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Gaining Server Storage I/O Insight into Microsoft Windows Server 2016

Storage IO Blog

This includes Windows Servers 2016 supporting new deployment and consumption models (e.g. lightweight Nano, full data center with desktop interface, on-premise, bare metal, virtualized (Hyper-V, VMware, etc) as well as cloud).

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DockerCon 2016 Vendor Meetings

Scott Lowe

While at DockerCon 2016 in Seattle today, I took some time on the expo floor to talk to a number of different vendors, mostly focused on networking solutions. Using eBPF, Plumgrid has created in-kernel virtual network functions (VNFs) that do things like bridging, routing, network address translation (NAT), and firewalling.

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The Linux Migration: April 2017 Progress Report

Scott Lowe

In December 2016, I kicked off a migration to Linux (from OS X) as my primary laptop OS. Let me start by saying that I am actively using a Linux-powered laptop as my primary laptop right now, and I have been doing so since early February. Linux Distribution. I’m using Enpass on my OS X, Linux, and iOS devices.

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Tech News Roundup March 11

CTOvision

Steve Ballmer no longer badmouths Linux but makes no apologies for calling it a ‘cancer’. Allen Institute joins in IARPA’s massive MICrONS project to create a tiny bit of virtual brain tissue. Connected Cars to be Featured at the 2016 K-12 STEM Symposium on Saturday. Hunting What’s Next in High Tech.

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Patches for Meltdown and Spectre aren’t that bad after all

Network World

Internal tests from a leading industry vendor have shown that fixes applied to servers running Linux or Windows Server aren’t as detrimental as initially thought, with many use cases seeing no impact at all. There are a lot of qualifiers, starting with what you are doing and what generation processor you are using.

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Technology Short Take #77

Scott Lowe

Michael Kashin has a great article on how Open Virtual Network (OVN, part of the Open vSwitch project) implements virtual networks in OpenStack. In a bit of an older post from late summer 2016, Matt Oswalt outlines why network engineers should care about the network software supply chain. Good advice.

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Technology Short Take #81

Scott Lowe

Here’s a handy list of deprecated Linux network commands and their replacements. If you were at VMworld 2016 last year, this is the integration we demoed live in this Spotlight Session. Konstantin Ryabitsev has a series going on securing a SysAdmin Linux workstation. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Career/Soft Skills.

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