____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 24 July 2007 09:32 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> XenSource teams up with Symantec for storage virtualisation
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Open source virtualisation software vendor XenSource will today announce
>>| that it has struck a deal with security and storage giant Symantec through
>>| which it will develop unified server and storage virtualisation
>>| capabilities.
>> `----
>>
>>
http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=2680A175-CCB0-449C-B0C9-1F4A9F99B3DD
>
> I've been wondering for some time just how the old "security" companies
> like symantec, norton, macafee and so on will evolve to meet the new
> challenges of the waxing open-source world as the Microsoft legacy
> wanes, now we're starting to see where they're going.
>
> I think they will take us a good step closer to the fully virtualised
> computing world.
It's storage solutions, as well. They don't put all their bags in one basket.
It's a different /type/ of security (mainly hardware faults, not software
fault... well, sometimes human error).
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