The Accidental Successful CIO

JANUARY 4, 2012

When you are using cloud computing, instead of having to physically touch hardware and software in order use an application, now all you have to do is to subscribe to it and you can access it over the Internet. There’s more to cloud computing than just subscribing to someone else’s application. No disks, no servers.

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Cloud Strategy Applications Internet 100

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Servers/Hardware. I recently mentioned on Twitter that I was considering building out a new Linux PC to replace my aging Mac Pro (it’s a 2012 model, so going on 9 years old). Eclypsium discusses ways of protecting system firmware storage. Operating Systems/Applications. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Vmware Storage Study Network 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Devices first started as tightly-coupled hardware and software solutions. These challenges can be summarized as: I/O-intensive application virtualization. Second, DPDK offers SR-IOV support and allows L2 switching in hardware on Intel’s network interface cards (estimated to be 5-6x more performant than the soft switch).

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Virtualization Intel Cloud Data 113

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Storage Wars: Dispelling the Myth of Flash Economics. Storage Wars: Dispelling the Myth of Flash Economics. Director of Field Marketing at Virident , a performance leader in flash-based storage-class memory (SCM) solutions. Storage Causes the Bottleneck. Industry Perspectives. By: Industry Perspectives July 23rd, 2013.

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Storage Data Center Disaster Recovery Enterprise 211

CTOvision

JULY 9, 2014

In the text below, I examine an on-premise Hadoop ecosystem as a general purpose Big Data solution in relation to alternative commercial purpose-built storage technologies (-e.g. in Big Data Now: 2012 Edition by O’Reilly Media, and touches on the three primary characteristics of data [1]: Volume: The size of your data.

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Big Data Data Analysis Fractional CTO 286

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2012 10:00 AM. Both of these are important as they help customer accurately gauge the economic benefits of running their applications in the cloud. The AWS Economics Center now features the TCO of Web Applications whitepaper. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

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Agile Applications Comparison CTO Hire 118

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Keybase discusses some challenges with encrypted chat applications and how their architecture avoids some of those challenges. Operating Systems/Applications. This post is from 2012, but is—to me—still as applicable today as ever. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Bare Metal, Containers, and Virtualization: The Growing Choices for Cloud Applications. The first one, on virtualizing the network, did highlight an important development regarding hardware offloads for Geneve, the next-generation network overlay encapsulation protocol. IDF 2012 Day 1 Summary and Thoughts. That’s cool.

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Intel Hardware Linux Virtualization 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

SolidFire Gains Traction for SSD-Powered Cloud Storage. SolidFire Gains Traction for SSD-Powered Cloud Storage. A “five stack” of SolidFire’s all-SSD storage systems. ” SolidFire will supply storage for Tiers 0-3, with Guaranteed performance added to Tiers 1 and 2. By: Jason Verge July 11th, 2013.

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Storage Cloud Data Data Center 195

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

F5′s products use Intel CPUs, but they also leverage FPGAs to selectively enable certain functions in hardware for improved performance. The first area of SDI that Bryant focuses upon is storage, where growth is happening rapidly but storage is still siloed. IDF 2012 Keynote, Day 1. General Hardware IDF2014 Intel'

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Data Center Intel Data Storage 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2013

This leads to a talk about VMware’s 10 years of innovation, with products and features like ESX, vMotion, DRS, Storage vMotion, and more. Pat believes that it’s all about the applications, and that enterprise applications are becoming more like consumer applications. But what is software-defined storage?

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Vmware Virtualization Data Center Storage 63

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Brian McClain, who was one of the presenters in a Cloud Foundry/BOSH session I liveblogged at VMworld 2012 , has his own personal blog and posted a series of articles on using BOSH with vSphere. If you’re not already familiar with this information, this is good reading.

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Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 111

Sean Daniel

JANUARY 20, 2012

Friday, January 20, 2012. Are you a developer or developer firm that’s built an application for SBS 2011 Essentials , SBS 2011 Premium Add-on , Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials , and Windows Home Server 2011 ? Then you should list your application in Microsoft Pinpoint. Storage Server Essentials. (17).

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Development How To Small Business Windows 51

Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Thursday, 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. Jackson 2012 ). GovCloud Presentations.

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Cloud Data Center Virtualization Government 162

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

” Eul walks through the basic components of the mobile platform, which includes not only hardware but also mobile software. Skaugen takes some time to describe more fully the specifications around 2-in–1 devices, coming from hardware partners like Dell, HP, Lenovo, Panasonic, Sony, and Toshiba.

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Intel Hardware Mobile Dell 60

Virtualized Greek

OCTOBER 1, 2012

If you are using Windows Server 2012 you can actually cluster a physical server with a virtual server by leveraging Windows native clustering. This allows you to oversubscribe the physical virtual host with dozens of passive nodes depending on your application mix and hardware configuration.

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Virtualization Strategy Cloud Disaster Recovery 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. and Windows Server 2012 NFS. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Networking Storage Virtualization Automation HyperV Linux OpenFlow OpenStack Puppet vCloud VMFS VMware vSphere Xen'

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Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 106

Sean Daniel

JANUARY 24, 2012

Tuesday, January 24, 2012. How to make your applications discoverable - [link] (Posted here last week ). SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Wiki your way to Small Business Server knowledge & Best practices. Posted by Sean Daniel. at 2:33 PM.

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Small Business Backup Windows SMB 57

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. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Thanks for reading!

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Vmware Linux Virtualization Network 60

Sean Daniel

JANUARY 17, 2012

Tuesday, January 17, 2012. Last year, I wrote a post about using my Home Server for more than just storage, backup and remote access. This also depends on your EULA you’ve entered with your hardware OEM as well as Microsoft, so be careful you’re not voiding a warranty or locking yourself out of support here.

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How To Small Business Windows SMB 57

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Why do we have data networks, storage networks and management networks (all distinct, I might add). Ultimately, all of this complexity gradually resulted from incremental server hardware evolution… the motherboards to be exact. an audio jack to a cassette tape for storage.). Why is clustering inherently so complex?

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Industry Data Center Virtualization Network 100

Sean Daniel

JULY 5, 2012

Thursday, July 05, 2012. Snaps application to the left. So WINKEY + 1 would launch whichever application is first in the list, from left to right. Windows+D Toggle Show Desktop (hides/shows any applications and other windows). Windows+PgDown Move the Start Screen or a Metro-style application to the monitor on the right.

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Windows SMB Backup Small Business 56

Sean Daniel

JANUARY 3, 2012

Tuesday, January 03, 2012. I found an application for Windows (and Mac OS) that installs on your computer that shares almost any printer connected to the computer, to the AirPrint service. 1/03/2012 9:24 PM. 1/03/2012 9:24 PM. 1/12/2012 7:04 AM. 4/09/2012 3:44 AM. 7/28/2012 11:41 AM. at 11:47 AM.

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How To Windows Small Business SMB 64

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Due to the exponential growth of the biology and informatics fields, Unilever needs to maintain this new program within a highly-scalable environment that supports parallel computation and heavy data storage demands. Tom Tom – Founded in 1991, TomTom is a leading provider of navigation and location-based products and services.

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Enterprise Enterprise Cloud Banking 129

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Cloud Computing » Storage. Whether it is redundant hardware or a private hot-site, keeping an environment up and running 99.99% (insert more 9’s here) of the time is a tough job. Remote backup and storage. Storage systems have become more efficient and can now do offsite, cloud-based backup and replication.

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Cloud Disaster Recovery Data Center Backup 250

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 06 April 2012 06:00 AM. From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. I often get to meet, discuss, and learn from innovators how they are using AWS to deliver transformative applications to their users, customers and partners. Comments ().

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Social Web Services Meeting Fractional CTO 146

Sean Daniel

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Using your Home Server for more than Storage, Backup and Remote Access. However, there are certain things that I don’t trust the cloud for, and hence I want my own cloud storage that I run and have total control over. Home Server has been my personal cloud storage location since 2007, I now run WHS 2011. 1/16/2012 8:34 PM.

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Small Business Windows SMB Backup 59

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. See this post by Ben Armstrong on faster live migration in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 R2 (which is now generally available ). Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. What makes up a hybrid cloud?

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Vmware Network Virtualization Storage 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

You need greater automation, and you need to support any type of application. After a few slides of discussing SMB3 with very little relevance to the rest of the discussion, Pinkerton moves back into a discussion of the virtual switch found in Windows Server 2012 R2. Similar Posts: IDF 2012 Day 2 Summary and Thoughts.

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Virtualization Network Intel Data Center 60

Fountainhead

JUNE 1, 2011

Cloud is highly reliable : A lingering question has been whether the cloud - and associated automation controls - was reliable enough for mission-critical applications. NYSEs cloud now allows small firms (picture 3 hedge fund managers and their dog in a garage) to take advantage of enterprise-grade hardware and data. ► 2012. (15).

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Financial Cloud Data Center Vmware 172

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Too frequently I&O says, “I got that application back online in 20 minutes”. Business services is the top level in a business, sitting above an application, in order to support a business service, you need to consider all the infrastructure involved. For sourcing, they make decisions, and thus own the hardware budgets.

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Data Center Trends Data Disaster Recovery 247

Sean Daniel

MARCH 29, 2011

With LoB support you have a platform for the small business that can connect to online services for e-mail, collaboration and other applications. How To Install Windows Home Server 2011 on your MediaSmart or DataVault Hardware. Storage Server Essentials. (17). Storage Server Essentials. Subscribe to this feed. Skydrive.

Small Business 100

Small Business Windows Backup SMB 100

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. and Windows Server 2012 NFS. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Networking Storage Virtualization Automation HyperV Linux OpenFlow OpenStack Puppet vCloud VMFS VMware vSphere Xen'

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Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 60

Galido

MAY 10, 2019

In this case, we are referring to hardware slowdown which could be remedied through computer repair or upgrades. Sometimes you just need to replace one or two hardware parts to give new life to an old and slow PC. This is not a large quantity, which could cause slow down if you use many applications at the same time or heavy games.

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Hardware Intel Energy Examples 81

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Continuing to sharpen its focus on enterprise cloud computing, IBM is joining forces with Pivotal to support CloudFoundry, the versatile platform as a service (PaaS) framework that allows developers to build applications that can run on multiple clouds. Storage Failures Hamper Cloud Foundry. IBM Pledges Full Support for CloudFoundry.

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Data Center IBM Data Cloud 197

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

The new benchmark being proposed is called the High Performance Conjugate Gradient (HPCG), and should better correlate to computation and data access patterns found in many applications today. Designing for a Benchmark, or Applications? “Titan was the top ranked system in November 2012 using HPL. gigaflops performance.

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Data Center Storage Applications System 204

Sean Daniel

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Thursday, October 11, 2012. Windows Server 2012 Essentials RTM!! Well, The product formerly known as Windows Small Business Server 2012, is finally at RTM! Purchase with confidence knowing that your technology investment can easily grow to Windows Server 2012 Standard if the needs of your business grow. and Eval today!).

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