VMware's GM For Networking And Security Jumps To Google

Veteran Jeff Jennings To Get The Band Back Together With VMware Founder Diane Greene

Jeff Jennings, former Managing Director and General Manager of Security and Networks at VMware, left the company to join Google.

Jennings VMware was a 20-year veteran and had been entrusted to the fastest growing company in VMware network. VMware also sees a great future for its security business with App Native App Defender Defense as one of the many products the company has under its sleeve.

Losing the head of these companies seems a little faster for VMware.

A spokesman said that VMware Jennings "... made a personal decision and left the company effective Feb. 16. We want to thank Jeff for his passion and commitment and wish him well. Looking for a new leader, Rajiv Ramaswami assumes the role of leader in the functions of the Network and Security Business Unit ".

VMware has already lost older people and sailed safely. CFO articles Carl Eschenbach and Martin Casado Senior NSX had little impact on the company, so good results are an indicator.

Jennings is a little different because he is a twenty-year veteran and VMware will work for VMware founder Diane Greene, who runs Google's cloud.

Greene was hired by Google in part because he took a VMware upstart to a dominant position in the position of server virtualization, which took Microsoft into the process. If she can do the same job for Google, she will have done incredibly well. But while Google has made several promising offers during its tenure and exploited the company's network technology in an interesting way, Google's cloud is lagging behind AWS and Azure in terms of users, revenue and services .

Hiring Jennings outside of VMware can put as much pressure on Google as on Virtzilla! ®

VMware Sticks Finger In Meltdown/Spectre Dike For Virtual Appliances

VMware has advised on how to mitigate the design flaws of the Meltdown and Specter chips in several of its products.

Solutions include vCloud Usage Meter, Identity Manager (vIDM), vCenter Server, vSphere Data Protection, vSphere Integrated Containers, and vRealize Automation (vRA). And they are important because VMware now sends many of its products as devices: vCenter, for example, can no longer run on a Windows virtual machine.

The knowledge base articles for all products indicate that Meltdown and Specter can create problems for virtual devices, explain that mitigation tactics will stop attacks, but should be considered as "a temporary fix and permanent solutions will be launched soon are available. "

Many of the solutions listed here require a login as a privileged user and then writing a few commands. Others require more effort. So open your command lines, vAdmins: there is work to do.

And if you're very interested in VMware and/or wondering what Dell plans to do with VMware, think about your SEC files and Virtzilla's Dell Technologies tracking technologies.

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