File Virtualization may revive HSM?

He does say that it was not best of the things in his last stint.

File virtualization essentially provides the open systems equivalent of the mainframe's hierarchical storage management (HSM), which no one outside of the mainframe world ever hears much about. What HSM does is manage data across different tiers of storage by allowing administrators to set policies that control what data is stored where and how long it is stored there.

Great idea but having seen HSM in use in my last tech position, I hesitate to advocate its use. Why? It takes an inordinate amount of time to set up and manage and with storage so cheap, management simply bought more disk. So the HSM technology is no longer under development at my old company and the individual that was developing HSM is now "retired," at the company's behest.

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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 is hot and sexy!

If this does not convince you to virtualize, believe me, nothing will :-) As you will hear these gorgeous women mention VMware, Akkori, Pano Logic, Microsoft and VKernel. They forgot to mention rackspace ;-) virtualization girl video I'm convinced, aren't you? Check out their site as well!

He does say that it was not best of the things in his last stint.

File virtualization essentially provides the open systems equivalent of the mainframe's hierarchical storage management (HSM), which no one outside of the mainframe world ever hears much about. What HSM does is manage data across different tiers of storage by allowing administrators to set policies that control what data is stored where and how long it is stored there.

Great idea but having seen HSM in use in my last tech position, I hesitate to advocate its use. Why? It takes an inordinate amount of time to set up and manage and with storage so cheap, management simply bought more disk. So the HSM technology is no longer under development at my old company and the individual that was developing HSM is now "retired," at the company's behest.

Check it out.

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