Mitigate Spectre and Meltdown impact with vSphere ESXi

Meltdown-Spectre

As most of the folks in the IT, I’ve spent last couple of days researching about famous Spectre and Meltdown attacks and their possible impact to our infrastructure. These security flaws are especially bad, not only because they’ve been here for more than 2 decades, but mitigation comes with significant… Continue reading

Cloud Storage Gateways Comparison on WhatMatrix

After many months of really hard work of the entire WhatMatrix team it’s my pleasure to announce that Open Beta is live and site is accessible for everybody. What you can expect? Comparison website where you can select and compare multiple  products and it’s features. As of today there are… Continue reading

WhatMatrix Virtualization Comparison – Hypervisors (Update – Open Beta 26.8.2015)

WhatMatrix Virtualization Comparison – Hypervisors (Update – Open Beta 26.8.2015) The Story started during the last VMworld 2014 in one of Barcelona Pubs where I met the WhatMatrix core team we spoke about our common virtualization hobby and doing web-projects. We started to work together and now I’m pleased to show you what… Continue reading

ALERT: VENOM Vulnerability CVE-2015-3456, Clouds Exposed!

alert

Crowdstrike disclosed a serious VM Escape vulnerability – codename VENOM, CVE-2015-3456 which has been around here since 2004. This one is especially serious because it is affecting the VMs in their default configuration and could be also affecting thousands of the VMs in cloud. This vulnerability may allow an attacker… Continue reading