VMware Updates

Redhat Updates

• Friday Five — May 17, 2024 May 17, 2024
  RedMonk - InstructLab: What if Contributing to Models Was Easy?InstructLab, an open source community built around the Large-scale Alignment for chatBots (LAB) method and open source Granite models from IBM, is designed to lower the barriers to model contributions in order to accelerate AI innovation and foster enhanced model abilities, coverage and breadth. Learn more […]
• Automating fapolicyd with RHEL system roles May 16, 2024
  Automation can help increase efficiency, save time and improve consistency, which is why Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) includes features that help automate many tasks. RHEL system roles are a collection of Ansible content that helps provide more consistent workflows and streamline the execution of many manual tasks.Fapolicyd is a security-focused feature that can control […]
• Red Hat OpenShift as OpenTelemetry (OTLP) native platform May 16, 2024
  In Red Hat OpenShift we have always tried to provide a great observability experience out of the box through first class open source projects like Prometheus, Vector, Jaeger, Grafana Tempo and others. We have now added support for OpenTelemetry to the platform which enables customers to use the OpenTelemetry collector, auto-instrumentation injection and OpenTelemetry protocol […]
• Empower your workflow: Configuring Ansible Automation Platform 2.x via API with Ansible Playbook May 15, 2024
  In the world of IT automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform has emerged as a powerful tool for streamlining tasks and orchestrating complex systems. With the release of Ansible Automation Platform 2.X, managing automation workflows has become even more efficient. In this blog post, we'll explore how to configure a newly deployed Ansible Automation Platform […]
• Remote server management for edge computing May 15, 2024
  Sensible placement of workloads is important, especially for data-intensive applications performing real-time analysis using artificial intelligence (AI). These workloads require computing that happens on the edge, near where data is collected. However, this manner of distributed computing implies many servers in many remote environments that may not have on-site IT staff, or indeed any on-site […]

Microsoft Updates

• Hyper-V HyperClear RETbleed Update July 19, 2022
  Multiple new speculative execution side channel issues were recently disclosed by both Intel and AMD.  These issues were described in security bulletins available here: AMD CPU Branch Type Confusion | AMD Return Stack Buffer Underflow / CVE-2022-29901, CVE-2022-28693 /... (intel.com) These hardware vulnerabilities are officially referred to as CVE-2022-23825 (Branch Type Confusion), CVE-2022-29900 (RETbleed), CVE-2022-29901 […]
• AMD Nested Virtualization Support June 10, 2020
  AMD Nested Support showing a VM running on a VM on AMD Hardware Nested Virtualization is not a new idea. In fact, we announced our first preview of Nested Virtualization running on Windows way back in 2015.  From that Windows Insider preview to now, Nested Virtualization has been used in a variety of offerings in […]
• VMware Workstation and Hyper-V May 29, 2020
  As a follow up to our previous post on VMware and Hyper-V Working Together,  VMware has released a version of VMware Workstation that works with the Windows Hypervisor Platform (WHP). This release adds support for VMware Workstation running side by side with Microsoft’s virtualization based offerings.  For a full write up on the changes VMware […]
• Hyper-V Powering Windows Features December 12, 2019
  December 2019 Hyper-V is Microsoft’s hardware virtualization technology that initially released with Windows Server 2008 to support server virtualization and has since become a core component of many Microsoft products and features. These features range from enhancing security to empowering developers to enabling the most compatible gaming console. Recent additions to this list include Windows […]
• Virtualization-Based Security: Enabled by Default October 2, 2019
  Virtualization-based Security (VBS) uses hardware virtualization features to create and isolate a secure region of memory from the normal operating system. Windows can use this "virtual secure mode" (VSM) to host a number of security solutions, providing them with greatly increased protection from vulnerabilities in the operating system, and preventing the use of malicious exploits […]