Virtualized Greek

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

VMware has long been the thought leader in x86 virtualization products both on the desktop and in the data center. Add to it the vSphere suite and it’s pretty difficult to find a better virtualization solution. AWS abstracted the infrastructure for developers similar to what operating systems do for computer hardware.

Vmware 65

Vmware Development Cloud Data Center 65

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Here’s another collection of links and articles from around the Internet discussing various data center-focused technologies. The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Ivan Pepelnjak does a great job of describing all the things you really shouldn’t do (or don’t really need to do) when trying to deal with migrating container hosts in a data center fabric. It’s a shame the site doesn’t appear to have an RSS/Atom feed… Operating Systems/Applications.

Storage 79

Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

I have another collection of links, articles, and thoughts about key data center technologies, and hopefully I’ve managed to include something here that will prove useful or thought-provoking. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Need to customize the virtual networks that VMware Fusion offers?

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 21, 2020

Mike Krieger shares some information on how rt.live (a site sharing updates of the COVID-19 R t ) handles their daily runs to update data. Operating Systems/Applications. ” Storage. Chris Evans examines how persistent memory in the data center plays out with existing storage technologies.

Handbook 60

Handbook Linux Storage Windows 60

Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2012

20, 2012 — NJVC ® , an information technology solutions provider headquartered in northern Virginia and supplier of Cloudcuity™ AppDeployer , and Virtual Global , a provider of cloud-enabled enterprise IT solutions based in northern. Major data centers will go undergo a “survival-of-the-fittest” scenario.

Cloud 162

Cloud Data Center Virtualization Government 162

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

As it seeks to consolidate its IT infrastructure across dozens of agencies, the government has had trouble sorting out how many data centers it has, and even more trouble adding up all the server closets, which includes rooms smaller than 100 square feet. Now Over 7,000 Data Centers. New Focus on Optimization.

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Data Center Government Data Storage 246

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles discussing the major data center technologies—networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications, virtualization…you name it! (If Numan Siddique describes the native DHCP support available in OVN (Open Virtual Network). Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Have I mentioned the ESXi Virtual Appliance ?

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Dmitri Kalintsev examines some options for addressing storage-related connectivity in NSX environments. I’m not yet convinced that running something like the AWS CLI in a Docker container is worth the extra effort (a Python virtual environment may be more appropriate here). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #34, my latest collection of links, articles, thoughts, and ideas from around the web, centered on key data center technologies. Greg Ferro, aka EtherealMind, has a great series of articles on overlay networking (a component technology used in a number of network virtualization solutions).

Vmware 106

Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 106

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #35, another in my irregular series of posts that collect various articles, links and thoughts regarding data center technologies. Art Fewell takes a deeper look at the increasingly important role of the virtual switch. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 60

Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Server virtualization can do the trick for you if you also struggle to scale your applications to meet growing demands without breaking the bank. Server virtualization is a game-changing technology that has revolutionized the way organizations deploy and manage their IT infrastructure.

Virtualization 78

Virtualization Storage Disaster Recovery Hardware 78

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

The interior of a container packed with servers at a Microsoft data center in Chicago. “We have something over a million servers in our data center infrastructure. . “We have something over a million servers in our data center infrastructure. 12 Million SF of New Microsoft Data Centers?

Data Center 276

Data Center Microsoft Data Disaster Recovery 276

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #31, my irregularly published series that takes a look at links, posts, articles, and thoughts from around the web related to core data center technologies. Operating Systems/Applications. Dmitry Ukov of Mirantis has a write-up on Swift and Ceph as object storage in OpenStack environments.

Storage 108

Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 108

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

That’s right, it’s time for yet another collection of links and articles from around the Internet on various data center-related technologies, products, projects, and efforts. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. of the Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter will keep popping up.

Vmware 65

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 65

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Have I mentioned the ESXi Virtual Appliance ?

Devops 60

Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 10, 2013

” In the post, Steve ponders whether the increased use of automation in today’s data centers is killing engineering knowledge. The argument, as I understand it, says that because tasks are becoming increasingly automated, data center professionals are increasingly less knowledgeable about how things actually work.

Engineering 112

Engineering Data Center Meeting Tools 112

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #39, in which I share a random assortment of links, articles, and thoughts from around the world of data center-related technologies. I might contend that Open vSwitch (OVS) alone isn’t an option for network virtualization, but that’s just splitting hairs. Networking.

Virtualization 60

Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #38, another installment in my irregularly-published series that collects links and thoughts on data center-related technologies from around the web. and talks about vSphere OpenStack Virtual Appliance (VOVA) as well. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. He’s got it.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Storage Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 21, 2016

In this post, I’ve collected a variety of links related to major data center technology areas. Operating Systems/Applications. The first article describes Hitchhiker itself, while the second article discusses the related topic of the network impact of recovery in erased coded storage environments. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

Operating Systems/Applications. Ryan Kelly shows readers how to configure Harbor (open source container registry project) to use Amazon S3 for storage. YACOOS (Yet Another Container-Optimized Operating System) has gone GA; this time it’s Google’s (imaginatively-named) “Container-Optimized OS”. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Examples 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 9, 2014

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is a networking topic that is starting to get more and more attention (some may equate “attention” with “hype”; I’ll allow you to draw your own conclusion there). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage HP Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 16, 2018

Ahead, lying in wait, is a unique collection of links, articles, and thoughts about various data center technologies. Operating Systems/Applications. So much for software-defined storage? Virtualization. Welcome to Technology Short Take 96! Browse if you dare…OK, so I’m being a bit melodramatic.

Architecture 60

Architecture Meeting Storage Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Until then, here’s some data center-related articles and links for your enjoyment. Customers don’t care about data centers, or DevOps pipelines, or toolkits…they just care about being able to do whatever it is you offer (buy stuff, consume a service, whatever). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

I have (hopefully) crafted an interesting and varied collection of links for you today, spanning all the major areas of modern data center technology. AWS adds local NVMe storage to the M5 instance family; more details here. What I found interesting is that the local NVMe storage is also hardware encrypted. Networking.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60

Network World

MAY 16, 2024

Cisco and Nutanix have significantly expanded their alliance with new management capabilities, AI components and networking extensions for their integrated hyperconverged infrastructure ( HCI ) package aimed at easing edge, data center, and cloud operations.

Data Center 181

Data Center Network Enterprise Enterprise 181

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

In any case, enough of that—here’s some data center-related content that I hope you find useful! Kevin Houston discusses workload acceleration options—specifically, storage acceleration via NVMe or PCIe SSDs—for blade servers. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Networking. Servers/Hardware.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

This is my irregularly-published collection of links and articles from around the Internet related to the major data center technologies: networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications/OSes, storage, and virtualization. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Windows 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As usual, I’ve collected some articles and links from around the Internet pertaining to various data center- and cloud-related topics. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Welcome to Technology Short Take #119! Now, on to the content! Perhaps this article can help. Nope, nothing here either.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Cloud Vmware Applications 60

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 22, 2022

One of the newer technologies gaining ground in data centers today is the Data Processing Unit (DPU). As VMware has observed , “In simple terms, a DPU is a programable device with hardware acceleration as well as having an ARM CPU complex capable of processing data.

Data Center 129

Data Center Data Fractional CTO Architecture 129

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

see below in the “Operating Systems/Applications” section), Metaswitch has announced a Container Networking Interface (CNI) plugin for Project Calico. Only a year late, I found this article about Cisco IOS XRv (as in “virtual”). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Networking. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Operating Systems Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 27, 2018

Now that I’m starting to get settled into my new role at Heptio, I’ve managed to find some time to pull together another collection of links and articles pertaining to various data center technologies. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Feedback is always welcome! Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Open Source Security 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 8, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #43, another episode in my irregularly-published series of articles, links, and thoughts from around the web, focusing on data center technologies like networking, virtualization, storage, and cloud computing. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Virtualization Network 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #34, my latest collection of links, articles, thoughts, and ideas from around the web, centered on key data center technologies. Greg Ferro, aka EtherealMind, has a great series of articles on overlay networking (a component technology used in a number of network virtualization solutions).

Vmware 60

Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Ready for another round of links, articles, and thoughts on data center technologies? Operating Systems/Applications. Nick Korte shares some “lessons learned” as his team explored VMware vSAN as a storage solution. Virtualization. Welcome to Technology Short Take 94! Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

I don’t track or get involved in the consumer space; my focus is on the data center. There were no major data center-centric announcements yesterday (day 1), but I suspect there will be some today (day 2) in a mega-session with Diane Bryant (SVP and GM of the Data Center Group at Intel).

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Intel Hardware Linux Virtualization 60