Linux Academy

MAY 7, 2019

Azure, just like Microsoft ? Linux Academy is the only way to get exam-like training for multiple Microsoft Azure certifications, check out this blog post if you’re wondering where to get started in Azure. Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies – Exam AZ-300. Develop solutions that use storage tables.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 17, 2017

Need to learn more about Microsoft Azure Cloud Software Defined Data Infrastructure topics including reference architecture among other resources for various application workloads? Microsoft Azure has an architecture and resources page (here) that includes various application workload reference tools.

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Linux Academy

DECEMBER 1, 2019

To continually support your mission to learn and grow, we are always adding new, free courses and resources for developing Linux and Cloud skills. Members of the Linux Academy community come together and share their insights and questions. Microsoft SQL Server on Linux Quick Start. How to Get a Linux Job.

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Linux Academy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Microsoft Azure Administrator – Exam AZ-103 : This course will help to prepare you for the AZ-103 exam with practical labs and demonstrations with the focus on these 5 domains: Manage Azure subscriptions and resources. Implement and manage storage. Last month we put out over 45 new hands-on labs for our learners to work with.

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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

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. VentureBeat discusses Armv9 , a new architectural update for Arm-based CPUs. Let’s jump right into the content! Networking. Servers/Hardware. Programming.

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Linux Academy

AUGUST 29, 2019

To continually support you in your mission to learn and grow we are always adding new courses and free resources to begin developing your Linux and Cloud skills. Courses Free in September: Microsoft SQL Server On Linux Quick Start. Linux Networking and Trouble Shooting. How to Get a Linux Job. Git Quick Start.

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Linux Academy

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

To continually support your mission to learn and grow, we are always adding new, free courses and resources for developing Linux and Cloud skills. Members of the Linux Academy community come together and share their insights and questions. Microsoft SQL Server on Linux Quick Start. How to Get a Linux Job.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

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. Virtualization. environments.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

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. This looks really promising, IMHO—I’m excited to see it continue to develop. Not sure what a bastion host is?

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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 All good stuff, thanks Mike!

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Linux Academy

MARCH 26, 2019

By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. Each month, we will kick off our community content with a live study group allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another.

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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. Looks like Microsoft’s Nano Server is headed in a new direction. Networking.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Cloud Operations: This module 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.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

Andrew Beekhof tackles some issues around the evolving OpenStack HA architecture ; in particular, how and when Pacemaker should be used as more and more OpenStack services become able to operate in active/active configurations. This is a highly technical article on scheduling in the Linux kernel , but it’s well worth reading.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

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. I’m sure there are tons of blog posts out there; here’s one.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Implementing an Enterprise Data Hub — Technical perspectives for implementing enterprise data hub architectures, converged analytics for workflow optimization, and the essential role of open standards and frameworks to ensure continuous innovation. High Performance Computing Lead, NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS). Eddie Garcia.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 18, 2015

Implementing an Enterprise Data Hub — Technical perspectives for implementing enterprise data hub architectures, converged analytics for workflow optimization, and the essential role of open standards and frameworks to ensure continuous innovation. High Performance Computing Lead, NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS). Eddie Garcia.

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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. 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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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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). There goes that great Microsoft naming expertise again.). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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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?

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Noorali starts out with a quick introduction/overview of Helm, likening it to yum or apt for Linux packages. This leads Noorali into a high-level description of some of the features planned for Helm v3, which will move to an entirely client-side architecture (no more Tiller, yay!). Helm v2.12.0 (the Rice moves on to Linkerd 2.0,

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Storage IO Blog

MAY 4, 2017

This is part one of a two-part series looking at Microsoft Azure Stack providing an overview, preview and review. Read part two here that looks at my experiences installing Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview 3 (TP3). For those who are not aware, Azure Stack is a private on-premise extension of the Azure public cloud environment.

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Storage IO Blog

MAY 4, 2017

This is part two of a two-part series looking at Microsoft Azure Stack with a focus on my experiences installing Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview 3 (TP3) including into a nested VMware vSphere ESXi environment. Read part one here that provides a general overview of Azure Stack.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

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. Bay Trail is a mobile computing experience reference architecture. General Hardware IDF2013 Linux Microsoft Windows' to run on Android.

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Storage IO Blog

MAY 1, 2016

Ubuntu is available in various distributions including as a server, workstation or desktop among others that can run bare metal on a physical machine (PM), virtual machine (VM) or as a cloud instance via services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) as well as Microsoft Azure among others.

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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. Storage Failures Hamper Cloud Foundry. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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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. Modular Data Centers.

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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. Carlos also has a good article taking a deeper look at Microsoft SONiC. The latest buzzword to hit the industry is “serverless architecture.”

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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 Greg Schulz (aka StorageIO) has a couple of VMware storage tips posts you might find useful reading. Is that a reasonable summary, Ivan?). Read here for more information.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

This article provides a good introductory overview of Linux iptables commands for configuring host-based firewall rules on your Linux systems. The Windows architecture is so dramatically different from UNIX/Linux that trying to adapt per-process containers is quite naturally going to be more than a little bit challenging.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

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. I don’t know.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Service registration (and discovery) in a micro-service architecture can be challenging. The storage aspect of Docker isn’t typically discussed in a lot of detail, other than perhaps focusing on the need for persistent storage via Docker volumes. Here’s a decent write-up on comparing LXC and Docker. Interesting.

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Dataconomy

MAY 24, 2023

Additionally, Ethereum has an active developer community, coordinated by the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, which boasts over 250 members including Intel, JPMorgan, and Microsoft. As an initiative championed by the Linux Foundation, it was purpose-built with a focus on enterprise distributed ledger use cases.

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Linux Academy

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

This November at Linux Academy, we have loads of new content coming your way! To all of our learners who may know someone who wants to learn more about the cloud or Linux, but they have been on the fence about signing up for a free community edition account, then tell them that right now is a great time for them to sign up!

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