Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Via Alex Mitelman’s Systems Design Weekly 015 , I was pointed to this AWS article on multi-site active-active architectures. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 24, 2022

After all, entry-level pricing for mainframes in the z15 family running IBM Z operating systems is $250,000. IBM LinuxONE III systems run only Linux at prices starting at $135,000. The program enables customers to pay only for what they use of Z system hardware and software. Z upgrades and open source.

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IBM Banking Linux Open Source 144

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 26, 2023

It’s a solid choice as an entry-level certification that is well-regarded in the industry and will verify that you have the skills to troubleshoot and resolve problems around networking, operating systems, mobile devices, and security. To earn the certification, you’ll need to pass two exams.

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SCRUM Project Management Network Security 124

CTOvision

AUGUST 16, 2013

Anthony spelled out how much money can be saved in hardware, software and people by modernization. Lloyd underscored the importance of improving IT architecture to support today’s challenges and discussed a vision for data center networking. He mentioned the debunking of myths of multi-vendor networks.

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Video Data Center Network Big Data 222

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The vendor-neutral certification covers topics such as organizational structure, security and risk management, asset security, security operations, identity and access management (IAM), security assessment and testing, and security architecture and engineering.

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SCRUM Agile Engineering Web Services 137

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

This involves more extensive use of virtual network functions (VNFs) and software-defined infrastructure based on open software and open hardware. The network monitoring solution is called TINA, and this feeds into an integrated monitoring system known as 3DV. Virtual router scalability. Uses VXLAN-based overlays.

Network 60

Network Virtualization Architecture Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 7, 2021

Servers/Hardware. VentureBeat discusses Armv9 , a new architectural update for Arm-based CPUs. Chris Evans examines the pricing of virtual instances compared to managed servie offerings as he ponders how hyper-scalers like AWS, Azure, and Google will go about/are going about optimizing service density (i.e., Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Hardware Network Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The list of articles is a bit shorter than usual this time around, but I’ve still got a good collection of articles and posts covering topics in networking, hardware (mostly focused on Apple’s processors), cloud computing, and virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

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Vmware Cloud Network Hardware 74

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 Numan Siddique describes the native DHCP support available in OVN (Open Virtual Network). Servers/Hardware. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Via Alex Mitelman’s Systems Design Weekly 015 , I was pointed to this AWS article on multi-site active-active architectures. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Linux 90

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

I was able to hit two technical sessions yesterday and liveblogged both of them: Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure. Bare Metal, Containers, and Virtualization: The Growing Choices for Cloud Applications. Both were good sessions. The XL710 also supports offloads for VXLAN and NVGRE.) That’s cool.

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Intel Hardware Linux Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

I found this link in the serverless mullet architectures post, see the “Operating Systems/Applications” section below.). Servers/Hardware. If you’re seeking to deepen your understanding of the Kubernetes architecture, I can heartily recommend this article. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Architecture Operating Systems Applications How To 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The list of articles is a bit shorter than usual this time around, but I’ve still got a good collection of articles and posts covering topics in networking, hardware (mostly focused on Apple’s processors), cloud computing, and virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Cloud Network Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 16, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Adrian Hornsby has a series (two parts so far) on designing a multi-region active-active architecture. The focus of this series seems to be more on application architecture than infrastructure architecture, although there are clear overlaps in areas.

Architecture 60

Architecture Meeting Storage Hardware 60

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.

Virtualization 60

Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Servers/Hardware. Kay Singh collects some user comments on the new M1-powered Apple hardware. Here’s a two-part series (so far) on setting up a multi-architecture Kubernetes cluster ( part 1 , part 2 ). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Martin Heinz discusses that very topic in this post.

Linux 60

Linux Network Tools Hardware 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. Chip Zoller makes the argument in favor of running Kubernetes in/on virtual machines. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Intel clearly has its sights set on expanding beyond just “servers” into many more platforms, including network hardware platforms. I’m not yet convinced that running something like the AWS CLI in a Docker container is worth the extra effort (a Python virtual environment may be more appropriate here).

Vmware 60

Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq along the way. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Networking. Nothing this time around!

Storage 60

Storage Tools Architecture Network 60

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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Intel Apple Windows Programming 101

Scott Lowe

MAY 9, 2014

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is a networking topic that is starting to get more and more attention (some may equate “attention” with “hype”; I’ll allow you to draw your own conclusion there). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage HP Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 17, 2020

This is a great read overall, but one sentence in particular really caught my eye: “30 years ago I was able to write a complete multitasking operating system in Z80 assembly code. Jon Langemak is blogging again, and he jumps back into the “blogging saddle” with a post on working with tc on Linux systems.

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Linux Apple Operating Systems Policies 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Russell Bryant has a post on Open Virtual Network (OVN) , a project within the Open vSwitch (OVS) community. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. However, virtualization is more than that; for example, here’s an example of virtualization applied to database workloads.

Firewall 60

Firewall Virtualization Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Keybase discusses some challenges with encrypted chat applications and how their architecture avoids some of those challenges. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Here’s a great post with more details on concerns over randomness in virtual machines.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Linux Academy

APRIL 30, 2019

LPI Linux Essentials — This course teaches the basic concepts of processes, programs, and the components of the Linux operating system. This course covers the basics of Prometheus, which includes its architecture and components, such as exporters, client libraries, and alerting. Courses Free in May.

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Linux Course Big Data Devops 113

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Two articles in particular stood out to me: one by Christos Karamanolis on erasure coding with VSAN 6.2 , and one by my good friend Jase McCarty on the use of sparse virtual swap files. Finally, you might find the VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 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

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Servers/Hardware. On the hardware side of things, we have James Hamilton of AWS discussing two hardware-related items coming out of AWS re:Invent 2018. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Anthony Burke has some information on preparing a node for Kubernetes and the NSX NCP.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Case Study 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

see below in the “Operating Systems/Applications” section), Metaswitch has announced a Container Networking Interface (CNI) plugin for Project Calico. Only a year late, I found this article about Cisco IOS XRv (as in “virtual”). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Operating Systems Virtualization 60

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.

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Resources Mobile Data Center Security 107

Dataconomy

MARCH 21, 2023

Containers are a form of virtualization that allows for the efficient and isolated packaging of software applications and their dependencies. Isolation : Containers are isolated from the host operating system and from other containers running on the same system.

Data 28

Data Applications Tools Resources 28

Dataconomy

MARCH 21, 2023

Containers are a form of virtualization that allows for the efficient and isolated packaging of software applications and their dependencies. Isolation : Containers are isolated from the host operating system and from other containers running on the same system.

Data 28

Data Applications Tools Resources 28

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. The series provides an introduction and overview of licensing (part 1), a review of architecture and hardware recommendations (part 2), an overview of data availability (part 3), and a discussion of fault domains (part 4). Virtualization.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Servers/Hardware. I just noticed this article about using Nova flavor extra-specs to pass QoS data down to the virtualization layer. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Thinking of virtualizing Linux on Hyper-V? What’s that? You haven’t heard of PowerNSX before? See here.). That’s handy.

Linux 60

Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Time really flies when you’re having fun! This is on my list of things to try, when I get time.

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Devops Hardware Resources Cloud 60