Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

I hope the collection of links and articles I’ve gathered for you contains something useful for you. 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. Networking.

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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 MTU in OpenStack Neutron has been, as this article by Sam Yaple points out, a bit of a touchy subject. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

It seems like the natural progression of the Tech Short Takes is moving toward monthly articles, since it’s been about a month since my last one. Servers/Hardware. This article is about hardware, just not the hardware I’d typically talk about in this section—instead, it’s about Philips Hue light bulbs.

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Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

In any case, here’s another collection of links and articles from around the Net on the major data center technology areas. Matt Oswalt recently unveiled (and open sourced) a framework called ToDD, which stands for “Testing on Demand: Distributed”. Servers/Hardware. I’ll try to correct that for the next one. Networking.

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

As usual, I’ve gathered what I hope to be a useful but varied collection of articles and links on key data center technologies. See this SDx Central article or this Network World article for more details.). (See See this SDx Central article or this Network World article for more details.). Servers/Hardware.

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Vox

MARCH 25, 2023

It could have been an early, not fully safety-trained version, or it could be due to its connection to search and thus its ability to “read” and respond to an article about itself in real time. (By If this means less open source, then no. But it is unclear why the model responded so strangely.

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Training Open Source Research Microsoft 98

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2020

I don’t have any links for servers/hardware or security in today’s Short Take, but hopefully there’s enough linked content in the other sections that you’ll still find something useful. Servers/Hardware. I recently stumbled across this regular list of AWS open source news and updates by Ricardo Sueiras.

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Storage Tools Architecture Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Skydive is (in the project’s own words) an “open source real-time network topology and protocols analyzer.” OK, now that I’ve mentioned Skydive, I can talk about this article that provides an example of functional SDN testing with Terraform and Skydive. Servers/Hardware. What’s that? You haven’t heard of PowerNSX before?

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Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Christopher Davis has an article discussing a recommended VPC subnet configuration. This is, of course, just one way of handling subnets within a VPC, but some of the principles outlined in Christopher’s article are definitely sound. This article is pretty high-level; I wish it had a bit more depth to it. Servers/Hardware.

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Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

As usual, I’ve gathered what I hope to be a useful but varied collection of articles and links on key data center technologies. See this SDx Central article or this Network World article for more details.). (See See this SDx Central article or this Network World article for more details.). Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Before I present this episode’s collection of links, articles, and thoughts on various data center technologies, allow me to first wish all of my readers a very merry and very festive holiday season. Mustafa Akin has an article on Docker’s new overlay networking functionality. Servers/Hardware. Now, on to the content!

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Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

F5′s products use Intel CPUs, but they also leverage FPGAs to selectively enable certain functions in hardware for improved performance. Open source investments in Ceph and OpenStack Swift. Shifting now to the compute side, Bryant talks about Intel’s rack-scale architecture (RSA) efforts.

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Data Center Intel Data Storage 60

Cloud Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

Jackson and Scott Goessling was selected for use by the Tulane University School of Professional Advancement, Applied Computing Systems & Technology Program as the textbook for their mandatory Enterprise Architecture - Hardware course starting Spring Semester 2019. Grab this Headline Animator ( Thank you.

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Cloud Course Programming Open Source 70

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #37, the latest in my irregularly-published series in which I share interesting articles from around the Internet, miscellaneous thoughts, and whatever else I feel like throwing in. Martijn Smit has launched a series of articles on VMware NSX. Here’s a good source. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Ready for another round of links, articles, and thoughts on data center technologies? Amit Aneja has a two-part series (so far) explaining the routing architecture in NSX-T (which brings multi-hypervisor and multi-cloud support to the NSX platform). Servers/Hardware. Welcome to Technology Short Take 94! Networking.

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Vmware Linux Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 9, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #41, the latest in my series of random thoughts, articles, and links from around the Internet. In any case, I liked how this article really hit upon what I personally feel is something many people are overlooking in NFV. Servers/Hardware. This article from June 2013 is pretty helpful.).

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Vmware Storage HP Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

This is session COMS003, titled “Enabling Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networking with the Intel Open Network Platform Server Reference Architecture Design.” The speakers are Frank Schapfel, Senior Product Line Manager with Intel, and Brian Skerry, Open Networks System Architect with Intel.

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Intel Architecture Virtualization Network 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Bhandaru takes over to provide an overview of the OpenStack architecture. Next, Intel talks about how they have worked to expose hardware features into OpenStack. Intel has also developed something called COSBench, which is an open source tool that can be used to measure cloud object storage performance.

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Intel Storage Open Source Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

This is a liveblog of IDF 2014 session DATS009, titled “Ceph: Open Source Storage Software Optimizations on Intel Architecture for Cloud Workloads.” This brings Chagam to discussing Ceph, which he describes as the “only” (quotes his) open source virtual block storage option. Management.

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Open Source Storage Intel Architecture 61

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

I’ve tried to find a nice range of articles and links, so here’s hoping I was successful and that you find something useful here. Matt Oswalt (my guest on Episode 2 of the Full Stack Journey Podcast ) has been on a tear recently with some really great articles (in my opinion). No worries—go read the article. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Network Operating Systems Virtualization 60

CTOvision

JULY 9, 2014

The data is too big, moves too fast, or does not fit the structures of your database architectures. This definition was published in an article entitled “What is Big Data?” When including the cost of software, hardware, and licensing/support, the cost per terabyte (TB) of an MPP system is estimated at tens of thousands of dollars [4].

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Big Data Data Analysis Fractional CTO 286

Galido

MAY 1, 2019

Of course, we might be a little biased as our first pick is our very own Information Technology Blog , a portal to several of our other favorite Tech Blogs and a collection of articles that we’ve found to be useful for a variety of visitors, both beginners and experts alike. BEST IT BLOGS Directory. Arstechnica. Help Net Security.

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Resources Mobile Data Center Security 107

ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 17, 2021

As I produce this episode, there's a dangerous new vulnerability known informally as Log4Shell, it’s a flaw in an open source Java logging library developed by the Apache Foundation and, in the hands of a malicious actor, could allow for remote code injection. Vamosi: The idea behind Open Source is great.

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Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Of course, we might be a little biased as our first pick is our very own Information Technology Blog , a portal to several of our other favorite Tech Website and Blogs and a collection of articles that we’ve found to be useful for a variety of visitors, both beginners and experts alike. BEST IT BLOGS Directory. Arstechnica.

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Mobile Data Center Security Virtualization 77

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Welcome to Technology Short Take #25, my irregularly-published collection of links, articles, thoughts, and rants. Servers/Hardware. This is an awesome overview of the OpenStack Folsom architecture , courtesy of Ken Pepple. It’s been a while since my last Technology Short Take (almost three months!); my apologies for that.

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Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Dataconomy

MARCH 13, 2023

In this article, we will explore the essential steps involved in creating AI and the tools and techniques required to build robust and reliable AI systems. Infrastructure includes hardware, such as CPUs and GPUs, and software, such as operating systems and frameworks.

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CTOvision

APRIL 9, 2015

You can download a white paper showing how this can be accomplished, complete with reference architecture, here. All of this is accomplished within the hardware of the accelerator at line rate. Related articles. NapaTech''s Pandion: Optimized, high-speed packet capture (ctovision.com).

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Big Data Open Source Hardware Analysis 150

Phil Windley

DECEMBER 28, 2020

This article explores the properties of the self-sovereign internet and makes the case that they justify its generativity claims. While the purpose of this article is not to review Zittrain's paper in detail, I recommend you take some time to explore it. This is part one of a two part series on the generativity of SSI technologies.

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Internet Network Architecture Security 135

Scott Lowe

APRIL 3, 2016

Given the propensity for “real” information to get lost among all the pranks, I decided to push this article back to today. Phil Gervasi has an article on fate sharing in the network core , where he discusses some of the advantages—and disadvantages—of centralizing the control plane in network designs. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Network Linux Hardware 60

CTOvision

MAY 24, 2016

Cray's new agile analytics platform combines the unique scale and throughput capabilities of Cray supercomputers with the convenience of an appliance, the flexibility of industry-standard hardware, and an open software framework that enables customers to innovate as they run existing and emerging analytics workloads. Related articles.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

IBM said today that it will make CloudFoundry a component of its open cloud architecture and work with Pivotal on further development of the CloudFoundry open source project and establishing an open governance model for the community. Featured Cloud Articles. Featured Modular Articles. Select Month.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Tor Anderson has an article on using IPv6 for network boot using UEFI and iPXE. Kirk Byers has a helpful article that provides some suggestions and guidelines for how to make your network automation/network scripts become more than just your own personal hobby at work. Servers/Hardware. I highly recommend this article.

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Windows Firewall Linux Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 21, 2016

As usual, I gathered an odd collection of links and articles from around the web on key data center technologies and trends. 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. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Linux Hardware Network 60

Kitaboo

JUNE 15, 2021

As a comprehensive reference system for ePUB that promotes digital publications for the Open Web, ePUB.js is an open-source Javascript library that allows any web page to easily render ePUB documents on any device with a modern browser. Suggested Read: Understanding Readium – Features, Architecture and Alternatives.

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Comparison eBook Open Source Applications 78

Phil Windley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

This excellent article from Vitalik Buterin discusses the meaning of decentralization. Vitalik gives a great breakdown of different types of decentralization, listing architectural decentralization, political decentralization, and logical decentralization. The code is open source. There's one ledger. There's a spectrum.

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Architecture System Network Open Source 70

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Should the OpenStack community focus on creating an open source alternative to Amazon and Google? Architectural compatibility means that apps can move freely from private to public and back, when needed. “We OpenStack, CloudStack, Eucalyptus, and OpenNebula all play on the open source front. ARCHIVED ARTICLES.

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Google Data Center Cloud Open Source 199

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. His earlier post on getting started with OpenFlow and Open vSwitch tutorial lab is also quite good. Not unsurprisingly, one of the key advantages of STT that’s highlighted is its improved performance due to TSO support in NIC hardware.

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109