Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Diógenes Rettori has a comparison of Istio and Linkerd as solutions for service mesh. Servers/Hardware. Keybase discusses some challenges with encrypted chat applications and how their architecture avoids some of those challenges. Operating Systems/Applications. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

And that’s before we get into Microsoft’s game streaming service, xCloud, which could mean you won’t need any Xbox hardware at all to play many of the latest games. It’s not unusual for console manufacturers to offer a couple of different hardware options at launch, but normally, the differences are minor. teraflops of GPU power.

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Vox

MARCH 7, 2024

In the prospectus filed ahead of its initial public offering in 1999, Nvidia noted that its future success would depend on the continued growth of computer applications relying on 3D graphics. That acquisition was pretty clearly intended to get control over a software architecture that most of the industry relied on,” says Peinert.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2018

This post is a bit older, but covers a challenge faced by cloud-native darling Netflix—how does one, exactly, identify which application used which IP address at a given point in time? Servers/Hardware. Jorge Salamero Sanz (on behalf of Sysdig) provides a similar comparison, this time looking at ECS, Fargate, and EKS.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Gabriele Gerbino has a nice write-up about Cisco’s efforts with APIs ; his article includes a brief description of YANG data models and a comparison of working with network devices via SSH or via API. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. installation caused by duplicate NSX Manager UUIDs. Check back next time!

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Marcos Hernandez (a colleague on the NSX team at VMware) recently pointed out this Heat template for a multi-tier application with dynamic routing (via Quagga). Operating Systems/Applications. (Why certain other companies that shall remain unnamed haven’t done something similar is beyond me.).

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Kitaboo

JUNE 15, 2021

It contains a flexible rendering engine and offers a simple interface for common eBook functions such as pagination, styling, and persistence without developing a dedicated plugin or application. Readium JS comprises two sub-projects, Readium Chrome Application and the Readium CloudReader. Key Features. Different Rendering Methods.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

Cumulus Networks recently shifted their pricing and licensing model toward perpetual licenses; this article has more information and a comparison of the old vs. new models. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Roie Ben Haim has an article on how to improve the NSX GUI user experience.

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Dataconomy

AUGUST 14, 2023

Comparable to a well-executed duet, the client computer communicates its intentions by dispatching requests to various entities, ranging from computer programs to hardware components. The way a client does its job is by sending requests to other stuff, like computer programs or hardware. Thin clients are like that.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

You may have heard about the “6-pack”, Facebook’s new open modular hardware switch introduced recently ( here’s a post on it ). Servers/Hardware. This news came out of Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2015: Ericsson has announced a new “hyperscale” hardware platform based on Intel’s Rack Scale Architecture (RSA).

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GeekWire

APRIL 3, 2024

In a technical blog posting , Microsoft’s Dennis Tom and Krysta Svore wrote that they used a qubit-virtualization system to improve the reliability of Quantinuum’s ion-trap hardware by a factor of 800. Tom is general manager of Azure Quantum, and Svore is Microsoft’s vice president of advanced quantum development.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2021

The billion-plus users of Windows, for sure, we think of from a distributed computing architecture perspective as the edge of Azure. That’s in comparison to the very controversial 30 percent that Apple charges. We have layers in the cloud from the applications all the way to infrastructure. So that’s, I think, absolutely right.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2014

Fathi re-emphasizes that VMware’s SDDC vision is an architecture, one built on the “power of AND.” ” vCloud Suite (and vCloud Air) is a manifestation of the SDDC vision/architecture. VMware’s SDDC vision/architecture delivers the power of “AND.” betas of vSphere and VSAN).

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. Not unsurprisingly, one of the key advantages of STT that’s highlighted is its improved performance due to TSO support in NIC hardware. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

After years of taking a back seat on Windows hardware, the Surface was a bold entry by Microsoft into the world of building its own PCs — showing both the world and its own hardware partners what the future of Windows could look like. Unfortunately, as The Verge ’s review showed, the original Surface was a misfire. Chaim Gartenberg.

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Cloud Musings

APRIL 3, 2016

It’s linked closely with agile and lean approaches and abandons the siloed view of the development team being solely focused on building and the operations team being exclusively centered on running an application. It is a strategic approach that unifies the hardware and software operational components of an end-to-end solution.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

He starts out by discussing proactive vs. reactive flows , in which Brent explains that OpenFlow performance is less about OpenFlow and more about how flows are inserted into the hardware. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Scott Hogg has a nice list of 9 common Spanning Tree mistakes you shouldn’t make.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

He makes comparisons among server virtualization, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, and SDN, and feels that in order for SDN to really hit this market it needs to be “not a user-facing feature, but rather a means to an end” (his words). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. I don’t know.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Designs that seem well-suited to virtual and augmented reality headsets, even if they usually support other hardware as well. At the same time, virtual and augmented reality have gotten closer to consumer application, even if VR remains niche and AR nascent. Links with outside economic systems so people can profit from virtual goods.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2024

During the days of hardware products, hardware was only changed when it was replaced by the next new version of hardware. The purpose of this order touched upon the need for AI vendors to take all necessary steps to ensure their solutions are used for proper applications rather than malicious purposes.

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