Yes, yes. We've talked about this before here. Cisco is introducing a blade chassis that includes compute capabilities (heretofore referred to as a 'blade server.')  It also includes networking, storage and virtualization all wrapped up in a tidy bundle. So while that looks like a blade server (qua...

This post contains nothing particularly insightful other than giant sucking sound that's left a vacuum in terms of forward motion regarding security and virtualization. Why? Three things: There's an awful lot of focus moving from the (cough) mature space of server virtualization to the myriad of opt...

I can't help but smile at the announcement that Cisco is bringing to market a blade server which bundles together Intel's Nehalem-based processors, the Nexus 5000 switch, and VMware's virtualization and management platform.   From InformationWeek: Cisco's system, code-named California, likely will ...

Here's a nod to Rich Miller who pointed over to a blog entry from Andreas Antonopoulos titled "Virtual Routing - The anti-matter of network routing." The premise, as brought up by Doug Gourlay from Cisco at the C-Scape conference was seemingly innocuous but quite cool: "How about using netflow infor...

I just read the latest blog of Alistair Croll from GigaOm titled "Cloud Security: The Sky Is Falling!" in which he suggests that we pillow-hugging security wonks ought to loosen our death grips on our data because not only are we flapping our worry feathers for nothing, but security in "the Cloud" ...

I read James Urquhart's first blog post written under the Cisco banner today titled "The network: the final frontier for cloud computing" in which he describes the evolving role of "the network" in virtualized and cloud computing environments. The gist of his post, which he backs up with examples fr...

I was having an interesting discussion the other evening at BeanSec with Jeanna Matthews from Clarkson University.  Jeanna is one of the authors of what I think is the best book available on Xen virtualization, Running Xen. In between rounds of libations, the topic of Hypervisor-neutral, VM por...

Thanks to Alan Shimel and his pre-Blackhat Security Bloggers Network commentary, a bunch of interesting folks are commenting on the topic of virtualization security (VirtSec) which is the focus of my preso at Blackhat this year. Mike Rothman did his part this morning by writing up a thought-provokin...

My last couple of VirtSec posts have caused quite a stir in certain circles. The "debate" between who "owns" VirtSec that originated as part of my response to Simon Crosby of Citrix regarding the same has been picked up and amplified on multiple fronts. Greg Ness from BlueLane wrote a piece referenc...

It seems I have fallen victim to a series of misunderstandings these days. First there was Joanna-Gate and now Simon Crosby, Citrix's CTO, suggests in a blog entry titled "Chris Hoff & The Mother Of All Misunderstandings" that I'm puffing on the wrong end of my cigars for disagreeing w...