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Cloud Conversations: Revisiting re:Invent 2014 and other AWS updates

Storage IO Blog

AWS made several announcements at re:invent including many around development tools, compute and data storage services. One of those to keep an eye on is cloud based Aurora relational database service that complement existing RDS tools. SQL Server among others).

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IDF 2014: Bare Metal, Docker Containers, and Virtualization

Scott Lowe

This includes cgroups (the ability to control resource allocation/utilization), which is built into the Linux kernel. The discussion now transitions into a quick review of the underlying Docker architecture. There is a Docker daemon that runs on Linux; the Docker client can be run elsewhere. Docker Making Its Move.

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IDF 2014 Day 1 Recap

Scott Lowe

In case you hadn’t noticed, I’m at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014 this week in San Francisco. Here’s a liveblog of the IDF 2014 day 1 keynote. This would improve container security and move Linux containers closer to the Bromium “microvisor” architecture. Day 1 Keynote. Closing Thoughts.

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Technology Short Take #70

Scott Lowe

First, OHMS is open source (find it here on GitHub ); second, OHMS appears to interact with/integrate with/support Redfish, a hardware-level API I first discussed back in 2014. What will happen when you combine GPUs and persistent storage? Rajdeep Dua has written an overview of the architecture of SwarmKit. Virtualization.

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Technology Short Take #62

Scott Lowe

By the way, if you’re looking for a decent OpenFlow primer you could do worse than Matt Oswalt’s deep dive from July 2014. This article is an interesting read on some work being done by Microsoft Research to leverage Intel SGX to address some security concerns with today’s cloud-heavy architectures/usage models. Servers/Hardware.

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Technology Short Take #58

Scott Lowe

If you’d like to play around with Cumulus Linux but don’t have a compatible hardware switch, Cumulus VX is the answer. See here for some of my thoughts on Intel’s RSA following IDF 2014.) (See here for some of my thoughts on Intel’s RSA following IDF 2014.) Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. The recent release of CentOS 7.2

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Acer Chromebook Spin 513 review: a chip off a new block

The Verge

They’re thicker than the Spin 513, with big bezels, and they both look like they were built in 2014. Inside, the 7c processor comes paired with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage. That includes anything elaborate with Linux, and anything that requires an external monitor. Acer’s model is thinner than both of these devices at 0.61

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