Veeam Software has announced that the latest version of its Veeam Backup Free Edition is now available for download. The new product now includes the popular Veeam FastSCP utility and a new feature the company calls VeeamZIP....More

AccessNow uses modern web browsers -- specifically those that support the canvas and web sockets features of HTML 5 -- to allow direct access to virtual machines that may be residing on a remote server, in a data center, or in the cloud....More

I recently interviewed Gregg Holzrichter, the VP of Marketing for Virsto Software, about two of his company's recently announced products: Virsto 2.0 for Hyper-V, and the first release of Virsto for VMware vSphere. Virsto hopes that these products will help IT administrators make more effective use of their storage by leveraging virtualization....More

Over the last decade or so, Microsoft's System Center product family has grown to resemble that over-achieving acquaintance we all know who suffers from a hopelessly complex personal life....More

One of the key features of today’s browsers is the ability to plug-in 3rd party code to add additional capabilities to the browsing experience but as these add-ins add additional capability they can also introduce new security and integrity risks. In this post we will look at approaches to protect our browser environments from plug-ins....More

First, there are administrators and then there are ADMINISTRATORS. This blog takes a look at what can be done to control administrators in our environments. Why would we want to limit our administrators? After all, they ARE the people who manage our infrastructure. It may be that organizations just make people administrators because it seems like the easiest way to allow them to do their job. This is the primary reason I see. The alternative is to provide them with just the permissions they need, restricting access from applications or management tools they don’t need, or shouldn’t use....More

In previous blog posts we have discussed some application control best practices through application whitelisting. As organizations look at application virtualization technologies, allowing applications to run on an operating system without being installed, it can play havoc with our whitelisting approach....More

Having just returned from the annual Black Hat conference in Vegas, the only thing clear these days is things are not getting better. Attackers are persistent and they have significant resources....More

VMware has updated two of their least expensive virtualization products, announcing this morning that VMware Fusion 4 and VMware Workstation 8 are now shipping and available for purchase....More