CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Microsegmentation like that provided by vendors CISCO and VMware state that traditional perimeter defenses akin to medieval castles walls no longer work. The argument is that today with the expansion of n-tier distributed systems and massively parallel architectures, east-west traffic has increased exponentially. Nathaniel Crocker.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 31, 2014

Overall I give the Lenovo TS140 a provisional "A" which would be a solid "A" once the BIOS/firmware issue mentioned above is resolved for VMware, otoh, if you are not concerned about using the TS140 for VMware, then consider it as an "A". As mentioned above, I liked it so much I actually bought one to add to my collection.

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Network World

JANUARY 4, 2018

First, to be clear, these exploits affect all the major computer chip architectures. And all the major software vendors of Linux, Microsoft for Windows, Apple for macOS, and virtualization software suppliers such as VMware and Citrix have all collaborated to mitigate this threat. To read this article in full, please click here

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2016

While Microsoft Windows Server recently celebrated its 20th birthday (or anniversary), a lot has changed as well as evolved. This includes Windows Servers 2016 supporting new deployment and consumption models (e.g. The post Gaining Server Storage I/O Insight into Microsoft Windows Server 2016 appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Storage IO Blog

MAY 26, 2015

VMware vCloud Air provides a platform similar to those just mentioned among others for your applications and their underlying resource needs (compute, memory, storage, networking) to be fulfilled.

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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 14, 2014

During the 2013 post thanksgiving black friday shopping day, I did some on-line buying including a Dell Inspiron 660 i660 (5629BK) to be used as a physical machine (PM) or VMware host (among other things). Now technically I know, this is a workstation or desktop […].

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 28, 2018

Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Insiders Preview Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Insiders Preview has been announced. Windows Server 2019 in the past might have been named 2016 R2 also known as a Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) release.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2014

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 20, 2013

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Hastening hardware refresh With Windows 10 reaching end of life in 2025, CIOs will plan to migrate to Windows 11 over the next 18 months, and getting the promised security improvements by default means investing in new PCs with newer generations of CPU that have the right instructions to support security features without compromising performance.

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Storage IO Blog

JUNE 7, 2018

Announcing Windows Server Summit Virtual Online Event Announcing Windows Server Summit Virtual Online Event Microsoft will be hosting a free (no registration required) half day virtual (e.g. online) Windows Server Summit Virtual Online Event June 26, 2018 starting at 9AM PT.

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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 31, 2015

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Anthony Burke has written a script that uses VMware NSX to protect VMware Log Insight instances. Jason Messer has an article describing how networking works with Windows containers. Ajeet Singh Raina has a write-up on running Docker Datacenter on VMware vSphere. Welcome to Technology Short Take #67. Networking.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 3, 2016

Happy 20th Birthday Microsoft Windows Server, get ready for Windows Server 2016 August 3, 2016 – 1:48 pm Print Friendly Version of this pagePrint Get a PDF version of this webpagePDF Happy 20th Birthday Windows Server, ready for Server 2016?

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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 6, 2015

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2023

After walking his executive team through the data hops, flows, integrations, and processing across different ingestion software, databases, and analytical platforms, they were shocked by the complexity of their current data architecture and technology stack. Real-time AI involves processing data for making decisions within a given time frame.

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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 6, 2015

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Want to install VMware NSX in your home lab, but concerned about resource utilization? Although it’s not called out in the article, it’s important to note that this is not supported by VMware.). to VMware NSX 6.2.5 John Slack shares some tips and tricks garnered while learning to use Vagrant on Windows 10.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 1, 2023

Vulnerabilities in NGINX, Atlassian Confluence, VMware, MS Exchange, and other popular services also provide entry points. Without proper cloud architecture and controls, these attacks can penetrate internally from compromised cloud assets. 68% of external Log4Shell detections remain unpatched. It also boosted patch rates by 8%.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Linux containers on Windows (LCOW) preview support. Improved platform support (Azure, packet.net, IBM Bluemix, AWS, GCP, VMware, Hyper-V, etc.). The demo shows using LinuxKit to build an identical image across three different architectures (x86, ARM64, and Raspberry Pi). Improved Kubernetes support. Multi-arch build system.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

VMware recently released an updated to PowerCLI (version 6.5.3), and with it comes a set of cmdlets that provide low-level access to the NSX-T REST API. Lior Kamrat has a multi-part series on an architecture that blends Mesosphere DC/OS, Azure, Docker, and VMware vSphere. VMware recently released version 2.0 Networking.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2016

You will learn how to painlessly deploy fairly complex applications that scale across multiple instances in cloud technologies including Windows Azure Chef, Chef Solo, Linux and Windows Tools.

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Cloud Musings

JANUARY 30, 2017

This NCTA program was designed to provide IT professionals with a strong foundation in cloud technologies, and overall cloud architecture and management of cloud infrastructure, as well as a solid technical background in modern web services deployment and administration.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 20, 2013

Some FCSA ssd cache questions and perspectives What […].

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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). Sam McGeown has a nice diagram of the communications channels between the various VMware NSX components. (Who knows, maybe I’ll throw a rant or two in there.)

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

This is an interesting deep dive into Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP architecture. Bozhidar Batsov shares the story of how he left macOS for Linux and ended up on Windows 10 with WSL. Austin Hughley for sticking it out through all the challenges and documenting how to use a Windows gaming PC as a (Linux) Docker host.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Weijuan Shi Davis collected some resources related to Windows containers on Kubernetes in this post-KubeCon post. Kyle Ruddy helps folks get started with the Desired State Configuration Resources (DSCR) for VMware , a new way of using PowerShell DSC with VMware vSphere environments. Now, it makes a lot more sense to me.

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Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Events at the OpenStack Summit in Barcelona helped provide a window into the promise of tomorrow's interoperable environment. Participants include AT&T, Canonical, Cisco, DreamHost, Deutsche Telekom, Fujitsu, HPE, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Linaro, Mirantis, OSIC, OVH, Rackspace, Red Hat, SUSE and VMware.

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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. Networking. Nothing this time around.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

Granted, it’s a VMware post, so it may gloss over some details, but it’s still a decent look at what’s possible when you take the abstractions and APIs offered by a solution like NSX. Run Windows containers on the Mac. Dale Coghlan has an article on the Broadcom bnx2x driver and VXLAN offload that may save you some time in this area.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

This is an interesting deep dive into Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP architecture. Bozhidar Batsov shares the story of how he left macOS for Linux and ended up on Windows 10 with WSL. Austin Hughley for sticking it out through all the challenges and documenting how to use a Windows gaming PC as a (Linux) Docker host.

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2017

One of the announcements included VMware partnering to deliver vSphere, vSAN and NSX data infrastructure components for creating software defined data centers (SDDC) also known as multi cloud, and hybrid cloud leveraging AWS elastic bare metal servers (read more here in a companion post).

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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. Acra is open source and available via GitHub.

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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

JANUARY 28, 2016

Granted, it’s a VMware post, so it may gloss over some details, but it’s still a decent look at what’s possible when you take the abstractions and APIs offered by a solution like NSX. Run Windows containers on the Mac. Dale Coghlan has an article on the Broadcom bnx2x driver and VXLAN offload that may save you some time in this area.

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Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 60

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). .” Also from the same folks is a version of cloud-init for Windows instances in cloud environments.

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