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Thursday 9 November 2006, 1:39 AM
More quotes from VMWorld
"I've walked the floor and I'm not feeling a lot of love", Tim Sills, consulting manager and auditing expert, Verisign, on the general attitude towards the more formal side of security from the VMware developers at the technology showcase.
"What's the security industry's reaction to virtualization? Twofold. Cheering in the streets, and asking why it took so long." Kapil Raina, Senior Product Manager for Security at VMware.
"Every security person knows the way to build a secure system is to constrain everything in its own space. In the 90s, talking to the leading players in the industry, we said the worst possible thing to do is to build the browser inside the operating system. We said that - and still it happened. For some reason." Kapil Raina.
"We can ask adult questions from a distance, like are you in compliance?" Don Simard, National Security Agency, on some advantages of virtualization.
"I've been living in a virtual environment for two years" Gerald Chen, Director, Desktop Platforms, VMware.
"It's an enablement for organisations, but you don't get the iPod factor where everyone suddenly wants an iPod." Andy Bechtolsheim, Founder, Sun Microsystems, answering a question on whether the extreme enthusiasm about virtualization would lead to cult-like devotion. He had yet to meet this VMWorld attendee
"A lot of this stuff is in C and looks identical to stuff from 30 years ago. It's pretty good. It's not good enough. Having 96 or 99 percent of the time is not good enough. That 1 percent at critical time is not acceptable – we're digging ourselves into a hole where we can't afford that 1 percent.", Professor David Cheriton, Stanford University, on why adding reliability through restartable virtual machines isn't really fixing the problem.
"Perl is like crack. It's so easy and fun to use" Marc Andreessen, Founder, Netscape.
"We have to resurrect the original meaning of the operating system. There was a golden moment in the 1940s when we realised the thing that could manage the computer the best was the computer itself. People were too slow. The notion of having a machine that manages itself is an amazing challenge. Look over the history of operating systems, TSS was fairly good. Unix was an abdication of that, Linux is a reincarnation of Unix, Microsoft never got beyond the shared library model. In 2006, people are spending so much of their time managing their computers yet in 1940 we realised that if you can get the OS to do that it would be so much better." David Cheriton again. This entire post could be filled with Cheritonian bon mots.
"Why does a virtual appliance have to be just one domain? Why not have a helper VA watching and helping out? If you try to detach it, there's someone else watching to clobber you. We'll start to see solutions where virtual clients are being watched by a dominating VM that can reach in when it wants to. " Don Simard providing another insight into the NSA's view of the virtual future.
"Lego", "Play-Doh", "Irresistibly sweet", "Like the invention of the PC all over again", "Really annoying a lot of people who need to be annoyed". Various attendees describing what virtualization is.
"What's the security industry's reaction to virtualization? Twofold. Cheering in the streets, and asking why it took so long." Kapil Raina, Senior Product Manager for Security at VMware.
"Every security person knows the way to build a secure system is to constrain everything in its own space. In the 90s, talking to the leading players in the industry, we said the worst possible thing to do is to build the browser inside the operating system. We said that - and still it happened. For some reason." Kapil Raina.
"We can ask adult questions from a distance, like are you in compliance?" Don Simard, National Security Agency, on some advantages of virtualization.
"I've been living in a virtual environment for two years" Gerald Chen, Director, Desktop Platforms, VMware.
"It's an enablement for organisations, but you don't get the iPod factor where everyone suddenly wants an iPod." Andy Bechtolsheim, Founder, Sun Microsystems, answering a question on whether the extreme enthusiasm about virtualization would lead to cult-like devotion. He had yet to meet this VMWorld attendee
"A lot of this stuff is in C and looks identical to stuff from 30 years ago. It's pretty good. It's not good enough. Having 96 or 99 percent of the time is not good enough. That 1 percent at critical time is not acceptable – we're digging ourselves into a hole where we can't afford that 1 percent.", Professor David Cheriton, Stanford University, on why adding reliability through restartable virtual machines isn't really fixing the problem.
"Perl is like crack. It's so easy and fun to use" Marc Andreessen, Founder, Netscape.
"We have to resurrect the original meaning of the operating system. There was a golden moment in the 1940s when we realised the thing that could manage the computer the best was the computer itself. People were too slow. The notion of having a machine that manages itself is an amazing challenge. Look over the history of operating systems, TSS was fairly good. Unix was an abdication of that, Linux is a reincarnation of Unix, Microsoft never got beyond the shared library model. In 2006, people are spending so much of their time managing their computers yet in 1940 we realised that if you can get the OS to do that it would be so much better." David Cheriton again. This entire post could be filled with Cheritonian bon mots.
"Why does a virtual appliance have to be just one domain? Why not have a helper VA watching and helping out? If you try to detach it, there's someone else watching to clobber you. We'll start to see solutions where virtual clients are being watched by a dominating VM that can reach in when it wants to. " Don Simard providing another insight into the NSA's view of the virtual future.
"Lego", "Play-Doh", "Irresistibly sweet", "Like the invention of the PC all over again", "Really annoying a lot of people who need to be annoyed". Various attendees describing what virtualization is.
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