Remember the earlier post about how Citrix will be offering its XenServer Enterprise hypervisor for free? Well its now available to be downloaded for free. See how Citrix attempts to smother VMware ESXi with its superior features here
A comparative analysis of the three major hypervisors VMware, Hyper-V and XenServer has been published by Virtualization Review. You can expect some vendors to be happy about the results and others, not so much.
Remember the post about how big security vendors are moving down the food chain to consolidate their hold on the security market? Well IBM through its partnership with (a much smaller) BigFix has released a desktop security solution that is positioned to enhance endpoint security and “reduce cost”.
What would you do if your security vendor went bankrupt? It is said that the security industry is recession proof but the reality is that companies are cutting costs and that means less spending on security solutions too.
In response to this changing market dynamic the big boys (IBM, Cisco, EMC etc) are repositioning their products to be attractive to smaller budgets.
I read about a startup (Altor Networks) that has developed a virtual firewall for VMware hypevisor. It is basically a virtual appliance that you plug into your virtual environment to act as a firewall between your virtual switches and virtual machines. It also wraps firewall policies for each VM so that even when migrated, the VMs will still be protected.
Citrix this week made its XenServer Enterprise hypervisor free allowing small businesses to virtualize for free - virtually. Way to go if you are on a shoestring budget.
Features packed into the 64-bit XenServer Enterprise edition include an enterprise management software called XenCenter, VM live migration technology, resource sharing and the enterprise storage management.
When I posted the earlier article about cyber-snooping fears, I was wondering how one could use a potentially compromised OS more safely and came across Polippix.
Polippix is a bootable CD created in Denmark as protest for what the creators believed is a far-reaching government snoop in the guise of fight against terror.
Interested? Included on the [...]
Chinese authorities are reportedly mandating that a Chinese developed OS called Red Flag Linux be installed in Internet cafes in a city in southern China. The action is meant to crack down on piracy, though some are not buying it, suspecting it is part of a scheme to snoop on and stop undesirable activities - [...]
SANS Internet Storm Center is currently developing a web honeypot project much like the Dshield project.
Volunteer researchers are needed for the next 3 months. Request is made for 70 hours per volunteer for the next 3 months.
Skills needed (up to 4 from the list is welcome):
PHP coding
SQL
Apache
Understanding of HTTP
IIS
Technical writing (documentation)
Experience with various open source [...]
BlueProximity is an open source tool which uses bluetooth technology to detect your (mobile phone’s) presence near your computer. It can automatically lock your computer once you move away and unlock it when you come within a predetermined distance from the computer.
It achieves this by connecting to your mobile phone via bluetooth using the Received [...]
