Glenn Brunette

I have to say that it has been a very busy couple of weeks. That said, I am happy to say that there is a lot to show for everyone's effort however. We have been able to publish quite a lot of new and updated content, and I figured that it might be a good time to shine a spotlight on some of the more interesting items. Without further ado... Cloud Computing Security Overview (delivered at Cloud Expo West Bootcamp) Immutable Service Containers Technical Presentation (delivered at the OpenSolaris Developer Conference) Immutable Service Containers AMIs (delivered on Amazon EC2) Security Enhanced Drupal Stack AMI (delivered on Amazon EC2) Security Enhanced AMP Stack AMI (delivered on Amazon EC2) Going forward, we are going to try and bring together all of the Cloud Comput... (more)

Immutable Service Containers @ Amazon EC2

Just in time for the OpenSolaris Developer Conference, we were able to publish new Immutable Service Containers images directly to the Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) environment. Previously, I talked about creating ISCs using our security enhanced OpenSolaris 2009.06 AMIs. Today, I am happy to announce that we have taken the next logical step by making available AMIs tha... (more)

Security Enhanced OpenSolaris Drupal Stack on EC2

Over the last few months, I have had a number of postings that have talked about security enhanced virtual machine images that we have made available on Amazon Web Services. The goal behind this work was to look at how we could improve baseline security in both virtualized and Cloud Computing computing environments by pre-integrating industry accepted recommended security settings. Organ... (more)

NEW: Immutable Service Container Podcast

Things have certainly been busy around here lately! Over the last two months, we have announced the Immutable Service Container project, published an OpenSolaris-based ISC Construction Kit (Preview) and a corresponding pre-configured OVF image, shared a number of network architecture and autonomic security models leveraging the ISC concept, and even published an ISC Technical Overview p... (more)

NEW: Encrypted ZFS Backups to the Cloud v0.3

Building upon the v0.4 release of the Cloud Safety Box tool, I am happy to announce the availability of v0.3 of the Encrypted ZFS Backups to the Cloud code. This new version uses the Cloud Safety Box project to enable compression, encryption and splitting of the ZFS backups before uploading the results to the Cloud. Due to this change, this project now officially depends upon the Cloud S... (more)