Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

Servers/Hardware Menno Finlay-Smits shares information on reducing fan noise on Intel NUCs. Rob McBryde shares his story of reviving a 2012 MacBook Pro with Linux. The vulnerability affects virtually all Linux distributions and allows attackers to bypass the secure boot protections and insert a low-level bootkit.

Linux 112

Linux Vmware Load Balancer Malware 112

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This is session COMS002, titled “Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization.” Verplanke believes that DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) and virtualization are key to virtualizing workloads that move around lots and lots of packets, such as firewalls, routers, and other similar functions.

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Virtualization Intel Cloud Data 113

All Things Distributed

JULY 20, 2012

Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Virtualizing Operating Systems. By Werner Vogels on 20 July 2012 12:00 PM. This weekends back-to-basics reading is on operating system virtualization. There are two papers that deserve the "classic" tag as they both form the basis for operating system virtualization that is in production today.

Operating Systems 97

Operating Systems Virtualization System Vmware 97

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This is session EDCS008, “Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI).” Brian starts the session with a review of how the data center has evolved over the last 10 years or so, driven by the widespread adoption of compute virtualization, increased CPU capacity, and the adoption of 10Gb Ethernet.

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Virtualization Network Intel Data Center 60

Fountainhead

APRIL 7, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Egenera creates physical & virtual servers transparently. Egenera just announced that its embedding virtual machine provisioning within its PAN Manager software for free. Virtualization. (31). ► 2012. (15). Tuesday, April 7, 2009.

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Virtualization Dell Data Center Cloud 100

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.

Virtualization 60

Virtualization Strategy Cloud Disaster Recovery 60

CTOvision

JUNE 27, 2014

The OnLive® CloudLift Enterprise service offers businesses the ability to stream latency-sensitive Graphics Intensive Applications (GIAs), such as high-definition interactive demos, simulations and 3D programs, from the cloud to virtually any device instantly, with unparalleled control, security and support.

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Applications Cloud Security Enterprise 255

The Verge

JUNE 22, 2020

Apple is officially moving to its own silicon chips for some of its Mac hardware. Apple is also using virtualization for running versions of Linux on these new Macs. Microsoft started this work ahead of the Windows 8 release in 2012 , and even released the Windows RT operating system that was designed for ARM-based hardware.

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Apple Intel Windows Microsoft 124

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Wednesday, October 17, 2012. Doubly challenging when you consider the different topologies of virtual servers, licensing servers, provisioning servers and more, all scaling at different rates to maintain service levels. October 17, 2012 at 5:35 AM.

Cloud 189

Cloud Data Center Mobile Virtualization 189

GeekWire

MARCH 1, 2023

Jamie Siminoff, the Ring founder and longtime CEO, who started the company in his Southern California garage in 2012, will remain with Ring as chief inventor, he told employees in a memo Wednesday introducing Hamren as CEO. Siminoff described Hamren as a longtime believer in Ring’s vision.

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Security Microsoft Program Management Wireless 95

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 5, 2017

This environment is also traditionally run locally on your personal hardware (laptop, desktop, etc.). Enter Virtual Desktops. However, the cloud-hosted virtual desktop goes one step further. The broader Desktop Virtualization Market. It runs on a server, but perhaps in a 3rd-party data center that is off-premesis.

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Licensing Virtualization Cloud Hardware 100

The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Facebook’s Connect conference is one of the biggest days of the year for virtual reality. Godin is the developer of Virtual Desktop, a top-selling VR app that enables desktop computer access inside headsets. By Godin’s reckoning, it would be the second time Facebook had pulled the rug from under Virtual Desktop.

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Development Virtualization Apple Social 101

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 10, 2022

According to IBM’s official mainframe life cycle history , each generation of hardware typically remains on sale for 4.1 Wazi is a suite of tools IBM introduced back in 2020 with which developers can write z/OS applications and then test them in a z/OS sandbox on their own x86 hardware. When will Z end? years, with an additional 7.4

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Applications IBM Cloud Development 125

GeekWire

APRIL 4, 2023

François Locoh-Donou , CEO of F5 Networks F5 CEO François Locoh-Donou on screen after a virtual recording of the GeekWire Podcast in his office at the F5 Tower in downtown Seattle. He has helped steer F5 beyond its roots as a hardware company, expanding into application security and delivery software through multiple acquisitions.

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Meeting CTO Hire Fractional CTO Software 117

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

I was able to hit two technical sessions yesterday and liveblogged both of them: Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure. Bare Metal, Containers, and Virtualization: The Growing Choices for Cloud Applications. Both were good sessions. The XL710 also supports offloads for VXLAN and NVGRE.) That’s cool.

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Intel Hardware Linux Virtualization 60

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. About Virtual Global. Jackson 2012 ).

Cloud 162

Cloud Data Center Virtualization Government 162

Fountainhead

JANUARY 10, 2013

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. After all, millions of people own identical hardware/software configurations of iPhones, Android-based phones, tablets, laptops and other devices. Virtualization. (31). ► 2012. (15). Virtual Enthusiasm. Virtual Geek.

Data Center 145

Data Center Virtualization Mobile Cloud 145

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 10, 2012

This leads into a discussion of Wanova Mirage, which is an image-focused approach that works not only with VDI, but also with local execution so that users can work offline (a key need for highly-mobile laptop users) and/or can take full advantage of local hardware. Similar Posts: VMworld 2012 Keynote, Day 2.

Vmware 109

Vmware Windows Virtualization Applications 109

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Johnson shows a great diagram that reviews all the various types of VM-to-VM communications that can exist in modern data centers: VM-to-VM (on the same host) via the software-based virtual switch (could be speeds of 30 to 40 Gbps in this use case). Intel VT-c actually provides a couple of different ways to work in virtualized environments.

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Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 109

Cloud Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Cloud computing transitions information technology (IT) from being "systems of physically integrated hardware and software" to "systems of virtually integrated services". Jackson 2012 ).' This transition makes interoperability the difference between the success and failure of IT deployments, especially in the Federal government.

Cloud 101

Cloud Healthcare Operating Systems Industry 101

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

First, deliver more computing power in the hardware, either through the addition of FPGAs to existing CPUs or through the continued march of CPU power (via more cores or faster clock speeds or both). Second, make the hardware programmable, through standard interfaces. IDF 2012 Day 1 Summary and Thoughts. IDF 2014 Day 2 Recap.

Intel 60

Intel Data Center Hardware Vmware 60

Fountainhead

MARCH 6, 2012

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Tuesday, March 6, 2012. but mostly online in the virtual world. They were their own technology ecosystem, designing hardware, coding software, and assembling things themselves. March 25, 2012 at 11:33 AM. March 25, 2012 at 1:42 PM.

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Meeting Data Center Virtualization Cloud 154

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

This is session COMS003, titled “Enabling Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networking with the Intel Open Network Platform Server Reference Architecture Design.” It could be argued that full machine virtualization might not be the most efficient way of handling NFV.

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Intel Architecture Virtualization Network 60

Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Web-scale IT does not happen immediately, but will evolve over time as commercial hardware platforms embrace the new models and cloud-optimized and software-defined approaches reach mainstream. Jackson 2012 ).' Risk-Based Security and Self-Protection - In a digital business world, security cannot be a roadblock that stops all progress.

Big Data 174

Big Data Mobile Cloud Security 174

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 25, 2014

beta, VMware is also announcing Virtual Volumes (VVols). EVO is the SDDC packaged with hardware to provide the fastest way to realize the benefits of the SDDC. Hardware partners for EVO:RAIL include Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Inspur, Net One, and Supermicro. Similar Posts: VMworld 2012 Keynote, Day 1. As part of the vSphere 6.0

Vmware 79

Vmware Hardware Cloud Virtualization 79

Fountainhead

JULY 7, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. 2 weeks ago I was training a new Account Executive about the virtues of server automation, I/O virtualization, converged networking, etc. And if/when the hardware craps-out, it is software that automatically swaps-in a new resource. Virtualization.

Data Center 113

Data Center Hardware IBM Virtualization 113

Fountainhead

JANUARY 24, 2011

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The technology behind this was a combination of orchestrating physical and virtual devices, which automatically composed appropriate infrastructure stacks to keep the service SLA within pre-defined bounds. Enter Virtualization. Fountainhead.

Cloud 216

Cloud Data Center Virtualization Data 216

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

The networking “old guard” likes to talk about how x86 servers and virtualization create network bottlenecks due to performance concerns, but as Ivan points out in this post , it’s rapidly becoming—or has already become—a non-issue. (By Servers/Hardware. Virtualization. and Windows Server 2012 NFS.

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Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 106

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 1, 2022

The concept of a time crystal was first offered in 2012 by Frank Wilczek, a theoretical physicist, mathematician, and Nobel laureate. . To create a productive, cost-effective analytics strategy that gets results, you need high performance hardware that’s optimized to work with the software you use. GiB/s, and IO500 MD 248.81

Storage 89

Storage Research System Dell 89

The Accidental Successful CIO

MAY 9, 2012

This new IT infrastructure is going to consist of a virtualized computing environment that’s not going to look anything like what came before it in today’s IT sector. In FedEx’s case what they’ve done is to build a completely new data center to house new standardized hardware. However, it’s not enough.

Cloud 124

Cloud Strategy HP Applications 124

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). Virtualization. Justin Pietsch Has a lengthy article on why network engineers need to focus on getting the network out of the way.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Study Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2013

From there, she launches into a discussion of the “customer virtualization journey”; it’s the same 3-step journey of IT production, business production, and IT-as-a-Service that we’ve heard about for several years. Second, the data plane must be virtualized. She then introduces Pat Gelsinger, VMware CEO.

Vmware 63

Vmware Virtualization Data Center Storage 63

Scott Lowe

JULY 18, 2014

Some time ago—I’d say around August 2012, when I left the vSpecialist team at EMC to join an OpenStack-focused team in another part of EMC—I moved my home lab over completely to Ubuntu 12.04 The only consistency appeared to be with Ubuntu, as virtually (no pun intended) all my KVM guests were running Ubuntu.

Linux 60

Linux Virtualization Dell Education 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. Molina takes us through a quasi-live demo about virtual shopping software that leverages 3-D avatars and your personal measurements. Naturally, a great CPU is key to success.

Intel 60

Intel Hardware Mobile Dell 60

Fountainhead

MAY 12, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. N Apps that are inherently bound to hardware Such as physical instances of software for specific (e.g. high-performance) hardware, or physical instances remaining so for scale-out reasons. heard from customers is "What should I virtualize?"

Cloud 186

Cloud Data Center Applications Virtualization 186

Sean Daniel

JANUARY 25, 2011

Presentation on SBS 2011 Essentials and Standard on top of HP hardware, by yours truly! User Group at the beginning of February for a presentation on Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and Standard running on HP hardware. How To Install Windows Home Server 2011 on your MediaSmart or DataVault Hardware. Virtualization.

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Small Business HP SMB Windows 96

Fountainhead

MARCH 31, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. As Dell announced its new 11th-generation (11G) server product line, Egenera also announced PAN Manager support for Dell hardware, such as Dell m610 11G blades as well. Virtualization. (31). ► 2012. (15). Virtual Enthusiasm.

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Dell Intel Data Center Virtualization 100