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Norway User Group & Geek Speak Local Event Starts Tomorrow! May 26-27

The Norway Citrix User Group has an excellent agenda planned for their two-day user group meeting this Wednesday and Thursday (May 26-27) in Oslo. As part of this meeting, they will be running a Geek Speak Local event on Wednesday at 4:30pm that will focus on the topic of Desktop Virtualization. The agenda details are included below.If you're based in Norway or visiting the area ...

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Securing Virtualized Environments

Customers consolidating servers to virtual machines are looking for a more cost effective application environment - to maximize CPU and memory utilization without sacrificing application performance or data security.  While the need for security in a virtual environment is no different than the need in a virtualized environment, the challenge is much different.  Trying to place security software on dozens of virtual machines, each of ...

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Taming the Four Horsemen of the Virtualization Security Apocalypse

Today Citrix announced that we have partnered with McAfee to advance the state of the art in secure virtual infrastructure. In this post I aim to provide more detail on the partnership announcement and the technologies involved, and to place them within the broader context of security for virtualization, with reference to Hoff's superb discussion of the key issues facing security in a ...

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Chris Hoff & The Mother Of All Misunderstandings

In a posting on his blog, Chris Hoff laid into some comments I made to security SearchSecurity.com, in which I remarked that "Virtualization vendors not in the security business." He quotes me as saying "While virtualization vendors will do their role in protecting the hypervisor, they are not in the business of catching bad guys or discovering vulnerabilities, said Simon Crosby, chief technology officer of Citrix ...

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