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Securely Building Clouds: Thoughts and Concerns

Edward Haletky, Cloud Analyst, The Virtualization Practice
Edward Haletky provides Virtualization, Virtualization Security, Network Security, Secure Coding Consulting and Courseware as well as Linux Security and Application Development.

* Author of "VMware Virtual Infrastructure Security: Securing the Virtual Environment" and "VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers", published December 2007, Copyright 2008 Pearson Education.

* Guru and moderator for and participant in the VMware Community Forums.

* Moderator for the Virtualization Security Podcast held every other week on thursday.

* Analyst and Managing Director for The Virtualization Practice, LLC.

* Participant in the VMware VMTN Communities Roundtable Podcast held every wednesday.

* Blogs about Virtualization on his own Blog, Blue Gears, as well as for the Virtualization Practice and TechTarget.

* Writer for various online and physical magazines.

Specialties
* Virtualization Security
* VMware Virtual Infrastructure
* Network Security
* Secure Coding
* Linux Security
* Linux Application Development
May 16 2012
48 mins
Securely Building Clouds: Thoughts and Concerns
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