Tech Republic

JUNE 5, 2022

In 2021, Dell, Intel, and VMware commissioned a custom study from Forrester Consulting to understand today’s IT and business requirements for infrastructure, data storage, and application performance.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

February 13, 2015 – Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT), McAfee Labs, Palo Alto Networks® (NYSE: PANW) and Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC), co-founders of the industry’s first cyber threat alliance, today announced that Barracuda Networks, Inc. ABOUT MCAFEE LABS, PART OF INTEL SECURITY. McAfee Labs is the threat research division of Intel Security.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2022

But despite all the money flowing into ML projects, most organizations are struggling to get their ML models and applications working on production systems. . And PowerScale F600 or H600 provides highly scalable storage. Dell infrastructure is also part of Intel’s cnvrg.io Intel® Technologies Move Analytics Forward.

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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. Registration & Networking Breakfast. Networking Break. Networking Luncheon. Chief Technologist, Intel Federal LLC, Intel Corporation.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This is session EDCS008, “Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI).” ” The speakers are Brian Johnson (@thehevy on Twitter) from Intel and Jim Pinkerton from Microsoft. You need greater automation, and you need to support any type of application. Why is this a big deal?

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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. Registration & Networking Breakfast. Networking Break. Networking Luncheon. Chief Technologist, Intel Federal LLC, Intel Corporation.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2022

Networking. Operating Systems/Applications. Jorge Castro tears into the “wasting disk space” argument against the Flatpak application package format. For your fix of storage-related links, J Metz has relatively recently published Storage Short Take #47. Interested in hardening macOS? Programming.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Ardent's IT team detected suspicious activity on its network in the morning as families were prepping for their Thanksgiving feasts. The incident highlighted the growing threat of cyberattacks to healthcare organizations, which are increasingly reliant on technology to deliver care. Medical records have become obvious targets as a result."

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 13, 2022

Conversational AI is a highly advanced application of NLP that allows human beings to have a spoken or written conversation with a computer system. In some parts of the world, companies are required to host conversational AI applications and store the related data on self-managed servers rather than subscribing to a cloud-based service.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

” The speaker is Edwin Verplanke, a System Architect with Intel. Next, he discusses the evolution of network devices so far. The future, Verplanke believes, is fully virtualized network devices. Intel is looking at Open vSwitch as a way to address that; more information on that later. Intra-VM communication.

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Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

To support this rapid evolving space, Intel announced a “ Cloud for All ” initiative last year in order to help businesses get the most out of their cloud infrastructure. TAP makes these resources accessible in one place for data scientists, application developers and system operators.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

This is a liveblog of the Data Center Mega-Session from day 2 of Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014 in San Francisco. Bryant then introduces Karl Triebes, EVP and CTO of F5 Networks, who takes the stage to talk about FPGAs in F5 and how the joint Xeon/FPGA integrated solution from Intel plays into that role. new features, etc.,

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Networking. Back in April of this year, Patrick Ogenstad announced Netrasp , a Go package for writing network automation tooling in Go. Travis Downs explores a recent Intel microcode update that may have negatively impacted performance. Operating Systems/Applications. Or, one could just use something like this.

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Storage IO Blog

JULY 26, 2016

One example how to start walking the talk is get something like the Intel 750 400GB NVMe PCIe Add in Card (AiC) which you should be able to find on different venues including Amazon for $400 USD or less (recently saw the 400GB version for about $309 USD delivered).

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Networking. Will Robinson talks about how to structure your Ansible playbooks in the context of using Ansible to control your network gear. This is an interesting project to watch, I think—it’s porting OVN (Open Virtual Network) from a “traditional” OvS back-end to an IOVisor-based back-end (IOVisor implements the data plane in eBPF).

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

Networking. If you’re a networking pro and didn’t understand most of that last sentence, I’d content that you’ve got some learning to do. If you’re a networking pro and didn’t understand most of that last sentence, I’d content that you’ve got some learning to do. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

Networking. 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. I still have quite the backlog of links to read!) Enjoy the links below, and enjoy your weekend!

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Networking. 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. Mircea Ulinic has a nice article describing the combination of NAPALM and Salt for network automation.

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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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This is a live blog of session DATS004, titled “Bare-Metal, Docker Containers, and Virtualization: The Growing Choices for Cloud Applications.” ” The speaker is Nicholas Weaver (yes, that Nick Weaver, who now works at Intel). Performance/flexibility (Intel VT-x/VT-d/VT-c).

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Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Participants include AT&T, Canonical, Cisco, DreamHost, Deutsche Telekom, Fujitsu, HPE, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Linaro, Mirantis, OSIC, OVH, Rackspace, Red Hat, SUSE and VMware. He believes that applications can be built to be interoperable across different infrastructure platform.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Networking. Via BlueCat Networks, John Capobianco shares his network automation journey. Via BlueCat Networks, John Capobianco shares his network automation journey. AnandTech has some coverage of the latest Intel processor announcements , which totally flew by my radar. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Networking. Biruk Mekonnen has an introductory article on using Netmiko for network automation. 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. and vSphere.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2023

As more organizations rely on HPC to speed time to results, especially for their data-intensive applications, the $40B market [1] faces challenges and opportunities. Though we face some of the greatest challenges in application, system and data center scaling, HPC technologies remain at the leading edge of computing. IT Leadership.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Networking. I mean, if they aren’t willing to embrace the abstraction and automation that a cloud management platform brings, will abstraction and automation at the networking layer provide any significant benefit? Don’t think this “software-defined networking” thing is going to take off? x86 marches on!

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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. Networking. Operating Systems/Applications. to VMware NSX 6.2.5

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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. Networking. ” Specifically, this post talks about Kubernetes networking. Ben Wilcock shares his experience with an Intel NUC 11. Programming.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Networking. Matt Oswalt has a great post on the need for networking professionals to learn basic scripting skills—something he (rightfully) distinguishes from programming as a full-time occupation. Further, he follows that up with a post on how automation is more than just configuration management ; it’s about network services.

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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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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Networking. Back in April of this year, Patrick Ogenstad announced Netrasp , a Go package for writing network automation tooling in Go. Travis Downs explores a recent Intel microcode update that may have negatively impacted performance. Operating Systems/Applications. Or, one could just use something like this.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

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

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Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Networking. The networking “old guard” likes to talk about how x86 servers and virtualization create network bottlenecks due to performance concerns, but as Ivan points out in this post , it’s rapidly becoming—or has already become—a non-issue.

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Network World

JUNE 5, 2024

LAS VEGAS – Cisco put AI front and center at its Live customer conclave this week, touting new networking, management and security products, along with partnerships and investments it expects will drive enterprise AI deployments. “AI Think of the AI evolution as like the cloud transition “on steroids,” Robbins said.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Networking. To help resolve this issue, Cumulus Networks (and possibly Metacloud, I’m not sure of their involvement yet) has release an open source project called vxfld. I’d love to hear from more networking pros (please disclose company affiliations) about their thoughts on this matter. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Networking. Isovalent—the company behind Cilium, the eBPF-powered networking solution for Kubernetes clusters—just launched with a $29M Series A round of funding. Operating Systems/Applications. Chris Mellor shares an interview with Hazelcast on the performance of Intel Optane PMem. Good stuff! Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Networking. Amanpreet Singh has a two-part series on Kubernetes networking ( part 1 , part 2 ). sFlow is a networking technology that I find quite interesting, but I never seem to have the time to really dig into it. Helm is a great way to deploy applications onto (into?) Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

Networking. There’s lots of talk about applying test-driven development (TDD) principles in various automation contexts, but I like the fact that Ajay Chenampara provides some practical examples in his blog post on applying TDD in network automation using Ansible. If you’re just starting your network automation journey, start small.

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