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

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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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Many organizations rely on legacy security architectures to secure their cloud workloads. Backhauling to on-premises network security infrastructure for inspection and protection But relying on legacy security architectures amplifies lateral movement, increases operational complexity, and provides inconsistent threat and data protection.

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Cloud Policies Architecture Security 89

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

CTOvision

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

There is a strong need for a defensive architecture and distancing endpoints. Related articles. Microsoft Announces Free Antimalware Solution For Azure Cloud Services And Virtual Machines (microsoft-news.com). Microsoft Announces Free Antimalware Solution For Azure Cloud Services And Virtual Machines (microsoft-news.com).

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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

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 105

CTOvision

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Related articles. Software AG Named a Leader in the Magic Quadrant 2013 for Enterprise Architecture Tools (virtual-strategy.com). Software AG Named a Leader in the Magic Quadrant 2013 for Enterprise Architecture Tools (ctolabs.com). What are your thoughts? Beta Systems Software AG : Beta Systems announces new ?

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Network World

JUNE 5, 2018

The terms software defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) are often used interchangeably, which is incorrect. To read this article in full, please click here In a sense, the two are tied together as companies start using NFV as part of their SDN plans but that doesn’t have to be the case.

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Network Architecture Software Software 115

CTOvision

MAY 11, 2015

On Wednesday May 13 , as part of the Data Integration track , Sanjay Krishnamurthi, CTO at Informatica, Scott Gnau, CTO at Hortonworks and Stephen Brobst, CTO at Teradata, will provide a framework and best practices for maximizing value for data assets deployed within a Big Data Architecture. Related articles.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2023

As a side note, I am curious to know what other CPU architectures, if any, are affected. Will something like this spark a (larger) migration to ARM-based architectures? If you need a foundational review of Amazon ECS, this article is a good starting point. Here we go again. ” John D.

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Programming Architecture Linux Construction 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. This is an interesting deep dive into Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP architecture.

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

Cloud Musings

JANUARY 26, 2012

NJVC® and Virtual Global Announce Release of PaaS White Paper: Paper Clarifies the Confusion Surrounding PaaS for Federal IT Buyers—Why It Is Important and How It Can Cut Development Costs by 50 Percent. GovCloud Daily. GovCloud Presentations. GovCloud on Facebook. Get "Cloud Musings" by RSS. Thursday, January 26, 2012. VIENNA, Va.,

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Virtualization Cloud Data Center Software 95

Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In this article, we will delve into the best 5 medical AI scribes that have garnered attention for their contributions to streamlining medical documentation processes in healthcare. Its cloud-based architecture adds fexibility, allowing healthcare professionals to access and utilize the tool from various devices and locations.

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Healthcare Tools Guidelines Architecture 82

ComputerWorld IT Management

OCTOBER 25, 2016

-based global buyer and seller of pre-owned luxury watches, split the role of DevOps between application development and management of a virtual infrastructure environment. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here (Insider Story)

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Architecture Devops Cloud Virtualization 40

Network World

JANUARY 4, 2018

First, to be clear, these exploits affect all the major computer chip architectures. And all the major software vendors of Linux, Microsoft for Windows, Apple for macOS, and virtualization software suppliers such as VMware and Citrix have all collaborated to mitigate this threat. To read this article in full, please click here

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Intel Vmware Linux Architecture 84

CTOvision

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Because of their previous success with data virtualization using the Denodo Platform, VHA decided to use data virtualization to enable their business users to discover data using the familiar SQL, and thus abstract their access directly to Hadoop. Related articles. Big Data Architecture: Push, Pull, or Search in Place?

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Enterprise Enterprise Data Big Data 150

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 27, 2023

Customers may be open to the idea, but only 30% believe that chatbots and virtual assistants make it easier to address their service issues. Most still perform only extremely basic tasks and often mirror the poor practices of traditional IVRs. The customer accepts, the call ends, and the bot steps in via text/SMS.

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Examples Trends Artificial Intelligence Virtualization 110

CTOvision

JULY 2, 2015

The Wall Street Journal reported that Coca-Cola has named Alan Boehme as CTO: Mr. Boehme has led Coke’s enterprise architecture, innovation and emerging technologies for the past four years. At a security conference in March, Mr. Boehme said Coke is experimenting with a new approach to security that makes use of software virtualization.

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CTO Journal Architecture Security 150

Network World

MARCH 27, 2018

The Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities , first documented in January, seemed like a nightmare for virtualized systems, but that is overblown. Skylake, though, was a whole new architecture, and as it turns out, that made the difference. To read this article in full, please click here

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Linux Architecture Windows Virtualization 70

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

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

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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Oracle Storage Backup IBM 74

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

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The list of articles is a bit shorter than usual this time around, but I’ve still got a good collection of articles and posts covering topics in networking, hardware (mostly focused on Apple’s processors), cloud computing, and virtualization. I have to say that, in general, I disagree with this architecture.

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Vmware Cloud Network Hardware 74

Storage IO Blog

MARCH 30, 2014

The following are some of my tips, articles, blog posts, presentations and other content on SSD. Keep in mind that the question should not be if SSD are in your future, rather when, where, with what, from whom and how much. The post Nand flash SSD server storage I/O conversations appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Storage Big Data Architecture Education 91

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

CTOvision

AUGUST 15, 2013

They had reached the point where physical machines were cheaper — much, much cheaper — than the virtual machines available from Amazon. There is special focus on modern cloud computing architectures and data center designs supportive of mission needs. There is an entire section on the architecture of the modern cloud data center.

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Cloud Data Center Architecture Report 234

CTOvision

JANUARY 23, 2015

Palo Alto Networks promises to safely enable applications to prevent both known and unknown threats for all users on any device, and any network, physical or virtual, in a highly automated way, while sharing threat intelligence with their customers. Related articles. Microsoft Outlook Email Hacked In China (techweekeurope.co.uk).

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Network Firewall Applications CTO 150

Linux Academy

APRIL 24, 2019

In the past, the migration of virtual machines could be a very complicated process and required significant expertise for on-premise personnel to migrate existing virtual machines to the cloud. Let’s look at some of the details and advantages of using a service like Cloud Endure to migrate virtual machines to the cloud.

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Cloud Google Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The list of articles is a bit shorter than usual this time around, but I’ve still got a good collection of articles and posts covering topics in networking, hardware (mostly focused on Apple’s processors), cloud computing, and virtualization. I have to say that, in general, I disagree with this architecture.

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Vmware Cloud Network Hardware 60

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

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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Storage Vmware Backup Travel 60

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

Phil Windley

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Summary: The architecture of an identity system has a profound impact on the nature of the relationships it supports. This blog post uses terminology and ideas from Sam's paper to classify and analyze three different identity system architectures. Identity Architectures. Administrative Architecture. Algorithmic.

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Architecture System Authentication Security 138

CTOvision

JUNE 3, 2014

Related articles. Pentaho Data Science Pack Operationalizes Use of R and Weka (virtual-strategy.com). Analysis Architecture Big Data Open Source Hadoop Machine learning Pentaho' For more information, please visit www.pentaho.com. Optimizing The Data Warehouse: A Big Data Blueprint from Pentaho (ctovision.com).

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Data Big Data Open Source Analysis 284

Cloud Musings

JANUARY 20, 2017

Serverless computing, also known as Function as a Service (FaaS), is a cloud computing code execution model in which the cloud provider fully manages starting and stopping virtual machines as necessary to serve requests Requests are billed by an abstract measure of the resources required to satisfy the request, rather than per virtual machine hour.

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Strategy Architecture Devops SOA 70