The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

Instead of paying $1,000 for the base model with 256GB of storage, 8GB of RAM, and a 10th Gen Intel Core i3 processor, you can get it for $900. This one’s big enough to juggle multiple windows comfortably, and while it’d be great if this model had QHD resolution, it’s nevertheless hard to beat this price. Image: Logitech.

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Intel Storage Windows Applications 52

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). Installing the Docker Plugin for Heat.

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Virtualization Linux Intel Construction 100

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This is a liveblog of the day 1 keynote at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2012 at Moscone West in San Francisco, CA. This is my first time attending IDF, and I appreciate the invitation to attend from Intel. At 9:01, David (Dadi) Perlmutter takes the stage after a short video about Intel. All this leads to cloud and big data.

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Intel Hardware Data Center Video 101

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

I’ve been a Mac OS X user for a long time; I switched from Windows to OS X in 2003 when the OS X flavor of the day was 10.2 “Jaguar.” 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. Apple on Intel.

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Operating Systems Apple Applications Linux 131

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Jason Messer has an article describing how networking works with Windows containers. Dmitri Kalintsev examines some options for addressing storage-related connectivity in NSX environments. Drew Conry-Murray shines a light on Intel’s network ambitions. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

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Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Intel NUC or SuperMicro E200-8D? Operating Systems/Applications. Ben Armstrong shows you how to use PowerShell to give your Windows server a proper fully-qualified domain name. Here’s a Windows-centric walkthrough to using Nginx to load balance across a Docker Swarm cluster. Servers/Hardware. Yes, please! (I

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Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Jake Bennett discusses strengthening your AWS security posture by protecting application credentials and rotating EC2 and IAM keys. Intel has a tutorial series on Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX). Operating Systems/Applications. Thomas Maurer has a write-up looking at Windows Nano Server. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Storage Intel Virtualization 60

The Verge

JUNE 19, 2020

This budget-friendly laptop is able to run most modern games at a playable frame rate, and if you’re looking for something that’s useful for getting work done on, it has a decent selection of ports, a responsive Windows Precision trackpad, and a full-size backlit keyboard with satisfying key travel. 2 storage are user-upgradeable.

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Budget Storage Hardware Windows 108

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. Feeling geeky?

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Vmware Storage Network Windows 60

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. It appears it’s running some flavor of Windows. Here is the link for the liveblog from the day 1 keynote.).

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Intel Hardware Mobile Dell 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

This is an interesting deep dive into Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP architecture. Operating Systems/Applications. Bozhidar Batsov shares the story of how he left macOS for Linux and ended up on Windows 10 with WSL. And since Kevin didn’t define TDP—shame, shame!—see A severity score of 9.9

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

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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The Verge

JULY 17, 2020

The Ryzen 5 CPU that comes standard in the G5 15 SE sizes up the Intel Core i7-10750H processor found in several gaming laptops that actually might cost you a little more. That was twice as fast compared to stats I collected from a machine running solely on the Intel Core i7-10750H. This test proves that this processor rips and tears.

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Dell Intel Windows Adobe 144

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Cossack Labs recently released Acra , a database encryption suite designed to protect applications against data leaks by providing strong encryption. Operating Systems/Applications. Via Cody Bunch, I found this GitHub repository to help set up development environments on Windows. Check back next time! and vSphere.

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Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

” The speakers are Brian Johnson (@thehevy on Twitter) from Intel and Jim Pinkerton from Microsoft. Brian is a Solution Architect; Jim is a Windows Server Architect. At this point, Jim Pinkerton of Microsoft takes over to discuss how Windows Server thinks about this issue and these challenges.

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Virtualization Network Intel Data Center 60

The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

The base model starts at $2,039 and includes a Core i5-1135G7, 8GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, and a 14-inch 1920 x 1200 screen. that includes a Core i7-1185G7, 16GB of RAM, 512GB of storage, and a 2560 x 1600 touch display. You can go all the way up to a $3,309 model with the same processor and screen but 32GB of RAM and 1TB of storage.

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Dell Comparison Windows Storage 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

This is an interesting deep dive into Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP architecture. Operating Systems/Applications. Bozhidar Batsov shares the story of how he left macOS for Linux and ended up on Windows 10 with WSL. And since Kevin didn’t define TDP—shame, shame!—see A severity score of 9.9

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

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.

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The Verge

MARCH 12, 2021

I tested the more expensive configuration, which costs $1,249 and has a Core i7-1165G7 (one of Intel’s top 11th Gen processors), 16GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD. The 720p IR webcam does not support Windows Hello. The system puts solid specs in a nice chassis, but there are a few misses that make it a bit expensive for what it offers.

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Storage Fashion Intel Travel 100

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). It almost feels like we are well into Windows Registry territory here. Chris Mellor shares an interview with Hazelcast on the performance of Intel Optane PMem.

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Linux Vmware Open Source Examples 60

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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The Verge

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The base model, currently listed at $1,848.99 , comes with a quad-core Core i5-10210U, 128GB of storage, and 8GB of RAM; our test model, priced at $2,937, comes with a six-core Core i7-10810U, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD. It has the same Intel UHD integrated graphics and 15.6-inch Windows Precision gestures worked as advertised.

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Dell Windows Intel Software 75

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Frank Denneman (with an admittedly vSphere-focused lens) takes a look at the Intel Xeon Scalable Family in a two-part (so far) series. First, here’s Google’s announcement of renaming Google Container Engine to Google Kubernetes Engine (making the GKE acronym much more applicable) as a result of its certification.

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Vmware Linux Network Cloud 60

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. and Windows Server 2012 NFS. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 106

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Intel announced the E5 2600 v2 series of CPUs back at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 (you can follow my IDF 2013 coverage by looking at posts with the IDF2013 tag ). Although I’m just now catching Kevin’s posts, they were published almost immediately after the Intel announcements—thanks for the promptness, Kevin!).

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Vmware Network Virtualization Storage 60

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. and Windows Server 2012 NFS. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 60

Storage IO Blog

APRIL 25, 2016

I was given the opportunity to do some hands-on testing running different application workloads with a 2U content solution platform along with various Seagate Enterprise 2.5” HDD’s handle different application workloads. This includes Seagate’s Enterprise Performance HDD’s with the enhanced caching feature.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Coming into this review, I had a catalog of potential pitfalls that Apple could have fallen into when switching from an Intel chip to its own processor. On the outside, the new MacBook Air is nearly identical to the Intel-based one Apple released earlier this year. The model I’m testing has 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage for $1,649.

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Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Pocket AI is the perfect device for AI developers, professional graphics users, and embedded industrial applications for boosting productivity by improve the work efficiency,” says the official product description. Moreover, the Pocket AI GPU is compatible with both Windows and Linux systems, ensuring widespread usability.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

Calderon: Paulino Calderon, I'm a senior application security consultant with Websec. There has to be storage somewhere so even sensors, end up sending their data someplace that has to be stored, and that might be in the cloud, for instance, which is increasingly a part of the Internet of Things. It's still a threat.

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Internet Research Security Tools 52

ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

Calderon: Paulino Calderon, I'm a senior application security consultant with Websec. There has to be storage somewhere so even sensors, end up sending their data someplace that has to be stored, and that might be in the cloud, for instance, which is increasingly a part of the Internet of Things. It's still a threat.

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Internet Research Security Tools 52

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This is a liveblog of IDF 2014 session DATS002, titled “Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI)” The speakers are Brian Johnson (Solutions Architect, Intel) and Jim Pinkerton (Windows Server Architect, Microsoft). Naturally, all of this runs on Windows Server and Windows Azure.

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Virtualization Network Intel Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 20, 2020

Guido Appenzeller—once my manager at VMware, now at Yubico—shared this article about the Cerberus banking trojan , which is apparently now able to steal two-factor authentication (2FA) tokens from the Google Authenticator application. Operating Systems/Applications. Aaron Parecki discusses the first draft of OAuth 2.1.

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Linux Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2014

I’m going to go out on a limb and make a prediction: In a few years time (let’s say 3–5 years), Intel SGX (Software Guard Extensions) will be regarded as important if not more important than the virtualization extensions. What is Intel SGX, you ask? Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s the Stampede.io

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Storage Intel Disaster Recovery Virtualization 60

The Verge

OCTOBER 8, 2021

for a basic model — equip it with a faster processor; more RAM and storage; and a discrete GPU, and you’ll easily add a thousand dollars to that number. It’s bright and color accurate, just like other Surface displays, and it’s large enough to comfortably split the screen between multiple windows using Windows 11’s new Snap layouts.

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The Verge

MAY 12, 2021

They are a target market for many manufacturers, due both to the dominance of Google Classroom across many different grade levels and also to Chromebooks’ affordable price tags (compared to similar Windows and macOS machines). The base C13 starts at $909 for 4GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, and an Athlon Gold 3150C processor.

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Windows Storage Google Adobe 56

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2014

Intel recently announced a refresh of the E5 CPU line; Kevin Houston has more details here. I recently built a Windows Server 2008 R2 image for use in my OpenStack home lab. You might also check out Cloudbase.it, which offers a version of cloud-init for Windows as well as some prebuilt evaluation images. See here for details.

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