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DockerCon 2016 Vendor Meetings

Scott Lowe

While at DockerCon 2016 in Seattle today, I took some time on the expo floor to talk to a number of different vendors, mostly focused on networking solutions. I’d heard of Plumgrid, but wanted to take this time to better understand their architecture. As it turns out, their architecture is quite interesting.

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Gaining Server Storage I/O Insight into Microsoft Windows Server 2016

Storage IO Blog

This includes Windows Servers 2016 supporting new deployment and consumption models (e.g. Besides how consumed and configured, which can also be for CI and HCI modes, Windows Server 2016 along with Hyper-V extend the virtualization and container capabilities into non Microsoft environments specifically around Linux and Docker.

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The hard truth about lifecycle management

CIO Business Intelligence

To contrast it with the usual lifecycle management, imagine for the sake of argument that some of your applications run on top of EnGarde Secure Linux. When EnGarde introduced its Linux distro it hadn’t set a retirement date in its business and product plans after all. Call it “version currency management.”.

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Patches for Meltdown and Spectre aren’t that bad after all

Network World

Internal tests from a leading industry vendor have shown that fixes applied to servers running Linux or Windows Server aren’t as detrimental as initially thought, with many use cases seeing no impact at all. Skylake, though, was a whole new architecture, and as it turns out, that made the difference.

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NCTA CloudMASTER®: The Path To Your Future

Cloud Musings

In 2016, cloud computing started to dominate many IT market segments. This NCTA program was designed to provide IT professionals with a strong foundation in cloud technologies, and overall cloud architecture and management of cloud infrastructure, as well as a solid technical background in modern web services deployment and administration.

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Technology Short Take #77

Scott Lowe

In a bit of an older post from late summer 2016, Matt Oswalt outlines why network engineers should care about the network software supply chain. Jeff Geerling has a great article on why he returned his 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar ; it’s definitely worth a read, in my opinion. Some people love it, others absolutely hate it.

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Technology Short Take #63

Scott Lowe

At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. I knew Microsoft was cozying up to Linux, but I honestly didn’t expect they would port SQL Server to Linux. You may also find this (related) article on memory inside Linux containers to be helpful.

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