Glenn Brunette

This is a posting intended to signal that this is a blog that should be migrated to the blogs.oracle.com platform and not killed off during the transition. ... (more)

Amazon Cloud Journal On August 26th, 2009, Amazon Web Services launched their new Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) service. According to Amazon, this service: [...] is a secure and seamless bridge between a company’s existing IT infrastructure and the AWS cloud. Amazon VPC enables ent... (more)

On August 26th, 2009, Amazon Web Services launched their new Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) service. According to Amazon, this service: [...] is a secure and seamless bridge between a company’s existing IT infrastructure and the AWS cloud. Amazon VPC enables enterprises to connect t... (more)

I have been writing about the Immutable Service Container project for quite some time. Since this project was publicly launched earlier this year, we have produced a number of updates, several presentations and podcasts, as well as images that people could use on Amazon EC2 or wi... (more)

I have been writing about the Immutable Service Container project for quite some time. Since this project was publicly launched earlier this year, we have produced a number of updates, several presentations and podcasts, as well as images that people could use on Amazon EC2 or wi... (more)

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 spotligh... (more)

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 spotligh... (more)

Today, I am very happy to announce the availability of a new Solaris 10 Security Deep Dive training. This version has been updated for Solaris 10 10/2009 (also known as Update 8). From a security perspective, there have only been a few updates since my last posted version, but i... (more)

Today, I am very happy to announce the availability of a new Solaris 10 Security Deep Dive training. This version has been updated for Solaris 10 10/2009 (also known as Update 8). From a security perspective, there have only been a few updates since my last posted version, but i... (more)

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 20... (more)

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 20... (more)

Just wanted to let everyone know of a new Immutable Service Containers technical presentation (ODF, PDF) that has been posted. This version was delivered last week in Dresden, Germany at the OpenSolaris Developer Conference. This presentation has all of the latest and greatest i... (more)

  Just wanted to let everyone know of a new Immutable Service Containers technical presentation (ODF, PDF) that has been posted. This version was delivered last week in Dresden, Germany at the OpenSolaris Developer Conference. This presentation has all of the latest and greates... (more)

Cloud Computing on Ulitzer Back in June, we released the very first security hardened virtual machine images for the Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) environment. These original images were based upon the OpenSolaris 2008.11 release and were configured in accord... (more)

Back in June, we released the very first security hardened virtual machine images for the Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) environment. These original images were based upon the OpenSolaris 2008.11 release and were configured in accordance with the guidelines publ... (more)

First things first. I want to offer a big "Thank you" to the 1,000 or so people who joined my webinar earlier this week on the topic of Cloud Computing Security. I was completely amazed by the turnout and sincerely hope that the talk was both entertaining and thought provoking! ... (more)

First things first. I want to offer a big "Thank you" to the 1,000 or so people who joined my webinar earlier this week on the topic of Cloud Computing Security. I was completely amazed by the turnout and sincerely hope that the talk was both entertaining and thought provoking! ... (more)

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 Cl... (more)

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 C... (more)

Things have definitely been a bit crazy around here lately. In just the last two weeks, we have posted new security enhanced OpenSolaris 2009.06 images to Amazon EC2, published a podcast on Immutable Service Containers, and have updated the OpenSolaris ISC Construction Kit to im... (more)