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COMS002: Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization

Scott Lowe

This is session COMS002, titled “Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization.” Verplanke believes that DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) and virtualization are key to virtualizing workloads that move around lots and lots of packets, such as firewalls, routers, and other similar functions.

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A Brief Introduction to Linux Containers with LXC

Scott Lowe

In this post, I’m going to provide a brief introduction to working with Linux containers via LXC. Both full machine virtualization and containers have their advantages and disadvantages. Both full machine virtualization and containers have their advantages and disadvantages. I’m using Ubuntu 12.04.3

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Vendor Meetings at VMworld 2013

Scott Lowe

Given my previous role at EMC (involved in storage) and my current role at VMware focused on network virtualization (which encompasses SDN), I was quite curious. This means that page swaps are extremely fast (on the level of microseconds, not the milliseconds typically seen with disks). It was a highly entertaining discussion.

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