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New Security advisory regarding VUM

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Vyatta are slowly becoming one of my favourite networking start-ups…
Not only do they have a first class Router and Firewall/VPN product – boasting higher performance than Cisco – that they give to the community (here), they now offer free training at the Vyatta University!

Back in March, Vyatta Core reached v6.0 providing additional features that make their product more attractive to the enterprise.

• Netflow / sFlow logging and analysis
• 802.11 wireless LAN – (access point + base station)
• Binary image installation – (version mgmt)
• IPv6 readiness (core routing and firewall)
• Firewall enhancements
  • IPv6 firewall
  • P2P firewall
  • time-based and zone-based firewall rules
• QoS Enhancements

You may have read my post on using Vyatta as a Router-in-a-box for VMware and Citrix…
Seeing how this is such an attractive use case for this product, Vyatta have published a course detailing  installation, verification and basic configuration of Vyatta OVF and XVA virtual appliances for adding routing & security to VMware ESX and XenServer environments.

To sign up for the free video click here or to view all Vyatta training offerings click here

I very much like Vyatta’s approach, offering the Core Edition to the community with support subscription available as an uplift and it is even more refreshing to see Training following in the footsteps.
A strong community and easy access to resources  satisfies engineers and will yield a greater amount of knowledgeable/certified individuals should Vyatta choose to go down this route.

Perhaps more Networking vendors could learn from this…

Another Security advisory from VMware today,  this time about VMware studio.

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I refer to a blog written by my fellow virtualization marketer VMCarrie where she discussed the trap of hiring an individual to “own” social media, or SoMe as I term it. As Carrie correctly points out, it is not just one person’s responsibility and it’s not a full time role for someone.

Contributing to this new wave of communications should be many people’s responsibility. But how do you engage the right people? How do you remove some people’s fear that they will express the wrong opinion? What boundaries are there, or should be, in place? Who sets those boundaries and guidelines?

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Like all good remakes this is best served cold. After a hiatus of several months TheVirutalizationPractice are pleased to bring back to life the Virtual Thoughts podcast.

is the Hypervisor being pushed into hardware, why/why not?

So add the time and date into your calendar and join the Analysts of the VirtualizationPractice for an hour of thoughts and maybe even a little bit of insight into the dark arts that is the virtualisation world

That is Tuesday the 29th June 2010 @ 7:00pm (BST)

Third one of the week read more »

second advisory for the week read more »

Well it is that time again, the release of the VMware Security Advisories. so without further ado. read more »

Well one out of my three submissions have been accepted for VMworld San Fran and Copenhagen 2010

Title: Storage superheavyweight challenge

Session Id: TA8623

Abstract: Panel session to discuss all things Storage, panelled by some of the best known storage experts from the major vendors, including Chad Sakac (EMC), Vaughn Stewart (NetApp), and Adam Carter (HP)

Type: Panel Session

Track: Technology and Architecture

Speaker Detail: Tom Howarth & Cody Bunch

I am really happy at this, in fact I have been grinning inanely all day, now however there is only one shadow on the horizon, that of funding to get to the conferences, Yes the fact that my session has been accepted removes the entrance cost of the conference, but it does nothing to remove the associated travel and accommodation costs.  and these are quite large for a UK based independent consultant,

So if some kind vendor wishes to sponsor this little old Brit all donations gratefully accepted.

I have become a guest contributor to http://searchvirtualdatacentre.techtarget.co.uk my first article went up today.  I would like to thank them for this opportunity and for Mike Laverick for suggesting my name to them.