Posts Tagged ‘reperimiterisation’
Do VMs dream of real networks?
04Feb13
With apologies to Philip K. Dick. This post is going to address three topics: The relationship between a virtual machine (VM) and its network connection(s). The changing perimeter The role of APIs in controlling network configuration The common theme is dreams, or perhaps de/re(ams) – as the last two topics touch on whether something is de- or […]
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Tags: cloud, define, defined, deperimiterisation, deperimiterization, networking, perimeter, refine, refined, reperimiterisation, reperimiterization, SDN, software, virtualisation, virtualise, virtualization, virtualize, VLAN, VM, VMs
Why I’m a NAC nonbeliever
12Jun08
I was recently speaking at a conference, and the subject of network access control (NAC) came up. At the time I gave a rather glib answer that ‘it’s not the network that you wish to control access to, but the data and services that wrap it’. That’s been my position for some time, but it’s […]
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Tags: entitlements, nac, reperimiterisation, reperimiterization, security
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