Survey: What questions does the security guy ask all the time?

You’re the virtualization admin. Your security guy comes up to you, looking for information. You really don’t want to give him an account on vCenter, do you? (according to a group discussion session I did at VMworld, the answer was clearly “No” with some being a little more colorful by using the term “NFW”!) But …

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Where IT happens….is where I’m going.

The past 7 years have been some of great change in my career. Always one to just kinda “go with the flow” and see what interested me, these past few years have been different. In 2005 I was bugging people about VMware. I had used it sporadically in a previous job and saw the value …

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Baby, what time is it? The importance of time with VMware SSO

For the past week or so, in my copious spare time, I’ve been re-building my vLab at work. It’s a cobbled together menagerie of hardware that makes me wish I had a healthier budget so I could spend more time on learning and less on reconfiguring, scrounging and breaking out the baling wire and chewing …

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