Cloud Musings

AUGUST 12, 2012

Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Cloud Musings on Forbes. NJVC Cloud Computing. Get "Cloud Musings" by RSS. Texas Cloud Computing Lessons Learned. GovCloud Daily.

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Cloud Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Although Shawn already possesses numerous vendor certifications from companies like VMware, Cisco and CompTIA, this “non-vendor specific” preparation, will enable him and his team to deliver the high-level training needed to implement quick hybrid cloud adoption at the demanding pace of IT. It actually enhances your professional value.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 6, 2022

Successful organizations do not merely move traditional data to cloud platforms to have better data access – they shift to the cloud by thinking differently, using the cloud as a tool to achieve business goals by implementing a strong cloud infrastructure. Compliance is Not an Afterthought.

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GeekWire

APRIL 3, 2024

The comparison is particularly apt: “Activating the noise-canceling function on the headphones to listen to music, while removing most of the environmental noise, is akin to applying our qubit-virtualization system,” the researchers said. Microsoft isn’t the only tech company reporting progress on the quantum frontier.

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CTOvision

JUNE 22, 2015

The SAP Player Comparison Tool is a free cloud based service available from NFL.com that helps users make data driven decisions about their team by forecasting player statistics for games during the regular season. Internet of Things and SAP HANA Cloud Platform | @ThingsExpo @SAPInMemory #IoT (web2.sys-con.com). sys-con.com).

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 7, 2023

” Cloud Computing/Cloud Management Laurent Leconte takes AWS CDK for spin by deploying a simple Lambda function written in Python. Thomas Heinen examines some approaches for dealing with multi-architecture Docker image builds. This article provides a comparison of Apache APISIX 3.0 and Kong API Gateway 3.0. (Be

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2021

The most obvious comparison for the Steam Deck is, of course, Nintendo’s Switch — particularly the upcoming OLED model — which offers a similar handheld configuration, screen size, and design. Despite the fact that the Steam Deck uses the same RDNA 2 GPU architecture, it’s just not in the same weight class. Image: Valve.

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Cloud Musings

AUGUST 9, 2016

Cloud computing is now entering adolescent. With all the early adopters now swimming in the cloud pool with that “I told you so” smug, fast followers are just barely beating the early majority. The gold rush to cloud is also driving the IT herd to get cloud computing training.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In comparison, there were only 66 years between the Wright brothers’ first flight and humans landing on the moon (See belief #1). Access to the internet, SaaS services, and cloud applications require all traffic to exit the network through myriad point solutions cobbled together to secure and monitor the perimeter.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2014

I often get asked, or, told that computer data storage is complex with so many options to choose from, apples to oranges comparison among other things.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The “trilogy” refers to the third iteration of this presentation; each time the comparison has been done in a different geographical region (first in Europe, then in North America, and finally here in Asia-Pacific). Lago explains that they’ll cover three common OpenStack scenarios: Private cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Through cloud migration and application modernization, companies are creating new customer experiences and services to drive revenue growth while reimaging business processes to optimize operations, reduce costs, and empower new ways of working. AWS cloud infrastructure, in particular, has significant energy efficiency advantages.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Expanding the Cloud - Introducing AWS OpsWorks, a Powerful Application Management Solution. OpsWorks is designed to support a wide variety of application architectures and can work with any software that has a scripted installation. Elastic Beanstalk supports the most common web architectures, application containers, and frameworks.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2016

The current European Cloud Computing Policy is set towards building a Digital Single Market Strategy through the European Cloud Initiative, the European Free Flow of Data Initiative and the emerging issues related to ownership, access, portability of data and switching of cloud service providers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Reflecting back to my initial list of truths, a core reason for hybrid or multicloud migration is a lack of preparation at the business level regarding what it means to have cloud as an IT provisioning platform. Consistency across their platforms is hardly a priority for the major cloud services providers.

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Cloud Musings

APRIL 28, 2017

This is why hybrid IT and cloud service brokerage are such important skillsets to the modern information technology team. Public sits at the other extreme, requiring strategic alignment with the cloud service provider in exchange for lower capital and staffing investment requirements.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 19, 2022

By comparison, those who don’t prioritise making full use of their data may well continue to exist but the laggards in this space will eventually get left behind as the world transitions around them. “Our We needed a new suite of technologies that support our vision to be vendor agnostic, carrier agnostic and cloud agnostic.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2015

This session is titled “The Post-Cloud,” and the speaker is Nick Weaver, Director of SDI-X at Intel. PaaS can help with microservice architectures, because PaaS often provides things like service discovery and other “glue” necessary to stitch all the various pieces together. Massive cooperation of cloud domains.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 12, 2021

Ivan Pepelnjak, the font of all networking knowledge, has been discussing cloud networking in some detail for a good while now. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Here’s Chip Zoller’s comparison of Gatekeper and Kyverno. The latest series of posts (found here and here ) are, in my opinion, just outstanding.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2023

Cloud, sustainability, scale, and exponential data growth—these major factors that set the tone for high performance computing (HPC) in 2022 will also be key in driving innovation for 2023. It’s important to note that more research and benchmark comparisons are needed to help customers make the best decisions.

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Cloud Musings

JUNE 8, 2015

Not using computing aided design (CAD) as a primary architectural tool today is just laughable. So why do multimillion dollar companies invest millions into building and deploying cloud computing solutions that are basically architected using not much more than diagrams, spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations? rise in importance.

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Cloud Musings

JUNE 8, 2015

Not using computing aided design (CAD) as a primary architectural tool today is just laughable. So why do multimillion dollar companies invest millions into building and deploying cloud computing solutions that are basically architected using not much more than diagrams, spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations? rise in importance.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Diógenes Rettori has a comparison of Istio and Linkerd as solutions for service mesh. Keybase discusses some challenges with encrypted chat applications and how their architecture avoids some of those challenges. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Here’s a good article on packets-per-second limits in EC2.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

Both of these are important as they help customer accurately gauge the economic benefits of running their applications in the cloud. The best practices that we are collecting in the AWS Economics Center are there to help our customers get a total view on their IT cost such that they can accurately compare on-premise and cloud.

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Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate and Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert certifications cover a wide range of topics related to Microsoft’s technology suite, including Windows operating systems, Azure cloud computing, Office productivity software, Visual Studio programming tools, and SQL Server databases.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Mete Atamel has a great walkthrough of using Workflows on Google Cloud to connect various API-driven services together. Here’s a two-part series (so far) on setting up a multi-architecture Kubernetes cluster ( part 1 , part 2 ). The sidecar pattern is one such example.).

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 4, 2024

These systems allow for the generation of detailed reports and comparisons between departments and individual users. Integration with a customer's existing infrastructure, including other security tools and various cloud technologies , is also crucial.

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Cloud Musings

APRIL 3, 2016

As enterprises adopt both private and public clouds, they typically do not throw away their in-house infrastructure. A DevOps Mindset in the Dynamic World of Cloud According to Gravitant , hybrid IT is also more than just a catalog of public and private IT infrastructure resources.

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Vox

MARCH 7, 2024

2006 was the same year Amazon launched its cloud computing business; Nvidia’s push into general computing was coming at a time when massive data centers were popping up around the world. Tesla cars’ self-driving feature utilizes Nvidia chips, as do practically all major tech companies’ cloud computing services.

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Kitaboo

AUGUST 29, 2022

The data and metrics gathered in LXPs help facilitate both comparison and tracking of employee growth through an overview of benchmark levels. With social learning at its core, the architecture, and interface of an LXP are designed to be super easy to use and boost collaborative engagement as well. REQUEST DEMO READ MORE.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2018

This post is a bit older, but covers a challenge faced by cloud-native darling Netflix—how does one, exactly, identify which application used which IP address at a given point in time? The CPU architecture flaw involving speculative execution has been garnering a great deal of attention (see here , here , here , and here ).

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

At the recent OCP Summit, Microsoft introduced Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Ravello Systems (now part of Oracle Cloud following their acquisition by Oracle) has a REST API that allows you to programmatically interact with their service. Career/Soft Skills.

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Gabriele Gerbino has a nice write-up about Cisco’s efforts with APIs ; his article includes a brief description of YANG data models and a comparison of working with network devices via SSH or via API. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Paul Johnston takes a very sensible approach in his post on cloud first serverless second.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Another good resource is Dan Hersey’s guide to building an SDN-based private cloud in an hour. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. I might have mentioned this before, but Ken Pepple’s OpenStack Folsom architecture post is just awesome. has posted a good hypervisor feature comparison document.

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Vox

MARCH 25, 2023

We now know Microsoft based it on OpenAI’s GPT-4; Microsoft invested $11 billion into OpenAI in return for OpenAI running all their computing on Microsoft’s Azure cloud and becoming their “preferred partner for commercializing new AI technologies.” But it is unclear why the model responded so strangely. What does this look like specifically?

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The Verge

AUGUST 12, 2021

The Elite Folio is a lightweight, leather-covered, convertible Windows laptop powered by a Snapdragon processor with Arm architecture. It’s not an apples-to-apples comparison since the Surface Pro uses Microsoft’s custom Qualcomm chips, but there aren’t too many Arm-based Windows devices at this price point for comparison.).

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2014

Fathi re-emphasizes that VMware’s SDDC vision is an architecture, one built on the “power of AND.” ” vCloud Suite (and vCloud Air) is a manifestation of the SDDC vision/architecture. VMware’s SDDC vision/architecture delivers the power of “AND.” betas of vSphere and VSAN).

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