CTOvision

AUGUST 16, 2013

He outlined that network and IT infrastructure transformation to improve citizen services, improve agency missions, and reduce cost are very possible. He mentioned the debunking of myths of multi-vendor networks. Lloyd’s message: It is amazing how things have changed in technology, except in one area: networking.

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Video Data Center Network Big Data 222

Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Networking. Isovalent—the company behind the Cilium project—has been talking a lot about how the use of eBPF will transform things, including the architecture of a service mesh. network virtualization). Is the relationship between network virtualization and service mesh closer than some folks might wish to admit?

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Virtualization Storage Programming Network 79

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Networking. Back in April of this year, Patrick Ogenstad announced Netrasp , a Go package for writing network automation tooling in Go. Via Alex Mitelman’s Systems Design Weekly 015 , I was pointed to this AWS article on multi-site active-active architectures. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

Scott Lowe

MARCH 12, 2021

I didn’t do so well on storage links; apologies to my storage-focused friends! Networking. Isovalent, the folks behind Cilium, recently unveiled the Network Policy Editor, a graphical way of editing Kubernetes Network Policies. Operating Systems/Applications. BeLikeIvan.

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IPv6 Network Storage Policies 60

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Architectural lock-in is when the application relies on multiple managed services from the cloud provider. Mergers and acquisition activity often leaves organizations with multi-cloud architectures, says Nag, and while CIOs typically want to consolidate, the cost is often too high to justify. Security is a good example. “If

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Cloud Applications Architecture Strategy 124

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Networking. Biruk Mekonnen has an introductory article on using Netmiko for network automation. Gabriele Gerbino has a nice write-up about Cisco’s efforts with APIs ; his article includes a brief description of YANG data models and a comparison of working with network devices via SSH or via API. Servers/Hardware. My takeaway?

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Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2020

Networking. This isn’t necessarily networking-related, but it does pertain to a very well-known content creator who specializes in networking. Andreas Wittig takes a look at some advanced AWS networking pitfalls to avoid. Operating Systems/Applications. ‘Nuff said.

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Storage Tools Architecture Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 16, 2018

Networking. Interesting stuff…P4 definitely has the potential to dramatically reshape networking in new ways, in my humble opinion. Ajay Chenampara outlines how POAP (Power On Auto Provisioning), a feature of Cisco NX-OS, works to streamline provisioning new network switches. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Architecture Meeting Storage Hardware 60

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. Networking. ” Specifically, this post talks about Kubernetes networking. VentureBeat discusses Armv9 , a new architectural update for Arm-based CPUs.

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Linux Hardware Network Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Networking. I really enjoyed David Gee’s series on the network automation engineer persona ( part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , and part 4 ). David really unpacks the changes that are happening in the networking space and describes the key skills the “next-generation network engineer” will have. Good stuff!

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Vmware Storage Engineering Network 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Networking. In this post on why networking needs a Chaos Monkey , Mike Bushong applies to the terms to networks—a snowflake network is an intricately crafted network that is carefully tailored to utilize a custom subset of networking features unique to your environment. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Jul - 13 Hints for Computer Systems Design Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, pp. Harris, Alex Ho, Rolf Neugebauer, Ian Pratt, Andrew Warfield, in the Proceedings of the 19th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, October 19-22, 2003, Bolton Landing, NY USA.

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Operating Systems Conference Survey System 144

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Networking. Back in April of this year, Patrick Ogenstad announced Netrasp , a Go package for writing network automation tooling in Go. Via Alex Mitelman’s Systems Design Weekly 015 , I was pointed to this AWS article on multi-site active-active architectures. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

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

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Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

And that is a very big line to cross — basically, the iPhone’s operating system now has the capability to look at your photos and match them up against a database of illegal content, and you cannot remove that capability. We market 5G networks, not just for speed but for capability, whether or not that’s true.

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Apple Cloud Storage Network 85

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. Networking. Operating Systems/Applications. to VMware NSX 6.2.5

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Vmware Storage Network Windows 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Networking. Russ White tackles the issue of networking engineers needing to learn to code. Jason Messer has an article describing how networking works with Windows containers. Tom Hollingsworth discusses how the rise of overlay networks killed large layer 2 networks and tools for building large layer 2 networks, like TRILL.

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Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Networking. Amit Aneja has a two-part series (so far) explaining the routing architecture in NSX-T (which brings multi-hypervisor and multi-cloud support to the NSX platform). I particularly liked his (mini-)rant about how network automation can’t be only about making the network engineer’s life easier.

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Vmware Linux Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

Networking. Said van de Klundert has a post on screen scraping basics for network engineers. For network engineers just getting started with network automation, I suspect that the information shared here may prove quite useful. For readers who may be new to networking, Daniel Wray has a write-up on network cabling.

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Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 9, 2014

Networking. 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). Operating Systems/Applications. Looking for more VMware NSX content?

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Vmware Storage HP Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Networking. I found this link in the serverless mullet architectures post, see the “Operating Systems/Applications” section below.). 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 5, 2012

Networking. I think this three-part series on new network models for cloud computing ( part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 ), while almost a year old, is quite good. 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.

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Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Networking. see below in the “Operating Systems/Applications” section), Metaswitch has announced a Container Networking Interface (CNI) plugin for Project Calico. First up, Matt goes on a bit of a rant regarding SDN and network automation. Both these articles came out of Network Field Day 11 , by the way.).

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Vmware Network Operating Systems Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Networking. At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. Here’s another topic that came up at the recent DevOps Networking Forum: Spotify’s SDN Internet Router (SIR). Here’s some information on Nuage Networks’ experimental Docker Network plugin.

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Networking. Via BlueCat Networks, John Capobianco shares his network automation journey. Via BlueCat Networks, John Capobianco shares his network automation journey. Keybase discusses some challenges with encrypted chat applications and how their architecture avoids some of those challenges.

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Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Linux Academy

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Students will learn by doing through installing and configuring containers and thoughtfully selecting a persistent storage strategy. This course also covers container networking including inter-container communication, managing container networks, and exposing container ports on the host. Linux Operating System Fundamentals.

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Course Linux Devops Big Data 104

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Networking. Cisco shared some thoughts on what they termed a “software-only” approach; naturally, they have a different vision for data center networking (and that’s OK). I found this write-up on using OVS port mirroring with Security Onion for intrusion detection and network security monitoring.

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Vmware Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

Networking. Mircea Ulinic shows readers how to use salt-sproxy to take a different approach to network automation using Salt. Michael Kashin has published a couple of posts on a project of his called NaaS (Network-as-a-Service). Operating Systems/Applications. I hope you find something useful here!

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Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Networking. I mean, if they aren’t willing to embrace the abstraction and automation that a cloud management platform brings, will abstraction and automation at the networking layer provide any significant benefit? Don’t think this “software-defined networking” thing is going to take off? x86 marches on!

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Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Networking. This is a slightly older post providing an overview of container networking , but still quite relevant. Russell Bryant has a post on Open Virtual Network (OVN) , a project within the Open vSwitch (OVS) community. specifically, the new container network firewall functionality. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Firewall Virtualization Network Storage 60

Storage IO Blog

MARCH 21, 2016

Keep an eye on among others including Cisco (Servers), Dell (Servers), EMC (DSSD), HPE, Intel (Servers, Drives and Cards), Lenovo, Micron, Microsoft (Drivers, Operating Systems, Storage Spaces), NetApp, OCZ, Oracle, PMC, Samsung, Seagate, Supermicro, VMware and Western Digital (acquisition of SANdisk and HGST).

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Vmware Dell Oracle Operating Systems 40

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Jeda Networks. I’ve mentioned Jeda Networks before (see here ), and I was pretty excited to have the opportunity to sit down with a couple of guys from Jeda to get more details on what they’re doing. Jeda Networks describes themselves as a “software-defined storage networking” company.

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Meeting Storage Hardware Network 63

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. 3) Join us on YouTube! Courses Free in May.

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Linux Course Big Data Devops 113

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Networking. This is an interesting deep dive into Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP architecture. Operating Systems/Applications. I hope you find something useful! A short while ago I was helping someone (an acquaintance of a friend) with some odd DNS issues. —see this post for an explanation.).

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

Dataconomy

MARCH 28, 2023

It requires a deep understanding of the interplay between IoT devices, sensors, networks, and data science tools and techniques. An IoT ( Internet of Things ) ecosystem refers to a network of interconnected devices, sensors, and software applications that work together to collect, analyze, and share data. What is an IoT ecosystem?

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Data Storage Security Network 28

Dataconomy

MARCH 28, 2023

It requires a deep understanding of the interplay between IoT devices, sensors, networks, and data science tools and techniques. An IoT ( Internet of Things ) ecosystem refers to a network of interconnected devices, sensors, and software applications that work together to collect, analyze, and share data. What is an IoT ecosystem?

Data 28

Data Storage Security Network 28

Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

Networking. Cue the round of folks claiming that this is why proprietary network operating systems [NOSes] are the route the networking industry should be taking.). (Cue Operating Systems/Applications. Check out Anthony Burke’s introductory post on PowerNSX for more details. Seen this ?

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Vmware Linux Intel Network 60