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On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 11:14 PM, Sarah Conway <sconway@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi everyone.

In addition to eWeek, WSJ and ITNews, here is more coverage appearing since the advisory and blogs were issued this week.

Thanks,

Well done handling it on all levels. I blogged about it as well:

http://osv.io/blog/blog/2014/10/03/cloud-reboot/

This is classical KSplice, I hope it will get into Xen

Rackspace Joins Amazon in Cloud Reboot Over Xen Hypervisor Bug
http://vmblog.com/archive/2014/09/29/rackspace-joins-amazon-in-cloud-reboot-over-xen-hypervisor-bug.aspx

Understanding The Xen XSA-108 Security Issue
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTgwMjQ

Xen sheds light on 'serious' security bug affecting servers
http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2373641/xen-sheds-light-on-serious-security-bug-affecting-servers

Xen reveals XSA-108 memory leak bug details
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/xen-reveals-xsa-108-memory-leak-bug-details/

Google cuts cloud computing prices
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/google-cuts-cloud-computing-prices-gives-away-unlimited-storage-to-students/

Are Google's even lower prices -- and not using Xen -- tantalizing enough to switch to its services? Are the costs low enough to warrant a migration? Do you use Google Apps for Work, or Education? Let us know in the comments.

Serious hypervisor bug fix causes unexpected cloud downtime
http://threatpost.com/serious-hypervisor-bug-fix-causes-unexpected-cloud-downtime/108660

(reporter we "talked" to on Twitter)

CoreOS eliminates downtime from server OS patching
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/coreos-eliminates-downtime-from-server-os-patching/

CoreOS commentary on XSA-108

The Shellshock vulnerability and the even more recent Xen hypervisor vulnerability remind us of an important fact of enterprise IT: server OS patching is hard

CoreOS is trying to simplify OS patching. According to CoreOS CEO Alex Polvi, who was a guest on a recent Cloudcast podcast, CoreOS can solve patching headaches. The long-term value proposition of the CoreOS primary product of the same name is to bring Google Chrome-like updates to server updates.

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