Godfather of Xen On Why Virtualization Means Everything

coondoggie writes "While conventional wisdom says virtualized environments and public clouds create massive security headaches, the godfather of Xen, Simon Crosb, says virtualization actually holds a key to better security. Isolation — the ability to restrict what computing goes on in a given context — is a fundamental characteristic of virtualization that can be exploited to improve trustworthiness of processes on a physical system even if other processes have been compromised, he says."

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Re:I doubt it...

[Alex Belits]

What is wrong with VMWare jockey's administering Linux VDIs?

Incompetence.

We all start somewhere.

That "somewhere" should not be a production environment that other people depend on.