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. Operating Systems/Applications.

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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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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. This is an awesome overview of the OpenStack Folsom architecture , courtesy of Ken Pepple. Operating Systems/Applications. storage enhancements.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Very good stuff!

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2017

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s another one. (At That’s cool. Virtualization.

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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. Operating Systems/Applications. Chris Evans reflects on how Amazon S3 appears to have become the de facto object storage API. Networking. Look at this.

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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. If there is a better definition, please let me know.)

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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. This, however, presents an issue; how do you provide outbound Internet access to these instances? Operating Systems/Applications.

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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. Component Description Sensors IoT sensors collect data from the physical environment.

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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. Component Description Sensors IoT sensors collect data from the physical environment.

Data 28

Data Storage Security Network 28

Linux Academy

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

March Study Group Course: Linux Operating System Fundamentals – Have you heard of Linux, but don’t really know anything about it? Students will get hands-on training by installing and configuring containers and thoughtfully selecting a persistent storage strategy. Stay tuned to the Linux Academy blog for further details.

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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. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Linux Academy

APRIL 29, 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 60

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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Linux Academy

JANUARY 29, 2019

Used across a variety of programs and languages for a vast array of reasons, YAML is a popular choice for data storage, configuration files, configurations management, and more. Linux Operating System Fundamentals – Have you heard of Linux, but don’t really know anything about it?

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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? shelves of CPUs, memory, and storage); it could be done with standard 1U/2U rack-mount servers. What’s the benefit to consumers?

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2018

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. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Linux Academy

MAY 28, 2019

Students will learn by doing through installing and configuring containers, and thoughtfully selecting a persistent storage strategy. We discuss architectural requirements and principles of Big Data infrastructures and the intersection of cloud computing with Big Data.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This is IDF 2013 session CLDS001, titled “Rack Scale Architecture for Cloud.” However, the current architectures aren’t sufficient. To address these concerns, Intel believes that a rack-level architecture is needed. This is going to be a key point of Kumar’s presentation.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

This is a liveblog of the AWS re:Invent 2017 session titled “Deep Dive on Amazon Elastic File System (EFS).” ” The presenters are Edward Naim and Darryl Osborne, both with AWS. Running it (operating it in production). The first item is storage type. Encryption is also supported, with key storage in KMS.

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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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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

The Internet of Things presents us with both convenience and inconvenience at the same time, suddenly everything is smart is hackable again with startups sometimes repeating security mistakes made decades ago in the rush to market toys. Woods: If you think about the overall system, within which some of these devices live.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

The Internet of Things presents us with both convenience and inconvenience at the same time, suddenly everything is smart is hackable again with startups sometimes repeating security mistakes made decades ago in the rush to market toys. Woods: If you think about the overall system, within which some of these devices live.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 15, 2014

3-D printing is known by many names; depending upon the context, the term may also be referred to as rapid prototyping, stereolighography, architectural modeling or additive manufacturing. Dynamic link library (DLL) programs redirect all the virtualized application’s calls to the server’s file system.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2023

Frank Denneman digs into Sapphire Rapids memory configurations (Sapphire Rapids is Intel’s 4th generation Scalable Processor Architecture). William Lam shares news about higher-capacity SODIMMs available for small or ultra small form factor systems. Storage This is a good (albeit slightly dated) overview of EBS volume types.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let’s be real—the ability for an application to protect itself (and its data) from rogue software (including a compromised or untrusted operating system) is huge. Operating Systems/Applications. Service registration (and discovery) in a micro-service architecture can be challenging. announcement post.

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Dataconomy

MAY 12, 2023

With the ethereal dance of data flowing through networks, geographical limitations fade into insignificance as distributed systems unite, offering a panoramic canvas upon which computational capabilities can flourish. Components A distributed computing system comprises various essential elements that are integral to its functioning.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

In particular, the use of OpenFlow to perform granular per-flow control when there are thousands (or maybe only hundreds) of flows presents a scalability challenge (for now, at least). 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.

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Vmware Storage Virtualization Network 115

Linux Academy

MARCH 26, 2019

Students will get hands-on by installing and configuring containers and thoughtfully selecting a persistent storage strategy. We discuss architectural requirements and principles of big data infrastructures and the intersection of cloud computing with big data. Using real-world examples, we highlight the growing importance of big data.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

On the flip side, though, I have to believe that it’s possible for organizations to make a gradual shift in their computing architectures and processes, so one almost has to discuss these various components individually, because to tie them all together makes it almost impossible. Operating Systems/Applications.

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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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Vmware Storage Network Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

It’s a way to run Kubernetes (the container orchestration system) on top of Mesos (the cluster resource scheduler) as a native Mesos framework. Operating Systems/Applications. In any case, if you’re running KVM with OVS, you might find some of the scripts that Ed presents useful. I highly recommend this article.

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Cloud Musings

JUNE 12, 2015

Because most servers and databases are not single instances within a data center but interconnected to other systems and databases, including mid-range and mainframe systems, there is immense variety that complicates migrations today. This all presents complexity – and complexity presents risks.

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Cloud Musings

JUNE 12, 2015

Because most servers and databases are not single instances within a data center but interconnected to other systems and databases, including mid-range and mainframe systems, there is immense variety that complicates migrations today. This all presents complexity – and complexity presents risks.

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Data How To Data Center Resources 70

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

On the flip side, though, I have to believe that it’s possible for organizations to make a gradual shift in their computing architectures and processes, so one almost has to discuss these various components individually, because to tie them all together makes it almost impossible. Operating Systems/Applications.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 61

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

The keynote starts with an interesting musical piece that shows how technology can be used to allow a single performer to emulate the sound of a full band, and then kicks off with a “pocket avatar” presentation by Brian Krzanich, CEO of Intel Corporation. IDF 2013: Rack Scale Architecture for Cloud. IDF 2014 Day 1 Keynote.

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