The Verge

JUNE 22, 2020

Apple is officially moving to its own silicon chips for some of its Mac hardware. The common ARM-based architecture across Apple’s products should now make it easier for developers to write and optimize apps across every major Apple device. Apple is also using virtualization for running versions of Linux on these new Macs.

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Dataconomy

JANUARY 10, 2024

Don’t describe your app experience as augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), extended reality (XR), or mixed reality (MR). Spatial computing merges the real and virtual realms effortlessly. Devices like the Apple Vision Pro, Microsoft HoloLens, Meta Quest Pro, and Magic Leap epitomize this technology.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2014

For those not familiar or who need a recap, VCE was created to create converged server, storage I/O networking hardware and software solutions combing technologies from its investors resulting in solutions called vBlocks.

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Dataconomy

JUNE 3, 2024

The NVIDIA Rubin platform include the high-speed NVLink 6 Switch performance ( Image credit ) The 3-month free Nvidia Game Pass at Computex 2024 complements groundbreaking innovations, especially for gamers NVIDIA Rubin will come with 8-Hi HBM4 stacks The Rubin architecture will debut with support for 8-Hi HBM4 stacks. Microsoft Corp.

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GeekWire

MAY 18, 2021

Last month, Seattle-based startup Rainway came out with some big news: the tech behind its web-based gaming platform powers the PC and iOS versions of Microsoft’s Project xCloud. Sampson: As part of our partnership with Microsoft, they are utilizing our Rainway SDK to power Xbox cloud gaming on web browsers and iOS.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Featuring Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX), 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors can help enable confidential computing across multiple clouds and edges, improving the isolation of sensitive data with hardware-based memory protections.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

It was when Nvidia reported strong results for the three months to April 30, 2023, and forecast that its sales could jump by 50% in the following fiscal quarter, that its stock market valuation soared, catapulting it into the exclusive trillion-dollar club alongside well-known tech giants Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft.

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Fountainhead

APRIL 7, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Egenera creates physical & virtual servers transparently. Egenera just announced that its embedding virtual machine provisioning within its PAN Manager software for free. Virtualization. (31). Tuesday, April 7, 2009. Ken Oestreich. 、????，???????，?????????，??????。

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Scott Lowe

MAY 7, 2021

Servers/Hardware. VentureBeat discusses Armv9 , a new architectural update for Arm-based CPUs. Peyton Smith and Mitchell Moser share seven common Microsoft Active Directory misconfigurations that adversaries tend to abuse. maximizing revenue per hardware instance). Virtualization. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 24, 2014

If you are a database person, you will want to listen to what Cash has to say about boosting performance and getting more value out of your physical hardware or cloud services. On the other hand if you are a storage person, listen in to get some insight and ideas on to address database performance and resiliency.

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Galido

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Augmented reality and virtual reality. Spending on Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality software will increase. Even the hardware will become a market of $ 4 billion by 2018. Microsoft, along with Office 365 and some Azure components, is also moving in this direction. End of monolithic software architectures.

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Virtualized Greek

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

VMware is a large corporation but, $1 billion is a lot of money to any company and a big bet on network virtualization. Specifically, for the network VMware is not looking to add network virtualization as just another feature of their server virtualization platform. However, the market for network hardware is extremely mature.

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The Verge

JUNE 26, 2020

The new Macs will use arm64, the same CPU architecture that recent iOS devices use (Intel-based Macs use an architecture called x86-64). But it also means that apps that were developed for Intel’s architecture originally won’t run natively on Apple’s upcoming hardware.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Craig Matsumoto of SDN Central helps highlight a recent (and fairly significant) development in networking protocols—the submission of the Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation (Geneve) proposal to the IETF. Servers/Hardware. Overall, this is a quick but worthy read if you are trying to get started in this space.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

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). Servers/Hardware. Kudos to Microsoft and Microsoft’s leadership for quite the culture change.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 16, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Microsoft Azure Container Service (AKS) now supports burstable VM types. Adrian Hornsby has a series (two parts so far) on designing a multi-region active-active architecture. Chris Evans discusses a recent re-org that aligns ScaleIO with hardware sales. Virtualization.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2023

The same goes for any hardware (e.g., As for new tools heading into 2023, Nutaninx IT is rolling out Lucidspark, a virtual whiteboard for real-time collaboration from anywhere. As for new tools heading into 2023, Nutaninx IT is rolling out Lucidspark, a virtual whiteboard for real-time collaboration from anywhere.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Keybase discusses some challenges with encrypted chat applications and how their architecture avoids some of those challenges. One key difference to keep in mind is that this solution is delivered by Microsoft (not VMware); with VMware Cloud on AWS, the solution is delivered by VMware. Virtualization.

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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). Virtualization. Thinking of virtualizing Linux on Hyper-V?

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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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GeekWire

APRIL 3, 2024

Quantinuum Photo) Microsoft and Quantinuum say they’ve demonstrated a quantum computing system that can reduce the error rate for data processing by a factor of 800. The newly reported demonstration addresses that challenge: Microsoft and Quantinuum said they created four highly reliable logical qubits from just 30 physical qubits.

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

The closest we got to a comparison was effectively, “is machine learning faster with hardware acceleration turned on?”. Apple is promising its ARM-based Macs will be able to run more kinds of apps than before, thanks to both native iOS app support and hardware-accelerated machine learning chops built into the silicon.

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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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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Various Data Infrastructure including hardware, software, services related […] The post Data Infrastructure server storage I/O network Recommended Reading #blogtober appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Michael Kashin has a great article on how Open Virtual Network (OVN, part of the Open vSwitch project) implements virtual networks in OpenStack. Servers/Hardware. The post is a bit geeky but quite informative, and worth reading if SSH bastion hosts are a key part of your architecture. Virtualization. Good advice.

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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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Dataconomy

APRIL 10, 2023

It involves the use of sensors, embedded systems, and other hardware devices that are connected to the internet to gather and exchange data. Understanding IIoT architecture The architecture of the IIoT refers to the design and organization of the various hardware, software, and networking components that make up an IIoT system.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 17, 2020

Servers/Hardware. Although I am not a Windows fan (I’ve been a macOS and/or Linux user since 2003, before Apple switched to Intel processors), I must say that the work that Microsoft is doing with WSL 2 appears—from the perspective of an outside user—to be pretty impressive. Virtualization. ” Great quote!

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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. This is interesting—Microsoft has added support for Terraform providers to Azure Resource Manager (ARM). Virtualization. Career/Soft Skills.

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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. Microsoft recently announced a preview of Azure Container Service (ACS). Virtualization. I would respond to that by saying OpenStack Neutron wasn’t built to manage a physical network.

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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. Virtualization. Patrick Ogenstad outlines what’s involved with managing Cisco IOS upgrades with Ansible. Career/Soft Skills.

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CTOvision

JULY 9, 2014

Oracle, Teradata, IBM, SAP, Microsoft, EMC, etc). The data is too big, moves too fast, or does not fit the structures of your database architectures. When including the cost of software, hardware, and licensing/support, the cost per terabyte (TB) of an MPP system is estimated at tens of thousands of dollars [4].

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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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Galido

MAY 1, 2019

The deeper we dive into modern technology terms, the more it seems we try to blend physical and virtual worlds together. 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. Code Blogs.

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Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Server virtualization can do the trick for you if you also struggle to scale your applications to meet growing demands without breaking the bank. Server virtualization is a game-changing technology that has revolutionized the way organizations deploy and manage their IT infrastructure.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

This article by Red Hat provides a reasonable overview of various networking options available in OpenStack (specifically, Red Hat’s OpenStack distribution) to support Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). Servers/Hardware. Virtualization. VCE—er, or is it EMC Converged Platforms Division?—recently

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Storage IO Blog

JULY 22, 2017

Data storage regardless of if hardware, legacy, new, emerging, cloud service or various software defined storage (SDS) approaches are all fundamental resource components of data infrastructures along with compute server, I/O networking as well as management tools, techniques, processes and procedures.

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