Network World

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Open source software offers an economical and flexible option for deploying basic home, SMB or even enterprise networking. These open source products deliver simple routing and networking features, like DHCP and DNS. These products can be downloaded and deployed on your own hardware, on a virtual platform, or in the cloud.

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Open Source Firewall SMB Hardware 60

Computerworld Vertical IT

MAY 26, 2023

Beyond the growth of IoT and OT devices, and partners and customers gaining network privileges, the biggest change is the avalanche of home offices and the lack of consistency or standards across those remote sites. Hardware firewalls may or may not exist — and may or not ever get patched if they do exist.

LAN 67

LAN Firewall Hardware Enterprise 67

Computerworld Vertical IT

MAY 31, 2022

IT support has forever changed as more and more employees are now working from any number of remote locations — and no longer sitting behind a corporate firewall. Five years ago, [IT workers] were about how to support things like Windows updates and every four or five years changing over to new hardware.

Firewall 69

Firewall Hardware Windows Groups 69

ComputerWorld IT Management

MAY 31, 2022

IT support has forever changed as more and more employees are now working from any number of remote locations — and no longer sitting behind a corporate firewall. Five years ago, [IT workers] were about how to support things like Windows updates and every four or five years changing over to new hardware.

Firewall 66

Firewall Hardware Windows Groups 66

ComputerWorld IT Management

MAY 26, 2023

Beyond the growth of IoT and OT devices, and partners and customers gaining network privileges, the biggest change is the avalanche of home offices and the lack of consistency or standards across those remote sites. Hardware firewalls may or may not exist — and may or not ever get patched if they do exist.

LAN 52

LAN Firewall Hardware Enterprise 52

Network World

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The problem was first discovered by security researchers at content delivery network (CDN) specialist Cloudflare. Since then, CDN specialist Akamai and security provider Arbor Networks have also published their findings. Also read: Getting the most out of your next-generation firewall.

Firewall 75

Firewall Open Source Hardware Network 75

Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2013

Is there a difference between network virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)? So, in a similar fashion to my post on network overlays vs. network virtualization , I thought I’d weigh in with some thoughts. With this definition in hand, let’s compare network virtualization to SDN.

Virtualization 134

Virtualization Network Vmware Load Balancer 134

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. Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. John Arundel is excited about CUE.

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 15, 2021

Networking. This article by Joshua Fox outlines how and when to use each of the various types of firewalls offered by AWS. Servers/Hardware. More details are available in this article. Heidi Howard and Ittai Abraham illustrate some of the challenges of the Raft consensus protocol when there is a network partition.

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Linux Firewall Open Source Vmware 60

Network World

JUNE 24, 2016

Lenovo Solution Center (LSC) allows users to check their system's virus and firewall status, update their Lenovo software, perform backups, check battery health, get registration and warranty information and run hardware tests. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Tools 61

Tools Firewall Backup Hardware 61

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. MTU in OpenStack Neutron has been, as this article by Sam Yaple points out, a bit of a touchy subject.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

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. Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. John Arundel is excited about CUE.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Networking. Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Servers/Hardware. Anthony Burke gives a little bit of a sneak peek at some functionality from the upcoming v3 release of PowerNSX: searching NSX Distributed Firewall (DFW) rules.

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Networking. Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Servers/Hardware. Anthony Burke gives a little bit of a sneak peek at some functionality from the upcoming v3 release of PowerNSX: searching NSX Distributed Firewall (DFW) rules.

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 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. Servers/Hardware. specifically, the new container network firewall functionality.

Firewall 60

Firewall Virtualization Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 2, 2019

Here’s my latest gathering of links and articles from the around the World Wide Web (an “old school” reference for you right there). Networking. Northbound Networks provides some information on the P4 programming language. Servers/Hardware. AnandTech has a nice article on the future PCIe 6.0

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Storage Applications Programming Firewall 60

Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The concept or the traditional concept of protecting at the perimeter with the traditional firewalls and gateways is really non-existent anymore. When I'm using my laptop at a coffee shop, I am no longer going through a firewall to access a cloud service. Kevin: With that sound advice we've come to the end of our time for this episode.

Information Security 112

Information Security Firewall Intel Mobile 112

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

I’ve got a new collection of links and articles from around the Web on various data center-focused technologies. Networking. Michael Kashin has a great article on how Open Virtual Network (OVN, part of the Open vSwitch project) implements virtual networks in OpenStack. Servers/Hardware. Good advice.

Linux 60

Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

That’s right, it’s time for yet another collection of links and articles from around the Internet on various data center-related technologies, products, projects, and efforts. Networking. Matt also recently posted part 4 (of 5) in his series on SDN protocols; this post covers OpFlex and declarative networking.

Vmware 69

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

In any case, here’s another collection of links and articles from around the Net on the major data center technology areas. Networking. At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. Servers/Hardware. I’ll try to correct that for the next one.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles about the major data center technologies. Networking. While I’m talking about the overlay/underlay model, I found this article by Tom Nolle discussing how using the overlay/underlay model could enable agile infrastructure. Servers/Hardware. Maybe next time?

Vmware 60

Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Networking. Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Servers/Hardware. Anthony Burke gives a little bit of a sneak peek at some functionality from the upcoming v3 release of PowerNSX: searching NSX Distributed Firewall (DFW) rules.

Windows 60

Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

Welcome to Technology Short Take #68, my erratically-published collection of links, articles, and posts from around the web—all focused on today’s major data center technologies. Networking. Both articles are useful, IMHO, especially considering that MACVLAN is no longer experimental as of the Docker 1.12 Servers/Hardware.

Linux 60

Linux Network Hardware Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Verplanke believes that DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) and virtualization are key to virtualizing workloads that move around lots and lots of packets, such as firewalls, routers, and other similar functions. Next, he discusses the evolution of network devices so far. First, DPDK provides optimized pass-through support.

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Virtualization Intel Cloud Data 113

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

I have here for your reading pleasure an eclectic collection of links and articles from around the web, focusing on data center-related technologies. Networking. I love this post from Matt Oswalt on five next-gen skills for networking pros. His article also provides a quick look at some of the configuration commands involved.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Networking. Skydive is (in the project’s own words) an “open source real-time network topology and protocols analyzer.” OK, now that I’ve mentioned Skydive, I can talk about this article that provides an example of functional SDN testing with Terraform and Skydive. Servers/Hardware. Welcome to Technology Short Take #79!

Linux 60

Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

Welcome to Technology Short Take #50, the latest in my series of posts sharing various links and articles pertaining to key data center technologies. Networking. Tyler Christiansen recently published a post on a network automation workflow that was based on a presentation he gave at the SF Network Automation meetup.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Firewall Network 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2014

You might also consider enabling the built-in firewall (see this write-up for enabling pf on OS X Mountain Lion ; haven’t tried on Mavericks yet) for an added layer of network protection. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org. Macintosh Security Hardware' What are you carrying these days?

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Travel Firewall Backup Hardware 61

Dataconomy

JUNE 20, 2023

This article will discuss the causes of this problem and tell you how to fix the “Fortnite server offline” error! Unexpected technical issues or faults that impair server connectivity or performance: High traffic, cyberattacks, or hardware malfunctions can all cause this. We have a couple of solutions for you to check out.

Internet 36

Internet How To Firewall Hardware 36

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This is session CLDS006, “Exploring New Intel Xeon Processor E5 Based Platform Optimizations for 10 Gb Ethernet Network Infrastructures.” The session starts with Rodriguez giving a (thankfully) brief overview of Expedient and then getting into the evolution of networking with 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE).

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Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 109

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #31, my irregularly published series that takes a look at links, posts, articles, and thoughts from around the web related to core data center technologies. Networking. Greg Ferro examines a potential SDN use case (an OpenFlow use case) in the form of enterprise firewall migrations.

Storage 111

Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 111

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #35, another in my irregular series of posts that collect various articles, links and thoughts regarding data center technologies. Networking. A discussion of “statefulness” brought me again to Ivan’s post on the spectrum of firewall statefulness. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 60

Dataconomy

MARCH 3, 2024

Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) have become significant considerations. This article aims to guide you through the complexities of VPNs and ZTNA. This article aims to guide you through the complexities of VPNs and ZTNA. Some applications may need to work better with VPN routing.

Network 41

Network Security Authentication Hardware 41

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Well, let’s see…stuff on Envoy, network automation, network designs, M1 chips (and potential open source variants!), a bevy of security articles (including a couple on very severe vulnerabilities), Kubernetes, AWS IAM, and so much more! Networking. Servers/Hardware. This article seems to think so.

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Open Source Cloud Network Storage 107

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #33, the latest in my irregularly-published series of articles discussing various data center technology-related links, articles, rants, thoughts, and questions. Networking. What happens when multiple VXLAN logical networks are mapped to the same multicast group? Servers/Hardware.

HP 106

HP Virtualization Hardware Network 106

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2020

My list of links and articles from around the web seems to be a bit heavy on security-related topics this time. Still, there’s a decent collection of networking, cloud computing, and virtualization articles as well as a smattering of other topics for you to peruse. Networking. Servers/Hardware.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Disaster Recovery Linux 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

Networking. Ali Al Idrees has a post on using NSX ALB (formerly Avi Networks) with Kubernetes clusters in a vSphere with Tanzu environment. This post provides some examples of shared control planes (and thus shared failure domains) within networking. Servers/Hardware. At least, I hope that’s the case!) Programming.

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Vmware Firewall Storage Comparison 60