Jan 27

Virtual Desktops and Security–Leverage, Control, Enable

First, IMHO, VDI is not like the virtualization of servers where I consolidate 100 servers into 10 boxes and come out being a hero to finance because I saved $70k in A/C and electricity. The cost savings are not as blatant (and easy) as that. Instead, in my view, VDI is an enabling technology for …

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Jan 25

Computer Security History–The Cuckoo’s Egg and Visibility

Here’s a quick blog article about name dropping…er…my brushes with computer security history. For those that don’t know, there was a book written in 1989 call “The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage”. It’s a fascinating look into one of the first fully documented hacking events in computer history. The …

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Dec 19

The Palace of Harmonious Virtualization

Introduction In my job, I get to think a lot about where things are going. I’m hearing day in and day out that security is a major stumbling block to fully virtualizing a datacenter and also for “cloud”. In the case of the virtualized datacenter, what many call Private Cloud, this stumble usually happens when …

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