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Wait, It’s 2013 Already?
Wow. It seems like just yesterday that everyone was getting set to start the 2012 sales kickoff roadshow, culminating in a wonderful week of pinball and pints in London at Cisco Live EU. Now, I look...
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vCloud Director and Storage DRS default Affinity
I have had multiple discussions about Storage DRS default affinity internally and now saw this question on the VMTN Community Forums. It is a long question, but basically it comes down to this: What...
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2013 Resolution Complete: Social Media Partitioning
As an unabashed lover of list-making, New Year’s resolutions are something that I love making and yet often lack the discipline to follow through on. This year, I’m working on defining tasks at the...
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How to rig the game when asking for new software features.
One of the biggest time wasters I’ve come across in my working life are meetings. That’s not to say meetings aren’t important, they are, but when badly run they’re torture. Meetings with your...
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vCloud 5.1 Suite Home Labcirca 2013
Those of you that know me know that my deepest, darkest fear is becoming a talking head, a bureaucrat, or that most evil of corporate types – the politician. In my work life as I move into more and...
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ESXi host disconnected from vCenter?
I noticed a couple of people reported this problem in the last two months so I figured a blog post would be useful. This thread on VMTN triggered this article. If your ESXi host is disconnected from...
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Upgrade vCloud Director 1.5 on vSphere 5.1 to vCD 5.1.1?
One of my colleagues, Matthew Meyer, posted a list of cool videos he produced. These videos show how to upgrade vCloud Director 1.5 on vSphere 5.0 to vCloud Director 5.1.1 running on vSphere 5.1....
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Automating ESXi host level changes without opening SSH
I have been asked by many if it is possible automating ESXi host level changes without opening SSH. In many organizations people are prohibited to open SSH however they do have the need to make...
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Percentage Based Admission Control gives lower VM restart guarantee?
Those who have configured vSphere HA have all seen that section where it asks if you want to use admission control or not. Of course if you decide you want to use it, and you should want this, then...
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More, and still free to play, learn, try! Prosphere 1.7 is out.
Pure heads up – EMC Prosphere 1.7 is now GA… We’ve updated the “Learn, Play, Try” page on the community (click on the below to get right there), and my friend and colleague Tommy Trogden (the always...
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SDDC And The Elephant In The Room
Like many companies, we at EMC start our new year with a leadership gathering. We gather to celebrate, connect, strategize and share. They are *always* great events. I found this year's gathering was...
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Yet MORE stuffFREE! EMC Storage Integrator
EMC Storage Integrator (ESI) does for the Microsoft world what VSI does for vSphere (completely native integration, and across the EMC portfolio). LIke VSI, it’s free. Version 2.1 is out and adds...
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EMC’s Approach to Vulnerability Response
Let’s face it – real software products have security vulnerabilities! While building strong secure software development practices goes a long way towards detecting and helping to eliminate security...
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Re-invigorating the PKCS #11 Standard
One of the most important and widely-deployed cryptographic standards is PKCS #11, one of the family of PKCS standards that RSA initiated in the 1990s. The PKCS #11 standard specifies an API, called...
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2013 Security Resolutions
Now that the Mayan calendar gives us until October 13, 4772, we have some time to focus on 2013 in earnest. As I was thinking of my resolutions for 2013, I thought I’d compile some of the things that...
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The Public Cloud, Pigeons and Risk Management — Part 2
Cognitive Biases Ian Farquhar, Advisory Technology Consultant for RSA, the Security Division of EMC Many readers will be familiar with the concept of a cognitive bias. A cognitive bias is an...
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The SBIC 2013 Trends Report
Today the Security for Business Innovation Council (SBIC) released their 2013 Trends Report which is chocked full of lots of great stuff for security professionals to consider as they begin to tackle...
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3 Benefits of Running Exchange Server in a Virtualized Environment
3 Benefits of Running Exchange Server in a Virtualized Environment Guest post by: Brien M. Posey One of the big decisions that administrators must make when preparing to deploy Exchange Server is...
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Next Generation Security Operations: Part 1
Over the past few weeks, I have been watching some interesting articles trickle across my screen as I peruse industry news. Dark Reading has been posting recaps of significant security attacks and...
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