CIO Musings

APRIL 6, 2016

For me there was, and is, a fascination with using free tools on inexpensive hardware to do impressive things. Unix has become Linux, and it is running on an amazing variety of devices. New lineages of Linux have emerged.Some are highly specialized, some are more generic. I run Linux on a half dozen platforms at home.

Linux 150

Linux Operating Systems Research Software 150

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well. Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well. I adopted OS X as my operating system of choice in 2003 because I wanted a stable, powerful, UNIX-based operating system. Macintosh iPhone Linux' Why I Might Leave OS X.

Operating Systems 131

Operating Systems Apple Applications Linux 131

Galido

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Go is a relatively new programming language; its first version was released to the public in 2009, which is why it is not strange that, to this day, some programmers do not know of its existence. It is available for GNU / Linux. Programmers can easily earn an average payment level of about $110,000 per year. Ruby (on Rails).

Programming 81

Programming Operating Systems Open Source Applications 81

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Servers/Hardware. Another interesting tidbit regarding hardware: it seems as if we are now seeing the emergence of another round of “hardware offloads.” This next round of hardware offloads seems targeted at network virtualization and related technologies. Operating Systems/Applications.

Virtualization 60

Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

To take advantage of high-capacity flash in the memory bus, Diablo supplies drivers for all the major operating systems (OSes), including ESXi, and what this driver does is modify the way that page swaps are handled. At that point, the system DRAM almost looks like another level of cache. Congrats to HyTrust.

Meeting 63

Meeting Storage Hardware Network 63

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Even Facebook, which has open sourced much of its designs for its data center hardware but remains vague about its server count, saying only that it operates “hundreds of thousands” of machines. Microsoft’s ‘Cloud Operating System’ 218,000 Servers in Microsoft Data Centers? August 2009 (119).

Data Center 276

Data Center Microsoft Data Disaster Recovery 276