Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

network virtualization). Is the relationship between network virtualization and service mesh closer than some folks might wish to admit? Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Kat Cosgrove provides some historical context for the removal of dockershim in Kubernetes 1.24.

Virtualization 79

Virtualization Storage Programming Network 79

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2021

This is the last Technology Short Take of 2021, so hopefully I’ll close the year out “with a bang” with this collection of links and articles on various technology areas. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Not only for this Technology Short Take, but also for 2021.

Open Source 94

Open Source Virtualization Applications Security 94

Scott Lowe

MAY 7, 2021

It’s hard to believe it’s already the start of May 2021—my how time flies! Servers/Hardware. Chris Evans examines the pricing of virtual instances compared to managed servie offerings as he ponders how hyper-scalers like AWS, Azure, and Google will go about/are going about optimizing service density (i.e.,

Linux 60

Linux Hardware Network Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Servers/Hardware I must admit that I always wanted to have a Sun workstation, and I’ve had an interest in SunOS/Solaris for years (check out this link if you don’t believe me). As detailed in this article , it turns out BitLocker can be bypassed—assuming physical access to the hardware—with a cheap logic analyzer.

Vmware 74

Vmware Network Hardware Cloud 74

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Servers/Hardware. William Lam takes a look at some potentially interesting homelab hardware. Anders Eknert shows how to do—or at least provides a framework on getting started with—dynamic policy composition with Open Policy Agent (OPA) in this blog post from April 2021. Virtualization. (Seriously.).

Storage 79

Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Servers/Hardware. Kay Singh collects some user comments on the new M1-powered Apple hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Corey Minyard of MontaVista disusses the role of Linux and virtualization in safety-critical systems. Martin Heinz discusses that very topic in this post.

Linux 60

Linux Network Tools Hardware 60

Kitaboo

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They disturb the virtual classes by exposing unwanted and harmful media during ongoing classes or sessions. Update Systems Regularly. You should always ensure that your browsers, applications, and operating systems are running the latest version. Digital Publishing / February 8, 2021. Zoombombing.

Education 78

Education Malware eBook Backup 78

The Verge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

There’s virtual reality and there’s augmented reality — both of these are incredibly interesting. I’m excited about augmented reality because unlike virtual reality which closes the world out, AR allows individuals to be present in the world but hopefully allows an improvement on what’s happening presently.

Apple 118

Apple Education 3D Virtualization 118

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 2, 2019

Servers/Hardware. spec , expected in to land in 2021. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Northbound Networks provides some information on the P4 programming language. Via the Packet Pushers blog, Daniel Himes provides a guide to a starting point for enterprise (network) automation. Career/Soft Skills.

Storage 60

Storage Applications Programming Firewall 60

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 6, 2024

What now defines the office is much more of a virtual perimeter, which aspects like network access and endpoint devices conveniently define. When comparing longitudinal data, it is striking that concerns about managing multiple devices and operating systems more than doubled between 2021 and 2023, from 15% to 33%.

Security 92

Security Artificial Intelligence Survey Virtualization 92

Vox

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Jeff Chiu/AP Tap-to-pay makes spending money fun, easy, and virtually invisible. Apple released iOS 17 on September 18 and now that the new operating system is here, you can probably leave your wallet at home. Apple Pay leads the tap-to-pay market, which has exploded in popularity in the last few years.

Apple 87

Apple Banking Financial Mobile 87

Vox

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Jeff Chiu/AP Tap-to-pay makes spending money fun, easy, and virtually invisible. Apple released iOS 17 on September 18 and now that the new operating system is here, you can probably leave your wallet at home. Apple Pay leads the tap-to-pay market, which has exploded in popularity in the last few years.

Apple 83

Apple Banking Financial Mobile 83

ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Jonathan Knudsen from Synopsys joins The Hacker Mind to discuss his presentation at SecTor 2021 on fuzzing message brokers such as RabbitMQ and VerneMQ, both written in Erlang, demonstrating that any type of software in any environment can still be vulnerable. I would say it's closer to the metal with a virtual machine.

Open Source 52

Open Source Software Software Applications 52

TM Forum

JULY 19, 2021

For those of us following online, there was a noticeable stream of Open RAN headlines, and as I added them to my records, it seemed an opportune moment to recap what has happened so far in 2021 and where we are headed with Open RAN. What is it? The graphic below, published by TIP in October 2020, shows deployments and trials: image.

Network 130

Network Cloud Hardware Industry 130

GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Yet the company needed top hardware engineers to devote themselves to the project. He joined Microsoft in 2004, working on hardware projects in the company’s Entertainment & Devices Division before he was recruited to the nascent Surface team. Windows revenue fell 13% to $24.7 A shot in the arm for Alexa?

Microsoft 95

Microsoft Windows Hardware Artificial Intelligence 95

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 28, 2022

Introduced in September 2021 as a part of HPE GreenLake for data protection, HPE Backup and Recovery Service is designed to deliver five key benefits to hybrid cloud environments: Cloud simplicity. HPE Backup and Recovery Service creates backup stores which are not directly accessible by the operating system.

Backup 84

Backup Storage Cloud Vmware 84

ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

But to protect these systems, we need to understand these systems. So there’s a need, a definite need, for information security professionals to have access to industrial control systems -- not virtual, but actual hands on systems -- so they can learn. And how might we defend ourselves?

System 52

System Industry Conference Network 52

ForAllSecure

AUGUST 26, 2021

At Black Hat USA 2021, researchers presented how they used their own fuzzer designed for hypervisors to find a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Azure. But what is those servers, they're composed of virtual machines that can be easily spun up or down as needed. So what's a hypervisor, or virtual machine. So it's a race.

Research 52

Research Virtualization Microsoft Cloud 52

Vox

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

It wasn’t immediately clear what Mark Zuckerberg wanted to do with Oculus when Facebook bought the virtual reality headset maker back in 2014. In practical terms, the metaverse is a virtual space where people wearing AR/VR headsets can interact with each others’ avatars, play games, have meetings, and so on.

Media 98

Media Social Company Development 98

ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

Vamosi: For most of my career I have speculated when and where there would be an escalation of physical war into the virtual world. Hypponen: We had a bright moment in malware history, starting from October 2021. A cyberwar. This sends a strong message. And Ukraine has a hard time defending their infrastructure. It's a big country.

Security 40

Security Malware Government Groups 40

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. Shopify creates a centralized retail operating system. But basically, it’s always the same.

Network 80

Network Retail Small Business Company 80

Vox

JANUARY 27, 2022

Microsoft says it wants to offer as many games as possible to as many people as possible on as many devices as possible — including in new spaces like the metaverse, the virtual world that some companies ( most notably, Facebook ) see as the next tech frontier. The timing of Microsoft’s announcement wasn’t ideal.

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Microsoft Company Windows Internet 77