Blade Watch

http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail1828.html

In a previous episode of Technometria, Bogamil Bolgansky of VMWare gave a great overview of the concept of virtualization and how it is becoming more popular in enterprises. Now, Greg Ness of Blue Lane Technologies joins Phil and Scott to discuss the special security issues that virtualization creates.

Very cool, a podcast which features Greg Ness to talk about the challenges with virtualization and security, it’s a very interesting podcast and compares the ’static world’ (with physical networks, physical servers), and the virtual world, where I have the ability to move virtual machines around the network between networks.

For example say I have external server4, its an IIS server, it’s a DL360. In the existing model to bring this into the internal lan to be an Intranet server, I’d need to arrange a new physical patch cable, a new ip address and port, then switch it over, I would use the switchover time (the time to switch patch cables and move networks in the OS) to check the server patches, reboot it and put it in the internal lan.

With virtualization I might just take server4, and move it from ESX server1 to ESX server2, change the IP address and that’s it, how do I manage the patches, manage the risk? This more fluid type way of providing infrastructure means I have to be even more diligent with the security patch process.
There’s another one with an interview from VMWare  – check it out: http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail1776.html.

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