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. Read more here. Yes please!

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Scott Lowe

MAY 7, 2021

In this Technology Short Take, I’ve gathered some links for you covering topics like Azure and AWS networking, moving from macOS to Linux (and back again), and more. Servers/Hardware. VentureBeat discusses Armv9 , a new architectural update for Arm-based CPUs. maximizing revenue per hardware instance). Networking.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 10, 2022

To contrast it with the usual lifecycle management, imagine for the sake of argument that some of your applications run on top of EnGarde Secure Linux. That EnGarde runs on an end-of-life server doesn’t mean it will install on the new hardware you have no choice about buying when your end-of-life server becomes an expired server.

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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. Microsoft seems to be all about shocking the world these days (see my related mention of their SQL Server announcement below). At the recent OCP Summit, Microsoft introduced Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC).

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Flatpak is a (relatively) new application packaging/sandboxing mechanism for Linux applications. The post is a bit geeky but quite informative, and worth reading if SSH bastion hosts are a key part of your architecture. John Kozej has a write-up on an NSX logical switch packet walk.

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Galido

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Automakers want to standardize on a Linux-based OS that would make vehicle infotainment systems act more like smartphones. Automakers are working to standardize on a Linux-based operating system for in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems that would make it easier for cars to act more like smartphones. In Vehicle Infotainment.

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Open Source Linux Automotive Operating Systems 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Brendan Burns, co-founder of Kubernetes and now an architect at Microsoft Azure, has a blog post about how Kubernetes enables containers-as-a-service (CaaS), which in turn is the foundation for the next generation of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Here’s a walkthrough to install Arch Linux on VirtualBox.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 17, 2020

Jon Langemak is blogging again, and he jumps back into the “blogging saddle” with a post on working with tc on Linux systems. Servers/Hardware. Bruno Hildenbrand shares 20 tips for managing Linux VMs on Azure. Kevin Campusano discusses Linux development in Windows 10 with Docker and WSL 2. ” Great quote!

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Linux Apple Operating Systems Policies 60

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. This article listing 20 Linux server hardening tips contains some basic tips but is nevertheless a very good resource for someone looking for Linux security recommendations.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

.” Eul walks through the basic components of the mobile platform, which includes not only hardware but also mobile software. This leads Eul into a discussion of the Intel Silvermont core: built with 22nm Tri-Gate transistors, multi-core architecture, 64-bit support, and a wide dynamic power operating range.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

If you like geeking out over the hardware side of networking, you may find this Ars Technica article on the physical infrastructure of the global Internet to be an interesting read. (I Servers/Hardware. This is a highly technical article on scheduling in the Linux kernel , but it’s well worth reading. Virtualization.

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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.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2018

Also, a quick note that I removed the “Servers/Hardware” and “Storage” sections this time around, as I didn’t have any useful content to share. Ben Piper shares an example of automating Cumulus Linux with Ansible. Time really flies when you’re having fun! Battleship over BGP? Career/Soft Skills.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Jointly authored by VMware, Microsoft, Red Hat, and Intel, this new protocol proposal attempts to bring together the strengths of the various network virtualization encapsulation protocols out there today (VXLAN, STT, NVGRE). Servers/Hardware. There goes that great Microsoft naming expertise again.). x86 marches on!

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

This is my irregularly-published collection of links and articles from around the Internet related to the major data center technologies: networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications/OSes, storage, and virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Looks like Microsoft’s Nano Server is headed in a new direction.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

Servers/Hardware. This article is an interesting read on some work being done by Microsoft Research to leverage Intel SGX to address some security concerns with today’s cloud-heavy architectures/usage models. ZFS will be in the next Ubuntu Linux LTS release. VCE—er, or is it EMC Converged Platforms Division?—recently

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The courses are designed to be completed in succession, starting with the Apple Device Support course, which focuses on the skills and expertise you’ll need as a help desk professional, technical coordinator, or service provider for an organization that relies on Apple hardware and software. Exam fee : Prices range from $75 to $125 per exam.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Nvidia’s T4 is based on the company’s Turing architecture that also powers the previous generation RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti graphics cards. teraflops of performance and support for Microsoft’s DirectX raytracing technology. teraflops of GPU performance, all powered by Linux. teraflops of GPU performance, all powered by Linux.

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Galido

MAY 1, 2019

Zero Day Blog from ZDNet helps you to stay on top of the latest in software/hardware security research, along with vulnerabilities, threats and computer attacks. The Microsoft team’s Building Clouds blog offers resources, information and advice on building cloud infrastructures with focus on Hyper-V and Windows users. Building Clouds.

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Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Zero Day Blog from ZDNet helps you to stay on top of the latest in software/hardware security research, along with vulnerabilities, threats and computer attacks. The Microsoft team’s Building Clouds blog offers resources, information and advice on building cloud infrastructures with focus on Hyper-V and Windows users. Building Clouds.

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Mobile Data Center Security Virtualization 77

Scott Lowe

APRIL 3, 2016

Alban Crequy has a post on using Linux queueing disciplines (qdiscs, for short) to help with testing application behavior under degraded network conditions. Cumulus Networks has added another hardware partner to its list of supported hardware partners; this time it’s Mellanox, as outlined in this SDx Central article.

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Vmware Network Linux Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Servers/Hardware. This article provides a good introductory overview of Linux iptables commands for configuring host-based firewall rules on your Linux systems. This article provides a good introductory overview of Linux iptables commands for configuring host-based firewall rules on your Linux systems.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

I think that’s the point Ivan tried to make as well—it’s the architecture and how OpenFlow is used that makes a difference. (Is Servers/Hardware. Cisco UCS is pretty cool in that it makes automation of compute hardware easier through such abstractions as server profiles. Is that a reasonable summary, Ivan?).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

IBM said today that it will make CloudFoundry a component of its open cloud architecture and work with Pivotal on further development of the CloudFoundry open source project and establishing an open governance model for the community. Microsoft’s $1 Billion Data Center. Featured Cloud Articles. ARCHIVED ARTICLES. Select Month.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

CSL’s CSL-WAVE software enables companies to monitor and manage thei z/VM and Linux on System z environments using a powerful and easy-to-use interface. The response by clients to the advantages of Linux on System z have been tremendous, with the shipped capacity nearly doubling in 1Q13 year to year. Featured Cloud Articles.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

Servers/Hardware. I agree that Cisco had some innovative ideas in UCS—integrated management and server profiles come to mind—but my biggest beef with UCS right now is that it is still primarily a north/south (server-to-client) architecture in a world where east/west (server-to-server) traffic is becoming increasingly critical.

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Vmware Storage Network Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Servers/Hardware. Service registration (and discovery) in a micro-service architecture can be challenging. To help with the setup of ASR, the Azure team has a write-up on the networking infrastructure setup for Microsoft Azure as a DR site. Here’s a decent write-up on comparing LXC and Docker. Interesting.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 18, 2017

Once again, I’m not clear how using Docker fixes infrastructure provisioning delays, or how using Docker fixes issues with patching and hardware maintenance. Ultimately, Visa is trying to move all developers and application groups to a “container-first” microservices-based architecture. Leverage an ecosystem (that supports diversity).

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

And so they said, What can you do with this, you know, and I said, Well, I'll just put it into my little Linux terminal and the strings dash on it. For those of you who know or remember, Code Red, was a computer worm that exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Information Server or IIS. I don't know, you know?

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

An interview on Decoder with Nilay Patel The holiday season is always huge for gaming, but this year, it’s even bigger: a new console generation has arrived with Microsoft’s new Xbox Series X / S and the Sony PS5 , and gaming itself has gotten even more enmeshed in mainstream culture during the pandemic. I do, yeah. That’s quite a rise.

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