Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This is session COMS002, titled “Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization.” Verplanke believes that DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) and virtualization are key to virtualizing workloads that move around lots and lots of packets, such as firewalls, routers, and other similar functions.

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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 119

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This is a live blog of session DATS004, titled “Bare-Metal, Docker Containers, and Virtualization: The Growing Choices for Cloud Applications.” Weaver includes a discussion of the drivers behind virtualization as well as the pros and cons of virtualization. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org.

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Virtualization Linux Intel Construction 100

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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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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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. Virtualization.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 31, 2014

Welcome to the August 2014 edition of the StorageIO Update (newsletter) containing trends perspectives on cloud, virtualization, software defined and data infrastructure topics. Watch for more post VMworld coverage in upcoming newsletters, articles, posts along with other industry trend topics.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Palo Alto unveils latest release of virtual firewall series. Enterprise security company, Palo Alto Networks has announced the latest release of its virtual firewall series (VM-Series). DataDirect Networks combines IBM GPFS, Storage Fusion for HPC. Article Archives · DoD Budgets · Weapons Spotlight · Documents · RDDS.

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Dell Big Data Firewall Storage 258

Scott Lowe

MAY 6, 2013

I’ve had a few conversations about network virtualization and software-defined networking (SDN) recently (see here and here ) and the amorphous use of the term “software-defined.” Separating the storage control plane from the storage data plane is a much closer storage analogy to SDN, in my opinion.

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Storage Virtualization Vmware Network 116

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

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.

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Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

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. Virtualization.

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Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

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 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. A bunch of home Wi-Fi routers are suspectible to attack; see this article for more details.

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

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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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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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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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. Virtualization. Welcome to Technology Short Take #138. Networking.

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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

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. 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. Both are good articles.

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Linux Windows Hardware Network 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. Virtualization.

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Architecture Meeting Storage Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #35, another in my irregular series of posts that collect various articles, links and thoughts regarding data center technologies. Art Fewell takes a deeper look at the increasingly important role of the virtual switch. His follow-up article on disaster recovery of DCE VM with vCHS is also pretty good.

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Vmware Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 60

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. Of course, I am a fan of network virtualization, since I work with/on VMware NSX.). (Of Networking.

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Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Quoting his OpenStack Summit keynote : "Even across Mirantis-powered OpenStack clouds like AT&T and the Volkswagen cloud, they are both based on the same distribution, but the underlying reference architectures are dramatically different…Volkswagen can't throw something at AT&T and it will just work."

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

This article from Marcos Hernandez shows one way to do dynamic routing in OpenStack. Jason Messer has an article describing how networking works with Windows containers. Dmitri Kalintsev examines some options for addressing storage-related connectivity in NSX environments. I tend to agree with Russ’ line of thinking.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

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. I found this article on SELinux concepts for humans to be quite helpful. Check out this article that discusses using AWS Spot Instances and spotinst to run low-cost Kubernetes clusters.

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Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Welcome to Technology Short Take #25, my irregularly-published collection of links, articles, thoughts, and rants. Erik Smith, notably known for his outstanding posts on storage and FCoE, takes a stab at describing some of the differences between SDN and network virtualization in this post. storage enhancements.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

I hope the collection of links and articles I’ve gathered for you contains something useful for you. Here’s a good article on packets-per-second limits in EC2. Keybase discusses some challenges with encrypted chat applications and how their architecture avoids some of those challenges. Networking. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 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. Some of Anthony Burke’s work here may also be useful; for example, check out his recent article on using Log Insight to assist with achieving microsegmentation. Finally, you might find the VMware Virtual SAN 6.2

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Russell Bryant has a post on Open Virtual Network (OVN) , a project within the Open vSwitch (OVS) community. The NIST and DHS have teamed up on some efforts to secure BGP; more information is available in this article. When I was using Fedora, I needed some useful information on firewall-cmd , and found this article to be helpful.

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Firewall Virtualization Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #39, in which I share a random assortment of links, articles, and thoughts from around the world of data center-related technologies. I might contend that Open vSwitch (OVS) alone isn’t an option for network virtualization, but that’s just splitting hairs. Networking.

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Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

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

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? Well worth reading.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 13, 2018

It looks like there will be a follow-up to this article as well, so you may want to check back on Ajay’s site. The sort of things that are possible with Falco—some of which are outlined in this admittedly very vendor-specific article —makes it an intriguing solution (to me, anyway). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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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

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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Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

I’ve got a new collection of links and articles from around the Web on various data center-focused technologies. Michael Kashin has a great article on how Open Virtual Network (OVN, part of the Open vSwitch project) implements virtual networks in OpenStack. Have a look at the article for more details. Networking.

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