pwn2Own hacking contest that could be exploited to escape from the isolation of virtual machines. The patches fix four vulnerabilities that affect VMware ESXi, VMware Workstation Pro and Player and VMware Fusion.

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Former VMware CTO Joins CloudFlare as Head of Engineering

Data Center Knowledge

Wants to help build always-on "Internet Operating System" at the edge of the network Read More.

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Technology Short Take 170

Scott Lowe

So, here you go—here’s your latest collection of links from around the internet focused on data center and cloud-related technologies. It was, therefore, very satisfying to see not one but two Velero-related posts emerge recently from the VMware blogging community. I hope that you find something useful here.

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Technology Short Take #78

Scott Lowe

Here’s another collection of links and articles from around the Internet discussing various data center-focused technologies. The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based.

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Technology Short Take 162

Scott Lowe

This article is an interesting look at Internet scanning. Apparently due to the way the integration between Antrea and VMware NSX was designed, it’s possible for “stale” Antrea-enabled clusters (clusters that once existed but are no longer present/valid) to show up in the NSX UI. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Technology Short Take #51

Scott Lowe

Welcome to Technology Short Take #51, another collection of posts and links about key data center technologies like networking, virtualization, cloud management, and applications/operating systems. Along with Docker, VMware worked with the Center for Internet Security (CIS) to prepare a security benchmark for Docker 1.6

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Technology Short Take #63

Scott Lowe

Here’s another topic that came up at the recent DevOps Networking Forum: Spotify’s SDN Internet Router (SIR). I recently came across a couple useful troubleshooting guides, one for Open vSwitch (OVS) and OpenStack Neutron and one for VMware NSX. Operating Systems/Applications. VMware recently GA’d version 6.2

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