CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

AI is now a board-level priority Last year, AI consisted of point solutions and niche applications that used ML to predict behaviors, find patterns, and spot anomalies in carefully curated data sets. Making existing applications better with embedded AI is awesome,” says Greenstein. billion to the global economy. So did Amazon on AWS.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Via the Kubernetes blog , Box announced it has open sourced a project called kube-iptables-tailer , which turns packet drops from iptables into Kubernetes events that can be logged for easier troubleshooting. Keybase discusses some challenges with encrypted chat applications and how their architecture avoids some of those challenges.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Founded in 2004, the company makes software to help enterprises use Postgres, an open-source database. She also held vice president roles at Yahoo, VMWare, and Oracle. ” Temporal is a cloud application company that achieved unicorn status in 2022, reaching a valuation of $1.5

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management I’ve long been a fan of Velero, the application formerly known as Heptio Ark. It was, therefore, very satisfying to see not one but two Velero-related posts emerge recently from the VMware blogging community. More details on the exploit are available here.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2018

Last week I announced my departure from VMware , and my intention to step away from VMware’s products and platforms to focus on a new technology area moving forward. It’s clear to me that containers will have a significant impact on how we as IT professionals will develop, deploy, upgrade, and manage applications.

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Open Source Vmware Devops Development 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

This is pretty cool: a WYSIWYG topology designer for VMware NSX. The VMware Cloud-Native Apps group has a breakdown of some of the new features/functionality found in the 1.9 Via Maish Saidel-Keesing, I saw this post about 10 open source Kubernetes tools for highly effective SRE and Ops teams. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

This article by Brian Caffey on deploying the same web application on ECS Fargate using three different IaC tools (CDK, Terraform, and Pulumi) has some really great and useful information in it. Operating Systems/Applications Dewan Ahmed has a great run-down on options for documentation-as-code. Well worth reading, in my opinion.

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Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

Tetragon is Isovalent’s newly open-sourced security framework. 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. Check out this write-up.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 30, 2015

Naturally, it’s worth pointing out that I work for VMware, although I do work in a business unit that makes a multi-hypervisor product (NSX). Nigel makes a few key points in his article: Open source is “where it’s at today”. VMware “ditched” Linux in the transition to ESXi. Everyone “is crazy with container fever”.

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Windows Linux Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Teammate Alex Brand has a look at VMware’s new OVS-based CNI plugin, Antrea. Operating Systems/Applications. Cole Atkinson discusses the fact that osxfuse is no longer open source , and the ramifications of this development on open source in general. Spend time with your family instead. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Open source has become so critical to so many aspects of our computing infrastructure. I recently stumbled across Ricardo Sueiras’ “AWS open source news and updates” posts. Operating Systems/Applications. VMware finally splits VMware Tools out from vSphere. Congrats, Isovalent team!

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Linux Vmware Open Source Examples 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Kit Colbert shares 5 predictions for cloud-native applications in 2017. Operating Systems/Applications. Michael Preston shares his thoughts on containers in a post titled “A VMware guy’s perspective on containers.” Ben Thompson has an in-depth analysis of how Google is challenging AWS. Way to go, Daniel! Career/Soft Skills.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 21, 2013

This is a must attend event for any organization or agency looking to be information-driven and give access to more data to more resources and applications. The Art and Application of Hadoop. As CSO, Mike is responsible for Cloudera’s product strategy, open source leadership, engineering alignment and direct engagement with customers.

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Big Data CTO Data HP 283

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

And while we are on the topic of Linux and open source in the networking industry…read this entertaining and informative article on the importance of (truly) open source libraries in networking. The project itself is open source and hosted on GitHub. Operating Systems/Applications. Per the README.md

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Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

Patrick Kremer walks through using Postman to implement BGP route filtering with VMware Cloud on AWS. Hari Rana has a detailed discussion of security concerns regarding Flatpak (a packaging format for Linux applications). Operating Systems/Applications. I think this post is interesting/useful for a couple different reasons.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

I recently came across a couple useful troubleshooting guides, one for Open vSwitch (OVS) and OpenStack Neutron and one for VMware NSX. Matt Oswalt recently unveiled (and open sourced) a framework called ToDD, which stands for “Testing on Demand: Distributed”. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

VMware recently released a reference design guide for NSX-T; see here for more details. Dimitri de Swart has a write-up on LAMP stacks made easy with VMware and Puppet. Looks like PKS, the joint Kubernetes effort from VMware and Pivotal, has gone GA (see this VMware blog post ) with initial support for vSphere and GCP.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 23, 2014

4:15 PM Adjourn/ Networking SocialTrack 2 – Business Track – Big Data Applications and Use Cases. 3:30 PM The Art and Application of Hadoop. As CSO, Mike is responsible for Cloudera’s product strategy, open source leadership, engineering alignment and direct engagement with customers. 2:00 PM Break.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Sathyajith Bhat covers five open source tools for container security. Robert Verdam has a two-part series on deploying an application to AWS with Terraform and Ansible ( part 1 , part 2 ). Grant Orchard has a three-part series (so far) on VMware Cloud Assembly ( part 1 , part 2 , part 3 ). Operating Systems/Applications.

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Hardware Open Source Vmware Linux 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Of course, I am a fan of network virtualization, since I work with/on VMware NSX.). Martijn Smit has launched a series of articles on VMware NSX. Want some additional information on layer 2 and layer 3 services in VMware NSX? Here’s a good source. Operating Systems/Applications. Any thoughts?

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

And while we are on the topic of Linux and open source in the networking industry…read this entertaining and informative article on the importance of (truly) open source libraries in networking. The project itself is open source and hosted on GitHub. Operating Systems/Applications. Per the README.md

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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. Acra is open source and available via GitHub. Here’s a post outlining some of VMware’s more prominent open source projects in the “cloud-native” space.

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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. . Tying it all together is cnrg.io’s MLOps stack, VMware Tanzu, and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software. A partial solution lies in the adoption of MLOps. band PowerSwitch S4148T?ON

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Jake Bennett discusses strengthening your AWS security posture by protecting application credentials and rotating EC2 and IAM keys. Sirish Raghuram has some thoughts on the VMware-AWS announcement (about VMware Cloud on AWS) compared to the “Omni” announcement at the OpenStack Summit in Barcelona. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles discussing the major data center technologies—networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications, virtualization…you name it! (If Thinking of using a hardware VTEP (VXLAN Tunnel Endpoint) with VMware NSX? Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

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Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Knowing this, the Openstack Interop Challenge looks toward cultivating success by leveraging the open source cloud technology as a common integration layer. 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

JANUARY 15, 2021

The popular open source cryptography library known as Bouncy Castle has uncovered a severe authentication bypass vulnerability. From early December 2020, there’s also this reminder about the security updates released by VMware to address a zero-day vulnerability in several products. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Linux Firewall Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Here’s a set of 15 principles for designing and deploying scalable applications on Kubernetes. Operating Systems/Applications. Steven Bright shows how to deploy Salt minions automatically using VMware Tools. Steven Bright shows how to deploy Salt minions automatically using VMware Tools. Career/Soft Skills.

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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Ricardo Sueiras captured some great links on open source at AWS in this newsletter. Apparently due to the way the integration between Antrea and VMware NSX was designed, it’s possible for “stale” Antrea-enabled clusters (clusters that once existed but are no longer present/valid) to show up in the NSX UI.

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Devops Virtualization Engineering Storage 87

Scott Lowe

APRIL 27, 2018

VMware has released a PowerCLI preview/fling for NSX-T; Kyle Ruddy has a write-up here. Cilium, the open source project working to bring eBPF-powered networking and security to Kubernetes environments, has hit the 1.0 VMware has launched a SIG for Kubernetes on VMware. Operating Systems/Applications.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 23, 2022

VMware is offering organizations a flexible multi-cloud purchasing and consumption solution that aims for consistency in infrastructure across every cloud, so that migration now and in the future is seamless and less complex. But multi-cloud environments will quickly lose their allure if their operations are not seamless.

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Vmware Disaster Recovery Cloud Licensing 98

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2022

Operating Systems/Applications. Good to see VMware finally add support for cloud-init , the de facto standard in public cloud environments for quite some time. David Anderson’s post on how NAT Traversal works should help. Dan Lorenc takes the cover off OCI Artifacts. This looks handy enough that I almost wish I liked Gmail.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 15, 2021

As for how severe a vulnerability this is, Tom Kellerman, a former member of the Obama administration's cybersecurity commission and the head of Cybersecurity Strategy at VMware, discussed with The Hill: "This is one of the worst vulnerabilities in the history of vulnerabilities.

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Network Open Source Vmware CTO 71

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Romain Decker has an “under the hood” look at the VMware NSX load balancer. I’ll keep an eye open for links to include next time around. This graphical summary of the AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) is pretty handy. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time (sorry!).

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Sam McGeown has a nice diagram of the communications channels between the various VMware NSX components. Operating Systems/Applications. Nick Korte shares some “lessons learned” as his team explored VMware vSAN as a storage solution. Ed Haletky has an updated Linux version of the VMware Software Manager.

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Vmware Linux Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Dwayne Sinclair (an NSX SE at VMware) has a write-up on what micro-segmentation is not. VMware open-sourced an identity and access management service called Lightwave ( project web site , GitHub repo ). Operating Systems/Applications. Good stuff here—I highly recommend reading this paper.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 8, 2014

Another series on VMware NSX has popped up, this time from Jon Langemak. Only two posts so far (but very thorough posts), one on setting up VMware NSX and another on logical networking with VMware NSX. Nothing this time around, but I’ll keep my eyes open for more content to include next time. Servers/Hardware.

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