Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

What I’d like to find—but haven’t yet—is a good, in-depth comparison of fundamental concepts between AWS, Azure, and GCP. Operating Systems/Applications. I loved this article by Lawrence Jones about how his organization tested and prepared for the impact of latency on their application.

Cloud 87

Cloud Tools Applications Policies 87

Vox

JUNE 14, 2023

Humans created computers, and they design and train the systems that make modern technology work. As these systems are created, the biases of their human creators are reflected in them. Researchers and users have identified anti-Black biases in AI applications ranging from hiring to robots to loans. Who do you think would win?

How To 76

How To Training System Software 76

The Verge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Social media conglomerate Meta is the latest tech company to build an “AI supercomputer” — a high-speed computer designed specifically to train machine learning systems. Work on RSC began a year and a half ago, with Meta’s engineers designing the machine’s various systems — cooling, power, networking, and cabling — entirely from scratch.

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Research Apple Hardware System 115

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 24, 2022

Earning even one VMware Master Services Competency is difficult – comdivision earned Master Service Competencies in Cloud Management and Automation, Cloud-Native Apps, Data Center Virtualization, Digital Workspace, Network Virtualization, VMware Cloud on AWS, VMware Cloud Foundation, and Software-Defined Wide Area Network, (SD-WAN).

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Vmware Cloud Data Center WAN 98

Kitaboo

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The content includes diverse question formats, automated grading systems, and real-time feedback. Look for features like virtual classrooms, video tools, content accessibility, access to synchronous and asynchronous content, discussion forums, and other collaborative tools.

Education 78

Education eBook Resources Study 78

Dataconomy

MAY 30, 2023

Characteristics of ambient intelligence AmI manifests itself in various real-world applications, enhancing our daily lives and transforming the way we interact with our environments. It pervades our homes, workplaces, public spaces, and even our personal devices, creating a pervasive and interconnected network of intelligent systems.

Artificial Intelligence 41

Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Transportation Energy 41

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This list of best practices for securing OpenSSH systems may be useful. This is an older article, but hopefully still useful nevertheless: Brian Mathews explains how to use the linkerd sidecar to find and fix application issues on Kubernetes. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Career/Soft Skills.

Linux 60

Linux Network Tools Hardware 60

Galido

JULY 20, 2018

Apple has shown great skill in designing an easy-to-use mobile operating system, while Android has been increasingly developing their product to be more intuitive and give you more control over it’s OS and applications. Android is open source and more open to alternate applications. Most geeks like that control.

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Study Apple Google Operating Systems 66

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? Jorge Salamero Sanz (on behalf of Sysdig) provides a similar comparison, this time looking at ECS, Fargate, and EKS. Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Comparison Network 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

Speaking of Pulumi, Kyle Galbraith wrote up a comparison of Pulumi and Terraform for infrastructure as code. Operating Systems/Applications. Cindy Sridharan has a good article on health checks and graceful degradation in distributed systems. Virtualization. Career/Soft Skills.

Linux 60

Linux Dell Open Source Licensing 60

Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 28, 2014

That proved to be more of apples to oranges comparison, but I think the OS example is a good comparison. When collecting requirements for an application, we compile a list of functional requirements to determine the best OS platform. Virtualization Citrix Hyper-V KVM VMWare'

Vmware 68

Vmware Linux Comparison Windows 68

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

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

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Galido

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Immersive Experience through Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) have changed the way in which people interact with technological devices, and how they perceive the digital world. However, in comparison to AR, VR is still quite expensive and requires sophisticated use.

Trends 81

Trends Artificial Intelligence Internet Virtualization 81

Scott Lowe

JULY 13, 2018

Operating Systems/Applications. This article on another reason your Docker containers may be slow was an excellent reminder that containerization is not equal to virtualization (that doesn’t make it better or worse, just different), and therefore can’t be treated the same. Virtualization. on a vSphere 6.7

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Virtualization Authentication Tools 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The folks over at Cilium took a look at a recent CNI benchmark comparison and unpacked it a bit. Operating Systems/Applications. Megan O’Keefe shares a Kubernetes developer workflow for macOS that includes a list of applications, themes, tools, and shortcuts. Virtualization.

Network 60

Network Resources Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 12, 2021

Here’s Chip Zoller’s comparison of Gatekeper and Kyverno. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Nic Cope has an interesting post discussing Crossplane and some design/implementation considerations. Katie Gamanji shares some information on passing the CKAD.

IPv6 60

IPv6 Network Storage Policies 60

Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate and Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert certifications cover a wide range of topics related to Microsoft’s technology suite, including Windows operating systems, Azure cloud computing, Office productivity software, Visual Studio programming tools, and SQL Server databases.

Microsoft 45

Microsoft Security Database Administration Software Development 45

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Networking. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Check this out.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Have I mentioned the ESXi Virtual Appliance ?

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Virtualized Greek

APRIL 11, 2013

We are looking at the enterprise that is highly virtualized, which looking at the market means VMware or Hyper-v with or KVM and others to a much lessor extent. OpenStack is a platform that’s designed from the ground up to provide and infrastructure to software developers to build Cloud aware applications.

Vmware 69

Vmware Data Center Cloud Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 2, 2020

This time around the content is a tad heavy on the security side, but I’ve still managed to pull in articles on networking, cloud computing, applications, and some programming-related content. The article doesn’t go deep on any of them, but does provide some useful information and comparison of the various mechanisms.

Linux 60

Linux Programming Cloud Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

VPCs, or Virtual Private Clouds, are Amazon’s software-defined networking mechanism for workloads running on AWS.). Courtesy of Corey Quinn, here’s an awesome AWS versus Azure comparison , comic book style. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Have I mentioned the ESXi Virtual Appliance ?

Devops 60

Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). Operating Systems/Applications. I was recently reviewing some articles on Git, the popular distributed version control system, and came across a few related posts. Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). Operating Systems/Applications. I was recently reviewing some articles on Git, the popular distributed version control system, and came across a few related posts. Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

The Verge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

There’s virtual reality and there’s augmented reality — both of these are incredibly interesting. October 2016: Cook tells BuzzFeed News that while “VR has some interesting applications,” AR is superior to VR because “there’s no substitute for human contact. Cook pronounces it “pokey-mans.”).

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Apple Education 3D Virtualization 118

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Ravello Systems (now part of Oracle Cloud following their acquisition by Oracle) has a REST API that allows you to programmatically interact with their service. 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). Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 30, 2018

This is an older post (more than 2 years old), but as far as I can tell the concepts are still quite applicable. Tirumarai Selvan has a comparison. Operating Systems/Applications. Eben Freeman shows how to integrate Istio, Envoy, and Honeycomb for detailed application statistics. Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Windows Applications 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

Cue the round of folks claiming that this is why proprietary network operating systems [NOSes] are the route the networking industry should be taking.). 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. Seen this

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Intel Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). Operating Systems/Applications. I was recently reviewing some articles on Git, the popular distributed version control system, and came across a few related posts. Virtualization.

Open Source 60

Open Source Network Linux Engineering 60

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. Cisco Systems recently disclosed a vulnerability affecting more than 300 models of switches; see this Ars Technica article for more details.

Open Source 60

Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

I share this not to encourage illegal activities, but instead to point out that no operating system is secure, so be alert at all times and use good computing practices regardless of your OS. Steven Acreman shares a brief, high-level comparison of the major Kubernetes ingress solutions. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 22, 2014

Given that Docker is targeted at application deployment, then I felt that using Heat was a more appropriate way of leveraging Docker in an OpenStack environment as opposed to treating Docker as a form of a hypervisor. Other solutions, like fleet, at least let you just point to a cluster of systems instead of a specific system.

Virtualization 71

Virtualization Linux Network Fashion 71

Vox

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Now, Meta — which owns the largest social media apps in the world — is validating the trend of a two-tiered user system in social media. It’s a system that creators who run professional businesses on Instagram and Facebook might find attractive but could also jeopardize the quality of users’ experience if it’s not executed carefully.

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Media Social Advertising Programming 100

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Those metrics were (and are) nice if what you care about are "basic" efficiencies of a data center -- simply how much power is getting to your servers relative to all of the other power being consumed by infrastructure systems (e.g. Virtualization. (31).

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Data Center Disaster Recovery Energy Data 113

The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

This worked very well and should be convenient for folks who are in and out of virtual meetings all day. Dell also says that Optimizer will direct your bandwidth to videoconferencing applications while they’re in use. There’s also a physical on / off switch on the keyboard.). It’s a good package for meetings overall.

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Dell Comparison Windows Storage 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

This article by Russell Bryant is a great overview and update of the work going on with Open Virtual Network (OVN). This is kind of cool, and (in my humble opinion) a sign of changing times: Juniper has Vagrant boxes as well as a Vagrant plugin for working with vSRX (virtual firewall) VMs (via this article from Matt Oswalt).

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Vmware Storage Firewall Network 60