Linux Academy

MAY 2, 2019

The “lift & shift” TCO model used to build a business case for a cloud migration doesn’t fully capture all the ongoing cost reductions that are possible. We can track changes after moving into an AWS-based architecture. Questions about the concepts presented in this article? With a $14.2M Next Steps.

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Linux Academy

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

At re: Invent 2019, we sat down with Jennifer (Jenn) Bergstrom, Software Engineer, and Linux Academy learner. Jenn is a passionate and active member of the Linux Academy community. Hear more from her below: Q: Where did your training with Linux Academy start? And I also really, really like the Cloud Playground.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2016

The CompTIA Cloud+ certification validates the skills and expertise of IT practitioners in implementing and maintaining cloud technologies. This is exactly what it takes to become a good cloud technician. The cloud will therefore spin up a new instance with a container-ready version of the OS at the bottom.

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Linux Academy

MAY 1, 2019

The “lift & shift” TCO model used to build a business case for a cloud migration doesn’t fully capture all the ongoing cost reductions that are possible. We can track changes after moving into an AWS-based architecture. Questions about the concepts presented in this article? With a $14.2M Next Steps.

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Linux Storage Web Services Applications 60

Linux Academy

MAY 1, 2019

The “lift & shift” TCO model used to build a business case for a cloud migration doesn’t fully capture all the ongoing cost reductions that are possible. We can track changes after moving into an AWS-based architecture. Questions about the concepts presented in this article? With a $14.2M Next Steps.

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Cloud Musings

JANUARY 30, 2017

In 2016, cloud computing started to dominate many IT market segments. Operator and vendor revenue for six segments of cloud computing reached $148 billion during that period, with spending on private clouds accounting for over half the total but spending on the public cloud growing much more rapidly. 30 grew 25%.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. If you’d like to see the presentation, it’s available on Slideshare and Speakerdeck. If you’d like to re-create the demo environment, check out the presentation’s GitHub repository. Career/Soft Skills.

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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. Nick starts his presentation with a summary of our society: some people produce goods through an effort, and others consume what is produced. i just want to run a web service and have the data center do all the rest (the Post-Cloud).

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2016

In a move to expand that lead, New Horizons is now proud to offer the complete suite of CloudMASTER programs , providing vendor-agnostic cloud training as the spearhead of their cloud curriculum. No matter the details each vendor may use to spin this message, Digital Transformation cannot exist without the cloud at its core.

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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 starts his presentation by talking about “how we got here”, discussing the various technological shifts that have affected the computing landscape over the years.

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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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Here’s a user’s perspective on using infracost to bring cloud spend into your Terraform worfklows.

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Linux Academy

MARCH 26, 2019

By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. Stay tuned to the Linux Academy blog for further details. PowerShell Core for Linux Admins — We are excited to bring our members a course on PowerShell Core for Linux.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Before I present this episode’s collection of links, articles, and thoughts on various data center technologies, allow me to first wish all of my readers a very merry and very festive holiday season. If you’d like to play around with Cumulus Linux but don’t have a compatible hardware switch, Cumulus VX is the answer.

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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? Christian Kellner talks about work done on Thunderbolt 3 security levels for GNU/Linux. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

This year it is better than ever, with a great set of presentations from government experts who have done really incredible things with data in support of critical missions. Evaluating Commercial Cloud Services for Government – A Progress Report. Finding Value in Enterprise Data with High-Performance Analytics. Dr. Daniel Duffy.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Johnston states that the program has proven successful in making appliations more “hybrid cloud ready,” increasing software release agaility, and improving the security of applications (via isolation and integry, through digital signing). Along the way, McGee does a demo of Docker for IBM Cloud.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Moving on, Rice talks for a few minutes about the strategy or purpose behind the collection of projects that fall under the CNCF umbrella (to provide some of the important building blocks in the full stack of technologies to support cloud-native environments). At this point, Rice turns it over to Michelle Noorali , a key maintainer of Helm.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

I think this three-part series on new network models for cloud computing ( part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 ), while almost a year old, is quite good. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. This is an awesome overview of the OpenStack Folsom architecture , courtesy of Ken Pepple. Definitely worth reading, in my view.

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Mobile gamers who hate being tied to their smartphones just got an early holiday present. Google is bringing Android games from Google Play to Windows laptops, PCs, and tablets. Read more.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

I highly recommend you read the entire post, but in short the five skills Matt recommends are software skills (which includes configuration management and software development tools like Git ), Linux, deep protocol knowledge, hypervisor and container networking, and IPv6. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. What does this mean?

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 11, 2014

If you’ve been following trends in the “cloud” world, you’ve probably heard of Docker. Docker leverages LXC (Linux Containers), which encompasses Linux features like cgroups and namespaces for strong process isolation and resource control. LTS as the Linux platform. Installing Docker.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. I like this article on using Couchbase on AWS from Kubernetes because it addresses an often-overlooked (in my opinion) aspect of containerized/microservices architectures: they still need to communicate to external services. (At Operating Systems/Applications. That’s cool. ” Amen!

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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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 presenters are Girish Gopal and Malini Bhandaru, both with Intel. Bhandaru takes over to provide an overview of the OpenStack architecture.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Prasenjit Sarkar, who works in VMware R&D, and runs the Stretch Cloud site , has a write-up on using Data Center Extension (DCE) to VMware vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS). x that involves booting on a Linux CD. Very good stuff! Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

I recently spoke at Interop 2016 in Las Vegas, and while I was there I scribbled down some notes pertaining to how decomposing applications into microservices-based architectures was similar in some respects to decomposing networks into an overlay network and an underlay (physical) network. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 22, 2013

Just to quickly recap what’s happened so far, in part 1 I provided the high-level architecture of NVP and discussed the role of the components in broad terms. To get a version of libvirt that supports Open vSwitch (OVS) , you’ll want to enable the Ubuntu Cloud Archive. Learning NVP, Part 1: High-Level Architecture.

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Linux Academy

JANUARY 16, 2020

Just as he’s spent his life building, engineering, and wrestling with what is presented to him, so too does he easily maneuver more invasive questioning. While Mark initially pursued a degree in architecture, he quickly realized staying up till 4 AM gluing balsa wood just couldn’t satiate his growing appetite for knowledge.

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Linux Academy

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Amazon Web Services is a managed cloud computing platform. The cloud is a term that often gets thrown around without much explanation—what happens when you access a cloud service is pretty simple. A VPC, or Virtual Private Cloud, is another critical piece of Amazon Web Services architecture.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2023

Frank Denneman digs into Sapphire Rapids memory configurations (Sapphire Rapids is Intel’s 4th generation Scalable Processor Architecture). Alberto Pellitteri with Sysdig discusses SCARLETEEL , an operation conducted by an attacker that leveraged many of the tools found in modern cloud environments: Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 23, 2015

There’s a lot of redundancy here, and Booz Allen was engaged to create an “open source first cloud-based” common platform that would modernize and streamline these stovepiped applications. Hazlett also shows how to see the images that are present in a cluster, pull updated images, and push them across the entire Swarm cluster.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 13, 2024

He serves on the Advisory Council for SecureWorld Toronto and will be presenting at our upcoming conference on April 3rd. My work spanned from Linux and Windows to handling cables; essentially, anything the Navy required, whether below or above water, I was involved. So, I spent less than 24 hours in every place, including the U.K.,

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

This article provides a good introductory overview of Linux iptables commands for configuring host-based firewall rules on your Linux systems. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Need a “cheat sheet,” so to speak, for VMware’s cloud-native applications initiatives? I highly recommend this article. Look no further.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

The Internet of Things presents us with both convenience and inconvenience at the same time, suddenly everything is smart is hackable again with startups sometimes repeating security mistakes made decades ago in the rush to market toys. Do we really need that to communicate with the cloud. In addition to a smart coffee mug.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

The Internet of Things presents us with both convenience and inconvenience at the same time, suddenly everything is smart is hackable again with startups sometimes repeating security mistakes made decades ago in the rush to market toys. Do we really need that to communicate with the cloud. In addition to a smart coffee mug.

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Internet Research Security Tools 52

Scott Lowe

APRIL 18, 2017

Golub then transitions into the meat of the general session presentation, which (understandably) is focused on Docker in the enterprise. Ultimately, Visa is trying to move all developers and application groups to a “container-first” microservices-based architecture. He reviews the usual slide with notable logos from Docker customers.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Jonathan Knudsen from Synopsys joins The Hacker Mind to discuss his presentation at SecTor 2021 on fuzzing message brokers such as RabbitMQ and VerneMQ, both written in Erlang, demonstrating that any type of software in any environment can still be vulnerable. The trouble is, details of this leaked prematurely.

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