Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Lior Kamrat has a multi-part series on an architecture that blends Mesosphere DC/OS, Azure, Docker, and VMware vSphere. Operating Systems/Applications. After a recent complaint by yours truly on Twitter regarding notifications on Windows 10, I was directed to this article. Google is rolling out Kubernetes 1.8

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Vmware Storage Engineering Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

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. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Feeling geeky?

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Vmware Storage Network Windows 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

This is an interesting deep dive into Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP architecture. Operating Systems/Applications. Bozhidar Batsov shares the story of how he left macOS for Linux and ended up on Windows 10 with WSL. (And since Kevin didn’t define TDP—shame, shame!—see A severity score of 9.9

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 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

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

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). Operating Systems/Applications. The Windows Server team managed to shrink the size of the Windows Server Core container image by about 60%; get more details here.

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Vmware Linux Network Storage 60

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

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Ben Rossi tackles the subject of security in a software-defined world , talking about how best to integrate security into SDN-driven architectures and solutions. Also from the same folks is a version of cloud-init for Windows instances in cloud environments. Operating Systems/Applications. Check this out.

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Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Linux Academy

APRIL 30, 2019

That viruses and malware are Windows problems is a misnomer that is often propagated through the Linux community and it’s an easy one to believe until you start noticing strange behavior on your system. Linux Operating System Fundamentals – Have you heard of Linux, but don’t really know anything about it?

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Linux Course Big Data Devops 113

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Operating Systems/Applications. For me, the key takeaway was that you need to carefully examine the architecture of your application(s) in order to understand where serverless (function-as-a-service) is the best fit. “The Alan Renouf shows you how to retrieve NVMe storage device details using PowerCLI. Virtualization.

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Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Weijuan Shi Davis collected some resources related to Windows containers on Kubernetes in this post-KubeCon post. Operating Systems/Applications. Now, it makes a lot more sense to me. Time and experience can make quite a difference sometimes! Suvash Thapaliya describes a mechanism for building a self-documenting Makefile.

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Vmware Linux Hardware Case Study 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. This gives them very fine-grained control over data access.

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Meeting Storage Hardware Network 63

Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

Cue the round of folks claiming that this is why proprietary network operating systems [NOSes] are the route the networking industry should be taking.). Trevor Roberts recently posted an article discussing Windows images in your OpenStack cloud. Operating Systems/Applications. Seen this ?

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Vmware Linux Intel Network 60

Linux Academy

MAY 15, 2020

This article will give you the full lowdown on Windows Containers, to prepare you to do just that. Why Windows? First, I want to acknowledge that there is a big difference between Linux and Windows containers. So why do we even need Windows containers? Docker on Windows is a port of Docker (not a fork).

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Windows Linux Architecture Virtualization 129

Linux Academy

APRIL 9, 2019

This certification exam focuses on testing technical expertise around: Designing and deploying scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on the AWS platform. Understand AWS architectural best practices. An understanding of the basic architectural principles of building on the AWS Cloud. VPN, AWS Direct Connect).

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Devops Architecture Web Services Applications 60

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 ). Operating Systems/Applications. OpenSSH on Windows —what a time to be alive! Christian Kellner talks about work done on Thunderbolt 3 security levels for GNU/Linux.

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Linux Vmware Comparison Network 60

Linux Academy

APRIL 29, 2019

That viruses and malware are Windows problems is a misnomer that is often propagated through the Linux community and it’s an easy one to believe until you start noticing strange behavior on your system. Linux Operating System Fundamentals – Have you heard of Linux, but don’t really know anything about it?

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Linux Course Big Data Devops 60

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Virtualization.

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Linux Network Hardware Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

Operating Systems/Applications. Run Windows containers on the Mac. With the recent acquisition of Unikernel Systems by Docker Inc. A lot of folks criticized Bryan’s viewpoint on unikernels, but he’s right—there is (right now) a dearth of operational tools for unikernels. Good information, thanks!

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Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

Operating Systems/Applications. Run Windows containers on the Mac. With the recent acquisition of Unikernel Systems by Docker Inc. A lot of folks criticized Bryan’s viewpoint on unikernels, but he’s right—there is (right now) a dearth of operational tools for unikernels. Good information, thanks!

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Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 60

Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Moreover, the Pocket AI GPU is compatible with both Windows and Linux systems, ensuring widespread usability. Thanks to the folks at Storage Review for the benchmark chart! Thanks to NVIDIA CUDA X RTX software enhancements, it’s primed for delivering exceptional performance. PCI Express 3.0 PCI Express 3.0

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Linux Intel Windows Fashion 78

ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

Woods: If you think about the overall system, within which some of these devices live. There has to be storage somewhere so even sensors, end up sending their data someplace that has to be stored, and that might be in the cloud, for instance, which is increasingly a part of the Internet of Things. It's still a threat.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

Woods: If you think about the overall system, within which some of these devices live. There has to be storage somewhere so even sensors, end up sending their data someplace that has to be stored, and that might be in the cloud, for instance, which is increasingly a part of the Internet of Things. It's still a threat.

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Internet Research Security Tools 52

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. Nigel Poulton attended DockerCon EU and has an article sharing some early thoughts on the state of Docker and Windows containers. Virtualization.

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Windows Firewall Linux Architecture 60

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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Storage Intel Disaster Recovery Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

Operating Systems/Applications. Although these posts are storage-related, the real focus is on how the storage stack is implemented in a virtualization solution, which is why I’m putting them in this section. Windows Backup has native Hyper-V support in Windows Server 2012. Virtualization.

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Virtualization Storage Vmware Network 102

Scott Lowe

APRIL 21, 2016

Operating Systems/Applications. An Ubuntu userspace and Bash shell running on Windows , eh? And for further evidence that the Windows world is drastically changing, note this article by Taylor Brown announcing Hyper-V Containers on Windows 10 and PowerShell for Docker. This almost entices me to try Windows again.

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Vmware Linux Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

I might have mentioned this before, but Ken Pepple’s OpenStack Folsom architecture post is just awesome. Operating Systems/Applications. I found this article on imperative vs. declarative system configuration is quite helpful in understanding Puppet’s declarative model. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

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 106

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Rack Scale Architecture for Cloud: [link]. Enabling Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networking with the Intel Open Network Platform Server Reference Architecture Design: [link]. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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Intel Network Architecture Virtualization 60

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

Cloud Musings

JUNE 12, 2015

Unified consoles simplify the process: Another feature government IT leaders should demand in their migration solution is a unified console that allows IT to work on all types of migrations with a common workflow across operating systems and platforms.

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Data How To Data Center Resources 70

Cloud Musings

JUNE 12, 2015

Unified consoles simplify the process: Another feature government IT leaders should demand in their migration solution is a unified console that allows IT to work on all types of migrations with a common workflow across operating systems and platforms.

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