Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

This will be the last Technology Short Take of 2015, as next week is Christmas and the following week is the New Year’s holiday. If you’d like to play around with Cumulus Linux but don’t have a compatible hardware switch, Cumulus VX is the answer. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

What’s really interesting to me is the (completely uncoordinated) alignment between Matt’s list of skills for networking pros and the list I provided to virtualization pros in a series of recent VMUG presentations (refer to slide 15, but the list is software development basics, Linux, automation/orchestration, and public cloud services).

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 21, 2017

At my new job, I have the option to use any operating system (OS), and I naturally gravitated toward Linux. Q: What hardware are you using with Linux? I spent another afternoon and evening restoring Windows 10 Pro—but only long enough to perform a physical-to-virtual (P2V) conversion into a disk image.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

This article by Russell Bryant is a great overview and update of the work going on with Open Virtual Network (OVN). This is kind of cool, and (in my humble opinion) a sign of changing times: Juniper has Vagrant boxes as well as a Vagrant plugin for working with vSRX (virtual firewall) VMs (via this article from Matt Oswalt).

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Cloud Musings

MAY 30, 2016

Containers – Operating system level virtualization in which the virtualization layer runs as an application within the operating system. In this approach, the operating system’s kernel runs on the hardware node with several isolated guest virtual machines installed on top of it.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Recep will cover the hardware side of ONP; Gershon will cover the software side of ONP (referred to as ONS). The first concept that Recep discusses is network virtualization. He believes that network virtualization is primarily about decoupling network services from the underlying network infrastructure.

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SPF13

MARCH 20, 2015

This presentation was delivered at sinfo.org in Feb 2015. spf13 Chief Operator @ Docker? ? 60s & 70s • Computer companies sold hardware • Software was free • Software was colloborative • IBM dominates. Summary: small poll for my new operating system? Transcript. What Every Successful Open Source Project Needs.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

“OMB had not tracked and reported on other key performance measures, such as progress against the initiative’s cost savings goal of $3 billion by the end of 2015,” according to David Powner , Director of Information Technology Issues at the GAO. Virtualization. Data center must be metered for use of electricity. Twitter.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2015

This is the first Technology Short Take for 2015 and the first to be published on the new blog platform. Servers/Hardware. Juniper recently announced the OCX1100-48SX, a new hardware switching platform built to the Open Compute Project (OCP) specifications (more information here ). Operating Systems/Applications.

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Cloud Musings

JUNE 12, 2015

And their concerns are not unfounded: In its 2015 State of Resilience report, Vision Solutions revealed that 36 percent of respondents had experienced a migration failure. Nineteen percent of respondents in the Vision Solutions 2015 State of Resilience report indicated that the cost of downtime ranged from $10,000 to $50,000 per hour.

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Cloud Musings

JUNE 12, 2015

And their concerns are not unfounded: In its 2015 State of Resilience report, Vision Solutions revealed that 36 percent of respondents had experienced a migration failure. Nineteen percent of respondents in the Vision Solutions 2015 State of Resilience report indicated that the cost of downtime ranged from $10,000 to $50,000 per hour.

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Data How To Data Center Resources 70

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 25, 2015

In this post, I’ve gathered links to posts about networking, virtualization, Docker, containers, Linux, configuration management, and all kinds of other cool stuff. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Jason Anderson has a nice post on using SR-IOV (Single Root I/O Virtualization) to expose Docker containers.

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Vmware Linux Virtualization Tools 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Servers/Hardware. It’s a way to run Kubernetes (the container orchestration system) on top of Mesos (the cluster resource scheduler) as a native Mesos framework. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Yes, containerization is a key part of the future, but virtualization isn’t going away anytime soon.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Here’s hoping I’ve managed to find something of value and interest to you in this latest collection of links and articles from around the web on networking, storage, virtualization, security, and other data center-related technologies. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Networking.

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Vmware Virtualization Guidelines Network 60

The Verge

MAY 4, 2021

The company went public in 2015, and as online commerce has exploded during the pandemic, it’s been on a tear ever since — it just posted $988 million in revenue in the first quarter of 2021, a 110 percent increase from last year. And we went public around 2015 on the New York Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange.

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