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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. There is a Docker daemon that runs on Linux; the Docker client can be run elsewhere. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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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. IDF 2014 Day 1 Recap.

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MicroK8s: Up and Running in Azure

Linux Academy

By now you’ve heard the stories that Microsoft loves Linux and fully embraces the open-source world. Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Among the relationships Microsoft has formed with Red Hat, Oracle, and SUSE since its mobile-first, cloud-first initiative in 2014 , one of its closest is Canonical. and many more.

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Technology Short Take #46

Scott Lowe

It was good to read this post on Cumulus Linux first impressions by Jeremy Stretch. I’m a fan of Cumulus, but I’m admittedly a Linux guy (see here ) so you might say I’m a bit biased. Jeremy is a “hard-core” networking professional, and so hearing his feedback on Cumulus Linux was, in my opinion, useful.

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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? Is the era of the storage admin over ? Virtualization. Version 2.0

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Looking Back: 2013 Project Report Card

Scott Lowe

Reinforce base Linux knowledge. Reinforce base Linux knowledge: I’ve been suggesting to VMUG attendees that they needed to learn Linux, as it’s popping up all over the place in all sorts of roles. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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