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• Like it or not, virtualization is in it for the long haul

  19Nov
  Author: ben Categories: IT Management, Ramblings, Security Comments: 0

  The Lone Sysadmin, Bob Plankers, comments on the lack of vendor commitment to virtualization, and I fully concur. I see it especially with smaller, proprietary niche vendors. They’ll threaten to pull support entirely if their software is hosted on a virtual system.

  The core problem, in my view, is that they just don’t understand it. It’s not limited to virtualization, either. There’s push back on patching (on all platforms), joining systems to a Windows domain, changing account passwords or privilege levels, even locating multiple systems on different subnets!

  My take is that many of these vendors do not come from an IT background. They are experts in some field, identified a problem that needed automating, and hired somebody to write the code for them, with no understand of security or architectural implications. They’re often very good at solving the problems in that niche, but when that system plays a role in a larger enterprise there’s no understanding of the big picture.

  
  Tags: rants, vendors