Scott Lowe

APRIL 7, 2023

Networking Jeff McLaughlin discusses what he calls the “war on expertise.” ” Ivan Pepelnjak has some very useful and very applicable information on VRF-aware DHCP relaying. Operating Systems/Applications In Technology Short Take 166 , I mentioned Nick Schmidt’s article on D2. That’s all for now!

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Applications Comparison Cloud Operating Systems 97

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2024

Networking This article on running WireGuard in Docker may prove useful if that’s an approach I decide to adopt for my AWS lab infrastructure. Russ White laments some of the issues facing network engineering. The flaws, referred to as PixieFail, specifically affect the PXE network boot process.

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Open Source Resources Hardware Network 90

Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 6, 2015

My reason for getting a NUC is to use it as a simple low-power platform to run different software on including bare-metal OS, hypervisors, cloud, virtual and software defined server storage and networking applications on that might otherwise be on an old laptop or mini-tower.

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Storage Intel Vmware Virtualization 40

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 20, 2023

2] In this arena, desktop virtualization and cloud technologies will play starring roles. Notably, businesses are adopting virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) as a way to keep data secure, teams collaborative, and staff productive while reducing costs. Additionally, VDI can reduce operational costs in two ways.

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Dell Intel Virtualization Cloud 59

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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Symantec Intel Network Security 150

CTOvision

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Palo Alto unveils latest release of virtual firewall series. Enterprise security company, Palo Alto Networks has announced the latest release of its virtual firewall series (VM-Series). “If you’re not already spending a lot of capital in … Read more on NewsFactor Network. Upcoming Industry Events.

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Dell Big Data Firewall Storage 258

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2022

Networking. Ivan Velichko takes readers on a journey of how Kubernetes reinvented virtual machines (in a good sense). Operating Systems/Applications. Jorge Castro tears into the “wasting disk space” argument against the Flatpak application package format. Virtualization. Interested in hardening macOS?

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Linux Storage Virtualization Hardware 90

Fountainhead

MARCH 31, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Intel Nehalem + Dell + Repurposing. With all of the Intel/Nehalem (Xeon 5500 series) processor announcements this week , one stands out. Virtualization. (31). Intel Nehalem + Dell + Repurposing. skip to main | skip to sidebar.

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Dell Intel Data Center Virtualization 100

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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Program Management Fractional CTO CTO Programming 150

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. Virtualization. Career/Soft Skills.

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Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

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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Intel Hardware Linux Virtualization 60

The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

It’s Arm’s technology, not the traditional x86 designs used by Intel and AMD, that has fueled the massive growth of smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices over the past two decades. And virtually everyone that makes DPU SmartNICs — even Intel, the biggest x86 chip company around — uses Arm technology.

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Data Center Licensing Intel Automotive 76

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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Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire Big Data 150

Dataconomy

JUNE 3, 2024

High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) is a type of high-speed memory used in high-performance computing and graphics applications. AMD) and Intel Corp. China says “no thanks” to Intel and AMD on government devices AMD CEO Lisa Su, in her Computex address following Huang’s, outlined AMD’s advancements in AI chips.

Data Center 41

Data Center Intel Pharmaceuticals Architecture 41

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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Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

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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Intel Examples Course Tools 40

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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Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

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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Vmware Storage Intel Virtualization 60

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.

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Linux Hardware Network Cloud 60

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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Data Center Intel Data Storage 60

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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Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Linux Academy

JUNE 3, 2019

In a nutshell, serverless computing lets you build and run applications without thinking about servers. Normally, when it comes to running an application from the cloud, you have to deal with setting it all up, which can take hours, days, or even weeks. Serverless Computing: What is it? Install software packages.

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Linux Course Open Source Load Balancer 92

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. Virtualization. Career/Soft Skills.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

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. Virtualization. I still have quite the backlog of links to read!) Scary stuff!

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 74

GeekWire

MAY 18, 2021

Rainway’s technology was part of how Microsoft “cut the Gordian knot,” as Sampson puts it, by making it possible to run xCloud as a web-based application. Well…” Sampson: We just think desktop applications are broken. That puts Rainway up against Google ( again ), with its suite of web-based apps.

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Google Microsoft Applications Cloud 106

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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Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

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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Cloud IBM Applications Architecture 107

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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 106

Scott Lowe

MAY 29, 2020

Let’s see what I’ve managed to collect for you this time around… Networking. Ivan Pepelnjak provides a 101-level overview of AWS networking. Andrew Sy Kim tackles explaining a (somewhat) obscure part of Kubernetes networking: the externalTrafficPolicy setting. Operating Systems/Applications.

Linux 60

Linux Virtualization Security Backup 60

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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Vmware Linux Intel Network 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 16, 2021

This time around, the Networking section is a bit light, but I’ve got plenty of cloud computing links and articles for you to enjoy, along with some stuff on OSes and applications, programming, and soft skills. Networking. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Welcome to Technology Short Take #142!

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Cloud Network Virtualization Guidelines 60

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. Networking. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. A severity score of 9.9

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

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. Virtualization.

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Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60

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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Linux Network Vmware Disaster Recovery 60

GeekWire

JULY 24, 2020

It’s certainly been a unique inaugural cohort for the 5G Open Innovation Lab (5G OI Lab) , a new startup program funded by T-Mobile, Intel, and NASA. based lab debuted in early May and will wrapped up its first program — held virtually due to the pandemic — this week. The Bellevue, Wash.-based Headquarters: Seattle, Wash.

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Software Software Data Center CTO 136

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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Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This is a liveblog of the day 2 keynote at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 in San Francisco. Fisher sets the stage for people interacting with multiple devices, and devices that are highly mobile, supported by software and services delivered over a ubiquitous network connection. He then introduces Hermann Eul.

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Intel Hardware Mobile Dell 60