Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Note that the merging of ONP Server and ONP Switch is something that I postulated last year after IDF 2012. For telco environments, ONP Server will likely leverage Wind River Systems’ real-time Linux distribution along with other components. IDF 2012 Day 1 Summary and Thoughts.

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Intel Architecture Virtualization Network 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Servers/Hardware. Need to do some port forwarding on a Linux box and want to automate the configuration with Puppet? and Windows Server 2012 NFS. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Could we use OpenFlow to build better internet exchanges?

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Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 60

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. VMworld 2012 Keynote, Day 2.

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Intel Hardware Mobile Dell 60

Sean Daniel

JUNE 12, 2012

Tuesday, June 12, 2012. Robert Crane : Having 15 years of IT experience with a degree in Electrical Engineering as well as Masters of Business Administration, hes been awarded with the Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for his contributions to the Office 365 product in 2012. 6/12/2012 12:51 PM. totally me!

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Small Business Windows SMB Microsoft 95

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Servers/Hardware. 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. on flow table explosion with OpenFlow. Using Dell EqualLogic with VMFS?

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Vmware Network Virtualization Storage 60

Sean Daniel

AUGUST 8, 2012

Wednesday, August 08, 2012. about a name change from Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials to Windows Essential Server 2012. Be a Bobcat, or a Cougar, and stick together, keep your microphone and continue to have fun supporting SMBs… And if you use Windows Essentials Server 2012 or Office 365 in the process, so be it. :).

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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. If they ran Linux, maybe they wouldn’t have to run so many servers. December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152).

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Data Center Microsoft Data Disaster Recovery 276

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

At the O’Reilly OSCON 2013 this week in Portland, Oregon, Fusion-io made the announcement that its Atomic Writes API contributed for standardization to the T10 SCSCI Storage Interfaces Technical Committee is now in use in mainstream MySQL databases MariaDB 5.5.31 Fusion-io: Making Apps Faster With Flash Storage. Networking.

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Open Source Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 177

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

I know that the company Linux Hosts Ltd. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152). July 2012 (134).

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 188

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

“IBM will incorporate Cloud Foundry into its open cloud architecture, and put its full support behind Cloud Foundry as an open and collaborative platform for cloud application development, as it has done historically for key technologies such as Linux and OpenStack.”. “We Storage Failures Hamper Cloud Foundry. December 2012 (151).

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Data Center IBM Data Cloud 197

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

CSL’s CSL-WAVE software enables companies to monitor and manage thei z/VM and Linux on System z environments using a powerful and easy-to-use interface. The response by clients to the advantages of Linux on System z have been tremendous, with the shipped capacity nearly doubling in 1Q13 year to year. December 2012 (151).

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Data Center IBM System Cloud 190

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Servers/Hardware. Cisco UCS is pretty cool in that it makes automation of compute hardware easier through such abstractions as server profiles. Speaking of Puppet and hardware, I also saw a mention on Twitter about a Puppet module that will manage the configuration of a NetApp filer. Now, you can also automate UCS with Chef.

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Vmware Storage Virtualization Network 115

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. Not unsurprisingly, one of the key advantages of STT that’s highlighted is its improved performance due to TSO support in NIC hardware. Servers/Hardware. I needed to fill in some other knowledge gaps first.)

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2014

Servers/Hardware. Here’s a quick article on how to assess if your Linux-based server is affected. This isn’t as straightforward as building a Linux image (no surprises there), but I did find a few good articles that helped along the way. Update 1 upgrade that results in missing storage providers. PowerCLI 5.5

Vmware 60

Vmware Windows Virtualization Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

He starts out by discussing proactive vs. reactive flows , in which Brent explains that OpenFlow performance is less about OpenFlow and more about how flows are inserted into the hardware. Servers/Hardware. Windows Backup has native Hyper-V support in Windows Server 2012. Virtualization. How about some oVirt inception?

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Virtualization Storage Vmware Network 102

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The Intel Open Network Platform (ONP) Switch is the official name for Seacliff Trail, which I talked about last year at IDF 2012. Recep will cover the hardware side of ONP; Gershon will cover the software side of ONP (referred to as ONS). ONP fits into this picture by performing VTEP functions in hardware (at line rate).

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Intel Load Balancer Architecture Virtualization 61

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Extend Intel’s reach with non-IA hardware (FM6000 series, QuickAssist Server Acceleration Card [QASAC]. Intel CAS operates at the operating system (OS) level, serving as a file-level cache on Windows and a block-level cache (with file awareness) on Linux. Similar Posts: IDF 2012 Day 1 Summary and Thoughts.

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Intel Network Architecture Virtualization 60

Sean Daniel

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

To me, the leading cause of data loss is usually hardware failure, most often then not, it’s a harddrive failure. Moreover, it’s SHARED with both Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. With a plan, you can easily map out your storage needs, and growth.

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Windows Backup Storage Microsoft 87

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

A traditional SRF architecture can be replicated with COTS hardware using multi-queue NICs and multi-core/multi-socket CPUs. Testing latency and jitter using a Spirent shows that an SRF compares very favorably with an edge router, but not so well against a core router (even though everything on the SRF is software-based running on Linux).

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Load Balancer Intel Network Hardware 61

Sean Daniel

JANUARY 6, 2011

I’ve even seen old useless Linux based laptops, that have support for RDP be instantly turned into a powerful Windows 7 workstation. 6/05/2012 10:11 AM. How To Install Windows Home Server 2011 on your MediaSmart or DataVault Hardware. Storage Server Essentials. (17). Storage Server Essentials. Post a Comment.

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