CTOvision

JANUARY 11, 2016

If those options weren’t enough, here comes the open hybrid cloud. An open hybrid cloud leverages the benefits of accessing data and processes across private and public implementations, while facilitating open source development. Providers are now offering services that combine IT assets in an open hybrid cloud.

Cloud 150

Cloud Open Source Applications Firewall 150

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Kevin Swiber shows how to use Postman to deploy an application onto a Kubernetes cluster. Operating Systems/Applications. Filippo Valsorda speculates on how open source maintainers need to evolve into professional maintainers. LaunchBar is, in my opinion, an extremely useful macOS application.

Open Source 94

Open Source Virtualization Applications Security 94

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

Still, software developers seeking to leverage graphics chips for non-graphical applications had to wrangle their calculations into a form that could be sent to the GPU as a series of instructions for either Microsoft’s DirectX graphics API or the open-source OpenGL (Open Graphics Library).

Company 98

Company Pharmaceuticals 3D Artificial Intelligence 98

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Servers/Hardware. The open source ko project has applied to become a CNCF Sandbox project. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Mike McQuaid talks about entitlement in open source. I believe that IT folks in all disciplines, including networking, need to embrace automation.

Open Source 79

Open Source Apple Vmware Cloud 79

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. This post on using SPIFFE/SPIRE, Kubernetes, and Envoy together shows how to implement mutual TLS (mTLS) for a simple application. Operating Systems/Applications.

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

CTOvision

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Access security requirements define what individual users and applications can do with the data they receive. The goal is to provide unified authorization for all Hadoop services and third-party applications (such as Spark, Pig, MR, BI Tools, etc). Navigator Encrypt runs transparently to the applications running above.

Big Data 150

Big Data Security Data Authentication 150

Galido

APRIL 27, 2020

For a start, it provides easy optimization of infrastructural resources since it uses hardware more effectively. However, even though the project was promising, in 2015, Google released this tool as an open-source project. This is especially true when compared to making a virtual machine with its own OS for each application.

Load Balancer 94

Load Balancer Tools Applications Open Source 94

GeekWire

OCTOBER 26, 2021

A quantum hardware engineer works on one of the dilution refrigerators used at the AWS Center for Quantum Computing. “We’re in the building,” Painter, the AWS center’s head of quantum hardware, told GeekWire. Reducing the error rates will be a requirement for many of the applications for quantum computers.

Web Services 135

Web Services Hardware Research Open Source 135

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. marks the first release of the open source container orchestration platform that is signed using Sigstore (more details here ). Operating Systems/Applications.

Virtualization 79

Virtualization Storage Programming Network 79

CTOvision

JANUARY 18, 2016

From their manual that includes: Machine intelligence : Artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, including both core technologies and industry applications. New organizational models: Bringing software development methodologies to other applications (e.g., Media distribution: Over-the-top television.

Research 150

Research Artificial Intelligence Open Source Applications 150

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

There’s also a new adoption dashboard for Microsoft Viva to help track how the introduction of Copilot features in Microsoft 365 applications is changing the way users work. Enterprise Applications, Generative AI, Microsoft Here’s some of the top AI news CIOs will want to take away from Microsoft Ignite 2023.

Microsoft 135

Microsoft Meeting Enterprise Enterprise 135

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. This post on using SPIFFE/SPIRE, Kubernetes, and Envoy together shows how to implement mutual TLS (mTLS) for a simple application. Operating Systems/Applications.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Michael Kashin has a good post on source IP address selection in Linux. 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). Here are some design considerations for Wi-Fi 6E (6GHz) networks.

Vmware 74

Vmware Network Hardware Cloud 74

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 8, 2022

We were winning more work, but we wondered how we were going to fulfill it,” Swift says, adding that he was able to hire 200 new contractors in India and in the Philippines to meet the firm’s contractual obligations by using Microsoft’s Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD). “It It will also save the firm a bundle on hardware costs.

Cloud 91

Cloud Windows Virtualization Microsoft 91

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

Servers/Hardware What do you think of the ThinkPhone ? This article by Brian Caffey on deploying the same web application on ECS Fargate using three different IaC tools (CDK, Terraform, and Pulumi) has some really great and useful information in it. Ah, the bygone sounds of yesteryear …what a blast from the past!

Programming 90

Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

The Verge

JULY 14, 2021

The new research has no clear applicability for a mass-market tech product, and in a press release , Facebook said it is “refocusing” its priorities away from head-mounted brain-computer interfaces. On the hardware side, we need to build systems that have higher data resolution to record more information from the brain, and more quickly.

Research 118

Research Training Hardware System 118

SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Open-source reports indicate that Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) usage jumped an estimated 41% when COVID-19 struck.". Open-source reports also tell us that over 3.5 million devices have RDP open publicly. However, just because these are open publicly does not mean the devices are actively exploited.

Security 52

Security Open Source Report Internet 52

Cloud Musings

MARCH 9, 2018

According to the former Equifax CEO’s testimony to Congress , one of the primary causes of this now infamous data breach was the company’s failure to patch a critical vulnerability in the open source Apache Struts Web application framework. A process to identify vulnerabilities in hardware, operating systems, and applications.

Operating Systems 79

Operating Systems Enterprise Enterprise Virtualization 79

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Xavier Avrillier walks readers through using Antrea (a Kubernetes CNI built on top of Open vSwitch—a topic I’ve touched on a time or two) to provide on-premise load balancing in Kubernetes. Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Career/Soft Skills.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

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. Of the (innumerable) articles commenting on the hardware hack, this article by Joe FitzPatrick and this ErrataSec article caught my eye. Operating Systems/Applications.

Hardware 60

Hardware Open Source Vmware Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

The collection of links shared below covers a fairly wide range of topics, from old Sun hardware to working with serverless frameworks in the public cloud. Servers/Hardware. Hari Rana has a detailed discussion of security concerns regarding Flatpak (a packaging format for Linux applications). Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Load Balancer Apple 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles discussing the major data center technologies—networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications, virtualization…you name it! (If Numan Siddique describes the native DHCP support available in OVN (Open Virtual Network). Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

CTOvision

JANUARY 25, 2016

As advanced applications are developed that leverage the capabilities that make Bitcoin possible, enterprise technologists will be able to tap into new capabilities for security and functionality. It was invented by Satoshi Nakamoto, who published the invention in 2008 and released it as open source software in 2009.

Enterprise 150

Enterprise Enterprise Internet Network 150

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Via the Kubernetes blog , Box announced it has open sourced a project called kube-iptables-tailer , which turns packet drops from iptables into Kubernetes events that can be logged for easier troubleshooting. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Who says you can’t please everyone all the time?

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Cole Atkinson discusses the fact that osxfuse is no longer open source , and the ramifications of this development on open source in general. Virtualization. I recently spotted Multipass , a virtualization solution for working with Linux instances.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Galido

OCTOBER 18, 2018

This language is perfect programming language for the development of medium and high complexity web applications. Originally authored by David Heinemeier Hansson, it is a cross-platform Web application framework written in Ruby. It is used in different applications such as.NET. Kotlin is an open source language.

Programming 81

Programming Operating Systems Open Source Applications 81

Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

Servers/Hardware. The CNCF blog has a great article written by an Alibaba software engineer (Xingyu Chen) on some performance optimizations for etcd that have been contributed back to the open source community. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Networking. Career/Soft Skills.

Linux 60

Linux Dell Open Source Licensing 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Components involved include the open source Kuma service mesh (in turn leveraging Envoy), anycast BGP, and mutual TLS (mTLS). Servers/Hardware. William Lam takes a look at some potentially interesting homelab hardware. Virtualization. Seriously.). I just came across this relatively-new EKS News site.

Storage 79

Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 23, 2022

Over the past few years, computer vision applications have become ubiquitous. It sounds like an easy [system to develop], but the challenge there is the vision application has to do more than interpret what it can see, but it also has to interrupt what it can’t see.”. The applications are infinite — really, anything you need to see.

Artificial Intelligence 145

Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Automotive Retail 145

Linux Academy

APRIL 30, 2019

You learn the basic knowledge of computer hardware, gain an understanding of open-source applications in the workplace, and learn to navigate systems on a Linux desktop, as well as rudimentary commands to navigate the Linux command line. This course will dive into LXC (LinuX Containers) and its container manager, LXD.

Linux 113

Linux Course Big Data Devops 113

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

This involves more extensive use of virtual network functions (VNFs) and software-defined infrastructure based on open software and open hardware. exclusively leverages open source software. With regard to OpenStack, SONA comprises three different ONOS applications: OpenStackNode (initializes nodes).

Network 60

Network Virtualization Architecture Hardware 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). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

Servers/Hardware. This article is about hardware, just not the hardware I’d typically talk about in this section—instead, it’s about Philips Hue light bulbs. Chip Zoller makes the argument in favor of running Kubernetes in/on virtual machines. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 17, 2021

As I produce this episode, there's a dangerous new vulnerability known informally as Log4Shell, it’s a flaw in an open source Java logging library developed by the Apache Foundation and, in the hands of a malicious actor, could allow for remote code injection. Vamosi: The idea behind Open Source is great.

Open Source 52

Open Source Software Software Applications 52

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Open source has become so critical to so many aspects of our computing infrastructure. Uh oh… more hardware exploits. I recently stumbled across Ricardo Sueiras’ “AWS open source news and updates” posts. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Good stuff here!

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Open Source Examples 60

Galido

JULY 20, 2018

Many iPhone users and Apple fanboys alike stand by their product no matter how limited Apple makes their storage capacities, while Android geeks have long time been able to freely add storage/memory cards to their devices and take advantage of more powerful hardware. Aesthetics, Hardware and Price. Which is known for ease of use?

Study 66

Study Apple Google Operating Systems 66

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

And while we are on the topic of Linux and open source in the networking industry…read this entertaining and informative article on the importance of (truly) open source libraries in networking. Servers/Hardware. The project itself is open source and hosted on GitHub. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60