Summary: The virtual workbench convened on August 9, 2011 with Greg Ferro, Ethan, Kurt Bales, Tom Hollingsworth, Josh O'Brien, and Mrs. Y (aka the Network Security Princess). This week we cover news, views and gossip of the last few weeks. A lot of complaining and review of what's changing in the network industry. Discussion VMware licensing backdown after customers complained- VMware isn't as dominant as it may appear, and will you ever OWN anything ? Lack of networking features in vSphere 5 Mrs Y gives us a rundown of Black Hat A mix of other random topics Cisco Nexus 2000 and working with FEX designs Links Odds and ends of items mentioned in the show... Jeff Fry's Blog on Future Nexus 7000 Line Cards (Sup2/ASA/NAM/WAN) The Register talks about the sales of Alcatel/Lucent Enterprise Business Unit The supposed OSPF vulnerability Symantec takes some potshots at Operation Shady Rat that was discovered by McAfee. We all agree that neither organisation is very credible - "virus protection" is synonymous with extortion and claming "he said/she said" is silly. http://cyberarms.wordpress.com/2011/07/26/researchers-break-military-chip-encryption-keys-using-nvidia-tesla-gpus/
