VMware's VI3 Hosting attracts customers

And Macquarie was one of them.

"Macquarie Hosting's managed server virtualization offering gives customers with high-availability, mission critical online applications the same level of proactive management, security and performance they expect from traditional hosted server environments," says Aidan Tudehope, managing director hosting at Macquarie Telecom. "However, virtualization offers a range of additional benefits including superior levels of agility, scalability and business continuity. Backed by VMware's infrastructure, Macquarie Hosting's virtual server offering means we can now help organizations significantly reduce their hardware costs while ensuring they remain available and responsive to customers."

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Security: VMware Workstation 6 vulnerability

vulnerable software: VMware Workstation 6.0 for Windows, possible some other VMware products as well type of vulnerability: DoS, potential privilege escalation I found a vulnerability in VMware Workstation 6.0 which allows an unprivileged user in the host OS to crash the system and potentially run arbitrary code with kernel privileges. The issue is in the vmstor-60 driver, which is supposed to mount VMware images within the host OS. When sending the IOCTL code FsSetVoleInformation with subcode FsSetFileInformation with a large buffer and underreporting its size to at max 1024 bytes, it will underrun and potentially execute arbitrary code. Security focus

Splunk that!

Saw this advert on Slashdot and went on to look for it and found the tour pretty neat to look at. Check out the demo too! So why would I need it? WHY NOT? I'd say. As an organization grows , new services, new data comes by, new logs start accumulating on the servers and it becomes increasingly difficult to look at all those logs, leave alone that you'd have time to read them and who cares about analysis as the time to look for those log files already makes your day, isn't it? Well a solution like this is a cool option to have your sysadmins/operators look at ONE PLACE and thus you don't have your administrators lurking around in your physical servers and *accidentally* messing up things there. Go ahead and give it a shot by downloading it and testing it. I'll give it a shot myself! Ok so I went ahead and installed it. Do this... [root@tarrydev Software]# ./splunk-Server-1.0.1-linux-installer.bin to install and this (if you screw up) [root@tarrydev Software]# /op

Virtualization Event 2008: Interviews are now live!

Mine are down here ;-) Part 1 Part 2 And the rest you'll find'em here.

And Macquarie was one of them.

"Macquarie Hosting's managed server virtualization offering gives customers with high-availability, mission critical online applications the same level of proactive management, security and performance they expect from traditional hosted server environments," says Aidan Tudehope, managing director hosting at Macquarie Telecom. "However, virtualization offers a range of additional benefits including superior levels of agility, scalability and business continuity. Backed by VMware's infrastructure, Macquarie Hosting's virtual server offering means we can now help organizations significantly reduce their hardware costs while ensuring they remain available and responsive to customers."

Macquarie's site and original article.

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