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Neil MacDonald

@nmacdona

Analyst at Gartner 20 years. Love helping businesses use technology securely. Background is engineering (BSEE, U of Kansas) + MBA (Florida International U)

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Pat goes after bitcoin in #VMworld keynote? environment? have you seen what gold and silver mining does? bad guys use it? more use cash.... odd. but yes, blockchain is useful distributed ledger model - then Pat plugs VMware's offering.

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Paul Maritz (ex VMware CEO and ex Microsoft) had it right with Pivotal years ago.... the future is in the hands of developers Now VMware brings Pivotal (back) into the fold .... and Bitnami #vmworld

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#VMworld SD-WAN powered by Velocloud... absolutely should be part of NSX end-to-end story. Well done. Now add some cloud-based security capabilities with SD-WAN (see Darja Gartner research on SASE) Secure Access Service Edge

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Scott S. Lowe Neil MacDonald Arun Chandrasekaran Sure. Compute-bound workload. HW virtualization overhead is close to 0 these days. So it comes down to the better CPU scheduler - ESX or linux? Turns out ESX is better remove remote NUMA accesses, reducing CPU pipeline stalls, resulting in 8% better perf!

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According to Pat Gelsinger #VMworld interesting factoid more VMware VMs running in various public clouds than Azure has running in its cloud...

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there it is day 2 #VMworld keynote.... "zero trust security model" called out for risk-based, adaptive access control (CARTA) for workspace one Continuous Adaptive Risk and Trust Assessment - showing integration of airwatch and Carbon Black good stuff.

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Cybersecurity firm Imperva discloses breach that exposed API keys, SSL certificates, email addresses & hashed passwords for a subset of its Incapsula web application firewall users krebsonsecurity.com/2019/08/cybers… "This is the kind of mistake that's up their with their worst nightmare."

Cybersecurity firm Imperva discloses breach that exposed API keys, SSL certificates, email addresses & hashed passwords for a subset of its Incapsula web application firewall users krebsonsecurity.com/2019/08/cybers… "This is the kind of mistake that's up their with their worst nightmare."
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deja vu #VMworld Microsoft circa 2000 - Windows is the best platorm to run a browser - integrate it! VMware in 2019 - vSphere is the best platform to run Kubernetes - integrate it! #ProjectPacific #vmworld2019

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Gartner analyst Neil MacDonald weighs in on the rise of #cloud security tools in the wake of #data breaches. Read more from CIO.com via @clintboulton here #GartnerIO #CISO @Gartner_IT bit.ly/2x0SoYd

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Gartner analyst Neil MacDonald weighs in on the rise of #cloud security tools in the wake of #data breaches. Read more from CIO.com via @clintboulton here. #GartnerIO #CISO @Gartner_IT bit.ly/2x0SoYd

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Covid-19 will accelerate shift to Secure Access Service Edge #SASE 1. short term, ZTNA adoption 2. cost cutting next SWG +CASB +ZTNA +RBI 3. branch transformation when offices reopen, MPLS offload, highly mobile workforce/workplace is new norm The Internet is your new network

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agreed - that's the comment the neighbor made - the manager's were "surprised" how well it was working out - more productive by some reports