VMware Updates

Redhat Updates

• Don’t miss these 5 OpenShift AI sessions at Summit May 1, 2024
  No doubt, over the past several months, your brain has been inundated with two letters: A + I. And it’s for good reason. And while I won’t restate the cliches or common wisdom, I will recommend 5 sessions at Red Hat Summit that will help you make sense of open source AI, learn more, and […]
• Know Before You Go: Red Hat Summit and AnsibleFest 2024 May 1, 2024
  Red Hat Summit and AnsibleFest 2024 is just a few days away (May 6-9, 2024 in Denver, CO) and we know you won’t want to miss out on any of the activities, sessions or events we have planned. To help you prepare, we’ve put together a list with some of the highlights you’ll want to […]
• Mitigating breaches on Red Hat OpenShift with the CrowdStrike Falcon Operator May 1, 2024
  As Kubernetes becomes increasingly integral to production environments, cyber adversaries are likewise becoming more skilled in cloud-native exploitation. According to the CrowdStrike 2024 Global Threat Report, cases involving exploitation of cloud services increased by 110% in 2023, far outpacing non-cloud cases, which grew only 60% year-over-year.CrowdStrike helps organizations stay ahead of these evolving adversaries by […]
• Simplify hybrid cloud operations with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 May 1, 2024
  Architecting, deploying, and managing hybrid cloud environments can be a challenging and time-consuming process. It starts with processor selection, operating system configuration, application management, and workload protection, and it never ends. Every step requires a reliable, trusted software foundation with a comprehensive set of features and capabilities to fuel optimal performance, greater consistency, and enhanced […]
• Boost your cluster operations with Deployment Validation and Insights Advisor for Workloads April 30, 2024
  Hey admins, are app developers crashing your clusters? Do they cost you additional operations toil while fixing performance and scalability issues? There's a new and exciting way that Red Hat Insights for Red Hat OpenShift can help you address these issues.What is a Deployment Validation Operator?Deployment Validation Operator (DVO) is an operator executing kube-linter workload […]

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 […]