Scott Lowe

JANUARY 21, 2022

Losing to Apple—whose M-series chips are widely regarded as faster and more efficient than Intel’s chips—has apparently stung the chip giant into revving up the innovation engine. These details on their 12th-generation H processors shows that Intel appears to be intent to regain the lead. Read more here. Yes please!

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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. Michael Kashin shares the journey of containerizing NVIDIA Cumulus Linux. Networking. So useful.).

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Fountainhead

MARCH 31, 2009

Intel Nehalem + Dell + Repurposing. With all of the Intel/Nehalem (Xeon 5500 series) processor announcements this week , one stands out. Thats a huge shift from only a year ago - Dell finally has an enterprise-grade, mission-critical level-of-reliability offering for virtual, physical, or mixed applications. Fountainhead.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 18, 2015

This popular gathering is designed to enable dialogue about business and technical strategies to leverage today’s big data platforms and applications to your advantage. Chief Technologist, Intel Federal LLC, Intel Corporation. Here are the details: Interact with your colleagues at the 4th Annual Cloudera Federal Forum.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 13, 2023

Their attacks begin with tailored spear-phishing emails disguised as job applications, containing personalized Information Security Officer (ISO) images that include signed executables, decoy documents, and malicious DLL files. For more details on each, download the report (must provide contact information to receive).

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

In case you hadn’t noticed, I’m at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014 this week in San Francisco. Intel has a very large consumer presence: PCs, ultrabooks, tablets, phones, 2-in–1/convertibles, all-in–1 devices. Bare Metal, Containers, and Virtualization: The Growing Choices for Cloud Applications.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Operating Systems/Applications. You may have heard of eBPF, the Linux technology that is reshaping Linux applications (and in some ways reshaping Linux itself). You may have heard of eBPF, the Linux technology that is reshaping Linux applications (and in some ways reshaping Linux itself).

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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. Michael Kashin shares the journey of containerizing NVIDIA Cumulus Linux.

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

This popular gathering is designed to enable dialogue about business and technical strategies to leverage today’s big data platforms and applications to your advantage. Chief Technologist, Intel Federal LLC, Intel Corporation. Here are the details: Interact with your colleagues at the 4th Annual Cloudera Federal Forum.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

BPFDoor, as it is known, is a passive backdoor that allows threat actors to remotely connect to a Linux shell. While his post specifically addresses the AWS CDK, I think that some of his conclusions could also be applicable to other “infrastructure-as- actual -code” tools like Pulumi. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Trends in the Living Networks

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

In the plethora of announcements, what stands out for me is the increasing clarity of the emerging platforms battle, which is happening on two levels: mobile operating system and applications. In addition Intel and Nokia are merging their Linux mobile platforms to create MeeGo , which will run across almost any kind of connected device.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 7, 2021

In this Technology Short Take, I’ve gathered some links for you covering topics like Azure and AWS networking, moving from macOS to Linux (and back again), and more. Ben Wilcock shares his experience with an Intel NUC 11. Operating Systems/Applications. Let’s jump right into the content! Networking. Servers/Hardware.

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Linux Hardware Network Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The speaker for the session is Vin Sharma, who helps lead open source software strategies at Intel. The focus of this session, as you can tell from the title, is on security and trust (presumably talking about how to leverage Intel TXT with OpenStack). So how does this open attestation service that Intel has created work?

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Galido

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Automakers want to standardize on a Linux-based OS that would make vehicle infotainment systems act more like smartphones. Automakers are working to standardize on a Linux-based operating system for in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems that would make it easier for cars to act more like smartphones. In Vehicle Infotainment.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Here’s a handy list of deprecated Linux network commands and their replacements. Intel NUC or SuperMicro E200-8D? Konstantin Ryabitsev has a series going on securing a SysAdmin Linux workstation. Operating Systems/Applications. Yves Fauser discusses NSX integration with Kubernetes in this blog post. Servers/Hardware.

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Galido

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Today, most applications are now on the cloud, meaning, you don’t need much to run many applications, as all the processing is done on the server in the cloud. Here are some of our favorite full Windows 10 machines (compatible with Linux) for 2016-2017. This laptop has a Intel® Dual-Core N2840 Processor.

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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. I use OTR with Adium on OS X, and OTR with Pidgin on my Fedora Linux laptop.). Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Don’t be surprised, then, to see me start talking more about switching away from OS X, and exploring applications and tools that work on other platforms. Further, I need to ensure that the applications I need to get my job done will be present on my next platform. Apple on Intel. Macintosh iPhone Linux'

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This is a liveblog of the day 2 keynote at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 in San Francisco. Eul takes the stage; he’s the VP and General Manager of the Mobile and Communications Group at Intel. Now taking the stage is Tami Reller from Microsoft, whose software powered all the 2-in–1 demonstrations that Intel just showed.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 29, 2020

Operating Systems/Applications. For those new to Linux virtualization—or even if you’ve been around Linux virtualization for a while—this article explaining how Intel VT-x, QEMU, and KVM work together is full of good information. Here are some resources for learning Kubernetes. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Jake Bennett discusses strengthening your AWS security posture by protecting application credentials and rotating EC2 and IAM keys. In case you’re interested, here’s more details on CVE-2016-5195 , aka “Dirty Cow,” and how it might be used to allow a user to escape from a Linux container (like a Docker container).

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

This is something I’ve been watching for a couple of years, since attending my first Intel Developer Forum (IDF). Intel clearly has its sights set on expanding beyond just “servers” into many more platforms, including network hardware platforms. Operating Systems/Applications. Someone recently pointed this out.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

The article specifically calls out SR-IOV as well as Intel Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) support within Open vSwitch (OVS). This article is an interesting read on some work being done by Microsoft Research to leverage Intel SGX to address some security concerns with today’s cloud-heavy architectures/usage models.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 17, 2020

Jon Langemak is blogging again, and he jumps back into the “blogging saddle” with a post on working with tc on Linux systems. Bruno Hildenbrand shares 20 tips for managing Linux VMs on Azure. Operating Systems/Applications. Kevin Campusano discusses Linux development in Windows 10 with Docker and WSL 2.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Is Intel having second thoughts about software-defined infrastructure? That’s the core question in this blog post , which explores the future of Intel in a software-defined world and the increasing interest in non-x86 platforms like ARM. Preston Bannister took a look at cloud application backup in OpenStack. LTS server.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 5, 2014

New platforms with Open vSwitch: Docker, Hyper-V, and Intel DPDK (this is also listed on the VMware sessions above, but as you can tell it’s really not a “VMware” talk). Deploying and Auto-Scaling Applications on OpenStack with Heat. Linux Networking Virtualization Docker KVM Libvirt OpenStack'

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The first was on RESTful control of Cumulus Linux ACLs (this one isn’t actually sFlow-related); the second was on combining sFlow telemetry and RESTful APIs for visibility and control in campus networks. Frank Denneman (with an admittedly vSphere-focused lens) takes a look at the Intel Xeon Scalable Family in a two-part (so far) series.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 22, 2015

Golub says that Docker has become a fundamental part of how companies build, ship, and run distributed applications, and that Docker is a key part of how industries and cultures are being transformed. Golub reviews the “5 steps in the future of distributed applications”: Create a lightweight container. Create an ecosystem.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2015

This session is titled “The Post-Cloud,” and the speaker is Nick Weaver, Director of SDI-X at Intel. PaaS helps manage all the various “things” that are necessary to deploy an application, thus again making it easier to consume applications (and therefore enabling applications/technology to enable more).

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

This is my irregularly-published collection of links and articles from around the Internet related to the major data center technologies: networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications/OSes, storage, and virtualization. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

In this post, William Lam explores the potential benefits of Intel’s VMCS Shadowing functionality on nested virtualization. Operating Systems/Applications. Need to do some port forwarding on a Linux box and want to automate the configuration with Puppet? Here’s a configuration example. Technology Short Take #16.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2021

WSL, which is the part of Windows that lets you run Linux. Pat, who is Pat Gelsinger, CEO of Intel. We have layers in the cloud from the applications all the way to infrastructure. Different application vendors and companies use it in different ways. billion [Windows] users who may want more applications?

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Jointly authored by VMware, Microsoft, Red Hat, and Intel, this new protocol proposal attempts to bring together the strengths of the various network virtualization encapsulation protocols out there today (VXLAN, STT, NVGRE). Via Kevin Houston, you can get more details on the Intel E7 v2 and new blade servers based on the new CPU.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 18, 2020

The Intel FDIV bug that caused a recall on Intel processors. The GNU C Library (glibc) is the most common open source C library and is used on most Linux systems. Because so many applications depend on it, and because it is installed across millions of devices, it is a critical component in the open source ecosystem.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 18, 2020

The Intel FDIV bug that caused a recall on Intel processors. The GNU C Library (glibc) is the most common open source C library and is used on most Linux systems. Because so many applications depend on it, and because it is installed across millions of devices, it is a critical component in the open source ecosystem.

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Intel Open Source System Development 52

ForAllSecure

AUGUST 18, 2020

The Intel FDIV bug that caused a recall on Intel processors. The GNU C Library (glibc) is the most common open source C library and is used on most Linux systems. Because so many applications depend on it, and because it is installed across millions of devices, it is a critical component in the open source ecosystem.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

News in the OpenStack space hasn’t been so good recently (Intel pulling out of OSIC, various companies laying off folks, other “pure play” companies shifting focus away from OpenStack), but here’s one architect’s perspective on what you may still want to attend the OpenStack Summit. Operating Systems/Applications.

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