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. Networking. Jason Edelman recently took a look at Docker networking.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Networking. 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. Operating Systems/Applications.

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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. The first one, on virtualizing the network, did highlight an important development regarding hardware offloads for Geneve, the next-generation network overlay encapsulation protocol.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Networking. Paul Fries takes on defining SDN , breaking it down into two “flavors”: host dominant and network dominant. I’d like to add to Paul’s analysis that it’s important to understand that, in reality, host dominant and network dominant systems can coexist. What makes up a hybrid cloud?

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Sean Daniel

JANUARY 4, 2012

Wednesday, January 04, 2012. Be sure to choose the version you need based on what operating system you’re running on. 1/04/2012 9:08 PM. 1/13/2012 4:55 AM. 1/13/2012 12:36 PM. 1/19/2012 2:03 AM. 8/19/2012 2:46 AM. Chris Watson Network Engineer MCTS, MCITP, MCSE. bkp) files.

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2021

“My first job was as a software design engineer at Microsoft in the Windows NT team at that time (what is today the core Windows Operating system).”. My role was to develop the “Distributed File System” in Windows. Qumulo background: Qumulo was founded in 2012 and reached unicorn status last year.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

So the number of companies that really understand the network topology, the data center construction, the server requirements to build this public cloud infrastructure is very, very small.” Microsoft’s ‘Cloud Operating System’ 218,000 Servers in Microsoft Data Centers? Networking. July 2012 (134).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

“We automate five sets of critical processes and extend authentication and other network services into the cloud, making the cloud a seamless extension of the data center. CloudVelocity says more than 100 enterprise trials have conducted trials since the company emerged from stealth in December 2012. Networking.

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Sean Daniel

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

How to set the Default Printer for All Users in your Small Business Server 2011 Standard or Essentials Network. Under the Action drop down, make sure it says Create Under the Share Path: put the path to the shared network printer If you want it to be the default printer, tick the Set this printer as the default printer. Sean Daniel.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

The data centers are so sprawling that it’s hard to get a figure, as DCK noted late 2012. Federal agencies have closed 484 data centers as of May 2013, up from 381 closures last time DCK checked in, last November, 2012. Agency must have sufficient information to calculate a cost of operating system per hour (COSH) score.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

Microsoft: It’s the Era of the Cloud Operating System. Networking. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Many organizations are leveraging larger, more comprehensive storage arrays and the cloud that help them distribute their environment. December 2012 (151). July 2012 (134).

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Networking. Looks like this is another tool I need to add to my toolbox as I continue to explore networking technologies like OpenFlow, Open vSwitch, and others. I also found references to running CFEngine on network apliances and running Chef on Arista switches. Operating Systems/Applications. Great job, Brad.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

This Technology Short Take is a bit heavy on the networking side, but I suppose that’s understandable given my recent job change. Networking. Ben Cherian, Chief Strategy Officer for Midokura, helps make a case for network virtualization. Note: Midokura makes a network virtualization solution.) Am I wrong?

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Virtualization Storage Vmware Network 101

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Networking. If you’re interested in learning more about OpenFlow and software-defined networking but need to do this on a shoestring budget in your home lab, a number of guides have been written to help out. Also see the “Networking” section above for a related post on the networking aspects involved.

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 108

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2014

Networking. Matthew Brender touches on a networking issue present in VMware ESXi with regard to VMkernel multi-homing. Operating Systems/Applications. It’s being called the “data plane” for software-defined storage. Update 1 upgrade that results in missing storage providers. Virtualization.

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Vmware Windows Virtualization Storage 60

Sean Daniel

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Friday, October 12, 2012. With Windows 7 I was running it in production far before it even reached Alpha stage (which makes Windows 7 the operating system I’ve run the longest, ever). It was the XP Bliss days all over again, but on a faster, more secure, more compatible, more more more system. 10/13/2012 1:35 AM.

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Galido

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

When you place your resources in the cloud utilizing Microsoft as a provider of public cloud, your network which is situated in the cloud can be termed as a n Azure virtual network (Vnet). Your virtual network can be configured in a similar way as your internal on-premises network; i.e, VM with 3 NICs.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

This is session COMS002, titled “The Future of Software-Defined Networking with the Intel Open Network Platform Switch Reference Design.” ” The speakers are Recep Ozdag, a PME with Intel, and Gershon Schatzberg, a PLM with Wind River Systems. The first concept that Recep discusses is network virtualization.

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Intel Load Balancer Architecture Virtualization 60

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]. Finally, I spent some time chatting with my friend Brian Johnson, who works in the networking group at Intel. Sorry folks!

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Sean Daniel

APRIL 4, 2011

So let’s get started: Connect your MediaSmart or DataVault server to power, and network. The server should automatically boot off the USB key, format the drive and install all of the operating system files. Make sure you clean the system hard drive, otherwise it won’t boot to the USB disk. Troubleshooting.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The success of our early results with the Dynamo database encouraged us to write Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper and share it at the 2007 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP conference), so that others in the industry could benefit. Manageable – The service would need to be easy to manage and operate.

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Fountainhead

APRIL 27, 2009

Its the approach that HP (w/Matrix Orchestration Environment plugins), IBM (Open Fabric Environment) and Cisco (Unified Computing System or UCS) have entered into recently, and where firms like Egenera (with PAN Manager software and the Dell PAN System ) have been selling for some time. ► 2012. (15). Virtualization. (31).

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