All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

Japanese companies and consumers have become used to low latency and high-speed networking available between their businesses, residences, and mobile devices. With the launch of the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region, companies can now leverage the AWS suite of infrastructure web services directly connected to Japanese networks. or rss feed.

Cloud 114

Cloud Web Services IPv6 Applications 114

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Networking. Michael Kashin has a great article on how Open Virtual Network (OVN, part of the Open vSwitch project) implements virtual networks in OpenStack. In a bit of an older post from late summer 2016, Matt Oswalt outlines why network engineers should care about the network software supply chain. Good advice.

Linux 60

Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Networking. Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. Operating Systems/Applications. OK, bring on the links!

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Networking. Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. Operating Systems/Applications. OK, bring on the links!

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Today, Amazon Web Services took very an important step in unlocking the advantages of cloud computing for a very important application area. Cluster Computer Instances for Amazon EC2 are a new instance type specifically designed for High Performance Computing applications. Commoditizing the management of HPC resources.

Cloud 119

Cloud Applications Web Services IPv6 119

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Networking. Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware.

Windows 60

Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 60

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more.

Storage 126

Storage Cloud IPv6 Examples 126

Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2015

Welcome to Technology Short Take #51, another collection of posts and links about key data center technologies like networking, virtualization, cloud management, and applications/operating systems. Networking. Rick Sherman has an article on using Jinja2 templates for network automation , including a practical example.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Virtualization IPv6 60

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

Flexibility is one of the key principles of Amazon Web Services - developers can select any programming language and software package, any operating system, any middleware and any database to build systems and applications that meet their requirements. It takes just minutes to get started and deploy your first application.

Load Balancer 115

Load Balancer Cloud Applications Development 115

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Networking. Charles Min-Cheng Chan has a write-up on using IPv6 in Mininet. PowerShell on Cumulus Linux on a network switch? Are you a network engineer who wants to expand his or her automation skills, but doesn’t have the equipment? Jason Edelman recently announced self-service and on-demand network infrastructure.

Vmware 60

Vmware Case Study Linux Network 60

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of internet applications and was high on the wish list of our customers for some time already. Route 53 provides Authoritative DNS functionality implemented using a world-wide network of highly-available DNS servers. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. No lock-in.

Cloud 117

Cloud Internet System Applications 117

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

The application of the Cloud First strategy across all agencies will see many cost savings similar to what the GSA saw when they moved their main portal to the cloud: a savings of $1.7M many of these applications are launching on AWS from the start, and a number can be found on the AWS Federal use case list. Cloud Readyâ??;

Government 113

Government Cloud Big Data Resources 113

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

Networking. I love this post from Matt Oswalt on five next-gen skills for networking pros. Not everyone agrees, though—here’s Steven Noble’s take on the introduction of 6-pack and why this is pushing the networking industry forward. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s hoping you find something useful. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2023

Networking Kevin Jin’s post on the APNIC blog about network automation tools is a great read. He discusses Netmiko, NAPALM, and Nornir in some detail, and provides some guidance around which network automation tool may be right for you. Anton Kuliashov writes about why Palark uses Cilium for Kubernetes networking.

IPv6 74

IPv6 Linux Tools Network 74

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2013

This is the kick-off to a series of posts introducing networking concepts to VMware administrators. Based on the feedback I’ve gotten in speaking to VMware admins, networking is an area in which a lot of VMware-focused folks aren’t particularly comfortable. Layer 2 Versus Layer 3: The OSI and DoD Models.

Network 69

Network Vmware Internet Media 69

All Things Distributed

MAY 18, 2010

Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage. Today a new storage option for Amazon S3 has been launched: Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS). This new storage option enables customers to reduce their costs by storing non-critical, reproducible data at lower levels of redundancy. Comments ().

Storage 72

Storage Cloud IPv6 System 72

Scott Lowe

APRIL 21, 2016

Networking. Michael Ryom has a nice (but short) article on using Log Insight along with a NetFlow proxy to help provide more detailed visibility into traffic flows between VMs on NSX logical networks. BGP seems to be emerging as an early front-runner for a standards-based control plane for software networking. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Network 60

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Since a few days ago this weblog serves 100% of its content directly out of the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) without the need for a web server to be involved. I have used a bucket policy to make all documents world readable, but you could create one that restricts it to referrers, network address range, time of day, etc.

Storage 134

Storage IPv6 Cloud CTO 134

All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

We use high-performance transactions systems, complex rendering and object caching, workflow and queuing systems, business intelligence and data analytics, machine learning and pattern recognition, neural networks and probabilistic decision making, and a wide variety of other techniques. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

SOA 151

SOA Storage Architecture Cloud 151

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Networking. Tor Anderson has an article on using IPv6 for network boot using UEFI and iPXE. has a great blog series going called “Hey, I can DevOps my Network too!” Operating Systems/Applications. Need a “cheat sheet,” so to speak, for VMware’s cloud-native applications initiatives? Larry Smith Jr.

Windows 60

Windows Firewall Linux Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 25, 2015

In this post, I’ve gathered links to posts about networking, virtualization, Docker, containers, Linux, configuration management, and all kinds of other cool stuff. Networking. If you haven’t read Brent’s article on building network tools with Docker , I highly recommend it. Operating Systems/Applications. Thanks Mike!

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Virtualization Tools 60

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Also, if a given upload runs into a networking issue, you only have to restart the part, not the entire object allowing you recover quickly from intermittent network errors. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Subscribe to this weblogs. or rss feed. All postings.

IPv6 82

IPv6 Cloud Big Data Storage 82

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

These new features will make it easier to transition those applications to SimpleDB that are designed with traditional database tools in mind. Rather, the consistency model of the underlying service will have explicit downstream effects on the developers application. Revisiting the Consistency Challenges. Consistent Read.

Applications 70

Applications Cloud System IPv6 70

Sean Daniel

JUNE 29, 2011

With the SBS 2008 and SBS 2011 the Connect to the Internet Wizard would analyze your network and determine a static IP address to use, and then ensure you like it before making it the server’s IP address. SBS 2011 Essentials doesn’t assign itself a static IP address, and it doesn’t have a Connect to the Internet Wizard.

Small Business 58

Small Business LAN Windows IPv6 58

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

From financial processing and traditional oil & gas exploration HPC applications to integrating complex 3D graphics into online and mobile applications, the applications of GPU processing appear to be limitless. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

Architecture 136

Architecture Programming Web Services Applications 136

All Things Distributed

APRIL 19, 2010

Amazon Cloudfront is the Content Delivery Network (CDN) that is dead simple to use both from a technology and a business point of view. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

Media 61

Media IPv6 Cloud Storage 61

Sean Daniel

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Change the Mac TimeMachine to show unsupported Network Volumes by going to Finder , then Applications , Utilities , Terminal. This sets the showing of unsupported network volumes to TRUE. A MAC Address is the hardware address of the local network card. A MAC Address is the hardware address of the local network card.

Backup 82

Backup How To Windows Small Business 82