Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well. As millions of other users did, I also adopted the iPhone (and later the iPad), further strengthening Apple’s hold on my personal computing landscape. Instead, Apple’s engineers set out to design an operating environment that was tailored to the form factor.

Operating Systems 131

Operating Systems Apple Applications Linux 131

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq along the way. Michael Kashin shares the journey of containerizing NVIDIA Cumulus Linux.

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

Back in October of last year, Tom Hollingsworth weighed in on Hedgehog , the networking company that has set out to commercialize SONiC, a Linux-based NOS used extensively in Azure. Servers/Hardware What do you think of the ThinkPhone ? Jeff Johnson shows how to log some information being sent between macOS and Apple.

Programming 90

Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Servers/Hardware. William Lam takes a look at some potentially interesting homelab hardware. Rory McCune writes about a CVE in the Linux kernel that could allow for container escape in Kubernetes. A redesign for Apple’s long-stagnant System Preferences app? (Seriously.). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Servers/Hardware. The big news in the hardware space recently was the article regarding the purported Chinese hardware supply chain attack. Apple’s response similarly denies the allegations in the report. Apple’s response similarly denies the allegations in the report. I’m not a fan, either.

Hardware 60

Hardware Open Source Vmware Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 5, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Although I’ve by and large moved away from Apple hardware (I still have a MacBook Pro running macOS that sees very little use, and a Mac Pro running Fedora), I did see this article regarding a new keyboard for the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. It provides the basics behind X.509v3 Kubernetes 1.15

Storage 60

Storage Hardware Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Servers/Hardware. There was a fair amount of wailing and gnashing of teeth when Apple updated the MacBook Pro line with the Touch Bar. Flatpak is a (relatively) new application packaging/sandboxing mechanism for Linux applications. Sam McGeown discusses deploying ECMP with NSX for a provider logical router.

Linux 60

Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Dmitri Kalintsev examines some options for addressing storage-related connectivity in NSX environments. Servers/Hardware. Intel clearly has its sights set on expanding beyond just “servers” into many more platforms, including network hardware platforms. Drew Conry-Murray shines a light on Intel’s network ambitions.

Vmware 60

Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

If you like geeking out over the hardware side of networking, you may find this Ars Technica article on the physical infrastructure of the global Internet to be an interesting read. (I Servers/Hardware. This is a highly technical article on scheduling in the Linux kernel , but it’s well worth reading. Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Network Hardware Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. Servers/Hardware. I knew Microsoft was cozying up to Linux, but I honestly didn’t expect they would port SQL Server to Linux. Have fun reading! Networking. Read more about it here.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time around, although there may have been some hardware-related news coming out of re:Invent that I missed (such as new generations of AWS-designed chips being announced). A new VPN security flaw has been uncovered that affects a wide range of UNIX- and Linux-based systems. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Linux Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

His journey started in June 2014 as a result of the Microsoft announcement regarding support for Linux and Kubernetes on Azure—this really indicated a shift in the industry. He highly recommends using OS X on Apple hardware (he bought a used MacBook Pro, including SSD, for less than 300 euros). Otto and Terraform by Hashicorp.

Devops 60

Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

His journey started in June 2014 as a result of the Microsoft announcement regarding support for Linux and Kubernetes on Azure—this really indicated a shift in the industry. He highly recommends using OS X on Apple hardware (he bought a used MacBook Pro, including SSD, for less than 300 euros). Otto and Terraform by Hashicorp.

Devops 60

Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 19, 2020

The collection seems a tad heavier than normal in the hardware and security sections, probably due to new exploits discovered in Intel’s speculative execution functionality. Servers/Hardware. This is one of those times when an article belongs in multiple categories—in this case, hardware and security. Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Intel Hardware Storage 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2020

” Ivan Pepelnjak attempts to answer the question, “How much do I need to know about Linux networking?” ” Speaking of Linux networking…Marek Majkowski of Cloudflare digs deep into conntrack , used for stateful firewalling functionality. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Disaster Recovery Linux 60

ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

When I started writing my first book when gadgets betray us, IoT was still known as hardware hacking, or embedded security. There has to be storage somewhere so even sensors, end up sending their data someplace that has to be stored, and that might be in the cloud, for instance, which is increasingly a part of the Internet of Things.

Internet 52

Internet Research Security Tools 52

ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

When I started writing my first book when gadgets betray us, IoT was still known as hardware hacking, or embedded security. There has to be storage somewhere so even sensors, end up sending their data someplace that has to be stored, and that might be in the cloud, for instance, which is increasingly a part of the Internet of Things.

Internet 52

Internet Research Security Tools 52

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 19, 2018

I won’t go into all the gory details here; see this post for some background and then see this update from last October that summarized my previous efforts to migrate to Linux ( Fedora , specifically) as my primary desktop operating system. The motivation for using Linux is something I’ve already discussed.

Linux 60

Linux Hardware Media System 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

At the O’Reilly OSCON 2013 this week in Portland, Oregon, Fusion-io made the announcement that its Atomic Writes API contributed for standardization to the T10 SCSCI Storage Interfaces Technical Committee is now in use in mainstream MySQL databases MariaDB 5.5.31 Fusion-io: Making Apps Faster With Flash Storage. Networking.

Open Source 177

Open Source Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 177

Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

In this post , Jakub Sitnicki digs way deep into the Linux kernel to uncover the answer to the question, “Why are there no entries in the conntrack table for SYN packets dropped by the firewall?” Servers/Hardware. Linux malware is getting more sophisticated. ” Get ready to get nerdy!

Vmware 60

Vmware Firewall Storage Comparison 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Even Facebook, which has open sourced much of its designs for its data center hardware but remains vague about its server count, saying only that it operates “hundreds of thousands” of machines. If they ran Linux, maybe they wouldn’t have to run so many servers. Get daily email alerts direct to your inbox. Networking.

Data Center 276

Data Center Microsoft Data Disaster Recovery 276

Scott Lowe

APRIL 21, 2016

Servers/Hardware. This Yelp Engineering blog post talks about one of these unintended side effects (processes running as PID 1 are treated differently by the Linux kernel). GitHub recently changed their storage architecture, using a Git-based solution called DGit. Nothing this time around. Maybe next time! Ubuntu 16.04

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Network 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

I know that the company Linux Hosts Ltd. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Connect via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn & RSS. Barbara Johnson.

Data Center 188

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 188

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

CSL’s CSL-WAVE software enables companies to monitor and manage thei z/VM and Linux on System z environments using a powerful and easy-to-use interface. The response by clients to the advantages of Linux on System z have been tremendous, with the shipped capacity nearly doubling in 1Q13 year to year. Modular Data Centers.

Data Center 190

Data Center IBM System Cloud 190

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

“IBM will incorporate Cloud Foundry into its open cloud architecture, and put its full support behind Cloud Foundry as an open and collaborative platform for cloud application development, as it has done historically for key technologies such as Linux and OpenStack.”. “We Storage Failures Hamper Cloud Foundry. Modular Data Centers.

Data Center 197

Data Center IBM Data Cloud 197

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Servers/Hardware. This article provides a good introductory overview of Linux iptables commands for configuring host-based firewall rules on your Linux systems. This article provides a good introductory overview of Linux iptables commands for configuring host-based firewall rules on your Linux systems.

Windows 60

Windows Firewall Linux Architecture 60

Sean Daniel

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

To me, the leading cause of data loss is usually hardware failure, most often then not, it’s a harddrive failure. Moreover, it’s SHARED with both Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. With a plan, you can easily map out your storage needs, and growth.

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Windows Backup Storage Microsoft 87