Eric D. Brown

JANUARY 16, 2014

It’s been a bit of an adventure because we haven’t been able to close on our new home yet so we are staying in a vacation home we found on Airbnb (great service). The next line on that page is : Good data and sophisticated analysis only get you so far. sold our house in Dallas and moved to Tulsa.

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Trends Analysis Data Software 124

CTOvision

JANUARY 25, 2014

There is an IT chapter in the President’s budget that is especially important to read (download here , then see chapter 19 on page 349). No matter what stage your firm is in, wouldn’t you rather be applying those funds to your engineering team? Understand where the government’s $82B IT budget will be spent.

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Government Fractional CTO Budget CTO 269

The Accidental Successful CIO

JULY 30, 2014

The difference between a partner and a vendor is that a partner won’t be trying to sell you anything. The thinking is that your IT department will be able to provide something that they can’t and vice versa. The company that you are thinking about partnering with probably doesn’t know about you.

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Industry Budget Fashion Resources 173

The Accidental Successful CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

However, there is also the employee who feels that they’ve been slighted by the company because it wouldn’t pay for a meal that was too expensive or a hotel that was not on the approved list. They don’t know what kind of trip your employee went on or why they went. Or should I say your overworked finance department.

Travel 149

Travel Budget Report Hotels 149

Scott Lowe

JULY 18, 2014

Sometimes, rebooting the guest would work; many times, rebooting the guest didn’t work. Re-installing the guest sometimes worked, but sometimes it didn’t. There didn’t appear to be any consistency with regard to the host (the issue occurred on all hosts) or guest configuration.

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Linux Virtualization Dell Education 60

The Accidental Successful CIO

OCTOBER 1, 2014

No matter if that involves connecting with the company through Facebook, Twitter, or a snazzy web page, this has become the responsibility of the CMO. Your biggest problem is that if you don’t speak up now, you’re going to be bypassed. Isn’t it the dream of every CIO to have a fully committed team?

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Budget Software Software Company 182

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 18, 2014

The reason I haven’t generated any new content is because all my spare time is taken up with preparing to migrate this site to a new hosting platform. Sometime over the holiday season, I’ll be migrating this site from a hosted WordPress installation to Jekyll running on GitHub Pages. Thanks for reading!

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Mobile Storage Virtualization Enterprise 60

CTOvision

OCTOBER 13, 2014

To do that visit our Hadoop World video streaming page here: https://ctovision.com/strata-hadoop-world-2014-watch-live-streaming-here/. Along the way, he’ll explore how cartoons work (and sometimes don’t); how he makes decisions about what cartoons to include; and what crowds can tell us about a good joke.

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Big Data Fashion Data Media 276

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 13, 2014

If you visit the official Synergy page , you’ll note that the site indicates that full Mavericks support is still pending. I didn’t include a link here because the link changes as the version changes, so the link would become stale rather quickly.) It doesn’t really matter where, just make note of the location.

Storage 63

Storage Windows Virtualization Examples 63

Cloud Musings

JUNE 3, 2014

Download t he full 20 page issue online at [link] onthefrontlines.net/i/319551 ) In February 2011, Vivek Kundra announced the “Cloud First” policy across the US Government. [Republished from"On The FrontLines" magazine " Cloud Computing in Government: Lesson''s Learned " issue.

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Government Cloud Change Management Architecture 101

Scott Lowe

JULY 21, 2014

Wine tours (Crystal’s still sorting details on this one, so tickets aren’t available yet—but check back often!). Drop me an e-mail (see my About page ) and I’ll get you connected with more information. Mission Street food tour. Kayaking on the Russian River. Whale watching. Interested in signing up?

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Vmware Conference Virtualization HP 75

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

I can’t help but wonder if this is the right level at which to put the abstraction layer. For those customers who won’t use a cloud management platform, I would then ask: will they benefit from a CPAL? Don’t think this “software-defined networking” thing is going to take off?

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Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Cloud Musings

JUNE 3, 2014

Download t he full 20 page issue online at [link] onthefrontlines.net/i/319551 ) In February 2011, Vivek Kundra announced the “Cloud First” policy across the US Government. [Republished from"On The FrontLines" magazine " Cloud Computing in Government: Lesson''s Learned " issue.

Government 70

Government Cloud Change Management Architecture 70

Eric D. Brown

DECEMBER 22, 2014

This isn’t a full review of the book but more of a synopsis of the main topics found within the book. The first section covers a considerable amount of material throughout its 32 pages. The section on groupthink (Chapter 17, page 203) is one of the most interesting parts of this section. Section Six – Common Traps.

Survey 124

Survey Examples Case Study Social 124

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 1, 2014

CoreOS, in case you haven’t heard of it, is a highly streamlined Linux distribution designed with containers, massive server deployments, and distributed systems/applications in mind. See this page for more information on clustering with CoreOS and fleet.

Linux 89

Linux Applications Open Source System 89

Scott Lowe

APRIL 28, 2014

If you haven’t been keeping up with the Learning NVP/NSX series, you’ll probably want to go back and catch up. Links to all the articles are found on my Learning NVP/NSX page. Edit the attachment of the logical switch ports to connect a VM’s virtual network interface card (NIC).

Network 60

Network Vmware .Net Virtualization 60

The Investing Edge

MARCH 3, 2014

While Putin intended the Sochi Olympics to dominate the news, his connection to events in another region captured the front page. Further, they couldn’t be more wrong about the damage from “excessive” immigration. After a busy prior few weeks of domestic travel, I am eager to return home, but I do so with enhanced perspective. .

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Travel Google Financial System 98

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Previous Technology Short Takes have mentioned CoreOS and Kubernetes in the same sentence, but as far as I can tell I haven’t pointed readers to this two part series on running Kubernetes directly on CoreOS. The two won’t work together. Andy Bruce has an article on adding external networks to Neutron with GRE.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

JUNE 4, 2014

If you can’t do it, don’t make the commitment. “Don’t do that with me [drop commitments], or you will suffer.” It is still frustrating to hear a lot of talk about the “program roadmap” but yet only have a two-page executive summary which describes it. She’s obviously a “can do” leader.

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Telecommunications Meeting Network Hotels 31

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

JANUARY 12, 2014

If the electorate doesn’t like the way the government is running, they’ll make their wishes known at the ballot box The Mayor or Governor was elected to make the decisions, not me. I’m convinced the problem in Seattle was lack of Council member districts.

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CTO Government Course Report 31

Scott Lowe

MARCH 12, 2014

In case you’re just now catching up on this blog series, I encourage you to visit my Learning NVP/NSX page , which has a brief summary of all the posts in the series. You won’t need the OVS agent on the hypervisors, because the NSX controllers are responsible for configuring/programming OVS on transport nodes.

Vmware 69

Vmware Network Linux Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 18, 2014

First, it’s distributed as part of CoreOS, which means that it isn’t necessarily a separate piece of software that you have to install and configure (although some configuration is needed, as I’ll attempt to show). Zookeeper is another very well-known distributed information store.

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Linux Examples Architecture Cloud 65

Scott Lowe

JUNE 20, 2014

Although NSX isn’t necessarily tied to OpenStack, I’ll assume you’re using OpenStack just to simplify the discussion.). If you’re new to this series, you can find links to all the articles on my Learning NVP/NSX page. Overview of Logical Routing.

Vmware 71

Vmware Network Examples Virtualization 71

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 20, 2014

If you aren’t familiar with CoreOS or etcd, have a look at the links in the previous paragraph. The GitHub page for fleet describes it as a “distributed init system” that operates across a cluster of machines instead of on a single machine. An Overview of Fleet. ssh/keyfile.pem. I suspect it will be needed.

Linux 61

Linux System Load Balancer Examples 61

Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

I don’t know. I can’t imagine that anyone has been immune to the onslaught of information on Docker, but here’s an article that might be helpful if you’re still looking for a quick and practical introduction. Can UCS hold on in the face of a fundamental shift like that? Check out this command. (I

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Virtualization 60

SPF13

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

tar.gz [goxc:archive-tar-gz] 2014/03/01 11:12:15 Task archive-tar-gz succeeded [goxc:pkg-build] 2014/03/01 11:12:18 Task pkg-build succeeded [goxc:rmbin] 2014/03/01 11:12:18 Task rmbin succeeded [goxc:downloads-page] 2014/03/01 11:12:18 Task downloads-page succeeded.' go get github.com/laher/goxc. Prep the source and dependencies.

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Linux Windows Resources Architecture 199

Scott Lowe

APRIL 25, 2014

If you are just now joining the series, I encourage you to visit the Learning NVP/NSX page , where you can find links to all the posts in the series. Once you understand how the different components of Neutron and NSX will interact, getting NSX integrated into OpenStack Neutron isn’t too terribly difficult.

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Vmware Network Transportation .Net 96

SPF13

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

tar.gz [goxc:archive-tar-gz] 2014/03/01 11:12:15 Task archive-tar-gz succeeded [goxc:pkg-build] 2014/03/01 11:12:18 Task pkg-build succeeded [goxc:rmbin] 2014/03/01 11:12:18 Task rmbin succeeded [goxc:downloads-page] 2014/03/01 11:12:18 Task downloads-page succeeded. go get github.com/laher/goxc. Prep the source and dependencies.

Linux 188

Linux Windows Resources Architecture 188

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Links to all the posts in the series are available on the Learning NVP/NSX page ; in particular, this post will leverage content from part 6. By the way, if the concept of “L2 connectivity” doesn’t make sense to you, please review part 1 of my “Introduction to Networking” series.).

Transportation 60

Transportation Network .Net Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 16, 2014

If you haven’t read any of the prior posts in this series, it would be ideal to read all of them before continuing; you can find links on my Learning NVP/NSX page. Further, the configuration or management of these entities is handled through NSX (via API or NSX Manager), and isn’t tenant-specific.

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Vmware Examples Network Construction 77

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

In this series, I’m only going to focus on layer 3 gateway services (primarily because I have limited resources in my environment and can’t run both layer 2 and layer 3 gateway services). Your list will be empty, naturally. Click the Add button. This will open the Create Gateway Service dialog.

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Transportation Network Construction Vmware 61

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Naturally, this post builds on all the previous entries in this series, so I encourage you to visit the Learning NVP/NSX page for links to previous posts. Although the titles of some of these articles seem to imply they are VMware-specific, they aren’t—the physical switch configuration is absolutely applicable here.

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Vmware Network HP Virtualization 79

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Of course, it would probably be helpful to read the entire series; links to all posts can be found on the Learning NVP/NSX page. This post expands the options again by showing you how to do logical routing without using network address translation (NAT). Routing (layer 3 connectivity) to multiple external networks using VLANs.

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Network Vmware Virtualization Cloud 77