Everybody who dislikes vendor-lock-in should use KVM as opposed to VMware or any other commercial hypervisor product - KVM is in its core an open-source project and not dependent on a company for its continuing development and support I know of at least 3 vendors who sell…

Security, aye, it is most important. But I would like to add the aspect of "self-sufficiency" for want of a better word. What I mean by this is, that a firewall has to be the "last man standing" of sorts if a network is under attack or already compromised. So a firewall in…