CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

A truly robust endpoint solution will provide protection at all levels of the device, from the core BIOS, through to the hardware, firmware and application layers. This is what Intel has aimed to deliver with the Intel vPro® platform. It starts with total component traceability that starts at the factory floor.

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Security Intel Malware Training 91

The Verge

JUNE 26, 2020

Earlier this week, on what Tim Cook called a “historic day,” Apple announced that it’s moving Macs away from Intel processors to its own silicon chips. The new Macs will use arm64, the same CPU architecture that recent iOS devices use (Intel-based Macs use an architecture called x86-64). Screenshot: Dan Seifert / The Verge.

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Intel Apple Windows Programming 101

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. Brian is a Solution Architect; Jim is a Windows Server Architect. Can you tell I’m a fan?).

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Virtualization Network Intel Data Center 60

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

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. This is an interesting deep dive into Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP architecture.

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Jason Messer has an article describing how networking works with Windows containers. 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.

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Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Events at the OpenStack Summit in Barcelona helped provide a window into the promise of tomorrow's interoperable environment. Participants include AT&T, Canonical, Cisco, DreamHost, Deutsche Telekom, Fujitsu, HPE, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Linaro, Mirantis, OSIC, OVH, Rackspace, Red Hat, SUSE and VMware.

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Cloud IBM Applications Architecture 107

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

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

MARCH 7, 2014

Craig Matsumoto of SDN Central helps highlight a recent (and fairly significant) development in networking protocols—the submission of the Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation (Geneve) proposal to the IETF. 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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Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

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 123

Galido

JANUARY 21, 2019

In addition to the tireless DVD burner, you will need the application that goes well. This is a fantastic application for Mac that will allow you to copy and rip DVDs also protected in multiple video formats. Want to digitize your entire collection of DVDs or family movies? It’s simple; you just need the right tool.

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Video Licensing Applications Software 81

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Networking. So useful.).

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

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). Jake Bennett discusses strengthening your AWS security posture by protecting application credentials and rotating EC2 and IAM keys.

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Vmware Storage Intel Virtualization 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. Microsoft has released clarified guidance for dealing with the recent Windows Print Spooler vulnerability. Networking.

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Cloud Network Virtualization Guidelines 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. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

This article by Red Hat provides a reasonable overview of various networking options available in OpenStack (specifically, Red Hat’s OpenStack distribution) to support Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). The article specifically calls out SR-IOV as well as Intel Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) support within Open vSwitch (OVS).

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Vmware Linux Intel Network 60

The Verge

JANUARY 11, 2021

One consequence of moving the entire show online is that companies seem to be stretching out their announcements to fill the suddenly larger virtual space. I’m going to keep an eye out for two things: whether AMD can pick up more models from Intel and whether Intel can get a critical mass of “Evo” laptops with decent battery life.

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Intel Google Virtualization Video 76

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. Virtualization. Networking. Feeling geeky? and Gluster.

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Vmware Storage Network Windows 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. LTS server.

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Linux Network Vmware Disaster Recovery 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

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. (By Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Seriously.).

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Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 106

Scott Lowe

JULY 17, 2020

Operating Systems/Applications. Kevin Campusano discusses Linux development in Windows 10 with Docker and WSL 2. Virtualization. Virtualization proponents have said for years that the use of a hypervisor would enable new ways of protecting VMs from security threats/risks. It seems the industry is finally getting there.

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Linux Apple Operating Systems Policies 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Jon Benedict has a brief article on OVN and its integration into Red Hat Virtualization; if you’re unfamiliar with OVN, it might be worth having a look. Frank Denneman (with an admittedly vSphere-focused lens) takes a look at the Intel Xeon Scalable Family in a two-part (so far) series. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Linux Network Cloud 60

The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

This worked very well and should be convenient for folks who are in and out of virtual meetings all day. The camera itself — a 3.5mm shooter that supports Windows Hello — is actually good, delivering one of the best pictures I’ve ever seen from a laptop’s webcam. There’s also a physical on / off switch on the keyboard.).

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Dell Comparison Windows Storage 60

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

JULY 22, 2013

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. (By Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Seriously.).

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Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 60

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

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. Virtualization. Check back next time!

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Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

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

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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Applications Linux Network Tools 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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Enterprise Enterprise Applications Storage 40

ForAllSecure

AUGUST 30, 2022

The first layer is just the ability to recreate the virtual machines, the routers, the domain controllers, the just the physical assets or sorry, the virtual assets or if I have a domain controller, or something in AWS or I have a router, okay, that's layer one. So we're gonna have virtual users audit attacks.

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Banking Tools Network Security 40

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

JUNE 1, 2010

The development of microchips and the Intel 8088 processor, for example, drove the personal computing trend. Thank you Intel and IBM!) Networks today, thanks to fiber optic cable, the router/switch revolution (thank you Cisco) and advances in wireless (wi-fi and 3G telecomm networks), are virtually everywhere.

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Data Center Network Trends Government 28

ForAllSecure

MARCH 8, 2023

Anyway, what Chenxification does for example is frustrate computer malware's ability to locate and extract an application's decryption key. To this day, the US Department of Defense uses chenxification to protect mobile applications. VAMOSI: And after Forrester she went to Intel, which at the time had purchased McAfee.

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Conference Industry Security Trends 40

The Verge

OCTOBER 8, 2021

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. The corners of the screen are aggressively rounded — so much so that they sometimes cut into the window of an app that’s docked to the side of the screen.

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Microsoft Windows Dell Video 74

The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In those days, we were tackling terrible Android and BlackBerry tablets, evaluating the first wave of Intel ultrabooks , and heaping praise on the then-revolutionary Galaxy Nexus. The hardware, while nice looking, was underpowered; the lighter, more portable version of Windows half-baked. In 2012, Windows Phone needed a big win.

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Apple Hardware Windows Intel 53

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. ” Virtualization.

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