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http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/05/08/moes-bluelane_1.html

For managers of enterprise datacenters, the endless stream of security patches from Microsoft, Oracle, and other software vendors (not to mention open source projects) has been a prime source of frustration. For Blue Lane Technologies, it has provided a golden opportunity.

Perhaps IT’s least-favorite necessary evil, security patches are disruptive, time-consuming, and risky. They arrive unannounced or on the vendor’s timetable, with no respect for your own well-considered change management processes. And like any change, they need testing before deployment. Even if testing goes smoothly, there’s always a chance they’ll introduce some new problem or other. Thus the need for security is pitted against another datacenter imperative: system availability.

Check out this article, it discusses the whole security patching issue with the virtual machine. As you scale up your virtual estate, start using it to its full extent, managing the security patching of your Microsoft/Linux etc virtual machines can get more complex, the machines that have been archived and de-registered, the machines powered off etc, as well as which machines are where and on which networks can make the process more time consuming than the process for patching physical machines. Anything that the vendors can do to aid this process has to be a good thing.

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