CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 16, 2023

Big Data collection at scale is increasing across industries, presenting opportunities for companies to develop AI models and leverage insights from that data. Its algorithms and architecture make it resistant to tampering and, thus, ideal for storing financial records, medical data, or other sensitive information.

Artificial Intelligence 105

Artificial Intelligence Virtualization Research Industry 105

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

” The presenters are Vikram Hosakote and Rich Wellum, from Cisco and Lenovo, respectively. Next, Hosakote goes over the Kolla architecture. When Kubernetes is in play (via Kolla-Kubernetes), the architecture is similar but with the addition of Kubernetes-specific components (such as the kubelet on worker nodes).

Architecture 60

Architecture Hardware Examples Tools 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

This is a liveblog of the session titled “Can OpenStack Beat AWS in Price: The Trilogy” The presenters are Rico Lin, Bruno Lago, and Jean-Daniel Bonnetot. Lago starts the presentation with an explanation of the session, and each of the presenters introduce themselves, their companies, and their backgrounds.

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Comparison Cloud Hardware Examples 60

The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

And that’s before we get into Microsoft’s game streaming service, xCloud, which could mean you won’t need any Xbox hardware at all to play many of the latest games. Games should also load quicker because both consoles now include fast solid-state storage, a big improvement over the mechanical hard drive included in the Xbox One.

Hardware 110

Hardware Microsoft Examples Storage 110

CTOvision

JULY 9, 2014

In the text below, I examine an on-premise Hadoop ecosystem as a general purpose Big Data solution in relation to alternative commercial purpose-built storage technologies (-e.g. The data is too big, moves too fast, or does not fit the structures of your database architectures. Oracle, Teradata, IBM, SAP, Microsoft, EMC, etc).

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Big Data Data Analysis Fractional CTO 286

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

First, deliver more computing power in the hardware, either through the addition of FPGAs to existing CPUs or through the continued march of CPU power (via more cores or faster clock speeds or both). Second, make the hardware programmable, through standard interfaces. General Hardware IDF2014 Intel' Expo Floor. Closing Thoughts.

Intel 60

Intel Data Center Hardware Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Servers/Hardware. 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. Check back next time!

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Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Sean Daniel

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Announcing Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. This morning, building on the Windows Small Business Server 2011 Announcement , we are announcing a new edition targeted at Small Business called Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. What is this Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials? SeanDaniel.com [tech].

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Storage Windows Small Business Backup 73

Galido

JANUARY 28, 2020

It might be good for the future, but for the present and near future it may turn out to be an overkill. If you are here looking for the ultimate PC, you should be ready to spend some of your hard-earned money on decent hardware. For inexpensive storage, you can buy the Seagate Barracuda 2TB HDD or Seagate Barracuda 6TB.

Storage 105

Storage Hardware System Operating Systems 105

Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

What’s next: With the A17 Pro’s advanced architecture and capabilities, we can expect more console-quality games to be playable on mobile, and potentially a greater adoption of iPhones in professional settings requiring high-speed data transfer and computational power. It also offers 4K60 ProRes support.

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Apple Mobile Architecture Engineering 78

GeekWire

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The developer of the Q# programming language, Microsoft Quantum recently announced the creation of an intermediate bridge that will allow Q# and other languages to be used to send instructions to different quantum hardware platforms. Quantum computing isn’t Classical Computing 2.0.

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Research Microsoft Programming Applications 133

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

” The presenters are Girish Gopal and Malini Bhandaru, both with Intel. Bhandaru takes over to provide an overview of the OpenStack architecture. Next, Intel talks about how they have worked to expose hardware features into OpenStack. Gopal now takes over and moves the discussion into storage in OpenStack.

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Intel Storage Open Source Hardware 60

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. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Jeda Networks describes themselves as a “software-defined storage networking” company. Given my previous role at EMC (involved in storage) and my current role at VMware focused on network virtualization (which encompasses SDN), I was quite curious. At that point, the system DRAM almost looks like another level of cache.

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Meeting Storage Hardware Network 63

Cloud Musings

MAY 28, 2018

Architecting Cloud ComputingSolutions presents and explains many critical Cloud solution design considerations and technology decisions required to successfully consume the right cloud service and deployment models based on strategic, economic, and technology requirements. Scott's perspectives combine many real-world experiences.

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Disaster Recovery Cloud CTO Hire Architecture 79

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. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Dataconomy

MARCH 28, 2023

The ecosystem consists of various components, including devices, communication networks, data storage, and analytics tools, that work together to create an intelligent system that enables automation, monitoring, and control of various processes. Cloud Platform IoT cloud platforms enable data storage, processing, and analysis in the cloud.

Data 28

Data Storage Security Network 28

Dataconomy

MARCH 28, 2023

The ecosystem consists of various components, including devices, communication networks, data storage, and analytics tools, that work together to create an intelligent system that enables automation, monitoring, and control of various processes. Cloud Platform IoT cloud platforms enable data storage, processing, and analysis in the cloud.

Data 28

Data Storage Security Network 28

Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2016

NCTA Cloud Operations that helps you study the management of cloud operations and addresses the application need for compute power, managing CPU scaling, and meeting both structured and unstructured storage requirements. Groups will complete a cloud assessment of Fortune 100 firms using public information and make presentations to the client.

Cloud 70

Cloud Web Services Hardware Software 70

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Erik Smith, notably known for his outstanding posts on storage and FCoE, takes a stab at describing some of the differences between SDN and network virtualization in this post. Servers/Hardware. This is an awesome overview of the OpenStack Folsom architecture , courtesy of Ken Pepple. storage enhancements. It starts here.

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Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Servers/Hardware. Kenneth Hui, formerly of VCE and now with Rackspace, does a great job of explaining how VMware vSphere fits into the OpenStack Nova architecture in this blog post. I found a few articles by fellow VCDX Josh Odgers that discuss the impact of Nutanix’s converged architecture on vSphere designs.

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Vmware Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Servers/Hardware. 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. If you’re not familiar with OVN, this is a good post with which to start. ” Amen!

Firewall 60

Firewall Virtualization Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

You may have heard of Intel Rack-Scale Architecture (RSA), a new approach to designing data center hardware. Why should they buy this architecture instead of just buying servers? Establishing hardware-level APIs. What Intel’s proposing with Intel RSA doesn’t require disaggregated hardware (i.e.,

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Intel Architecture Hardware Data Center 105

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

As a provider, Expedient has to balance five core resources: compute, storage (capacity), storage (performance), network I/O, and memory. Next the presentation shifts focus a little bit to discuss FCoE. VM-to-VM (on the same host) via a hardware-based virtual switch in an SR-IOV network interface card (NIC).

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Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 109

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. Servers/Hardware. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

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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Intel Hardware Mobile Dell 60

Linux Academy

APRIL 30, 2019

You learn the basic knowledge of computer hardware, gain an understanding of open-source applications in the workplace, and learn to navigate systems on a Linux desktop, as well as rudimentary commands to navigate the Linux command line. Monitoring Kubernetes with Prometheus — Are you interested in deploying Prometheus to Kubernetes?

Linux 113

Linux Course Big Data Devops 113

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

In his post on the unspoken benefits of open networking , Matt presents a similar argument: that the rise of open networking is something that offers benefits to all organizations, not just the web-scale companies. Servers/Hardware. Chris Evans reflects on how Amazon S3 appears to have become the de facto object storage API.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Operating Systems Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

As a result of their migration, provisioning time was reduced; power savings resulted; and Enel saw significant storage savings. Jassy picks up from the Enel presentation by focusing not only on AWS’ breadth of services, but the depth of features offered by these services. the storage, and 2x the number of vCPUs.

Vmware 60

Vmware Cloud Storage Data 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2013

According to Martin, the term SDN originally referred to a change in the network architecture to include a) decoupling the distribution model of the control plane from the data plane; and b) generalized rather than fixed function forwarding hardware. ” These definitions are, in my humble opinion, reasonably precise and accurate.

Virtualization 134

Virtualization Network Vmware Load Balancer 134

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

This is a liveblog of IDF 2014 session DATS009, titled “Ceph: Open Source Storage Software Optimizations on Intel Architecture for Cloud Workloads.” Chagam does admit that not all workloads are suited for distributed storage solutions. Chagam turns to discussing Ceph block storage.

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Open Source Storage Intel Architecture 61

Cloud Musings

MAY 30, 2016

(This post originally appeared on Direct2Dell, The Official Dell Corporate Blog) Enterprise storage is trending away from traditional, enterprise managed network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SAN) towards a more complex environment that includes software-defined and cloud-based solutions.

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Storage Data Dell Architecture 70

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

If we can run the hardware required for those endeavors with renewable sources of energy, we can collectively make a huge difference.” – Bradley Love, founder and CEO of Network Platforms. Saicom understands that what businesses need most, as they navigate the move to the cloud, is choice, support, and flexible solution architecture.

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Vmware Cloud Energy Data Center 105

The Verge

JUNE 20, 2020

The show must go on, so Apple will be presenting the entire conference in a new, digital-only format. The company is still expected to unveil the first look at the future of iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS — the various suites of software that power all of Apple’s hardware. The first look at the next generation of Apple’s software.

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Hardware Apple Intel Conference 136

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2018

Servers/Hardware. The CPU architecture flaw involving speculative execution has been garnering a great deal of attention (see here , here , here , and here ). Read this post-mortem on an outage to gain a better idea of some of the challenges this additional complexity might present when it comes to troubleshooting.

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Linux Vmware Comparison Network 60

Linux Academy

APRIL 29, 2019

You learn the basic knowledge of computer hardware, gain an understanding of open-source applications in the workplace, and learn to navigate systems on a Linux desktop, as well as rudimentary commands to navigate the Linux command line. Monitoring Kubernetes with Prometheus — Are you interested in deploying Prometheus to Kubernetes?

Linux 60

Linux Course Big Data Devops 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

What’s really interesting to me is the (completely uncoordinated) alignment between Matt’s list of skills for networking pros and the list I provided to virtualization pros in a series of recent VMUG presentations (refer to slide 15, but the list is software development basics, Linux, automation/orchestration, and public cloud services).

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