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 hope you find something useful—or at least something interesting! I can’t help but wonder if this is the right level at which to put the abstraction layer.

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Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Devices first started as tightly-coupled hardware and software solutions. For the security appliance, all traffic is actually intercepted by the hypervisor, which will generate context switches for every I/O packet received. These challenges can be summarized as: I/O-intensive application virtualization. Intra-VM communication.

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Virtualization Intel Cloud Data 113

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Hopefully I’ve still managed to find useful and helpful links to include below. Servers/Hardware. Serve The Home takes a critical look at the Bloomberg Supermicro stories, debunking or at least calling into question many details of the alleged hardware hack as reported by Bloomberg. I, for one, was very glad to see this.

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Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

This year at VMworld, I wasn’t in any of the breakout sessions because employees aren’t allowed to register for breakout sessions in advance; we have to wait in the standby line to see if we can get in at the last minute. Here’s the write-up on some of the vendor meetings I’ve attended while in San Francisco.

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Meeting Storage Hardware Network 63

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

I have a mix of newer and older items for you this time around. While I’m a bit short on links in some areas, hopefully this is outweighed by some good content in other areas. Servers/Hardware. I’m looking forward to future chapters in this series. Welcome to Technology Short Take #87! Networking. RIP Solaris.

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Storage Vmware Load Balancer Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

This post is a week late (I try to publish these every other Friday), so my apologies for the delay. Servers/Hardware. Sorry, I don’t have anything this time around. There’s some good information in this article; I recommend reading it. Welcome to Technology Short Take #80! Networking. Check back next time! and vSphere.

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Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2017

I have a collection of newer materials and some older materials this time around, but hopefully all of them are still useful. (I I needed to do some housekeeping on my Instapaper account, which is where I bookmark stuff that frequently lands here.) Servers/Hardware. Perhaps I should remove this section? Networking.

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Firewall Virtualization Network Storage 60

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Google is racing to build out its gen AI platform; co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have even come out of semi-retirement to jumpstart the Google AI initiative. I would suspect that prices will creep up over the next several years.” Microsoft offers a similar service called Microsoft Azure Stack.

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Trends Cloud Oracle Enterprise 144

Storage IO Blog

MARCH 14, 2017

This page provides insight in to Converged Infrastructure (CI), Cluster in box or Cloud in Box (CIB) along with Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) topics along with links to companion resources. The post Server Storage I/O Converged (CI) Hyper-converged (HCI) overview appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Storage Resources Cloud Data 84

Fountainhead

MAY 12, 2009

I find it odd that so much is being written about defining cloud terminology, cloud operation, and cloud construction. Or am I missing something? N Apps that are inherently bound to hardware Such as physical instances of software for specific (e.g. Also, physical instances on ultra-high-reliability hardware (e.g.

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Cloud Data Center Applications Virtualization 186

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

I won’t steal Matt’s thunder; go have a look at the post yourself to see if you agree with his assessment. Thanks to Ivan Pepelnjak, I saw this network diagnostic tool. Servers/Hardware. In any case, I think the time is right. Simon Leinen (from SWITCHengines) explains their use of IPv6 with OpenStack. Career/Soft Skills.

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Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

As always, I hope you find something useful here. Looks like this is another tool I need to add to my toolbox as I continue to explore networking technologies like OpenFlow, Open vSwitch, and others. I’m a CLI fan, so I like this sort of stuff. Servers/Hardware. Networking. Great job, Brad.

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Vmware Storage Virtualization Network 115

Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

Anthony Burke’s series on VMware NSX continues with part 5. Bob McCouch has a post over at Network Computing (where I’ve recently started blogging as well—see my first post ) discussing his view on how software-defined networking (SDN) will trickle down to small and mid-sized businesses. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Storage Network Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2015

I have quite a bit of information to share this time around, so buckle up and let’s get started! Michael Webster isn’t a name that normally pops up here in the Networking section of my Technology Short Takes, but he recently wrote an article on installing Cumulus Linux from a MacBook Pro that I thought might be handy. Servers/Hardware.

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Linux Dell Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 11, 2019

It may be confirmation bias, but I’ve noticed of number of sites adding “Short Take”-type posts to their content lineup. I’ll take that as flattery, even if it wasn’t necessary intended that way. While I get what Niran is trying to say here, I’m not so sure I agree with the analogy.

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Open Source Virtualization Storage Cloud 60