CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 17, 2021

As companies re-evaluate current IT infrastructures and processes with the goal of creating more efficient, resilient, and intuitive enterprise systems, one thing has become very clear: traditional data warehousing architectures that separate data storage from usage are pretty much obsolete.

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Data Enterprise Systems Architecture Storage 93

Scott Lowe

MAY 21, 2013

In this first post, I’ll start with a high-level description of the NVP architecture. The architecture I’m describing here will also be applicable to NSX, which VMware announced in early March. The architecture I’m describing here will also be applicable to NSX, which VMware announced in early March.

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Architecture Network Virtualization Transportation 129

Scott Lowe

JUNE 13, 2014

In just a few weeks, I’ll be participating in a book sprint to create a book that provides architecture and design guidance for building OpenStack-based clouds. The architecture/design guide that results from this book sprint will join the results of previous book sprints: the operations guide and the security guide.

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Architecture Vmware Storage Cloud 69

Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 31, 2015

This is a list of various articles, tips, post and other resources on server storage I/O performance benchmarking for legacy, virtual, cloud and software defined environments along with associated tools.

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Storage Resources Vmware Big Data 40

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 14, 2022

This article explores three examples of how listening to the concerns, and changing the requirements and needs of CIOs, has resulted in viable technological solutions that are now widely in demand. A new product must help address or eliminate one or more pain points. Otherwise, what is its value? 1 concern of CEOs.

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Devops Storage Enterprise Enterprise 113

Scott Lowe

APRIL 7, 2023

Links to the previous three posts are embedded in the article. I’ll admit that his article tagline (“Amazingly, Lambda can sometimes make you less Serverless”) did catch my attention—as I’m sure it was intended to do! The article does a good job of explaining what’s meant by the tagline, though.

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Applications Comparison Cloud Operating Systems 97

Storage IO Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Enjoy this edition of the Server and StorageIO update newsletter and watch for new tips, articles, StorageIO lab report reviews, blog posts, videos and podcasts along with in the news commentary appearing soon. Hello and welcome to this November Server and StorageIO update newsletter.

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Network World

APRIL 5, 2018

Traditional networking architectures over the past two decades or so prescribe that the hub of the network be build around a specific location, such as a data center or a company’s headquarters building. To read this article in full, please click here In fact, companies often use multiple cloud platforms these days.

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Network Web Services Data Center Applications 107

Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

I mean, don’t you want to spend this weekend catching up on some technology-related articles instead of cooking on the grill and gathering with friends and family? Still, for those who need a little technology fix over the weekend, hopefully I’ve included something useful in the list of articles below. I certainly hope not!

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Virtualization Storage Programming Network 79

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Having recently needed to dig into Open Policy Agent (OPA) , I took renewed interest in this slightly older article by Chip Zoller that compares OPA/Gatekeeper with Kyverno. Via Alex Mitelman’s Systems Design Weekly 015 , I was pointed to this AWS article on multi-site active-active architectures.

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Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

Storage IO Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

A theme I mention in the above two articles as well as elsewhere about server, storage I/O and applications is PACE. That is, application Performance Availably Capacity Economics (PACE). Different applications will have various attributes, in general, as well as how they are used.

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Storage Applications Journal Examples 40

Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 31, 2014

Watch for more post VMworld coverage in upcoming newsletters, articles, posts along with other industry trend topics. For those of you in Europe, VMworld Barcelona is October 14-16 2014 with registration and more information found here.

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Storage Vmware Backup Travel 60

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

By: Scott Sellers , Co-Founder and CEO, Azul From the get-go, the cloud promised to help companies scale up their architectures in seconds, run their applications faster, never turn away a transaction, and save money through economies of scale. Cloud Computing, Cloud Storage

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 27, 2014

DataDirect Networks combines IBM GPFS, Storage Fusion for HPC. DataDirect Networks (DDN) said its branded GS7K Parallel File System storage device will be generally available in December and target broadcast media, financial services, government, life sciences, oil and gas, and other high-performance computing … Read more on TechTarget.

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Dell Big Data Firewall Storage 258

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

However, hopefully I’ve managed to gather together some articles with useful information for you. Biruk Mekonnen has an introductory article on using Netmiko for network automation. Federacy recently published an article about the results of their Docker image vulnerability research. Networking. My takeaway?

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Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

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. Networking. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I never found the root cause, but we did find a workaround; however, along the way, someone shared this article with me. This is an interesting deep dive into Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP architecture. A bunch of home Wi-Fi routers are suspectible to attack; see this article for more details. Servers/Hardware.

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

I found this link in the serverless mullet architectures post, see the “Operating Systems/Applications” section below.). I’ve been messing around with firewalld ever since I switched to Fedora on the desktop, and found this article to be one of the better articles I’ve seen on the topic. Networking.

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Architecture Operating Systems Applications How To 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 16, 2018

Ahead, lying in wait, is a unique collection of links, articles, and thoughts about various data center technologies. Via Matt Oswalt and Michael Bushong, I came across this article on Juniper’s use of P4. Daniel Álvarez has a good article describing some OVN profiling and optimizing he recently performed. Networking.

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Architecture Meeting Storage Hardware 60

Linux Academy

MAY 2, 2019

In a typical application, either run in a traditional datacenter or colocation facility, you’re paying for the application itself, the underlying OS, hypervisor, storage, servers or VMs, SAN, networking, power, and so on. Optimizing storage into frequently accessed hot storage, versus infrequently accessed cold storage.

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Linux Storage Web Services Applications 84

Scott Lowe

MARCH 12, 2021

I didn’t do so well on storage links; apologies to my storage-focused friends! This is truly an information-dense article, and if working with the AWS API Gateway falls into your job responsibilities then this is probably a good post to read. I found this article on depletion to be meaningful to me on a personal level.

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IPv6 Network Storage Policies 60

Phil Windley

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

I recently read Igor Shadurin's article Dive Into dApps. That said, if you're looking to create a dApp with a smart contract, then Igor's article is a nice place to start. I started writing about this idea back in 2012 and called it the Personal Cloud Application Architecture. This is not how the internet works today.

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Engineering Internet Applications Architecture 52

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Having recently needed to dig into Open Policy Agent (OPA) , I took renewed interest in this slightly older article by Chip Zoller that compares OPA/Gatekeeper with Kyverno. Via Alex Mitelman’s Systems Design Weekly 015 , I was pointed to this AWS article on multi-site active-active architectures.

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Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

CTOvision

JANUARY 14, 2016

With fully integrated Spark Streaming computing framework, Hortonworks and HDP TM enabled Arkena to quickly provide the big data architecture required to meet their customers’ evolving demands. Related articles. Improving our CDN: Four new POP locations - and more on the way (leaseweb.com).

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Data Media Analysis Sports 150

Scott Lowe

MAY 6, 2013

Similarly, running storage controller software as virtual machines isn’t software-defined storage, it’s the storage equivalent of NFV (SFV?). Separating the storage control plane from the storage data plane is a much closer storage analogy to SDN, in my opinion. My apologies Matt!

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Storage Virtualization Vmware Network 116

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 23, 2022

Data that gets created on premises (such as private financial data) or the edge (such as robotics or autonomous vehicles) can incur unwieldy storage expenses and an unnecessary speed bump in developer workflow when it needs to be moved to the cloud for training. Cloud Architecture, IT Leadership

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Company Artificial Intelligence Training Data Center 86

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2020

It is summed up, for me, in this quote: “The crucial architectural difference here is that vSphere wants us to stop thinking about individual physical servers, and AWS wants us to stop thinking about individual VMs.” ” It’s not just about VMotion; it’s about the bigger architectural shifts that need to be made.

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Storage Tools Architecture Network 60

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. Welcome to Technology Short Take #85! PowerNSX in a container? Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Vmware Storage Network Windows 60

CTOvision

AUGUST 5, 2015

QuintessenceLabs’ technology is being used to globally implement their new high security architecture in the cloud. As well as quantum true random and advanced key management, QuintessenceLabs offers “unbreakable” protection for data on storage devices in uncontrolled environments, using a true one-time pad cipher and virtual zeroization.

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Tourism Government Security Transportation 150

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

However, as Major points out in his article, the role works anywhere, OpenStack cloud or not. Lior Kamrat has a multi-part series on an architecture that blends Mesosphere DC/OS, Azure, Docker, and VMware vSphere. After a recent complaint by yours truly on Twitter regarding notifications on Windows 10, I was directed to this article.

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Vmware Storage Engineering Network 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. This article from June 2013 is pretty helpful.). Networking.

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Vmware Storage HP Virtualization 60

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 12, 2022

We discussed how individual applications may not span multiple clouds in a previous article. Consistent applications with a “build once, run anywhere” application architecture leveraging Kubernetes. In other words, obstacles exist in leveraging this technology effectively.”.

Cloud 52

Cloud Vmware Disaster Recovery Applications 52

Linux Academy

MAY 1, 2019

In a typical application, either run in a traditional datacenter or colocation facility, you’re paying for the application itself, the underlying OS, hypervisor, storage, servers or VMs, SAN, networking, power, and so on. Optimizing storage into frequently accessed hot storage, versus infrequently accessed cold storage.

Linux 60

Linux Storage Web Services Applications 60

Linux Academy

MAY 1, 2019

In a typical application, either run in a traditional datacenter or colocation facility, you’re paying for the application itself, the underlying OS, hypervisor, storage, servers or VMs, SAN, networking, power, and so on. Optimizing storage into frequently accessed hot storage, versus infrequently accessed cold storage.

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Linux Storage Web Services Applications 60

CTOvision

JULY 9, 2014

In the text below, I examine an on-premise Hadoop ecosystem as a general purpose Big Data solution in relation to alternative commercial purpose-built storage technologies (-e.g. The data is too big, moves too fast, or does not fit the structures of your database architectures. Oracle, Teradata, IBM, SAP, Microsoft, EMC, etc).

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Big Data Data Analysis Fractional CTO 286

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I never found the root cause, but we did find a workaround; however, along the way, someone shared this article with me. This is an interesting deep dive into Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP architecture. A bunch of home Wi-Fi routers are suspectible to attack; see this article for more details. Servers/Hardware.

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

Here’s a fresh new collection of links and articles from the around the web to propel myself back into blogging. These two articles are interesting (to me) because they combine both network automation and Kubernetes. The first article covers StatefulSets with a focus on PersistentVolumes (PVs) and PersistentVolumeClaims (PVCs).

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