Vox

JUNE 7, 2021

Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, Craig Federighi, talking about the latest round of iOS privacy features. Apple announced on Monday at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) that its upcoming iOS 15 update will give iPhone users even more insight and control over their own data.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

Networking. 9to5Mac outlines some details on the so-called PACMAN attack against Apple’s M1 chips. Although it isn’t technically specific to storage, there are significant storage themes in this article on what might happen if you lock yourself out of your digital life. Virtualization. Scary stuff!

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. Networking. Russ White shares Russ' rules for network design. Nice to see that work on getting Linux up and running and fully functional on Apple’s proprietary M1 chips is progressing well. Virtualization.

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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2021

Installation and setup are relatively simple: you get the doorbell powered up, scan the barcode on the back using the Apple Home app on your iPhone to add it to your virtual home, and then install the hardware at your door. The clips don’t count against your storage quota in iCloud, but the base plan only supports one camera.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Networking. Ivan Pepelnjak has a post on running network automation tools in a container. Tom Hollingsworth likens networking disaggregation to “cutting the cord” and switching away from cable. Virtualization. Thomas Leonard has an interesting blog on using virtualization to isolate Xwayland.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

I’ve got another collection of links to articles on networking, security, cloud, programming, and career development—hopefully you find something useful! Networking William Morgan’s 2022 service mesh recap captures some of the significant events in service mesh in 2022, although through a Linkerd-colored lens.

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Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Networking. Koyeb describes , at a high level, the global networking stack for their serverless platform. A redesign for Apple’s long-stagnant System Preferences app? Jim Jones has an article on getting started with S3-compatible object storage. Virtualization. Yes, please. This was a pretty cool story.

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Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Networking. Russ White tackles the issue of networking engineers needing to learn to code. Jason Messer has an article describing how networking works with Windows containers. Tom Hollingsworth discusses how the rise of overlay networks killed large layer 2 networks and tools for building large layer 2 networks, like TRILL.

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Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 21, 2020

Networking. gNMI, by the way, stands for gRPC Network Management Interface (more information on gNMI can be found here ). This vulnerability, known as a Server-Side Request Forgery, allowed Harbor project owners to scan the TCP ports of hosts on the Harbor server’s internal network. ” Storage. Virtualization.

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Galido

JULY 20, 2018

In contrast, choosing iPhone is an easy choice in terms of product line; the models launched to the market by the Apple are few, numbered and classified in with a higher price tag. iOS users may swear on the ease of use of Apple products, while Android users may debate that Apple users just don’t know what they are doing.

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Study Apple Google Operating Systems 66

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. In 1980, Steve Jobs gave a talk (YouTube) about the early days of Apple. In essence I thought, w hat if we could mask the granular time-consuming operational efforts of managing servers, I/O, applications, networking, storage, security etc.

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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. Networking. Virtualization. I hope you find something useful! Upgrading to Go 1.17

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

Kitaboo

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

There are several key features of electronic publishing , like support for Apple and Android devices, modern accessibility tools, sharing options for social media, text searches, publication copyrights, IP and protection, and much more. Better Visibility Electronic publishing places a published work on the internet and virtual spaces.

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eBook Agile Internet Education 78

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Networking. Brian Linkletter has a post on how to run the Antidote network emulator on KVM for better performance. Antidote, as I understand it, is the network emulator that runs the labs on the NRELabs web site (which is another cool thing in and of itself). Enjoy some light reading over your festive holiday season!

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Vmware Network Linux Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Networking. 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.

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Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Networking. At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. Here’s another topic that came up at the recent DevOps Networking Forum: Spotify’s SDN Internet Router (SIR). Here’s some information on Nuage Networks’ experimental Docker Network plugin.

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2012

A context is defined as a set of conditions, like (as in my situation) being connected to my 24″ Apple Cinema Display and being connected via Ethernet to a network using my home network’s IP addressing scheme. At some point in the future, I might have it mount network drives (or maybe my EncFS filesystem ).

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Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 26, 2013

This is your traditional VDI solution that allows you to deliver Windows application to any device via virtualized desktops residing in the data center. Stateless images allow you to save a great deal of storage but limits the user’s ability to customize their environment. This increases the storage and management overhead.

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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. Networking. Virtualization. I hope you find something useful!

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 5, 2019

Networking. 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. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Kubernetes 1.15 Career/Soft Skills.

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Storage Hardware Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

Networking. First, we have this post on HiCube, which covers MACVLAN vs. Next, we have a pair of articles by Sreenivas Makam; the first covers MACVLAN and IPVLAN basics , while the second tackles the Docker MACVLAN and IPVLAN network plugins. Virtualization. I think this will be something worth watching. (As

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Linux Network Hardware Vmware 60

Fountainhead

MAY 5, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. With the explosive growth of virtualization, this segment of technology is hotter than ever. In the way virtualization abstracts & configures the software world (O/S, applications, etc.), skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead.

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Data Center Virtualization Disaster Recovery Storage 100

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Networking. Brian Boucheron provides a great article on how to inspect and debug Kubernetes network primitives. Apple’s response similarly denies the allegations in the report. Sayan Chowdhury talks about Fedora 28 AMIs gaining Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) support. Virtualization.

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Hardware Open Source Vmware Linux 60

SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

RELATED: Apple Delays Features to Flag Child Abuse ]. Several conclusions can be made from this news story, but one element stands out the most: Why was Dallas law enforcement storing many private data files on an unsecured Cloud network if this is true? [RELATED: Aussie Parliament Just Leveled Up Police Hacking Powers ].

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Security Video Data Programming 81

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Storage Wars: Dispelling the Myth of Flash Economics. Storage Wars: Dispelling the Myth of Flash Economics. Director of Field Marketing at Virident , a performance leader in flash-based storage-class memory (SCM) solutions. Storage Causes the Bottleneck. We must dispel a myth about storage costs, particularly for flash.

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Storage Data Center Disaster Recovery Enterprise 211

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

SolidFire Gains Traction for SSD-Powered Cloud Storage. SolidFire Gains Traction for SSD-Powered Cloud Storage. A “five stack” of SolidFire’s all-SSD storage systems. ” SolidFire will supply storage for Tiers 0-3, with Guaranteed performance added to Tiers 1 and 2. By: Jason Verge July 11th, 2013.

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Ultra-wideband (UWB) technology gained overnight fame when Apple revealed that it’s included in their new iPhone 11. Virtually every business in the world loses time and money because of misplaced assets, damaged materials, or issues with data security. It’s the fifth generation of cellular networking, slowly replacing 4G networks.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

‘Catastrophic’ Storage Failure Slows Oregon Jobless Checks. ‘Catastrophic’ Storage Failure Slows Oregon Jobless Checks. The description of the Oregon outage suggests a hardware failure for a storage unit. Networking. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Government.

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Storage Data Center Data Disaster Recovery 221

The Verge

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The Pro adds an extra telephoto camera lens, a LIDAR sensor, a little more RAM, twice the base storage, and a shiny stainless steel frame. The front of the phone is covered in what Apple calls “Ceramic Shield,” a hybrid of glass and ceramic. The iPhone 12 Pro’s stainless steel frame looks great but catches fingerprints with ease.

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Apple Video Wireless System 137

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

Bart’s view is that a full-stack engineer knows about operations, the hardware stack (compute, storage, network), the software (network, operating system [OS], management, logging), and most importantly knows how to “code” an immutable infrastructure. Microsoft and/or VMware , but do not start here (start elsewhere).

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Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

7 Software Defined Networking Considerations. 7 Software Defined Networking Considerations. The move toward software defined networks (SDN) in the data center is no longer a question of “if” or “when,” but “how.” 2) The size of an organization’s network. Industry Perspectives. By: Industry Perspectives July 26th, 2013.

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Data Center Network Software Software 207

Sean Daniel

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

One of the most popular posts on my blog is how to enable Apple’s Time Machine backup to backup to your Windows Home Server 2011 or Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials. The add-in should work fine on Windows Home Server 2011, Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, and also Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

The company announced Virtual Gateway, a cross-platform keyboard-video-mouse (KVM) software development kit (SDK) that aides solution providers offer enhanced capabilities for diagnosing and troubleshooting datacenter hardware. It’s a virtual solution rather than a hardware approach to managing and troubleshooting.

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Data Center Intel Tools Development 192

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Cloud Computing » Storage. Remote backup and storage. Storage systems have become more efficient and can now do offsite, cloud-based backup and replication. This is where cloud storage can really help. Remember, some components of using the Wide Area Network (WAN) as a delivery mechanism may be resource intensive.

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2018

It’s the fifth generation of cellular networking, slowly replacing 4G networks. Scheduled to ramp up deployment in 2019, 5G brings download speeds that are 20x faster than 4G networks. AR/VR : Augmented and Virtual reality has been around for a while now, but hasn’t really exploded yet. IoT is about to explode.

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Trends Mobile Data Development 66

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Well, let’s see…stuff on Envoy, network automation, network designs, M1 chips (and potential open source variants!), Networking. Russ White shares some thoughts on the collapsed spine network design. Justin Pietsch talks about simplifying networks and the resulting engineering trade-offs.

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Open Source Cloud Network Storage 107

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2013

This is the kick-off to a series of posts introducing networking concepts to VMware administrators. Based on the feedback I’ve gotten in speaking to VMware admins, networking is an area in which a lot of VMware-focused folks aren’t particularly comfortable. Layer 2 Versus Layer 3: The OSI and DoD Models.

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