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Patching Virtual Infrastructure smartly



BlueLane folks are getting lots of raving reviews for their hardwork and dedication towards providing a smarter and intelligent patching system.

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.

The founders of Blue Lane had a better idea: implement security patches in a network appliance that fronts the servers, and every server could be protected against software vulnerabilities without having to make changes to the servers themselves. IT could install the actual patches later, on its own timetable.


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