Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Recently a couple of open source software (OSS)-related announcements have passed through my Inbox, so I thought I’d make brief mention of them here on the site. Ceph , the open source distributed software system, is now coming in a fully-supported version aimed at enterprise markets. Linux Storage OpenStack OSS'

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Hadoop offers petabytes of data storage and can handle multiple workloads. Data security segregates data from privileged user accounts including system administrators and protects storage from theft or improper disposal. Big Data CTO Apache Accumulo Apache Hadoop Cloudera HBase HDFS MapReduce Open Source'

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 14, 2012

It’s no secret that I’ve been spending time over the last few months working with a number of open source technologies like KVM, Open vSwitch (OVS), and libvirt, all building up to a focus on how these pieces fit together as part of OpenStack. PuppetConf 2013 Ticket Giveaway. Thoughts on a Couple of Books.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 14, 2013

The reason that tape storage might be something that once again you should consider as you enter into the world of big data is that all data is not created the same. Blue Elephant Consulting – Your Source For Real World IT Department Leadership Skills™. © Dr. Jim Anderson for The Accidental Successful CIO , 2013.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Fusion-io Accelerates Flash Apps With Open Source Contributions. Fusion-io Accelerates Flash Apps With Open Source Contributions. By: John Rath July 23rd, 2013. To reduce complexity NVMKV eliminates the need to continually convert native key-value I/O to block I/O used in disk storage. July 2013 (144).

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

This is a liveblog of IDF 2014 session DATS009, titled “Ceph: Open Source Storage Software Optimizations on Intel Architecture for Cloud Workloads.” Chagam does admit that not all workloads are suited for distributed storage solutions. Chagam turns to discussing Ceph block storage.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 15, 2014

Cloudera announced support for Accumulo in 2013 as part of their ongoing commitment to open source software. Cloudera also offers software for business critical data challenges including storage, access, management, analysis, security and search.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

In 2013 she initiated and launched Cloudera Search. Dr. Daniel Duffy is head of the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS, Code 606.2), which provides high performance computing, storage, networking, and data systems designed to meet the specialized needs of the Earth science modeling communities. EvaAndreasson. Dr. Daniel Duffy.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 18, 2015

In 2013 she initiated and launched Cloudera Search. Dr. Daniel Duffy is head of the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS, Code 606.2), which provides high performance computing, storage, networking, and data systems designed to meet the specialized needs of the Earth science modeling communities. EvaAndreasson. Dr. Daniel Duffy.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2013

In a (near-)future post, I’ll incorporate the progress on my 2012 projects and the key takeaways into my list of 2013 projects. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Looking Ahead: My 2013 Projects. Open Source Tools and Projects I Should Learn.

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Galido

AUGUST 13, 2016

For companies that are considering changing their ERP application from on-premise to open source or web based applications, keep in mind the following: Make sure infrastructure is set up properly to integrate the Cloud Computing application or web based ERP solution that best fits their organization. Thank you for reading IT Blog.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Technology and Hollywood Meet At SIGGRAPH 2013. Technology and Hollywood Meet At SIGGRAPH 2013. By: John Rath July 26th, 2013. Its conference demo illustrated a 12GB/s Fusion powered pipeline, with ioControl Hybrid storage, HP Z820 ioTurbine Cache, and HP Z820 Artist workstations with ioFX 1.6TB. Modular Data Centers.

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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. This scalable, schemaless raw storage lends itself conceptually to what is now being called a “data lake”. September 2013. October 2013.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Erik Smith, notably known for his outstanding posts on storage and FCoE, takes a stab at describing some of the differences between SDN and network virtualization in this post. I found this series of posts to be helpful when I was working on configuring LACP with Open vSwitch (I hope to have a blog post on that up soon).

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The first area of SDI that Bryant focuses upon is storage, where growth is happening rapidly but storage is still siloed. Per Bryant, Intel believes that software-defined storage will address these concerns, and doing so in three ways: Intel Storage Acceleration Libraries (ISA-L). IDF 2014: Data Center Mega-Session.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Skydive is (in the project’s own words) an “open source real-time network topology and protocols analyzer.” Here’s a list of some open source Docker-related tools that developers may find useful. Alan Renouf shows you how to retrieve NVMe storage device details using PowerCLI. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 21, 2013

A programmable virtual switch: NVP leverages Open vSwitch (OVS), an independent open source project with contributors from across the industry, to fill this role. Southbound communications protocols: NVP uses two open communications protocols to communicate southbound to OVS. Using GRE Tunnels with Open vSwitch.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

with the Floodlight open source controller. This is an older post from April 2013, but still useful, I think. Intel announced the E5 2600 v2 series of CPUs back at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 (you can follow my IDF 2013 coverage by looking at posts with the IDF2013 tag ). Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 9, 2014

The basic premise of Tom’s position is that new technologies like server-side caching and VSAN/Ceph/Sanbolic (turning direct-attached storage into shared storage) will dramatically change the landscape of the data center. This article from June 2013 is pretty helpful.). I’m paraphrasing for dramatic effect.)

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2019

A complete OS based on the bare bones open source that backs macOS is apparently a real thing called PureDarwin. This Ars Technica article is originally from November 2013, but resurfaced over the 2019 Thanksgiving holiday—it tells the story of OS/2. Nothing this time; sorry! Virtualization.

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Cloud Musings

JULY 14, 2010

NASA Collaborates with Japan Over Joint Open Source Cloud Computing. NASA Nebula and NIIs Cloud are both built entirely using open source technologies and open-data application programming interfaces. ► 2013. (18). By Lavenya Dilip. View my complete profile. Top Stories. Blog Archive. ► July. (3).

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SPF13

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

This presentation was given at Strangeloop 2013 as a 3 hour interactive workshop. The tutorial will cover the basics of MongoDB’s document model, query language, map-reduce framework and deployment architecture. * Document * Open source * High performance * Horizontally scalable * Full featured MongoDB is a __ database. *

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SPF13

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

This presentation was given at Strangeloop 2013 as a 3 hour interactive workshop. The tutorial will cover the basics of MongoDB’s document model, query language, map-reduce framework and deployment architecture. * Document * Open source * High performance * Horizontally scalable * Full featured MongoDB is a __ database. *

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

By: Rich Miller July 15th, 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. Posted July 15th, 2013. Posted July 16th, 2013. Posted July 16th, 2013. [.]

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

I’m back home in Denver after spending a few days in San Francisco at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013, so I thought I’d take a few minutes to sit down and share a summary of the event and my thoughts. First, here are links to all the liveblogging I did while at the conference: IDF 2013 Keynote, Day 1: [link].

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

By: Rich Miller July 24th, 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. Storage Failures Hamper Cloud Foundry.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

By: John Rath July 25th, 2013. Cloudera announced Sentry – a new Apache licensed open source project that delivers the industry’s first fine-grained authorization framework for Hadoop. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. July 2013 (144). June 2013 (164). May 2013 (165).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

By: John Rath July 24th, 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.” July 2013 (144). June 2013 (164).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

By: John Rath July 26th, 2013. With Switch Light, Big Switch Looks to Boost Open Source SDN. 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. July 2013 (144).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

By: Jason Verge July 24th, 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). Posted July 24th, 2013. [.]

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

Open-Xchange Raises $20M, Turning the Browser into the Office Hub. Open-Xchange Raises $20M, Turning the Browser into the Office Hub. By: Jason Verge July 18th, 2013. It has been adding and developing open office productivity applications to its arsenal. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

By: Industry Perspectives July 17th, 2013. He has more than 20 years of experience in assisting cloud, storage and data management technology companies as well as cloud service providers to address rapidly expanding Infrastructure-as-a-Service and big data sectors. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. One of the open source protocols that crashed most often was BusyBox what could happen with a vulnerability in BusyBox in 2016. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. One of the open source protocols that crashed most often was BusyBox what could happen with a vulnerability in BusyBox in 2016. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication.

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Dataconomy

MAY 24, 2023

We don’t know, but it is undoubtedly one of the oldest and most established blockchain platforms introduced in 2013. The network facilitates efficient transaction validations, referred to as farming, by leveraging users’ unused computer storage space and converting it into plots. How to become a blockchain maestro?

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SPF13

MAY 14, 2012

is a scalable, high-performance, open source document database written in C++. Effectively MongoDB is a persistent storage engine for PHP arrays and objects (as well as any other language) with read through, write thorough memory caching, true high availability,  an elegant interface and seamless horizontal scale.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 7, 2022

The open source NoSQL database Apache Cassandra ® has two defining characteristics that make it perfectly suited to meet these needs: it’s geographically distributed, and it can respond to spikes in traffic without adverse effects to its unmatched throughput and low latency. The power of a fast, transactional database.

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