In July 2008, the VMware Board of Directors voted to remove the founder Diane Greene as CEO of the company. Greene was offered another position that she declined, leaving the company that she created and led through one of the most impressive IPO in the IT history . Two months after her departure, his husband Mendel Rosenblum, left too . Rosenblum co-founded VMware and was the Chief Scientist declining the company vision. The board immediately replaced her with Paul Maritz, a long-time Microsoft executive that joined the EMC ecosystem after his startup Pi was acquired in February 2008.

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A lot of discussion is going on these days around some performance issues that Amazon customers are suffering with the Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2). The discussion was triggered by Alan Williamson , a prominent voice in the Java community, who posted an interesting description of his 3-years experience with EC2.

In this column I have often highlighted how handling virtualisation security is a far different matter from managing the old kind of security. Today, I’d like to discuss yet another example of these differences: virtual machine to virtual machine communications. As readers surely are aware of, all virtualisation solutions – albeit with slightly different approaches – support virtual networks between virtual machines, whereas virtual switches or virtual cables are connected between virtual machines. That is, network data flows between virtual network cards without ever leaving the host. This comes to no surprise, since a virtual network like that has been designed for that very purpose

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