Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. I really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts. Operating Systems/Applications.

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2023

And they all rely on the open-source NoSQL database Apache Cassandra ®. You’ve created the right architecture to collect and store your data and the best way to keep costs low is to leverage what you have. Cassandra is an open-source NoSQL database that scales with performance and reliability better than any other.

Open Source 52

Open Source Architecture Applications Data 52

Linux Academy

JUNE 4, 2019

The Serverless Framework is an open-source project that replaces traditional platforms (hardware, operating systems) with a platform that can run in a cloud environment. It’s all taken care of by the cloud provider. Cloud Functions : FaaS. What is serverless framework? Why use it? Serverless history.

Linux 92

Linux Cloud Architecture Open Source 92

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 21, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Chris Evans revisits the discussion regarding Arm processor architectures in the public cloud. And, speaking of Arm processor architectures in the public cloud, here’s another look at Amazon’s Graviton2 and Graviton3 chips, as discussed in a pair of re:Invent talks.

Load Balancer 90

Load Balancer Linux Intel Cloud 90

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

Still, software developers seeking to leverage graphics chips for non-graphical applications had to wrangle their calculations into a form that could be sent to the GPU as a series of instructions for either Microsoft’s DirectX graphics API or the open-source OpenGL (Open Graphics Library).

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Company Pharmaceuticals 3D Artificial Intelligence 98

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2022

An enterprise can offload 60-90% of its mainframe MIPS (millions of instructions per second) transactions to a modern, cloud-native, and developer-friendly data platform with all the attendant development agility and flexibility, while leaving the mainframe in place for the time being. Castles in the sky: A reliable foundation in the cloud.

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Financial Data Banking Agile 98

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Given that I am originally from the Netherlands I have, of course, a special interest in how Dutch companies are using our cloud services. . But it is not just Dutch entrepreneurs who build their business in the cloud, also traditional Dutch enterprises are moving to the cloud to improve their agility and cost-effectiveness.

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Enterprise Enterprise Cloud Banking 130

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. I really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts. Operating Systems/Applications.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Galido

APRIL 27, 2020

For a start, it provides easy optimization of infrastructural resources since it uses hardware more effectively. First of all, public cloud container adoption is slowly shifting to Kubernetes. However, even though the project was promising, in 2015, Google released this tool as an open-source project. Great heritage.

Load Balancer 94

Load Balancer Tools Applications Open Source 94

Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Isovalent—the company behind the Cilium project—has been talking a lot about how the use of eBPF will transform things, including the architecture of a service mesh. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Networking. network virtualization). Kubernetes 1.24 Operating Systems/Applications.

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Virtualization Storage Network Programming 79

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

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. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Who says you can’t please everyone all the time?

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Servers/Hardware. As opposed to just encrypting data at the transport level (although Acra does that between components of its architecture) or just encrypting data at the storage level (using an encrypted file system or similar), Acra targets encrypting data at the table/row/column level within a database. Check back next time!

Open Source 60

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 Thinking of using a hardware VTEP (VXLAN Tunnel Endpoint) with VMware NSX? Servers/Hardware. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Linux Academy

APRIL 30, 2019

By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. This course covers the basics of Prometheus, which includes its architecture and components, such as exporters, client libraries, and alerting. If so, this is the course for you. What is AWS?

Linux 113

Linux Course Big Data Devops 113

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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Networking. Nothing this time around!

Storage 60

Storage Tools Architecture Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. For readers who may be new to networking, Daniel Wray has a write-up on network cabling. Good for the EFF.

Linux 60

Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

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.” If this means less open source, then no.

Training 98

Training Open Source Research Microsoft 98

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. Yes, specific AI workflows require special hardware configurations. Engage with the Dell HPC community by visiting dellhpc.org. [1]

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Dell Data Center Intel Artificial Intelligence 59

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

At the recent OCP Summit, Microsoft introduced Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC). Matt Oswalt recently unveiled (and open sourced) a framework called ToDD, which stands for “Testing on Demand: Distributed”. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Read more about it here.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

This is a liveblog of Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 session EDCS003, titled “Enhancing OpenStack with Intel Technologies for Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud.” The session will wrap up with a discussion of Intel’s Open IT Cloud, which is based on OpenStack. Where is Intel IT Open Cloud headed?

Intel 60

Intel Storage Open Source Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Servers/Hardware. I’ll keep an eye open for links to include next time around. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Joe’s comment—“the merging of CDNs and cloud continues”—is pretty spot on, in my opinion. Richard Arnold shares some thoughts on VMware Cloud on AWS.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

And while we are on the topic of Linux and open source in the networking industry…read this entertaining and informative article on the importance of (truly) open source libraries in networking. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. The project itself is open source and hosted on GitHub.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 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.

Data Center 60

Data Center Intel Data Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Skydive is (in the project’s own words) an “open source real-time network topology and protocols analyzer.” Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Here’s a list of some open source Docker-related tools that developers may find useful. What’s that? You haven’t heard of PowerNSX before?

Linux 60

Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

And while we are on the topic of Linux and open source in the networking industry…read this entertaining and informative article on the importance of (truly) open source libraries in networking. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. The project itself is open source and hosted on GitHub.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 60

Linux Academy

APRIL 29, 2019

By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. This course covers the basics of Prometheus, which includes its architecture and components, such as exporters, client libraries, and alerting. If so, this is the course for you. What is AWS?

Linux 60

Linux Course Big Data Devops 60

CTOvision

AUGUST 14, 2014

The Intel-built big data analytics platform combines hardware and software technologies to provide researchers with a way to more accurately measure progression of disease symptoms. Big data analytics and data from wearable computing offer potential to improve monitoring and treatment of Parkinson’s disease. 13, 2014) — The Michael J.

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Intel Big Data Study Research 287

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

If you’d like to play around with Cumulus Linux but don’t have a compatible hardware switch, Cumulus VX is the answer. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. ACS offers multiple “endpoints,” each of which enables you to use a particular open source container/orchestration tool.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Galido

MAY 1, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Cloud Computing & Data Center Tech Blogs. You’ll find everything from supercomputers to personal cloud articles on DCK.

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Resources Mobile Data Center Security 107

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

DECEMBER 6, 2013

A fan of network virtualization might also say that decomposing today’s complex physical networks into multiple simple logical networks on top of a simpler physical transport network—similar to Mike’s suggestion of converging on a smaller set of reference architectures—might also help. (Of Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Linux Network 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.

Open Source 61

Open Source Storage Intel Architecture 61

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. (Who knows, maybe I’ll throw a rant or two in there.) Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Storage 60

Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Cloud Computing & Data Center Tech Blogs. You’ll find everything from supercomputers to personal cloud articles on DCK.

Mobile 77

Mobile Data Center Security Virtualization 77

Scott Lowe

MAY 9, 2014

Rob Sherwood, CTO of Big Switch, recently published a reasonably in-depth look at “modern OpenFlow” implementations and how they can leverage multiple tables in hardware. Connecting Docker containers to Open vSwitch is one thing, but what about using Docker containers to run Open vSwitch in userspace?

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage HP Virtualization 60

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.

Open Source 52

Open Source Software Software Applications 52

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Colin Lynch gives a “first look” at the Cisco UCS Generation 3 hardware , which may be of interest if you’re a UCS customer or looking at purchasing UCS. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Only a year late, I found this article about Cisco IOS XRv (as in “virtual”). on Azure VMs. Virtualization.

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Vmware Network Operating Systems Virtualization 60