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VMware Cloud on AWS: Advanced Networking and Security with NSX-T SDDC

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Announced in AWS Summit in New York last month and also briefly mentioned on the prior blog, Announcing General Availability of VMware NSX-T Data Center 2.2.0, NSX-T networking and security is now available in Preview Mode for new SDDC deployments on VMware Cloud on AWS. Please reach out to your sales/SE contact for more information.  The post VMware Cloud on AWS: Advanced Networking and Security with NSX-T SDDC appeared first on Network Virtualization . via Latest imported feed items on VMware Blogs https://ift.tt/2Pj7uNt If New feed item from https://blogs.vmware.com/feed , then send me an email at kr

L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF) – VMware vSphere patches

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The L1 Terminal Fault (aka Foreshadow) bug is another speculative execution side channel attack that affect Intel Core processors and Intel Xeon processors only. For VMware vSphere there are some patches available as described in this document: VMSA-2018-0020. All patches have been released on August, 14th 2018. VMware Product Product Version Running On Severity Replace_with/Apply_Patch Build VC 6.7 Any Important 6.7.0d Build 9451876 VC 6.5 Any Important 6.5u2c Build 9451637 VC 6.0 Any Important 6.0u3h Build 9451619 VC 5.5 Any Important 5.5u3j Build 9313450 ESXi 6.7 Any Important ESXi670-201808401-BG* ESXi670-201808402-BG** ESXi670-201808403-BG* Build 9484548 ESXi 6.5 Any […] The post L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF) – VMware vSphere patches appeared first on vInfrastructure Blog . via Latest imported feed items on VMware Blogs https://ift.tt/2L2FOsY

General Session Speakers and VMworld Themes

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Year after year, VMworld hosts the brightest, most innovative minds in technology to inspire change and new ways of thinking that drives us toward a better future. This year's general speaker line-up is no exception, upholding this stalwart mission while envisioning new, exciting horizons. Pat Gelsinger, CEO, Ray O'Farrell, EVP and CTO, along with guest The post General Session Speakers and VMworld Themes appeared first on VMworld Blog . via Latest imported feed items on VMware Blogs https://ift.tt/2PgI5UB If New feed item from https://blogs.vmware.com/feed , then send me an email at kr

vExpert NSX 2018 Award Announcement

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vExpert NSX 2018 Award Announcement! Honored to make the 2018 NSX vExpert list. Thanks @VMware , @vExpert and @VMwarensx 🙂 Nice way to end the week. Congrats to all the 2018 NSX vExperts! #vExpert #VMware #NSX vExpert NSX 2018 Award Announcement Thank you to everyone who applied for vExpert NSX. I'm pleased to announce the […] via Latest imported feed items on VMware Blogs https://ift.tt/2nOgcqA If New feed item from https://blogs.vmware.com/feed , then send me an email at kr

vExpert NSX 2018 Award Announcement

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  Thank you to everyone who applied for vExpert NSX. I'm pleased to announce the list of 2018 vExperts who received the NSX award. Each of these vExperts has demonstrated significant contributions to the community and a willingness to share their expertise with others. Contributing is not always blogging or Twitter as there are many The post vExpert NSX 2018 Award Announcement appeared first on VMware vExpert Blog . via Latest imported feed items on VMware Blogs https://ift.tt/2L4yjS7 If New feed item from https://blogs.vmware.com/feed , then send me an email at kr

Special offer: Start your Single Host VMware…

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Special offer: Start your Single Host VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC Special offer: Start your Single Host VMware… Special offer – Get an extra 20% discount through promotional credits for one Single Host SDDC for the first 3 months. VMware Social Media Advocacy via Latest imported feed items on VMware Blogs https://ift.tt/2MYGgu6 If New feed item from https://blogs.vmware.com/feed , then send me an email at kr

Gmail's 'Confidential Mode' arrives on mobile devices

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Google's big Gmail redesign was revealed this past April (with G Suite customers getting the first look ). It became default for everyone starting in July. One of the key features, Confidential Mode, is now available for mobile devices, though not everyone is as confident in its ability to keep your data private. Confidential mode is now available on mobile devices and can help you protect sensitive information from unauthorized access. Learn more about this feature https://t.co/lmQNElH6C1 pic.twitter.com/Nxtx2yU0pG — Gmail (@gmail) August 16, 2018 Once you've turned on confidential mode for a specific email, you can set an expiration date and passcode so that you can restrict access to the email either in the web interface or via SMS. Recipients of these confidential emails won't be able to copy, paste, download, print or forward the mess

Astronomy Picture of the Day: Seeing Titan

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Seeing Titan Shrouded in a thick atmosphere, Saturn's largest moon Titan really is hard to see. Small particles suspended in the upper atmosphere cause an almost impenetrable haze, strongly scattering light at visible wavelengths and hiding Titan's surface features from prying eyes. But Titan's surface is better imaged at infrared wavelengths where scattering is weaker and atmospheric absorption is reduced. Arrayed around this centered visible light image of Titan are some of the clearest global infrared views of the tantalizing moon so far. In false color, the six panels present a consistent processing of 13 years of infrared image data from the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) on board the Cassini spacecraft . They offer a stunning comparison with Cassini's visi ble light view. August 18, 2018 via NASA https://ift.tt/2Pk9ZPC

A 'Vampyr' TV show is on the way

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If you're looking for a new supernatural television series, you're in luck (if you don't mind waiting a while). Fox 21 Television Studios will produce a new show based on the video game Vampyr by the developer of Life is Strange , Dontnod . The title came out for Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on June 5th. The RPG game explores 1918 London through a dual lens. The male protagonist is a doctor who believes in science, but also a supernatural being who must feed on the living to survive. Most combat can be avoided in Vampyr , and you don't have to kill innocents to finish the game. The title won a Best of E3 award in 2017, and reached the number one spot on the Steam charts. The deep, dark world of Vampyr could make for some compelling entertainment. "We believe it is a fantastic premise for a television show, said Dontnd CEO Oskar Guilbert

MIT can secure cloud-based AI without slowing it down

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It's rather important to secure cloud-based AI systems, especially when they they use sensitive data like photos or medical records . To date, though, that hasn't been very practical -- encrypting the data can render machine learning systems so slow as to be virtually unusable. MIT thankfully has a solution in the form of GAZELLE, a technology that promises to encrypt convolutional neural networks without a dramatic slowdown. The key was to meld two existing techniques in a way that avoids the usual bottlenecks those methods create. To start, users uploading data to the AI rely on a "garbled circuits" approach that takes their input and sends two distinct inputs to each side of the conversation, hiding data for both the user and the neural network while making the relevant output accessible. That approach would normally be too intensive if it

'Star Wars Resistance' trailer shows off its anime style

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Star Wars' latest animated series, Rebels , ended its four-season run this spring -- but fans didn't have to wait long to get a tease of details for the next show. While the last was set between the prequels and original trilogy, Star Wars Resistance explores what happened before The Force Awakens as General Leia Organa rallies her rebels to oppose The First Order. We knew it would have an "anime-inspired look," but today, the first trailer dropped , showing off a rad cel-shaded look and fun, kid-friendly adventure. Take to the skies with #StarWarsResistance . Premiering Sunday, October 7 at 10pm ET/PT on @DisneyChannel . pic.twitter.com/h0mTL4Vcl7 — Disney (@Disney) August 17, 2018 Resistance follows new recruit Kazuda Xiono as he joins Leia's growing forces alongside a squad of ace pilots -- including Poe Dameron, voiced by Oscar I

Researchers Find New Fast-Acting Side-Channel Vulnerability

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A group of researchers from Georgia Tech have discovered a method for pulling encryption keys from mobile devices without ever touching the phones, themselves. via Dark Reading: https://ift.tt/2OIF9yU If New feed item from http://www.darkreading.com/rss/all.xml , then send

Echo Show can now display recorded security camera footage

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With Alexa's latest skill, users can now ask the digital assistant to show them recorded security camera footage on their Echo Show, Echo Spot, Fire TV or Fire tablet. Currently, the skill is supported by Alexa-enabled cameras from Ring, Arlo, Cloud Cam and August and all you have to do is say, "Alexa, show the event that just happened at the front door," for example. You'll then be able to view the last recorded event from that particular camera. Amazon had already introduced the ability to see live security camera feeds on its devices , but pulling up recorded video wasn't an option. While that's now possible with certain cameras, users still won't be able to request a video from a certain date or time. Amazon says the new capability is available now in the US and should expand to other countries soon. Via: CNET

A massive, murky void in space has surprisingly few galaxies

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Space It's a dark period in the Universe's early days. “In a sense, this is the most unusual place in the universe that we’ve ever seen” says an astronomer at UC Riverside that found that a murky void in space 500 million… via Popular Science "https://ift.tt/2L1QUhQ"

Google's next Chromecast may offer improved connectivity

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Google may soon release a Chromecast with full Bluetooth support and sturdier WiFi connectivity, an FCC filing indicates. It seems likely the dongle will have the same design as the current version, with Google only making internal changes. The addition of Bluetooth support was somewhat expected, as Google told the FCC earlier this year that it planned such an update, Variety notes. The current version of Chromecast does include a Bluetooth chip, which is used during the setup process , but future iterations of the device may offer full support for the standard and open up the streaming dongle to more flexible connectivity with other devices. Meanwhile, Google is altering an antenna to bolster 5GHz WiFi connections. We could see the next version of Chromecast arrive at Google's usual fall product event , where it seems likely the company will unveil the Pixel