Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

This is a liveblog of the AWS re:Invent session titled “Hybrid Architectures: Bridging the Gap to the Cloud” (ARC208). The speaker for the session is Jamie Butler, Manager of Solutions Architecture at AWS (focused on state/local government). This leads Butler into a (recorded) demo of creating a Microsoft AD instance on AWS.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Tony Sangha took PowerNSX (a set of PowerShell cmdlets for interacting with NSX) and created a tool to help document the NSX Distributed Firewall configuration. Microsoft recently added an overlay network driver with support for Docker in Windows 10; check out this Microsoft blog post for more information. What’s that?

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

In the event you accidentally locked yourself out of vCenter using NSX’s distributed firewall, this post by Roie Ben Haim provides a workaround for getting yourself out of this pickle. Angel Villar Garea also has a post on the same topic. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. This would be one reason. Career/Soft Skills.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 13, 2024

My work spanned from Linux and Windows to handling cables; essentially, anything the Navy required, whether below or above water, I was involved. Additionally, I earned my Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) certification for Windows in 2000 during my military service.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Using 1 GbE would have required too many ports, too many cables, and too many switches; 10 GbE offered Expedient a 23% reduction in cables and ports, a 14% reduction in infrastructure costs, and offered a significant bandwidth improvement (compared to the previous 1 GbE architecture). Note that there are trade-offs as a result.)

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We all know that security is more than just a host-based firewall, but a host-based firewall can be part of an overall security strategy. 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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In the early days of Windows operating systems up through Windows XP, almost any program a user would launch would have administrator-level privileges. When this no longer became tenable, Microsoft led the way and started its Trustworthy Computing initiative in 2002. In truth, we ignore least privilege at our peril.

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