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. Ivan Pepelnjak asks the question, “Is OpenFlow the best tool for overlay virtual networks?”

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Servers/Hardware. He describes cloud as the synthesis of many different forms of innovation within IT , pulling together things like open source, virtualization, distributed programming, NoSQL, DevOps/NoOps, distributed teams, dynamic languages, and Big Data (among others). Virtualization.

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CTOvision

JULY 9, 2014

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. When including the cost of software, hardware, and licensing/support, the cost per terabyte (TB) of an MPP system is estimated at tens of thousands of dollars [4]. Big Data Now: 2012 Edition.

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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. December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152). October 2012 (182). September 2012 (134). Twitter.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

IBM said today that it will make CloudFoundry a component of its open cloud architecture and work with Pivotal on further development of the CloudFoundry open source project and establishing an open governance model for the community. December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152). October 2012 (182).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

The AMD FirePro professional graphics demonstrations featured unique animation, display, simulation and other creative hardware and software collaborations for attendees from around the world. December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152). October 2012 (182). September 2012 (134). August 2012 (166). Convergence.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

Cloudera announced Sentry – a new Apache licensed open source project that delivers the industry’s first fine-grained authorization framework for Hadoop. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Twitter.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

. “We’re excited about the opportunities ahead to expand our footprint via Cisco’s global reach, as well as Cisco’s commitment to support our pace of innovation in both commercial markets and the open source community.” December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152). October 2012 (182).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

With Switch Light, Big Switch Looks to Boost Open Source SDN. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152). October 2012 (182). September 2012 (134).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

It has been adding and developing open office productivity applications to its arsenal. The company acquired much of the talent behind OpenOffice, an open source competitor to Microsoft’s Office Suite. December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152). October 2012 (182). September 2012 (134).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Should the OpenStack community focus on creating an open source alternative to Amazon and Google? Dubbed in the media as “the cloud wars,” there are a handful of open source frameworks competing (or not, depending on who you ask). December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152). October 2012 (182).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

The term “Cloud Management” is nebulous, but typically refers to a distinct set of tasks related to managing the infrastructure level (IaaS) cloud layers, typically comprised of the physical and virtual infrastructure, as well as the cloud orchestration layer – whether inside a corporation or a Service Provider cloud. August 2012 (166).

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. His earlier post on getting started with OpenFlow and Open vSwitch tutorial lab is also quite good. Not unsurprisingly, one of the key advantages of STT that’s highlighted is its improved performance due to TSO support in NIC hardware.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI): [link]. The Future of Software-Defined Networking with the Intel Open Network Platform Switch Reference Design: [link]. Extend Intel’s reach with non-IA hardware (FM6000 series, QuickAssist Server Acceleration Card [QASAC].

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

He shows off a demo of Skylake as well as a hardware reference platform for Skylake playing full 4K video. Fisher reinforces Krzanich’s mention of OIC and Intel’s participation in creating open, royalty-free standards for compatibility and interoperability among the billions of devices in the IoT. IDF 2012 Keynote, Day 1.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

In 2012, Jin founded the first-ever China chapter of the World Future Society. She has helped to design courses on futurism at several universities in Turkey, as well as being President of the Turkish Futurists Association from 2009 to 2012. A recurring theme in Tarhan’s conferences and lectures is “creating a better future”.

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The Verge

MAY 4, 2021

And then around 2012 or so, we started realizing that a lot of our merchants wanted to also sell offline. And so around 2012, we began thinking about this idea of really moving from single-point solution e-commerce to being an omni-channel solution where you can use us to sell anywhere you want.

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