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How Do New MMO's Work?, Marathon has a story, The best Gaming Podcast # 587Busy week we leap into handhelds, steam sales, consoles, and even more in todays podcastThis is an "Inside Baseball" podcast episode covering:Marathon (Bungie) - Years-long story plan announced, sold ~1 million copies, which is low for Bungie but better than expected. Nobody's really talking about the story though, it's all about gameplay.Smooth Motion vs DLSS - Smooth Motion is system-level frame interpolation that doesn't require game support. DLSS requires game support or an injector. Smooth Motion can actually have lower latency in some cases.Subnautica 2 - Early access date announced. Lots of legal drama between Krafton and Unknown Worlds. Legal distractions can pull developer focus away from creative energy.A Plague Tale: Resonance/Legacy - Asobo working on a prequel with character Sofia.Mind's Eye (Build a Rocket Boy) - DLC containing names of people who "sabotaged" the game. Devs claiming they were spied on. Comparison to Days Gone's blame game. The game probably wasn't good enough to sabotage in the first place.Directive 8020 - Alien Isolation vibes, Supermassive Games, excited for the space horror feel.Lego Batman Legacy - PC specs controversy, recommended specs seemed high for a Lego game, director clarified they had to put something up for preorders.GameStop trying to buy eBay - Fascinating, weird business move.Devil Wears Prada 2 poster - Artist paid to mimic AI art. Trojan horse for normalizing AI in entertainment.Xbox record monthly active users despite not selling much hardware.Denuvo DRM crack - Hypervisor bypass, but turning off hypervisor makes your system less secure.Exodus - Smart marketing strategy with short gameplay trailers on their own YouTube channel.Outer Worlds Spacer's Choice update - Some graphical issues.Microsoft handheld / ROG Xbox Ally - Handheld market is actually very small.Project Blackbird cancellation - MMO genre is expensive and risky.Fortnite/Roblox player drops - Even small percentage drops could mean huge money redistribution to other gameJoin this channel to get access to perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5zKbGokI0oI6SeZrHTfJjA/joinSubstack https://substack.com/@acgreviewhttps://amzn.to/43LY1Gv Amazon Affiliate LinkJoin this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5zKbGokI0oI6SeZrHTfJjA/join Each Friday ACG and some pals Silver, Rej, Abssi, and Jonny from https://www.twitch.tv/jonnyplayslive get together to discuss games, life, books, movies and everything else. New home of the ACG Best Gaming Podcast Follow me on Twitter for reviews and info @jeremypenter-JOIN the ACG Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/ACGVids/ https://www.patreon.com/AngryCentaurGaming

Ogni giorno le nostre città fanno i conti con traffico congestionato, mezzi pubblici sovraffollati nelle ore di punta e semivuoti nel resto della giornata, spazi urbani occupati da veicoli parcheggiati per la maggior parte del tempo. La mobilità urbana è uno dei grandi nodi irrisolti del nostro tempo: incide sulla qualità dell'aria, sull'efficienza economica e sulla qualità della vita di milioni di persone. Ma se il problema fosse il concetto stesso di veicolo? È da questa idea che nasce NExT Modular Vehicles, una realtà che sta sviluppando un sistema di veicoli capaci di aggregarsi e separarsi dinamicamente per rispondere ai diversi flussi di passeggeri. In questa puntata scopriamo come si può ripensare la mobilità urbana parlando direttamente con Tommaso Gecchelin, fondatore di NExT Modular Vehicles.Nella sezione delle notizie parliamo della violazione del DRM di Denuvo, il sistema di protezione dei videogiochi più sofisticato disponibile e dei primi voli dimostrativi del taxi aereo Joby tra Manhattan e l'aeroporto JFK di New York.--Indice--00:00 - Introduzione01:37 - Il DRM di Denuvo è stato violato (DDay.it, Luca Martinelli)03:10 - Il taxi aereo tra Manhattan e il JFK (CNN.com, Matteo Gallo)04:40 - NExT Modular Vehicles: ripensare la mobilità in chiave modulare (Tommaso Gecchelin, Davide Fasoli, Matteo Gallo)35:35 - Conclusione--Testo--Leggi la trascrizione: https://www.dentrolatecnologia.it/S8E18#testo--Contatti--• www.dentrolatecnologia.it• Instagram (@dentrolatecnologia)• Telegram (@dentrolatecnologia)• YouTube (@dentrolatecnologia)• redazione@dentrolatecnologia.it--Brani--• Ecstasy by Rabbit Theft• Time by Syn Cole

Eric Arcese, vice president of global partner marketing at Dell Technologies Dell Technologies vice president of global partner marketing Eric Arcese joins In The Channel ahead of Dell Technologies World, and his central message for Canadian partners is worth sitting with: the AI Factory is Dell’s story, but the seams around it belong to the channel. Arcese describes looking at the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA topology slide at a recent Dell Tech World and seeing the “gaps, the seams” – the services, the data work, the outcome-level integration – as the real opportunity for partners. As enterprise AI adoption moves beyond hyperscaler buildouts into mid-market and commercial customers, those gaps are where Canadian MSPs and VARs have natural advantages: proximity to the customer, industry intimacy, and the ability to make the technology real. On the VxRail-to-Dell Private Cloud transition, Arcese frames the shift around the economics of AI – disaggregated infrastructure lets customers independently scale GPUs, storage, and networking for specific workloads. Hypervisor choice is preserved across Red Hat, Microsoft, VMware, and others, and partners building Dell Private Cloud practices can access up to 10% incremental incentives. The AI PC conversation moves past the usual productivity pitch. With over 500 million PCs still running Windows 10 and enterprise fleets averaging three to five years old, the refresh is as much a security imperative as a performance one – a stronger entry point for MSPs already in the endpoint security conversation with their customers. The episode closes with a preview of the Global Partner Summit at Dell Technologies World, May 18-21 in Las Vegas. Demand signals replacing traditional leads, AI-assisted quoting and deal registration, a “modern partner-centric transaction ecosystem” – the “simple, predictable, profitable” mantra is getting operational substance. The details come in May. Read Full Transcript Hello and welcome to In The Channel from ChannelBuzz.ca, bringing news and information to the Canadian IT channel community for the last 16 years. I’m Robert Dutt, editor of ChannelBuzz.ca, and your host for the show. Dell Technologies World is coming up in May, and for the Dell partner community, it’s the biggest event on the calendar – the place where the direction for the partner program gets set for the year ahead. As we head toward that, there’s a lot for Canadian resellers and MSPs to be thinking about. The partner program has been evolving. The shift from VxRail to Dell Private Cloud is still very much unfolding. The AI infrastructure opportunity is reshaping what customers expect and what partners are expected to deliver. The question of where a Canadian MSP or VAR actually fits into all of that – that’s a real and pressing one. To help me make sense of it, I sat down with Eric Arcese, Vice President of Global Partner Marketing at Dell Technologies. Eric’s been in the industry for over 25 years, with roots going back to the EMC era, so he’s been watching and shaping how the Dell partner ecosystem operates for a long time. We talked about where partners fit in the AI story, the VxRail transition, the AI PC refresh, and what you can expect from the Global Partner Summit in May. Let’s get right into it, my chat with Eric Arcese. Robert Dutt: Eric, thanks for taking the time. I appreciate it. Eric Arcese: Thanks, Robert, for having me. Robert Dutt: You’re the Vice President of Global Partner Marketing at Dell. Can you give me a sense of what that actually means day-to-day? What are you responsible for, and what does the Dell partner community look like from where you’re sitting? Eric Arcese: Well, the partner community has been a tremendous growth engine and a critical and existential part of our go-to-market in everything that we do. We have partners around the world, we have some of our very best in Canada, and our partners really bring our technology to life with our shared customers around the world. We can’t do what we do in the market without the phenomenal partners that we have. In my role leading global partner marketing, that is to make sure that our story resonates, that we’re bringing that value proposition to life for our partners. They have choices, just like customers do, each and every day – who they’re going to invest in, who they’re going to work with, what they’re going to focus on learning, how they’re going to enable their sellers, their pre-sales folks. And we want to make sure that our partners feel really good about working with us, building businesses with us, developing practices with us, and ultimately growing with us in the markets that they serve for the customers that we collectively support. I love what I do. I’ve been in tech for over 25 years, here at Dell for over 25 years as well, and I could not think of a place I would rather be. Supporting our very best partners in Canada and around the world, and all that we do – that’s a little bit about what I do. I work very closely with my team around the world, and with our regional marketing folks as well, to make sure that that last mile of what we deliver for partners is well-aligned and adds value to partners in the ecosystem. So that’s a little bit about what I do, Robert. Robert Dutt: I feel like 2026 is a bit of an inflection point for the partner community writ large, and the definition of a Dell partner seems broader than it’s ever been. You’ve talked about partners moving beyond reselling into being architects, advisors, ecosystem builders – all that kind of good stuff. What do you see as the state of the Dell partner community right now, and how have you seen that picture change over recent months, and I guess the last year or two? Eric Arcese: Robert, you and I have both been in tech for the last couple of decades, and there have been different chapters, different inflection points. What we’re seeing now is a moment like we’ve never seen before. This is obviously all driven by AI, but it puts infrastructure, solutions, integrations, and outcomes at the forefront of everything that our partners deliver and everything our customers are demanding. So we’re in this moment that’s existential in tech and everything that we do, where we need to accelerate time to value with infrastructure. And when it really dawned on me, Robert – it was a couple of years ago, at a Dell Technologies World; you might have been there too. We had this announcement, and we called it the AI Factory with NVIDIA. And we had a picture on a slide – like so many of you have seen, with a chevron – data coming in on one side, use cases and business outcomes on the other, but layered through all of that, you had services, AI, software, infrastructure. And there were gaps when I saw this slide, and I was thinking to myself: the gaps, the seams, that’s where the opportunity lies for our partners around the world. Dell is the infrastructure provider of choice. We are the leader in everything that we provide – right from commercial PCs, to storage, to servers, AI servers – and stitching it all together through the topology upon which we develop those outcomes creates a huge opportunity for our partners. So that’s what gets me really excited about the moment. We’re meeting the moment. Our technology is meeting the moment, our partners are meeting the moment, and we’re working each and every day with those partners to deliver real AI-driven outcomes around the world. And some customers get it – and those that don’t, won’t be here very long. So there is this urgency, and we see that in our demand across the board. And I won’t go into earnings from last year, but you’ve probably seen that the year that we just posted, we’re seeing that come to life in every market. We’re seeing that in Canada, no doubt about it as well. It’s hard not to get excited about it. This is a very special time indeed. Robert Dutt: So the AI Factory – definitely been a centrepiece of the story for the last couple of years, as you point out. When I look at it from the perspective of my audience – from the MSP or the VAR serving mid-market and SMB customers – the massive GPU cluster buildouts feel like they’re kind of happening somewhere else. Can you help me fill in the story for the regional partner who isn’t doing hyperscale deployments and where they fit into the AI infrastructure story at this point? Eric Arcese: It’s a great question. I think that’s a little bit of the elephant in the room, right? The first couple of years, it’s like – yeah, you’re reading about these multi-billion-dollar deals, but where are they happening? And those deals were happening at the hyperscale level. The next question is: when is there enterprise AI adoption? When does a traditional enterprise customer really start embracing AI at every level? And you know what? We’re seeing that now. The trajectory of that growth is accelerating, and it’s terrific to see. To your point, Robert, those first couple of quarters, first year or two – the question was: what about enterprise adoption? And that’s where our partners are incredibly well positioned to make it real. What are the outcomes? What are the use cases? What are the business processes we’re going to focus on to bring that infrastructure to a place where it’s adding real value? The people in that workflow who make that real – that’s our partners. Dell’s partners. Because our partners in Canada are incredibly intimate with the industry, the customer, the use cases, the business priorities – whether it’s in the public or private sector. We’re providing that infrastructure at Dell Technologies, but our partners are making it real because they have that intimacy. They’re pressing the flesh, they’re working with customers each and every day, they know what those priorities are, and they can reconcile where those investments need to be made to help accelerate time to value. So with all of that comes a massive services and consulting opportunity. It’s not just the infrastructure – it’s the value-added services that our partners are building upon that infrastructure. And we’re seeing some terrific practices getting built with our partners around the world. When we work together, we win together, and we’re seeing that each and every day. Robert Dutt: Can you make that just a little bit more concrete for me? What are the consulting-type services you see partners bringing to bear right now – especially for that partner serving, let’s say, a 500-person financial services firm? Just to set an example of a mid-market-type opportunity where there may be an AI Factory angle, but it’s not the hyperscale wheelhouse. Eric Arcese: You know, if you think about it – four or five years ago, you and I would be having this conversation and it would be about a cloud-first model, and then we’d probably evolve into hybrid cloud, using public or private cloud based on the right workload. Now the way we think about it, it’s not a cloud-first model. It’s more around data. It’s the data model. Making sure we have the right data on the right workload, because if you plug an LLM or any AI-driven workload or a GPU behind suboptimal data, you’re going to get suboptimal outcomes. So when we think about where a partner is going to focus – irrespective of the industry, whether it’s public sector, banking, telco, manufacturing – I think starting with a real inventory of what that data topology looks like, and what the business outcome is that we’re looking to achieve. And no matter what industry the customer is from, one quickly realizes they’re all in the data business. Our partners can, number one, do a great assessment of where that critical data is and where it’s living. And number two, marry that data to the right business outcome in terms of what they’re trying to deploy. So I think it really starts with the data, and building practices that understand the workload, the industry, the vertical, and the data – that is key. And that creates a lot of opportunity. We talk about servers, storage, client, PCs, and networking all the time, but that is where that data is going to live, and we’re going to build that AI practice off of it. That initial assessment – where an AI practice starts – all begins with data, Robert. It’s really having that data-informed conversation. And then a lot of this is a change in mindset, in terms of what you’re doing with that data and what the expectations are. Robert Dutt: All right. From one reference architecture to another – talk about the transition from VxRail to Dell Private Cloud. Michael Dell’s been pretty direct about the direction. And I know you have roots going back to EMC, so it might be a bit personal. But for a partner who’s built a real practice, a real business, around VxRail over the last decade – what does that transition actually look like, and where do you see the services opportunity opening up as customers make that move? Eric Arcese: Robert, it’s such a great question. Because for years we talked about converged infrastructure, hyperconverged infrastructure – packaging, which made a lot of sense. You package a pre-architected and engineered system and you deliver it, to drive an accelerated business outcome. Time to value of infrastructure. The industry, with our partners, built a multi-billion-dollar business and a new market that was very well received. Then you wake up a couple of years later and now we’re talking about disaggregated infrastructure with Dell Private Cloud. And one may wonder: wait a second – we thought it was all about putting it all together and delivering it with speed. What’s changed? And I had to ask myself the same question, Robert. What’s changed? Well, the economics of AI have changed. The centre of gravity in terms of what is needed for these AI outcomes has been driven by a huge development – and that development is the GPU. The GPU is the accelerator of all the processing. And sometimes you need more GPU investment than you would need in storage, than you would need in client. You still need them across the board. So when you think about that economic backdrop of AI, the economics lend themselves to a more disaggregated infrastructure where you can dial up storage, server, networking, depending on what is needed for that specific workload, LLM, or AI platform that you’re rolling out. Also – customers want choice. They don’t want to be locked into one hypervisor. Maybe they want to work with Red Hat. Maybe they want to work with Microsoft. Maybe they want to work with VMware – they’re a VMware shop. Maybe they want to work with Nutanix. Allowing customers to have that choice empowers them, but it also creates opportunity for our partners, to your point, Robert. Because our partners are ultimately going to help our shared customers navigate those choices and reconcile those priorities from a hypervisor perspective, to optimize whatever application they’re rolling out. So it’s really about customer choice. And for me, the coolest thing to see is how quickly this has evolved. We’re doubling down on customer choice. Partners earn up to 10% incremental incentives. We’ve really built a program to drive profitable practices around Dell Private Cloud and strengthen and deepen those relationships. So we’re seeing this real shift from pre-packaged hyperconverged infrastructure to disaggregated infrastructure that’s truly optimized and tailored to Dell Private Cloud. Very exciting to see, Robert. Robert Dutt: Pivoting to the device side of things – the AI PC refresh is a significant cycle for the channel right now. For the Canadian VAR or even an MSP selling into the commercial market, what’s the marketing story that you’re giving them to make that conversation land? Especially with customers who are already stretched on IT budgets and might be looking at that three-year-old PC and saying, “good enough to get me through another year.” Eric Arcese: It might be. But it probably isn’t. And it’s not just the productivity benefits you’re going to see with an AI PC – it’s the security requirements that we’re all going to need. Because AI is terrific for the good, but it has also empowered the bad actors to get to where we work every day. Last year was all about the tech refresh from Windows 10 to Windows 11. We still have over 500 million PCs running Windows 10, and enterprise fleets averaging three to five years of age. So customers definitely need to act on that – to bring that AI capability to the edge, but also to meet the security requirements we need to protect that edge from reaching into the core. We started naturally in the data centre in our conversation today, Robert, but that edge – where are you working every day? What are you touching every day? It’s your PC. That’s your workforce. That’s what’s in front of you, whether at work or at home. And there’s just a tremendous opportunity there for our partners. We’re the number one commercial PC provider in the world, and it starts with what’s in front of you each and every day. We’re excited about that opportunity. That hasn’t gone away. We had a terrific CES, and there’s just more greenfield opportunity for our partners in Canada to win with Dell’s PC portfolio. Robert Dutt: Bouncing around a little bit from topic to topic here – you guys made some program changes for 2026, as most vendors are wont to do from time to time. The Titanium incentives probably being the most visible of them, but there’s also this broader “simplified, predictable, profitable” philosophy underneath it. From a marketing standpoint, what’s the message you most want partners to internalize about what Dell is committing to this year? Eric Arcese: One of the things I love about partner marketing, Robert, is the work is never over. And you can appreciate that – you’ve been in the channel just as long as I have. The work of creating a simple, predictable, profitable motion for our partners really never ends, because everything we talked about just keeps evolving. We want to make sure we have a simplified motion – taking friction out of the system. We want to make sure it’s predictable: you know what you’re going to get, you know how we’re going to engage with you. And it’s profitable: you want to make sure that you’re making money working with Dell Technologies in Canada. So we’re doing a lot around demand signals – how do we accelerate what used to be a lead, which is now a demand signal, the outcome of many different predictive analytics and data points on the markets that we serve with our partners. We want to make sure we’re simplifying that lead management and fostering seamless collaboration in that motion. We also want to make sure that from a deal reg perspective, we are managing opportunities together and protecting where our Canadian partners have invested. We want to do all of that to accelerate engagement, simplify processes, and empower our Dell sellers with a smarter and streamlined motion. And then quoting and buying – we want to make sure we are priced to win across the board, and we’re building a modern, partner-centric transaction ecosystem that connects product discovery to order management in one end-to-end platform. You’re going to be hearing more and more about that in the months to come. I think you’ll be at Dell Technologies World with us, so I’m excited to share more there. That mantra of simple, predictable, profitable – that work never ends. We’re seeing the fruits of our labour here and the success we’ve had in Canada over the last couple of years. And we’re really proud of the work that we’ve done. We’re very grateful and humbled by so many amazing partners in Canada that have really doubled down on Dell across the board, across the portfolio. Because when you have a great program that rewards the right investment, and you have wonderful people – I love the alliteration of portfolio, program, people – there’s nothing you can’t do. When we work together, we truly are winning together in Canada. Robert Dutt: To your point that it never ends – it just keeps evolving. You rightly pointed out we’re not too far away from Dell Technologies World, and the Global Partner Summit is a big part of that. There’s been some preview of a new integrated partner experience that sounds like it goes beyond a typical program update. Without asking you to scoop your own announcements – although if you want to, please feel free. Eric Arcese: Ha – I’ll be good. I’ll do my best. Robert Dutt: What’s the problem you’re aiming to solve for partners with this platform approach? What’s the philosophy behind what we’re likely to see roll out in the near future? Eric Arcese: What we talked about – meeting the moment – it is a truly special time. And we want to make sure our partners have the speed to deliver what we collectively need to for our shared customers, and the scale to do it across every market, across every part of our portfolio, across every partner type. What you’ll see at Dell Technologies World – as you always do – is the product of investments we’ve made over not just the year, but over years. From a portfolio perspective, programmatically, you’re going to see how when partners invest and build their practices and businesses on Dell, they will be rewarded. And then you get to spend time with our people who support our partners in Canada and around the world. Not to mention, we have a great time in Vegas, as one always does. So it’s the place to be. We’re a couple of weeks out and we’re seeing the excitement and anticipation building. We have a lot to share at our Global Partner Summit at Dell Technologies World. Robert, I believe you’re planning on being there – we’re looking forward to seeing you and spending time with you as well. And we’re going to have a great representation not just of Canadian partners but the Canadian customers we work so hard serving each and every day. It’s going to be a blast, as it always is. Robert Dutt: You touched a while back on some of the day-to-day operational things that partners tell me they feel the most friction on – not specific to Dell, but across the industry. Deal reg, quoting, lead sharing, the need to do all of that faster at higher scale. Is the vision here to make those kinds of operational experiences meaningfully more autonomous and self-serve? Is AI in the partner platform something partners will feel starting in May, or is that still on the horizon? Eric Arcese: Well, I prefer drinking your own champagne to eating your own dog food – so I’ll go with the bubbly analogy there. But we have very much been, for years now, investing in a very big way in our partner business and the platforms that support those partners. We want to make sure that we’re using an AI-first approach across the board in everything that we do – to take friction out of the system, and to have an AI-first mantra in all we do when it comes to empowering our people and our partners. I look at the AI that we’re investing in to support our partners as a real force multiplier. How do you get the power of the portfolio to our customers? How do you enable our partners to know that portfolio? How do you make sure that when you’re quoting and ordering, you’re doing that in the most efficient way – so that customers aren’t waiting, they’re getting the right configuration at the right time, for the right workload, at the price that makes the most sense, and we’re delivering value? We want partners to be able to deliver that value, because when they do, they grow – and when they grow, it’s good for our partners, it’s good for Dell, and ultimately we’re driving more outcomes for the customers we serve. So you’ll see a lot of that AI in what we deliver from a product perspective, but definitely in how AI supports things like syndicated content, quoting and buying, and all of the programmatic platform upon which our partnerships are built. Robert Dutt: My last question – you touched on 25 or more years in this industry, through the EMC years, through the Dell-EMC merger, and now we’re into the AI chapter. For a partner who’s navigating all of this right now – the infrastructure shifts, the AI opportunity, the evolution of the program – what’s your read on the best opportunity over the next 12 months? Where would you be pointing partners in terms of where to focus? Eric Arcese: Well, if you’re a partner thinking about which relationships you’re going to invest in – with Dell, you have a leader in commercial PCs, a leader in storage, a leader in services. You have the industry heavyweight in infrastructure. And not only that – in a world where we’re seeing some very complicated supply chain dynamics globally, you have the world’s best supply chain supporting you. You have a proven leader that’s committed to partnering in all that we do. And you have tremendous people in Canada there to support you each and every day. So I always think of it this way: if you’re building a business, who are those partnerships you want to create? You want one hand to shake that’s accountable to you, that’s invested in you, that’s committed to you – so that you can deliver on what you’ve promised your customer. With Dell, you have that. And we’re really proud of where we are in the market. This AI moment that we’ve all been afforded is going to create tremendous opportunity – and I couldn’t be more excited about it. Not just for the partner businesses we support, but for the outcomes and problem statements that we’re going to be able to address that we haven’t even fathomed yet. Transformative outcomes across every industry we serve, both public and private. So I’m really excited, Robert. And if I’m a partner, those are the types of things I’m thinking about and why working with Dell is a great bet. And hopefully we’ll all be making that bet in Vegas in May at Dell Technologies World – because that’s what you do in Vegas. You make bets. But it’s an easy one to make with Dell Technologies every day. Robert Dutt: Great point to leave it on. I look forward to catching up at Dell Technologies World and hearing more of the story there. Eric, thanks so much. Eric Arcese: Thanks so much, Robert. I really enjoyed our time together. Much appreciated. There you have it – Eric Arcese from Dell Technologies. I’d like to thank Eric for his time, and of course, thank you for listening today. If I had to pull three things out of the conversation for the Canadian partner to sit with, here’s what I’m thinking. First – the AI Factory framing. Eric described looking at the AI Factory topology slide and seeing the gaps, the seams between the components, as the partner opportunity. The hardware is Dell’s story. The services layer, the data work, the integration, the outcomes – that’s where partners play. If you’re trying to figure out what the AI infrastructure wave actually means to your practice, that’s a useful lens. Second – the VxRail transition. If you’ve built a practice around VxRail, Dell’s message is: the path forward is clear. The hypervisor choice you’ve made is preserved. The economics of the new platform make sense, and there are meaningful incentives to help you build out a Dell Private Cloud practice. The transition is underway and getting ahead of it matters. Third – the AI PC refresh is a security story as much as a productivity story. There are still around 500 million PCs running Windows 10, many of them three to five years old, sitting at the edge of the network while AI is making the threat landscape more sophisticated. For MSPs already in the endpoint security conversation with their customers, that’s a more powerful entry point than “it’s a faster laptop.” And of course – Dell Technologies World, May 18th to 21st in Las Vegas. The Global Partner Summit is the anchor event for partners, and based on what Eric was hinting at around the integrated partner experience and changes to quoting and deal registration, it’s worth watching closely whether you’re going or not. If you found this useful, follow or subscribe to the In The Channel podcast wherever you get your podcasts – we’re on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and most major directories. A rating or review is always appreciated if you’ve got a minute – it genuinely helps. Until next time, I’m Robert Dutt for ChannelBuzz.ca, and I’ll see you in the channel.

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Have you ever considered how a single server can support countless applications and workloads at once?   In this episode, hosts Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham, together with Principal OCI Instructor Orlando Gentil, explore the sophisticated technologies that make this possible in modern cloud data centers.   They discuss the roles of hypervisors, virtual machines, and containers, explaining how these innovations enable efficient resource sharing, robust security, and greater flexibility for organizations.   Cloud Tech Jumpstart: https://mylearn.oracle.com/ou/course/cloud-tech-jumpstart/152992 Oracle University Learning Community: https://education.oracle.com/ou-community LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/oracle-university/ X: https://x.com/Oracle_Edu   Special thanks to Arijit Ghosh, David Wright, Kris-Ann Nansen, Radhika Banka, and the OU Studio Team for helping us create this episode. -------------------------------------------------- Episode Transcript:   00:00 Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast, the first stop on your cloud journey. During this series of informative podcasts, we'll bring you foundational training on the most popular Oracle technologies. Let's get started! 00:25 Lois: Hello and welcome to the Oracle University Podcast! I'm Lois Houston, Director of Innovation Programs with Oracle University, and with me is Nikita Abraham, Team Lead: Editorial Services. Nikita: Hi everyone! For the last two weeks, we've been talking about different aspects of cloud data centers. In this episode, Orlando Gentil, Principal OCI Instructor at Oracle University, joins us once again to discuss how virtualization, through hypervisors, virtual machines, and containers, has transformed data centers. 00:58 Lois: That's right, Niki. We'll begin with a quick look at the history of virtualization and why it became so widely adopted. Orlando, what can you tell us about that?  Orlando: To truly grasp the power of virtualization, it's helpful to understand its journey from its humble beginnings with mainframes to its pivotal role in today's cloud computing landscape. It might surprise you, but virtualization isn't a new concept. Its roots go back to the 1960s with mainframes. In those early days, the primary goal was to isolate workloads on a single powerful mainframe, allowing different applications to run without interfering with each other. As we moved into the 1990s, the challenge shifted to underutilized physical servers. Organizations often had numerous dedicated servers, each running a single application, leading to significant waste of computing resources. This led to the emergence of virtualization as we know it today, primarily from the 1990s to the 2000s. The core idea here was to run multiple isolated operating systems on a single physical server. This innovation dramatically improved the resource utilization and laid the technical foundation for cloud computing, enabling the scalable and flexible environments we rely on today. 02:26 Nikita: Interesting. So, from an economic standpoint, what pushed traditional data centers to change and opened the door to virtualization? Orlando: In the past, running applications often meant running them on dedicated physical servers. This led to a few significant challenges. First, more hardware purchases. Every new application, every new project often required its own dedicated server. This meant constantly buying new physical hardware, which quickly escalated capital expenditure. Secondly, and hand-in-hand with more servers came higher power and cooling costs. Each physical server consumed power and generated heat, necessitating significant investment in electricity and cooling infrastructure. The more servers, the higher these operational expenses became. And finally, a major problem was unused capacity. Despite investing heavily in these physical servers, it was common for them to run well below their full capacity. Applications typically didn't need 100% of server's resources all the time. This meant we were wasting valuable compute power, memory, and storage, effectively wasting resources and diminishing the return of investment from those expensive hardware purchases. These economic pressures became a powerful incentive to find more efficient ways to utilize data center resources, setting the stage for technologies like virtualization. 04:05 Lois: I guess we can assume virtualization emerged as a financial game-changer. So, what kind of economic efficiencies did virtualization bring to the table? Orlando: From a CapEx or capital expenditure perspective, companies spent less on servers and data center expansion. From an OpEx or operational expenditure perspective, fewer machines meant lower electricity, cooling, and maintenance costs. It also sped up provisioning. Spinning a new VM took minutes, not days or weeks. That improved agility and reduced the operational workload on IT teams. It also created a more scalable, cost-efficient foundation which made virtualization not just a technical improvement, but a financial turning point for data centers. This economic efficiency is exactly what cloud providers like Oracle Cloud Infrastructure are built on, using virtualization to deliver scalable pay as you go infrastructure.  05:09 Nikita: Ok, Orlando. Let's get into the core components of virtualization. To start, what exactly is a hypervisor? Orlando: A hypervisor is a piece of software, firmware, or hardware that creates and runs virtual machines, also known as VMs. Its core function is to allow multiple virtual machines to run concurrently on a single physical host server. It acts as virtualization layer, abstracting the physical hardware resources like CPU, memory, and storage, and allocating them to each virtual machine as needed, ensuring they can operate independently and securely. 05:49 Lois: And are there types of hypervisors? Orlando: There are two primary types of hypervisors. The type 1 hypervisors, often called bare metal hypervisors, run directly on the host server's hardware. This means they interact directly with the physical resources offering high performance and security. Examples include VMware ESXi, Oracle VM Server, and KVM on Linux. They are commonly used in enterprise data centers and cloud environments. In contrast, type 2 hypervisors, also known as hosted hypervisors, run on top of an existing operating system like Windows or macOS. They act as an application within that operating system. Popular examples include VirtualBox, VMware Workstation, and Parallels. These are typically used for personal computing or development purposes, where you might run multiple operating systems on your laptop or desktop. 06:55 Nikita: We've spoken about the foundation provided by hypervisors. So, can we now talk about the virtual entities they manage: virtual machines? What exactly is a virtual machine and what are its fundamental characteristics? Orlando: A virtual machine is essentially a software-based virtual computer system that runs on a physical host computer. The magic happens with the hypervisor. The hypervisor's job is to create and manage these virtual environments, abstracting the physical hardware so that multiple VMs can share the same underlying resources without interfering with each other. Each VM operates like a completely independent computer with its own operating system and applications.  07:40 Lois: What are the benefits of this? Orlando: Each VM is isolated from the others. If one VM crashes or encounters an issue, it doesn't affect the other VMs running on the same physical host. This greatly enhances stability and security. A powerful feature is the ability to run different operating systems side-by-side on the very same physical host. You could have a Windows VM, a Linux VM, and even other specialized OS, all operating simultaneously. Consolidate workloads directly addresses the unused capacity problem. Instead of one application per physical server, you can now run multiple workloads, each in its own VM on a single powerful physical server. This dramatically improves hardware utilization, reducing the need of constant new hardware purchases and lowering power and cooling costs. And by consolidating workloads, virtualization makes it possible for cloud providers to dynamically create and manage vast pools of computing resources. This allows users to quickly provision and scale virtual servers on demand, tapping into these shared pools of CPU, memory, and storage as needed, rather than being tied to a single physical machine. 09:10 Oracle University's Race to Certification 2025 is your ticket to free training and certification in today's hottest technology. Whether you're starting with Artificial Intelligence, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Multicloud, or Oracle Data Platform, this challenge covers it all! Learn more about your chance to win prizes and see your name on the Leaderboard by visiting education.oracle.com/race-to-certification-2025. That's education.oracle.com/race-to-certification-2025. 09:54 Nikita: Welcome back! Orlando, let's move on to containers. Many see them as a lighter, more agile way to build and run applications. What's your take? Orlando: A container packages an application in all its dependencies, like libraries and other binaries, into a single, lightweight executable unit. Unlike a VM, a container shares the host operating system's kernel, running on top of the container runtime process. This architectural difference provides several key advantages. Containers are incredibly portable. They can be taken virtually anywhere, from a developer's laptop to a cloud environment, and run consistently, eliminating it works on my machine issues. Because containers share the host OS kernel, they don't need to bundle a full operating system themselves. This results in significantly smaller footprints and less administration overhead compared to VMs. They are faster to start. Without the need to boot a full operating system, containers can start up in seconds, or even milliseconds, providing rapid deployment and scaling capabilities. 11:12 Nikita: Ok. Throughout our conversation, you've spoken about the various advantages of virtualization but let's consolidate them now.  Orlando: From a security standpoint, virtualization offers several crucial benefits. Each VM operates in its own isolated sandbox. This means if one VM experiences a security breach, the impact is generally contained to that single virtual machine, significantly limiting the spread of potential threats across your infrastructure. Containers also provide some isolation. Virtualization allows for rapid recovery. This is invaluable for disaster recovery or undoing changes after a security incident. You can implement separate firewalls, access rules, and network configuration for each VM. This granular control reduces the overall exposure and attack surface across your virtualized environments, making it harder for malicious actors to move laterally. Beyond security, virtualization also brings significant advantages in terms of operational and agility benefits for IT management. Virtualization dramatically improves operational efficiency and agility. Things are faster. With virtualization, you can provision new servers or containers in minutes rather than days or weeks. This speed allows for quicker deployment of applications and services. It becomes much simpler to deploy consistent environment using templates and preconfigured VM images or containers. This reduces errors and ensures uniformity across your infrastructure. It's more scalable. Virtualization makes your infrastructure far more scalable. You can reshape VMs and containers to meet changing demands, ensuring your resources align precisely with your needs. These operational benefits directly contribute to the power of cloud computing, especially when we consider virtualization's role in enabling cloud and scalability. Virtualization is the very backbone of modern cloud computing, fundamentally enabling its scalability. It allows multiple virtual machines to run on a single physical server, maximizing hardware utilization, which is essential for cloud providers. This capability is core of infrastructure as a service offerings, where users can provision virtualized compute resources on demand. Virtualization makes services globally scalable. Resources can be easily deployed and managed across different geographic regions to meet worldwide demand. Finally, it provides elasticity, meaning resources can be automatically scaled up or down in response to fluctuating workloads, ensuring optimal performance and cost efficiency. 14:21 Lois: That's amazing. Thank you, Orlando, for joining us once again.  Nikita: Yeah, and remember, if you want to learn more about the topics we covered today, go to mylearn.oracle.com and search for the Cloud Tech Jumpstart course.  Lois: Well, that's all we have for today. Until next time, this is Lois Houston… Nikita: And Nikita Abraham, signing off! 14:40 That's all for this episode of the Oracle University Podcast. If you enjoyed listening, please click Subscribe to get all the latest episodes. 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Why are we still talking about virtualization? This week, Technology Now is returning to a classic topic in computing: Virtualization. So, what's changed in the landscape that's bought virtualization back into the limelight, and how is it being used in our current technological landscape? Brad Parks, Chief Product & Go To Market Officer at HPE's recently acquired Morpheus Data, tells us more.This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week, hosts Michael Bird and Aubrey Lovell look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations.About Brad Parks: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brad-parks-b190464/Sources:https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/feature/The-history-of-virtualization-and-its-mark-on-data-center-managementhttps://inventivehq.com/history-of-virtualization/

Kubernetes revolutionized the way software is built, deployed, and managed, offering engineers unprecedented agility and portability. But as Edera co-founder and CEO Emily Long shares, the speed and flexibility of containerization came with overlooked tradeoffs—especially in security. What started as a developer-driven movement to accelerate software delivery has now left security and infrastructure teams scrambling to contain risks that were never part of Kubernetes' original design.Emily outlines a critical flaw: Kubernetes wasn't built for multi-tenancy. As a result, shared kernels across workloads—whether across customers or internal environments—introduce lateral movement risks. In her words, “A container isn't real—it's just a set of processes.” And when containers share a kernel, a single exploit can become a system-wide threat.Edera addresses this gap by rethinking how containers are run—not rebuilt. Drawing from hypervisor tech like Xen and modernizing it with memory-safe Rust, Edera creates isolated “zones” for containers that enforce true separation without the overhead and complexity of traditional virtual machines. This isolation doesn't disrupt developer workflows, integrates easily at the infrastructure layer, and doesn't require retraining or restructuring CI/CD pipelines. It's secure by design, without compromising performance or portability.The impact is significant. Infrastructure teams gain the ability to enforce security policies without sacrificing cost efficiency. Developers keep their flow. And security professionals get something rare in today's ecosystem: true prevention. Instead of chasing billions of alerts and layering multiple observability tools in hopes of finding the needle in the haystack, teams using Edera can reduce the noise and gain context that actually matters.Emily also touches on the future—including the role of AI and “vibe coding,” and why true infrastructure-level security is essential as code generation becomes more automated and complex. With GPU security on their radar and a hardware-agnostic architecture, Edera is preparing not just for today's container sprawl, but tomorrow's AI-powered compute environments.This is more than a product pitch—it's a reframing of how we define and implement security at the container level. The full conversation reveals what's possible when performance, portability, and protection are no longer at odds.Learn more about Edera: https://itspm.ag/edera-434868Note: This story contains promotional content. Learn more.Guest: Emily Long, Founder and CEO, Edera | https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-long-7a194b4/ResourcesLearn more and catch more stories from Edera: https://www.itspmagazine.com/directory/ederaLearn more and catch more stories from RSA Conference 2025 coverage: https://www.itspmagazine.com/rsac25______________________Keywords:sean martin, emily long, containers, kubernetes, hypervisor, multi-tenancy, devsecops, infrastructure, virtualization, cybersecurity, brand story, brand marketing, marketing podcast, brand story podcast______________________Catch all of our event coverage: https://www.itspmagazine.com/technology-and-cybersecurity-conference-coverageWant to tell your Brand Story Briefing as part of our event coverage? Learn More 

A whole lot has happened since the last episode of ModChat, and there's still been a few topics not covered within this episode! For the ones we do go into, the first is covering some major progress on the PlayStation Home revival project Home Laboratory, which is now available by default on the XMB for the latest PS3HEN and Evilnat CFW users on PS3! The PS3 also gets some renewed Hypervisor related interest in the form of BadHTAB, which is based on old HTAB related work from geohot and has been worked on here again in 2025. The Xbox 360 side of house gets more love, with Sonic Unleashed being ported to PC thanks to XenonRecomp, both of which have been released. The OG Xbox gets a fancy new payload in the form of Skeleton Key which serves as a Swiss Army Knife for stock OG Xbox users to run and quickly have several powerful tools available on their screen with minimal effort. Finally, a new FATXplorer tool releases in the form of XDON, allowing for easy Xbox and Xbox 360 drive mounting over a network.

A long episode this week, featuring an attack that can leak secrets from Gemini's Python sandbox, banks abusing private iOS APIs, and Windows new Hypervisor-enforced Paging Translation (HVPT).Links and vulnerability summaries for this episode are available at: https://dayzerosec.com/podcast/280.html[00:00:00] Introduction[00:00:18] Doing the Due Diligence - Analyzing the Next.js Middleware Bypass [CVE-2025-29927][00:29:20] We hacked Google's A.I Gemini and leaked its source code (at least some part)[00:44:40] Improper Use of Private iOS APIs in some Vietnamese Banking Apps[00:55:03] Protecting linear address translations with Hypervisor-enforced Paging Translation (HVPT)[01:06:57] Code reuse in the age of kCET and HVCI[01:13:02] GhidraMCP: LLM Assisted RE[01:31:45] Emulating iOS 14 with qemuPodcast episodes are available on the usual podcast platforms: -- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1484046063 -- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4NKCxk8aPEuEFuHsEQ9Tdt -- Google Podcasts: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9hMTIxYTI0L3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz -- Other audio platforms can be found at https://anchor.fm/dayzerosecYou can also join our discord: https://discord.gg/daTxTK9

A very technical episode this week, featuring some posts on hacking the xbox 360 hypervisor as well as AMD microcode hacking.Links and vulnerability summaries for this episode are available at: https://dayzerosec.com/podcast/276.html[00:00:00] Introduction[00:00:15] Reversing Samsung's H-Arx Hypervisor Framework - Part 1[00:10:34] Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 1: System Overview[00:21:18] Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 2: The Bad Update Exploit[00:30:48] Zen and the Art of Microcode Hacking[00:41:51] A very fancy way to obtain RCE on a Solr server[01:03:49] Cellebrite zero-day exploit used to target phone of Serbian student activist[01:16:03] When NULL isn't null: mapping memory at 0x0 on LinuxPodcast episodes are available on the usual podcast platforms: -- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1484046063 -- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4NKCxk8aPEuEFuHsEQ9Tdt -- Google Podcasts: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9hMTIxYTI0L3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz -- Other audio platforms can be found at https://anchor.fm/dayzerosecYou can also join our discord: https://discord.gg/daTxTK9

video: https://youtu.be/Anw68ThdGcs Comment on the TWIL Forum (https://thisweekinlinux.com/forum) This week in Linux, we have a ton to talk about. First, we're gonna be talking about building Linux from Scratch. I mean, not walking through that or anything. It's the project called that. Also, the Xen project has a new version of their hypervisor out, and Mozilla is back in the news this week with the latest release of Firefox with 136. Plus, Linux Mint is talking about redesigning their Cinnamon app menu, and so much more, including, Microsoft is hanging up on Skype forever. All of this and more on This Week in Linux, the weekly news show that keeps you up to date with what's going on in the Linux and Open Source world. So let's jump right into Your Source for Linux GNews Download as MP3 (https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/2389be04-5c79-485e-b1ca-3a5b2cebb006/0e2fe0b7-a965-405b-ba93-57510d445740.mp3) Support the Show Become a Patron = tuxdigital.com/membership (https://tuxdigital.com/membership) Store = tuxdigital.com/store (https://tuxdigital.com/store) Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:45 What's new at TuxDigital 00:59 Interview with Craig Rowland on DL 01:25 3 new videos on the channel 02:30 TWIL 300 Giveaway 03:14 Linux From Scratch 12.3 Released 06:58 Xen Project 4.20 Released 09:35 Mozilla Firefox 136 Released 12:49 Sandfly Security, agentless Linux security 14:55 Linux Mint to Redesign Cinnamon App Menu 19:07 Thunderbird 136 Released 21:25 PipeWire 1.4 Released 25:11 Skype is being shutdown 29:37 Support the show Links: Interview with Craig Rowland on DL https://destinationlinux.net/409 (https://destinationlinux.net/409) 3 new videos on the channel Flatpaks, Snaps, & AppImages: "Do we really need these Universal App Formats?": https://youtu.be/so_f6OtRWRo (https://youtu.be/so_f6OtRWRo) How to Rename Files like a Pro in Linux (+ my formula for organizing & declutter): https://youtu.be/zTaRHI4j7Sg (https://youtu.be/zTaRHI4j7Sg) Reacting to PewDiePie, one of the biggest YouTubers switches to Linux: https://youtu.be/avMQYgadLFc (https://youtu.be/avMQYgadLFc) TWIL 300 Giveaway https://thisweekinlinux.com/300giveaway (https://thisweekinlinux.com/300giveaway) Linux From Scratch 12.3 Released https://linuxfromscratch.org/ (https://linuxfromscratch.org/) Xen Project 4.20 Released https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/xen-project-announces-xen-420-release (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/xen-project-announces-xen-420-release) https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/XenProject4.20ReleaseNotes (https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_4.20_Release_Notes) Mozilla Firefox 136 Released https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/136.0/releasenotes/ (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/136.0/releasenotes/) Linux Mint to Redesign Cinnamon App Menu https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4811 (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4811) https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/cinnamon-desktop-app-menu-redesign (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/cinnamon-desktop-app-menu-redesign) Thunderbird 136 Released https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/136.0/releasenotes/ (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/136.0/releasenotes/) PipeWire 1.4 Released https://pipewire.org/ (https://pipewire.org/) https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/commit/df1c36aec2aaf9e2eb1596b6b55e72c15fb2088a (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/commit/df1c36aec2aaf9e2eb1596b6b55e72c15fb2088a) Skype is being shutdown https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/skype-hangs-up-for-good-on-may-5 (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/skype-hangs-up-for-good-on-may-5) https://www.theverge.com/news/621353/microsoft-skype-shutting-down-retirement-may-2025 (https://www.theverge.com/news/621353/microsoft-skype-shutting-down-retirement-may-2025) Support the show https://tuxdigital.com/membership (https://tuxdigital.com/membership) https://store.tuxdigital.com/ (https://store.tuxdigital.com/)

At last the long awaited Xbox 360 Hypervisor exploit shown by Grimdoomer has arrived in the form of Bad Update! This means that unsigned code can be run on any Xbox 360 up to Kernel/Dashboard 17559 using only a USB drive and the NTSC version of Tony Hawk's American Wasteland. This does not require any other modifications to be done to the hardware and can be performed on an unopened and unmodified console, making this the first software-only exploit available for the latest system software version! As this episode will only be focused on Bad Update, we walk through where this started from Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy, read through a couple of blog posts Grimdoomer made leading up to the release, and of course we set up and try Bad Update for ourselves before giving some final thoughts.

Join hosts Bill Sutton, Todd Smith, and Geremy Meyers for episode 175 of the Citrix Session Podcast as they dive into the critical aspects of upgrading to XenServer 8. In this episode, they discuss the impending end-of-life status of Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 cu1, scheduled for June 25th, 2025, highlighting the necessity for users to transition to the newer XenServer 8. The team outlines the enhanced features, including support for Windows 11 with VTPM, integrated PvS accelerator, added support for Nagios and SNMP, and the revolutionary Xen Conversion Manager which eases VM conversions. They also navigate through operational tips, such as leveraging a content delivery network for updates and the benefits of infrastructure as code with Terraform support. Whether you're planning a migration or looking to optimize your Citrix workloads, this episode offers invaluable insights into making the most of XenServer 8's capabilities.

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Windows 365 Link is the first Cloud PC device purpose-built for Windows 365. It can connect to your Cloud PC in seconds with a simple sign-in, accessing a familiar Windows Desktop with high-fidelity performance. Windows 365 Link offers seamless setup and streamlined management through Microsoft Intune, ensuring your IT environment is efficiently maintained alongside other PCs. As a stateless and adminless device, it does not store user profile data or install additional software. Optimize your work experience with passwordless authentication, high-performance video conferencing, and support for essential peripherals. Designed with a robust security posture, Windows 365 Link provides data protection with features like Secure Boot, BitLocker encryption, Hypervisor-based Code Integrity, and more. Jalleen Ringer, Partner GPM for Windows Cloud Endpoints, shows how Windows 365 Link is the ideal choice for secure, scalable, and efficient cloud computing.   ► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Windows 365 Link—First Cloud PC device purpose-built for Windows 365 00:55 - What it's like to use Windows 365 Link 02:32 - Ports and connectivity 03:18 - Set it up 03:48 - Device management 05:26 - Wrap up   ► Link References Check out https://aka.ms/Windows365Link   ► Unfamiliar with Microsoft Mechanics?  As Microsoft's official video series for IT, you can watch and share valuable content and demos of current and upcoming tech from the people who build it at Microsoft. • Subscribe to our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MicrosoftMechanicsSeries • Talk with other IT Pros, join us on the Microsoft Tech Community: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-mechanics-blog/bg-p/MicrosoftMechanicsBlog • Watch or listen from anywhere, subscribe to our podcast: https://microsoftmechanics.libsyn.com/podcast   ► Keep getting this insider knowledge, join us on social: • Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MSFTMechanics  • Share knowledge on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft-mechanics/ • Enjoy us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/msftmechanics/ • Loosen up with us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@msftmechanics

Some truly hyper news over Hypervisors for not one, but TWO different consoles! We discuss the recent PS5 Hypervisor exploit released named Byepervisor, the Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx shut down, and give some credit where credit is due with... Well, a hidden credits screen found in Majora's Mask on the GameCube! We also discuss two amazing breakthroughs on the Xbox 360: One being a Hypervisor exploit for the latest kernel version, and the other making it possible to reflash some SSD models to work on retail kernel, unmodified Xbox 360 consoles!

Antithesis: Pioneering Deterministic Hypervisors with FreeBSD and Bhyve, Our slowly growing Unix monoculture, The six dumbest ideas in computer security (2005), Video Edition notes on OpenBSD, Full-featured email server running OpenBSD, ever heard of teaching a case study of Initial Unix?, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines Antithesis: Pioneering Deterministic Hypervisors with FreeBSD and Bhyve (https://freebsdfoundation.org/antithesis-pioneering-deterministic-hypervisors-with-freebsd-and-bhyve/) Our slowly growing Unix monoculture (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/OurGrowingUnixMonoculture) News Roundup The six dumbest ideas in computer security (2005) (http://ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/dumb/index.html) + HN Thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34513806) Video Edition notes on OpenBSD (https://www.tumfatig.net/2024/video-edition-notes-on-openbsd/) Full-featured email server running OpenBSD (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2024-07-24-openbsd-email-server-setup.html) Anyone ever heard of teaching a case study of Initial Unix? (https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2024-July/030407.html) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions 574 - extrowerk - dumb ideas in computer security (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/574/feedback/extrowerk%20-%20dumb%20ideas%20in%20computer%20security.md) 574 - Ep 569: on deprecation and support (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/574/feedback/Ep%20569%3A%20on%20deprecation%20and%20support) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

The conversation discusses a vulnerability in VMware ESXi hypervisors that grants full admin privileges to threat actors. The vulnerability has been exploited by ransomware groups to deploy ransomware after gaining access to a network. The hosts emphasize the importance of patching systems and working with security teams or MSP/MSSPs to address the vulnerability. They also highlight the need for better monitoring and detection tools for ESXi hypervisors and the potential risks associated with domain access and group creation. The conversation concludes with a reminder to stay vigilant and secure. Article: VMware ESXi hypervisor vulnerability grants full admin privileges https://www.csoonline.com/article/3478658/vmware-esxi-hypervisor-vulnerability-grants-full-admin-privileges.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawEcQr9leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHcdeBdrmjA-lnkJbw6prQ-v38t6CLlZCzmMJXUWgGSZbmZpdAp54EXZpHw_aem_ir4GNeCxoUn1V4IwZzNKwg& Please LISTEN

In this Tech Barometer podcast, Rene van den Bedem of Microsoft's Cloud and AI division discusses the future of AI...[…]

In this Tech Barometer podcast, Rene van den Bedem of Microsoft's Cloud and AI division discusses the future of AI...[…]

Kaspersky has released a virus scanner for Linux; should you run it? OpenBSD finally has Wayland support, OBS has a new Beta, and WSL leans into the Hypervisor. Then there's Gnome, which sort of worries us. Then for tips we've got gping for a snazzy ping tui, iVentoy for a selectable PXE boot, devicetree options in Grub, and hostnamectl. The show notes are at https://bit.ly/4aSADaP and we will see you next time! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Rob Campbell, Ken McDonald, and David Ruggles Want access to the video version and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.

Proxmox ist weiter in aller Munde und auch die Rufe nach weiteren Alternativen klingen nicht ab. Zusammen mit Patrick Terlisten und Falk Rösing fassen wir die aktuelle Situation seit unserem letzten Proxmox-Bericht zusammen und beleuchten dabei auch Azure Stack HCI, Nutanix und Xen.

On this week's episode I do a roundup of this month's Windows Updates, I get into the recent VMware announcement of the end of free vSphere hypervisors and much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/vmware-pulls-free-hypervisor-new-cvad-ltsr-patch-tuesday-news/

Siamo cloud adopter, e non potremmo fare a meno di tutte le astrazioni che le piattaforme ci offrono. Ma cosa significa, invece, creare quelle astrazioni? Quali sono le sfide insite nella realizzazione dello strato software di una piattaforma cloud? E, soprattutto, perchè farlo?Ne abbiamo parlato con Gabriele Fronzè, Founder e CEO di Elemento Cloud.

This week kicks off with a a V8 misoptimization leading to out-of-bounds access, an unprotected MSR in Microsoft's Hypervisor allowing corruption of Hypervisor code. We also take a quick look at a 2021 CVE with an integer underflow leading to an overflow in the Windows Kernel low-fragmentation heap, and finally an interesting information leak due to the kernel not clearing a sensitive register. Links and vulnerability summaries for this episode are available at: https://dayzerosec.com/podcast/228.html [00:00:00] Introduction [00:00:56] Spot the Vuln - Beyond the Grave [00:04:00] Chrome V8 Hole Exploit [00:15:57] How I found Microsoft Hypervisor bugs as a by-product of learning [00:33:13] Exploitation of a kernel pool overflow from a restrictive chunk size [CVE-2021-31969] [00:44:13] That's FAR-out, Man [00:47:38] Money Tree [00:50:21] How to voltage fault injection The DAY[0] Podcast episodes are streamed live on Twitch twice a week: -- Mondays at 3:00pm Eastern (Boston) we focus on web and more bug bounty style vulnerabilities -- Tuesdays at 7:00pm Eastern (Boston) we focus on lower-level vulnerabilities and exploits. We are also available on the usual podcast platforms: -- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1484046063 -- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4NKCxk8aPEuEFuHsEQ9Tdt -- Google Podcasts: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9hMTIxYTI0L3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz -- Other audio platforms can be found at https://anchor.fm/dayzerosec You can also join our discord: https://discord.gg/daTxTK9

As we head into VMware Explore US 2023, we are forced to consider the company's strategy once again. Wouldn't it be better if VMware focused on the hypervisor and networking rather than continually exploring new products and markets? That's the question posed by Stephen Foskett to Allyson Klein, Andy Banta, and Matt Tyrer in this episode of the On-Premise IT podcast. Focus isn't a bad strategy, especially given the slow pace of development for cloud-native applications in the enterprise. And VMware's involvement in edge computing is an enticing new market for their core technologies. But not everyone is convinced that this is the right move. © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: VMware Should Focus on the Hypervisor and Networking

As we head into VMware Explore US 2023, we are forced to consider the company's strategy once again. Wouldn't it be better if VMware focused on the hypervisor and networking rather than continually exploring new products and markets? That's the question posed by Stephen Foskett to Allyson Klein, Andy Banta, and Matt Tyrer in this episode of the On-Premise IT podcast. Focus isn't a bad strategy, especially given the slow pace of development for cloud-native applications in the enterprise. And VMware's involvement in edge computing is an enticing new market for their core technologies. But not everyone is convinced that this is the right move! © Gestalt IT, LLC for Gestalt IT: VMware Should Focus on the Hypervisor and Networking

We are human, and, like it or not, we lie. Why? Because we might not want to admit to some truth, or where we might want to seem knowledgeable. It is a human attribute, and it defines us. Overall, our intelligence weighs up the cost and reward and makes a decision as to whether we should tell the truth or not. Ask a child about who eat a biscuit, and there's a chance they will lie because they do not want the punishment or do not want to tell tales about their friend. And so, as we go through our lives, we all lie, and sometimes it gets us in trouble; sometimes, it saves us from punishment; and sometimes, it makes us look smart. Overall, lying is a weakness of our character, but, at other times, it is our intelligence showing through and making good guesses. At the core of this is often trust, and where someone who lies too much becomes untrustworthy, and if someone lies about someone else for a malicious reason, they can taint their own character. One of the least liked human attributes is where someone lies about someone else. But what about machines, can they lie? But, a machine lying is a little like you getting asked, “who won the match between Manchester United and Grimsby Town?” If you don't know the answer but want to look smart, you might “lie” and say that it was Manchester United — as they are most likely to win. If they didn't win, you might be called a liar, but in most cases, you will seem knowledgeable. And, so, there's a dilemma in the usage of LLM (Large Language Models) … what happens when the AI doesn't know the answer to something and where it hasn't learnt it. While it may know the capital of Germany, it is unlikely to know the town you visited last Tuesday. With LLM, the machine obviously takes a guess based on probabilities. If I know that a person lives in Edinburgh, then in all probability, the most probable city will be Glasgow, and the next being London — as the probabilities will show that for travels, Edinburgh is most linked to Glasgow and then to London. In a previous article, I outlined how Chat-GPT provided some false statements on me, including that I invented the Hypervisor and that I was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE). But, if someone in the newspapers published false statements about someone, you might consider suing them or at least asking for an apology. But what about machines? What happens when they define “an untruth”? In human terms, we would define an untruth as a lie. But a machine is just weighing up probabilities. It, too, has little concept of the truthiness (veracity) of the data it has received. For my RSE award, it perhaps looked at my profile and computed that there was a high probability that I would have an RSE Fellowship based on me being a Professor in Scotland, having an OBE, and having an academic publishing record. But, if someone in the newspapers published false statements about someone, you might consider suing them or at least asking for an apology. But what about machines? What happens when they define “an untruth”? And, so, ChatGPT — created by OpenAI — could be one of the first pieces of software to stand trial on the way it collects, uses and protects its data. For this, the Washington Post reports that the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) has initiated a wide-ranging set of questions against its LLM (Large Langage Model) [here].

In this episode of Don't Break the Bank, we talk to Kit Colbert, VMware Cloud CTO about recent game changing innovations in the vSphere Hypervisor and how this helps in cloud architecture - portability, cost and even Kubernetes adoption. EPISODE NOTES 3 Takeaways: Technology changes are hard, but they're never quite as hard as the people, process and organizational changes that need to happen - the culture changes. The notion of agile portability is critical and getting progressively easier. When going through a digital transformation, it's really important to talk about it openly as a community - what's working, what's not, and to learn from it. Key Quotes: "I think VMware is on a journey. If we're successful, people will think very differently of us. They will not think of us as just a virtualization company. They'll think of us as a multi-cloud modern application...and that's a great opportunity.” - Kit “From a VMware standpoint, we're leveraging Kubernetes as a standard framework...and then building integrated functionality on top of that. So the end result for customers is that it's just a seamless experience. And yes, Kubernetes is there under the covers, and you can absolutely interact with it if you want to, but you also don't have to.” - Kit “That notion of culture change is extraordinarily difficult and will be by far the hardest part about any sort of transformation.” - Kit -- Links Kit Colbert LinkedIn Kit Colbert Twitter Kit Colbert Blog -- About the Hosts Matthew O'Neill is a husband, dad, geek and Industry Managing Director, Advanced Technology Group in the Office of the CTO at VMware. You can find Matthew on LinkedIn and Twitter. Brian Hayes is an audiophile, dad, builder of sheds, maker of mirth, world traveller and EMEA Financial Services Industry Lead at VMware. You can find Brian on LinkedIn.

This episode reports on third-party cybersecurity risks, a warning to managed Chromebook admins, hacks at two U.S. background checking services and more

Will AI be your next vuln research assistant? ... Maybe? We also talk about a stack-based overflow in `ping` and a Huawei hypervisor vuln. Links and vulnerability summaries for this episode are available at: https://dayzerosec.com/podcast/174.html [00:00:00] Introduction [00:00:41] Spot the Vuln - A Nice Choice [00:03:49] ChatGPT - AI for Vuln Research? [00:21:46] Memory Safe Languages in Android 13 [00:31:28] [FreeBSD] Stack overflow in ping [00:40:59] Huawei Security Hypervisor Vulnerability [00:45:09] Chrome Browser Exploitation, Part 1: Introduction to V8 and JavaScript Internals [00:45:16] Chrome Browser Exploitation, Part 2: Introduction to Ignition, Sparkplug and JIT Compilation via TurboFan The DAY[0] Podcast episodes are streamed live on Twitch twice a week: -- Mondays at 3:00pm Eastern (Boston) we focus on web and more bug bounty style vulnerabilities -- Tuesdays at 7:00pm Eastern (Boston) we focus on lower-level vulnerabilities and exploits. We are also available on the usual podcast platforms: -- Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1484046063 -- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4NKCxk8aPEuEFuHsEQ9Tdt -- Google Podcasts: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9hMTIxYTI0L3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz -- Other audio platforms can be found at https://anchor.fm/dayzerosec You can also join our discord: https://discord.gg/daTxTK9

We've moved from a more decentralised internet running on centralised power, to a more centralised internet running on more decentralised power. Is this the only computing model of the future? What would a decentralised internet running on decentralised power look like? We see hints of what this looks like at the edge of the internet, but also the edge of the grid, and this is an area our two guests Dawn Nafus of Intel and Laura Watts of the University of Edinburgh have spent quite a lot of time researching. They join host Chris Adams in this episode of Environment Variables as they explore community clouds, datacentres, energy regulation, projects on the Islands of Orkney and the book that they're working on together!

We tried Fedora 37 on the Pi 4, the Google surprise this week, and our thoughts on the WSL 1.0 release.

We tried Fedora 37 on the Pi 4, the Google surprise this week, and our thoughts on the WSL 1.0 release.

This episode reports on the end-of-life support for two versions of ESXi hypervisors, an encryption issue with Office 365 email, a new threat to NPM libraries and more

Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS, Writing a device driver for Unix V6, EC2: What Colin Percival's been up to, Beckhoff releases TwinCAT/BSD Hypervisor, Writing a NetBSD kernel module, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS (https://klarasystems.com/articles/building-your-own-freebsd-based-nas-with-zfs/) Writing a device driver for Unix V6 (https://mveg.es/posts/writing-a-device-driver-for-unix-v6/) News Roundup FreeBSD/EC2: What I've been up to (https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2022-03-29-FreeBSD-EC2-report.html) Beckhoff has released its TwinCAT/BSD Hypervisor (https://www.automationworld.com/control/article/22144694/beckhoff-hypervisor-enables-virtual-machines-for-control-applications) Writing a NetBSD kernel module (https://saurvs.github.io/post/writing-netbsd-kern-mod/) Benedicts Git Finds Projects Run anything (like full blown GTK apps) under Capsicum (https://github.com/unrelentingtech/capsicumizer) Twitter client for UEFI (https://github.com/arata-nvm/mitnal) n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager (https://github.com/jarun/nnn) OpenVi: Portable OpenBSD vi for UNIX systems (https://github.com/johnsonjh/OpenVi) Gists and Articles Step-by-step instructions on installing the latest NVIDIA drivers on FreeBSD 13.0 and above (https://gist.github.com/Mostly-BSD/4d3cacc0ee2f045ed8505005fd664c6e) FreeBSD SSH Hardening (https://gist.github.com/koobs/e01cf8869484a095605404cd0051eb11) GTFOBins is a curated list of Unix binaries that can be used to bypass local security restrictions in misconfigured systems (https://gtfobins.github.io) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Ben - Backing Up (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/453/feedback/Ben%20-%20Backing%20Up.md) Ethan - Thanks (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/453/feedback/Ethan%20-%20Thanks.md) Maxi - question about note taking (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/453/feedback/Maxi%20%20-%20question%20about%20note%20taking.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***

Carsten Rachfahl and Andy Syrewicze hosted a webinar focused on Azure Stack HCI and Hybrid Cloud. The webinar covered several aspects regarding Azure Stack HCI, including: What is Azure Stack HCI? Installation Networking and Storage Considerations Example Use-Cases for Azure Stack HCI And more! The other thing the guys discussed was some of the findings from our recent survey on hybrid cloud technologies and adoption. One of the most interesting aspects was the fact that most IT Pros see hybrid cloud as a permanent destination and not necessarily a temporary state. This showed in the amount of questions that were asked during the webinar as well! In fact, we had so many questions that Andy and Carsten wanted to use this podcast to expand on some of the most interesting questions from the webinar! In this episode on Azure Stack HCI How can I get up to speed with Azure Stack HCI while spending little to no money? - 3:30 What are my options for migrating existing workloads to Azure Stack HCI? - 7:17 Can Azure Stack HCI run in a disconnected fashion? - 11:23 Does the $10/Core/Month cost include guest licensing for Windows Server? - 15:15 Am I able to host multiple different customers within the same Azure Stack HCI Cluster? - 21:27 Would you recommend Azure Stack HCI for small business? - 25:27 Is Hyper-V Replica supported with Azure Stack HCI? - 30:52 Is it possible to upgrade a Windows Server Cluster to Azure Stack HCI via cluster rolling updates? - 31:36 Can you mix different versions of Azure Stack HCI in the same cluster? - 33:31 Can you install Azure Stack HCI on uncertified hardware for testing purposes? - 36:12 Watch the on-demand webinar How Azure Stack HCI is forcing changes in your datacenter Resources for Azure Stack HCI Altaro Azure Stack HCI Webinar MSLab Github Repo Free Azure Trial Azure Stack HCI Preview Program Altaro VM Backup with Azure Stack HCI Azure Stack VM Migration Info on MS Docs Azure Stack HCI Catalog

When we sat down to record this episode we ended up in a situation like we did with our episode with Ben Armstrong, too much content for one episode! To those familiar with Hyper-V, this likely doesn't come as a surprise being we're discussing the various management tools that are available for Hyper-V, along with the overall management story for Microsoft's hypervisor. In this episode, we sit down with Eric Siron to discuss modern day usage of the traditional Hyper-V management tools which include: Hyper-V Manager Failover Cluster Manager PowerShell System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) In the next episode, we'll focus on the new management tools for Hyper-V such as Windows Admin Center and Azure Arc. In this episode Hyper-V Management vs. VMware Management - 2:05 An example of management assumptions for VMware admins trying Hyper-V - 8:43 Networking woes in Windows Server - 12:12 Why choice of tools is a strength of Hyper-V - 17:12 Thoughts on System Center Virtual Machine Manager - 24:08 An example of where VMM does NOT fit - 28:00 Resources for Hyper-V Management Tools Andy's Hyper-V Datacenter Deployment Script Andy's VMware Datacenter Deployment Script PowerShell Direct Ben Armstrong on Twitter Ben Armstrong as a Guest on the Sysadmin Dojo Podcast talking about Hyper-V Webinar on Azure Stack HCI

In today's podcast we cover four crucial cyber and technology topics, including:  1. FTC warns it will purse those who don't mitigate Log4j  2. Researchers prove ability to fake iPhone shutdown to spy on users  3. VMware fixes flaw that could allow takeover of hypervisors  4. Honda, Acura vehicles clocks stuck in 2022 with new year change  I'd love feedback, feel free to send your comments and feedback to  | cyberandtechwithmike@gmail.com

What's new in Debian 11, and an example of the Linux Foundation funneling free software to their corporate friends. Plus, why Western Digital might be to thank for your next ultimate Linux workstation.

3 Takeaways:Technology changes are hard, but they're never quite as hard as the people, process and organizational changes that need to happen - the culture changes.The notion of agile portability is critical and getting progressively easier.When going through a digital transformation, it's really important to talk about it openly as a community - what's working, what's not, and to learn from it.Key Quotes: "I think VMware is on a journey. If we're successful, people will think very differently of us. They will not think of us as just a virtualization company. They'll think of us as a multi-cloud modern application...and that's a great opportunity.” - Kit“From a VMware standpoint, we're leveraging Kubernetes as a standard framework...and then building integrated functionality on top of that. So the end result for customers is that it's just a seamless experience. And yes, Kubernetes is there under the covers, and you can absolutely interact with it if you want to, but you also don't have to.”  - Kit“That notion of culture change is extraordinarily difficult and will be by far the hardest part about any sort of transformation.” - Kit--LinksKit Colbert LinkedInKit Colbert TwitterKit Colbert Blog--About the HostsMatthew O'Neill is a husband, dad, geek and Industry Managing Director, Advanced Technology Group in the Office of the CTO at VMware.You can find Matthew on LinkedIn and Twitter.Brian Hayes is an audiophile, dad, builder of sheds, maker of mirth, world traveller and EMEA Financial Services Industry Lead at VMware.You can find Brian on LinkedIn.

In this episode, we cover the following topics: We continue our discussion of microVMs with a look at Kata Containers. Kata Containers formed by the merger of two projects: Intel Clear Containers and Hyper runV. How does Kata Containers integrate with existing container tooling? How mature are Kata Containers - are they ready for production? We then take a look at unikernels, which take a dramatically different approach to solving the problem of providing high security with blazing performance. The benefits of unikernels along with a comparison on how they differ from containers. We discuss some of the most popular unikernel implementations, including OSv and MirageOS. Does the future point to a deathmatch between containers and unikernels, or will there be a need for both approaches to cloud-native apps? DETAILED SHOW NOTESWant the complete episode outline with detailed notes? Sign up here: https://mobycast.fm/show-notes/SUPPORT MOBYCASThttps://glow.fm/mobycastEND SONGPalm of Your Hand by BlynkwthMORE INFOFor a full transcription of this episode, please visit the episode webpage.We'd love to hear from you! You can reach us at: Web: https://mobycast.fm Voicemail: 844-818-0993 Email: ask@mobycast.fm Twitter: https://twitter.com/hashtag/mobycast Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/mobycast

In this episode, we cover the following topics: We revisit a misunderstanding from last week's show to find out exactly what the Firecracker team means when they list "Single VM per Firecracker process" as a security benefit. We discuss what's next on the Firecracker product roadmap, with particular emphasis on support for snapshot/restore. We learn how AWS uses Firecracker in production today with AWS Lambda. AWS is currently working on updating Fargate to use Firecracker. We look at why they are doing this and the design details of updating Fargate to use Firecracker. We finish by looking at how you can use Firecracker for your own containers, by incorporating Firecracker-aware tooling into your container infrastructure. Specifically, we look at firecracker-containerd and Weave Ignite. DETAILED SHOW NOTESWant the complete episode outline with detailed notes? Sign up here: https://mobycast.fm/show-notes/SUPPORT MOBYCASThttps://glow.fm/mobycastEND SONGThing Is by Public AddressMORE INFOFor a full transcription of this episode, please visit the episode webpage.We'd love to hear from you! You can reach us at: Web: https://mobycast.fm Voicemail: 844-818-0993 Email: ask@mobycast.fm Twitter: https://twitter.com/hashtag/mobycast Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/mobycast

In this episode, we cover the following topics: We review virtual machines (full virtualization) and their benefits and tradeoffs. We then revisit containers (OS-level virtualization) and briefly recap how they use OS kernel features to enable virtualization. Containers provide great performance and resource efficiency, but at the cost of losing strong isolation. Can we have the performance and efficiency benefits of containers but with the strong isolation of VMs? There are some promising technologies that aim to combine the best of both VM and container worlds: microVMs, unikernels and container sandboxes. What are microVMs? What are unikernels? What are container sandboxes? AWS Firecracker is one of the most talked about microVMs. We discuss what it is, and the key benefits of using Firecracker. DETAILED SHOW NOTESWant the complete episode outline with detailed notes? Sign up here: https://mobycast.fm/show-notes/SUPPORT MOBYCASThttps://glow.fm/mobycastEND SONGSmooth Modulator by aMIGAaMIGOMORE INFOFor a full transcription of this episode, please visit the episode webpage.We'd love to hear from you! You can reach us at: Web: https://mobycast.fm Voicemail: 844-818-0993 Email: ask@mobycast.fm Twitter: https://twitter.com/hashtag/mobycast Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/mobycast

Sponsors Circle CI Episode on CI/CD with Circle CI Show DetailsIn this episode, we cover the following topics: Hypervisor implementations  Hyper-V  Type 1 hypervisor from Microsoft  Architecture  Implements isolation of virtual machines in terms of a partition Partition is logical unit of isolation in which each guest OS executes  Parent partition  Virtualization software runs in parent partition and has direct access to hardware Requires supported version of Windows Server  There must be at least one parent partition  Parent partition creates child partitions which host the guest OSes Done via Hyper-V "hypercall" API  Parent partitions run a Virtualization Service Provider (VSP) which connects to the VMBus Handles device access requests from child partition  Child partition  Does not have direct access to hardware Has virtual view of processor and runs in Guest Virtual Address (not necessarily the entire virtual address space)  Hypervisor handles interrupts to processor, and redirects to respective partition  Any request to the virtual devices is redirected via the VMBus to the devices in the parent partition  VMBus Logical channel which enables inter-partition communication  KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine)  Virtualization module in Linux kernel  Turns Linux kernel into hypervisor  Available in mainline Linux since 2007  Can run multiple VMs running unmodified Linux or Windows images  Leverages hardware virtualization Via CPU virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V)  But also provides paravirtualization support for Linux/FreeBSD/NetBSD/Windows using VirtIO API  Architecture  Kernel component Consists of:  Loadable kernel module, kvm.ko, that provides the core virtualization infrastructure  Processor specific module, kvm-intel.ko or kvm-amd.ko  Userspace component QEMU (Quick Emulator)  Userland program that does hardware emulation  Used by KVM for I/O emulations  AWS hypervisor choices & history  AWS uses custom hardware for faster EC2 VM performance  Original EC2 technology ran highly customized version of Xen hypervisor  VMs can run using either paravirtualization (PV) or hardware virtual machine (HVM)  HVM guests are fully virtualized VMs on top of hypervisor are not aware they are sharing with other VMs  Memory allocated to guest OSes is scrubbed by hypervisor when it is de-allocated  Only AWS admins have access to hypervisors  AWS found that Xen has many limitations that impede their growth Engineers improved performance by moving parts of software stack to purpose-built hardware components  C3 instance family (2013) Debut of custom chips in Amazon EC2 Custom network interface for faster bandwidth and throughput  C4 instance family (2015) Offload network virtualization to custom hardware with ASIC optimized for storage services  C5 instance family (2017) Project Nitro  Traditional hypervisors do everything Protect the physical hardware and bios, virtualize the CPU, storage, networking, management tasks  Nitro breaks apart those functions, offloading to dedicated hardware and software  Replace Xen with a highly optimized KVM hypervisor tightly coupled with an ASIC  Very fast VMs approaching performance of bare metal server  Amazon EC2 – Bare metal instances (2017) Use Project Nitro  Links Xen Project Kernel Virtual Machine QEMU Mastering KVM Virtualization Hyper-V AWS Nitro System AWS re:Invent 2018: Powering Next-Gen EC2 Instances: Deep Dive into the Nitro System AWS re:Invent 2017: C5 Instances and the Evolution of Amazon EC2 Virtualization End SongFax - StagesFor a full transcription of this episode, please visit the episode webpage.We'd love to hear from you! You can reach us at: Web: https://mobycast.fm Voicemail: 844-818-0993 Email: ask@mobycast.fm Twitter: https://twitter.com/hashtag/mobycast 

Sponsor Circle CI Episode on CI/CD with Circle CI Show DetailsIn this episode, we cover the following topics: VMs vs containers - why revisit?Originally talked about this in episode 1 Got most of it right, but some inconsistencies/holes Let's revisit to fill in the gaps, and dive a whole LOT deeper this time around Types of virtualization Full virtualization ("virtual machines") Simulates enough hardware to allow an unmodified "guest" OS to be run in isolation Resources of computer are partitioned via hypervisor Examples:VMWare, Parallels, VirtualBox, Hyper-V Operating-system-level virtualization ("containers") Resources of computer are partitioned via the kernel"Guest" OSes share same running instance of OS as the host system Based on the virtualization, isolation, and resource management mechanisms provided by the Linux kernelnamespaces and cgroups Examples:Docker, LXC, FreeBSD jails Hypervisors Also known as a Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) Creates and runs virtual machines It is a process that separates OS and apps from underlying physical hardware Multiple VMs share virtualized hardware resources When you create a new VM, the following happens: Hypervisor allocates memory and CPU space for VMs exclusive use Complete OS is installed onto the VM The VM's OS communicates with the hypervisor to perform tasks Host OS is able to see all physical hardware, whereas guest OS (VM) can only see hardware to which hypervisor has granted access Two types of hypervisors Type 1 (also called "native" or "bare metal" hypervisors) Run directly on the host's hardware to control the hardware and manage the guest VMsruns in ring 0 Are an OS themselves (simple OS on top of which you run VMs)the physical machine the hypervisor is running on serves only for virtualization purposesExceptions: Hyper-V, KVM ExamplesXen, Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware ESX/ESXi Type 2 (also called "hosted" hypervisors) Run on conventional OS, just like other apps Guest OS runs as a process on the host Hypervisor separates the guest OS from the host OS ExamplesVirtualBox, Parallels Protection levels (rings) x86 family of CPUs provide a range of protection levels also known as rings Ring 0 has the highest level privilege (kernel/supervisor) Ring 3 lowest level (applications) Hypervisor occupies ring 0 of CPU Kernels for any guest operating systems running on the system must run in less privileged CPU rings But most OS kernels are written explicitly to run in ring 0 Techniques to deal with this: Full virtualization hypervisor provides CPU emulation to handle ring 0 operations made by unmodified guest OS kernels emulation process requires both time and system resourcesinferior performance Paravirtualization Technique in which hypervisor provides an API and the OS of the guest VM calls that API Requires guest OS to be modified (to make API calls)Replace any privileged operations that will only run in ring 0 of the CPU with calls to the hypervisor ("hypercalls") Allows tasks to run in host OS (instead of in guest OS where performance would be worse) Hardware virtualization Requires a CPU with hardware virtualization extensions, such as Intel VT or AMD-VIntel virtualization (VT-x) Virtual Machine Extensions Adds ten new instructions VMPTRLD, VMPTRST, VMCLEAR, VMREAD, VMWRITE, VMCALL, VMLAUNCH, VMRESUME, VMXOFF, and VMXON. These instructions permit entering and exiting a virtual execution mode where the guest OS perceives itself as running with full privilege (ring 0), but the host OS remains protected. Reduces/eliminates any OS modifications in guest OS Provides an additional privilege mode above ring 0 in which the hypervisor can operateessentially leaving ring 0 available for unmodified guest OSes Better performance than paravirtualization Links Virtual machine Hypervisor What is a hypervisor? What Is A Hypervisor? Types Of Hypervisors 1 & 2 End SongTime for Trees - Sad Livin in the (New York) City - (David Last Remix)For a full transcription of this episode, please visit the episode webpage.We'd love to hear from you! You can reach us at: Web: https://mobycast.fm Voicemail: 844-818-0993 Email: ask@mobycast.fm Twitter: https://twitter.com/hashtag/mobycast

This week on BSDNow, we've got voting news for you (No not that election), a closer look at This episode was brought to you by Headlines ARIN 38 involvement, vote! (http://lists.nycbug.org/pipermail/talk/2016-October/016878.html) Isaac (.Ike) Levy, one of our interview guests from earlier this year, is running for a seat on the 15 person ARIN Advisory Council His goal is to represent the entire *BSD community at this important body that makes decisions about how IP addresses are allocated and managed Biographies and statements for all of the candidates are available here (https://www.arin.net/participate/elections/candidate_bios.pdf) The election ends Friday October 28th If elected, Ike will be looking for input from the community *** LibreSSL not just available but default (DragonFlyBSD) (https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2016/10/19/18794.html) DragonFly has become the latest BSD to join the growing LibreSSL family. As mentioned a few weeks back, they were in the process of wiring it up as a replacement for OpenSSL. With this latest commit, you can now build the entire base and OpenSSL isn't built at all. Congrats, and hopefully more BSDs (and Linux) jump on the bandwagon Compat_43 is gone (http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2016-October/624734.html) RiP 4.3 Compat support.. Well for DragonFly anyway. This commit finally puts out to pasture the 4.3 support, which has been disabled by default in DragonFly for almost 5 years now. This is a nice cleanup of their tree, removing more than a thousand lines of code and some of the old cruft still lingering from 4.3. *** Create your first FreeBSD kernel module (http://meltmes.kiloreux.me/create-your-first-freebsd-kernel-module/) This is an interesting tutorial from Abdelhadi Khiati, who is currently a master's student in AI and robotics I have been lucky enough to participate in Google Summer of Code with the FreeBSD foundation. I was amazed by the community surrounding it which was noob friendly and very helpful (Thank you FreeBSD We will run two storage controllers (ctrl-a, ctrl-b) and a host (cln-1). A virtual SAS drive (da0) of 256 MB is configured as “shareable” in Virtual Media Manager and simultaneously connected with both storage controllers The basic settings are applied to both controllers One interesting setting is: kern.cam.ctl.harole – configures default role for the node. So ctrl-a is set as 0 (primary node), ctrl-b – 1 (secondary node). The role also can be specified on per-LUN basis which allows to distribute LUNs over both controllers evenly. Note, kern.cam.ctl.haid and kern.cam.ctl.ha_mode are read-only parameters and must be set only via the /boot/loader.conf file. Once kern.cam.ctl.ha_peer is set, and the peers connect to each other, the log messages should reflect this: CTL: HA link status changed from 0 to 1 CTL: HA link status changed from 1 to 2 The link states can be: 0 – not configured, 1 – configured but not established and 2 – established Then ctld is configured to export /dev/da0 on each of the controllers Then the client is booted, and uses iscsid to connect to each of the exposed targets sysctl kern.iscsi.failondisconnection=1 on the client is needed to drop connection with one of the controllers in case of its failure As we know that da0 and da1 on the client are the same drive, we can put them under multipathing control: gmultipath create -A HA /dev/da0 /dev/da1 The document them shows a file being copied continuously to simulate load. Because the multipath is configured in ‘active/active' mode, the traffic is split between the two controllers Then the secondary controller is turned off, and iscsi disconnects that path, and gmultipath adapts and sends all of the traffic over the primary path. When the secondary node is brought back up, but the primary is taken down, traffic stops The console on the client is filled with errors: “Logical unit not accessible, asymmetric access state transition” The ctl(4) man page explains: > If there is no primary node (both nodes are secondary, or secondary node has no connection to primary one), secondary node(s) report Transitioning state. > Therefore, it looks like a “normal” behavior of CTL HA cluster in a case of disaster and loss of the primary node. It also means that a very lucky administrator can restore the failed primary controller before timeouts are elapsed. If the primary is down, the secondary needs to be promoted by some other process (CARP maybe?): sysctl kern.cam.ctl.ha_role=0 Then traffic follows again This is a very interesting look at this new feature, and I hope to see more about it in the future *** Is SPF Simply Too Hard for Application Developers? (http://bsdly.blogspot.com/2016/10/is-spf-simply-too-hard-for-application.html) Peter Hansteen asks an interesting question: The Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is unloved by some, because it conflicts with some long-established SMTP email use cases. But is it also just too hard to understand and to use correctly for application developers? He tells a story about trying to file his Norwegian taxes, and running into a bug Then in August 2016, I tried to report a bug via the contact form at Altinn.no, the main tax authorities web site. The report in itself was fairly trivial: The SMS alert I had just received about an invoice for taxes due contained one date, which turned out to be my birth date rather than the invoice due date. Not a major issue, but potentially confusing to the recipient until you actually log in and download the invoice as PDF and read the actual due date and other specifics. The next time I checked my mail at bsdly.net, I found this bounce: support@altinn.no: SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:: host mx.isp.as2116.net [193.75.104.7]: 550 5.7.23 SPF validation failed which means that somebody, somewhere tried to send a message to support@altinn.no, but the message could not be delivered because the sending machine did not match the published SPF data for the sender domain. What happened is actually quite clear even from the part quoted above: the host mx.isp.as2116.net [193.75.104.7] tried to deliver mail on my behalf (I received the bounce, remember), and since I have no agreement for mail delivery with the owners and operators of that host, it is not in bsdly.net's SPF record either, and the delivery fails. After having a bunch of other problems, he finally gets a message back from the tax authority support staff: It looks like you have Sender Policy Framework (SPF) enabled on your mailserver, It is a known weakness of our contact form that mailervers with SPF are not supported. The obvious answer should be, as you will agree if you're still reading: The form's developer should place the user's email address in the Reply-To: field, and send the message as its own, valid local user. That would solve the problem. Yes, I'm well aware that SPF also breaks traditional forwarding of the type generally used by mailing lists and a few other use cases. Just how afraid should we be when those same developers come to do battle with the followup specifications such as DKIM and (shudder) the full DMARC specification? Beastie Bits Looking for a very part-time SysAdmin (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-jobs/2016-October/000930.html) If anyone wants to build the latest nodejs on OpenBSD... (https://twitter.com/qb1t/status/789610796380598272) IBM considers donating Power8 servers to OpenBSD (https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=147680858507662&w=2) Install and configure DNS server in FreeBSD (https://galaxy.ansible.com/vbotka/freebsd-dns/) bhyve vulnerability in FreeBSD 11.0 (https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:32.bhyve.asc) Feedback/Questions Larry - Pkg Issue (http://pastebin.com/8hwDVQjL) Larry - Followup (http://pastebin.com/3nswwk90) Jason - TrueOS (http://pastebin.com/pjfYWdXs) Matias - ZFS HALP! (http://pastebin.com/2tAmR5Wz) Robroy - User/Group (http://pastebin.com/7vWvUr8K) ***

It's already our two-year anniversary! This time on the show, we'll be chatting with Scott Courtney, vice president of infrastructure engineering at Verisign, about this year's vBSDCon. What's it have to offer in an already-crowded BSD conference space? We'll find out. This episode was brought to you by Headlines OpenBSD hypervisor coming soon (https://www.marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=144104398132541&w=2) Our buddy Mike Larkin never rests, and he posted some very tight-lipped console output (http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=F2Qbgdde) on Twitter recently From what little he revealed at the time (https://twitter.com/mlarkin2012/status/638265767864070144), it appeared to be a new hypervisor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor) (that is, X86 hardware virtualization) running on OpenBSD -current, tentatively titled "vmm" Later on, he provided a much longer explanation on the mailing list, detailing a bit about what the overall plan for the code is Originally started around the time of the Australia hackathon, the work has since picked up more steam, and has gotten a funding boost from the OpenBSD foundation One thing to note: this isn't just a port of something like Xen or Bhyve; it's all-new code, and Mike explains why he chose to go that route He also answered some basic questions about the requirements, when it'll be available, what OSes it can run, what's left to do, how to get involved and so on *** Why FreeBSD should not adopt launchd (http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/08/26/0/) Last week (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2015_08_26-beverly_hills_25519) we mentioned a talk Jordan Hubbard gave about integrating various parts of Mac OS X into FreeBSD One of the changes, perhaps the most controversial item on the list, was the adoption of launchd to replace the init system (replacing init systems seems to cause backlash, we've learned) In this article, the author talks about why he thinks this is a bad idea He doesn't oppose the integration into FreeBSD-derived projects, like FreeNAS and PC-BSD, only vanilla FreeBSD itself - this is also explained in more detail The post includes both high-level descriptions and low-level technical details, and provides an interesting outlook on the situation and possibilities Reddit had quite a bit (https://www.reddit.com/r/BSD/comments/3ilhpk) to say (https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/3ilj4i) about this one, some in agreement and some not *** DragonFly graphics improvements (http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2015-August/458108.html) The DragonFlyBSD guys are at it again, merging newer support and fixes into their i915 (Intel) graphics stack This latest update brings them in sync with Linux 3.17, and includes Haswell fixes, DisplayPort fixes, improvements for Broadwell and even Cherryview GPUs You should also see some power management improvements, longer battery life and various other bug fixes If you're running DragonFly, especially on a laptop, you'll want to get this stuff on your machine quick - big improvements all around *** OpenBSD tames the userland (https://www.marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=144070638327053&w=2) Last week we mentioned OpenBSD's tame framework getting support for file whitelists, and said that the userland integration was next - well, now here we are Theo posted a mega diff of nearly 100 smaller diffs, adding tame support to many areas of the userland tools It's still a work-in-progress version; there's still more to be added (including the file path whitelist stuff) Some classic utilities are even being reworked to make taming them easier - the "w" command (https://www.marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=144103945031253&w=2), for example The diff provides some good insight on exactly how to restrict different types of utilities, as well as how easy it is to actually do so (and en masse) More discussion can be found on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10135901), as one might expect If you're a software developer, and especially if your software is in ports already, consider adding some more fine-grained tame support in your next release *** Interview - Scott Courtney - vbsdcon@verisign.com (mailto:vbsdcon@verisign.com) / @verisign (https://twitter.com/verisign) vBSDCon (http://vbsdcon.com/) 2015 News Roundup OPNsense, beyond the fork (https://opnsense.org/opnsense-beyond-the-fork) We first heard about (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2015_01_14-common_sense_approach) OPNsense back in January, and they've since released nearly 40 versions, spanning over 5,000 commits This is their first big status update, covering some of the things that've happened since the project was born There's been a lot of community growth and participation, mass bug fixing, new features added, experimental builds with ASLR and much more - the report touches on a little of everything *** LibreSSL nukes SSLv3 (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20150827112006) With their latest release, LibreSSL began to turn off SSLv3 (http://disablessl3.com) support, starting with the "openssl" command At the time, SSLv3 wasn't disabled entirely because of some things in the OpenBSD ports tree requiring it (apache being one odd example) They've now flipped the switch, and the process of complete removal has started From the Undeadly summary, "This is an important step for the security of the LibreSSL library and, by extension, the ports tree. It does, however, require lots of testing of the resulting packages, as some of the fallout may be at runtime (so not detected during the build). That is part of why this is committed at this point during the release cycle: it gives the community more time to test packages and report issues so that these can be fixed. When these fixes are then pushed upstream, the entire software ecosystem will benefit. In short: you know what to do!" With this change and a few more to follow shortly, LibreSSL won't actually support SSL anymore - time to rename it "LibreTLS" *** FreeBSD MPTCP updated (http://caia.swin.edu.au/urp/newtcp/mptcp/tools/v05/mptcp-readme-v0.5.txt) For anyone unaware, Multipath TCP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multipath_TCP) is "an ongoing effort of the Internet Engineering Task Force's (IETF) Multipath TCP working group, that aims at allowing a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection to use multiple paths to maximize resource usage and increase redundancy." There's been work out of an Australian university to add support for it to the FreeBSD kernel, and the patchset was recently updated Including in this latest version is an overview of the protocol, how to get it compiled in, current features and limitations and some info about the routing requirements Some big performance gains can be had with MPTCP, but only if both the client and server systems support it - getting it into the FreeBSD kernel would be a good start *** UEFI and GPT in OpenBSD (https://www.marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=144092912907778&w=2) There hasn't been much fanfare about it yet, but some initial UEFI and GPT-related commits have been creeping into OpenBSD recently Some support (https://github.com/yasuoka/openbsd-uefi) for UEFI booting has landed in the kernel, and more bits are being slowly enabled after review This comes along with a number (https://www.marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=143732984925140&w=2) of (https://www.marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=144088136200753&w=2) other (https://www.marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=144046793225230&w=2) commits (https://www.marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=144045760723039&w=2) related to GPT, much of which is being refactored and slowly reintroduced Currently, you have to do some disklabel wizardry to bypass the MBR limit and access more than 2TB of space on a single drive, but it should "just work" with GPT (once everything's in) The UEFI bootloader support has been committed (https://www.marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=144115942223734&w=2), so stay tuned for more updates (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20150902074526&mode=flat) as further (https://twitter.com/kotatsu_mi/status/638909417761562624) progress (https://twitter.com/yojiro/status/638189353601097728) is made *** Feedback/Questions John writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2sIWfb3Qh) Mason writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2Ybrx00KI) Earl writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20FpmR7ZW) ***