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. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here (Insider Story)

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2024

Networking This article on running WireGuard in Docker may prove useful if that’s an approach I decide to adopt for my AWS lab infrastructure. Servers/Hardware Alex Ellis provides some details on his workflow for booting Raspberry Pi 5 from NVMe. Check out the newsletter to get the link to the Istio article.)

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Intelligent assistants are already changing how we search, analyze information, and do everything from creating code to securing networks and writing articles. Here are six tips for developing and deploying AI without huge investments in expert staff or exotic hardware. The results are impressive and improving at a geometric rate.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

For example, with hardware the past has always been that hardware gets cheaper and transistor counts go up so this cheaper hardware gets more powerful. Turns out that in parallel with this growth in capabilities in hardware is the adoption of technology. Open source avoids this lock-in and does so economically.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

JUNE 11, 2021

I’ve been covering videoconferencing long enough to watch three significant efforts in the 1980s, ‘90s, and 2000s fail spectacularly for pretty much the same two reasons: proprietary hardware and software and too little interoperability. To read this article in full, please click here

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In any case, I’ve spent the last month collecting links to articles and tutorials from around the web on all the various technologies that us IT folk are likely to encounter in our day-to-day adventures. Servers/Hardware. Looks like some significant bandwidth increases could be on the horizon; see this article for more details.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

Servers/Hardware Menno Finlay-Smits shares information on reducing fan noise on Intel NUCs. David Both has an article on using systemd journals for troubleshooting. Ivan Pepelnjak dives deep on DHCP relaying on a Linux host. I also enjoyed Ivan’s realistic take on rollbacks in a network automation environment. (TL;DR:

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CTOvision

APRIL 6, 2015

Enabling PCAP at 10/40/100 Gbps speeds and beyond necessitates that the processing of captured packets be pushed to the point of ingest, leveraging hardware acceleration to maintain precise, lossless capture at these speeds. Related articles. Napatech PCAP NT100E3-1 PTP accelerators. Diagnosing a broadcast storm?

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Built upon the foundational research powering Google’s impressive Gemini models , Google Gemma AI is part of the company’s ongoing commitment to open-source AI development. Google Gemma AI represents a suite of lightweight language models released for open-source use. What is Google Gemma AI?

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Kitaboo

MAY 23, 2023

Whether you’re a curious tech enthusiast, a software developer, or an industry professional, this article is packed with valuable insights and knowledge to satisfy your thirst for understanding software-based DRM. Gone are the days of clunky hardware-based DRM solutions that relied on physical tokens or specialized hardware components.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2021

This is the last Technology Short Take of 2021, so hopefully I’ll close the year out “with a bang” with this collection of links and articles on various technology areas. Servers/Hardware. I found this article on NSO/Pegasus a very interesting read. Via this Phoronix article , QEMU 6.2 Networking.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. I really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts. This is a thorny topic full of design considerations, and this AWS article discusses a few of them.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

It is a combination of open-source software and standard server hardware that consists of memory, memory, and more memory. To read this article in full, please click here

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

I’ve got another collection of links to articles on networking, security, cloud, programming, and career development—hopefully you find something useful! Servers/Hardware What do you think of the ThinkPhone ? This article on using osquery for behavioral detection of macOS malware was an interesting read.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Here’s another collection of articles and blog posts about some of the common technologies that modern IT professionals will typically encounter. Brian Boucheron provides a great article on how to inspect and debug Kubernetes network primitives. Servers/Hardware. Networking. This has generated a lot of discussion.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This is a slightly older article (from January of this year) in which Josh Saul of Hedgehog pays homage to the achievements of Cumulus Networks in the open networking movement. Michael Kashin has a good post on source IP address selection in Linux. Michael Kashin has a good post on source IP address selection in Linux.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Thanks to this article , that oversight is now corrected. Oh, and the article shares a handy Python script to help implement bogon filtering in NSX-T. Components involved include the open source Kuma service mesh (in turn leveraging Envoy), anycast BGP, and mutual TLS (mTLS). Servers/Hardware. Seriously.).

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Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

I mean, don’t you want to spend this weekend catching up on some technology-related articles instead of cooking on the grill and gathering with friends and family? Still, for those who need a little technology fix over the weekend, hopefully I’ve included something useful in the list of articles below. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

This article contains some good information on IPv6 for those who are just starting to get more familiar with it, although toward the end it turns into a bit of an advertisement. Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? Fatima Silveira has a good article on using the Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler. Networking.

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Network World

APRIL 5, 2017

This is a serious violation of the security barrier enforced by the hypervisor and poses a particular threat to multi-tenant data centers where the customers' virtualized servers share the same underlying hardware. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here The new vulnerability affects Xen 4.8.x, x, and 4.4.x

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 21, 2022

I have a few more links than normal this time around, although I didn’t find articles in a couple categories. Don’t worry—I’ll keep my eyes peeled and my RSS reader ready to pull in new articles in those categories for next time. Servers/Hardware. This article may provide some useful information.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Bruce Schneier writes about how some Chinese hackers are bypassing RSA software token authentication (the title is a bit more broad, implying other forms of two-factor authentication are affected, but the article focuses on attacks against the use of RSA software tokens). Networking. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. I really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts. This is a thorny topic full of design considerations, and this AWS article discusses a few of them.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Open source has become so critical to so many aspects of our computing infrastructure. Uh oh… more hardware exploits. The void left by their decision is rapidly going to be filled by someone else (and based on this article it looks like AWS is gunning for the spot). I’m glad to see this. Good stuff here!

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CTOvision

MAY 11, 2015

Related articles. Utimaco and Zettaset Hardware-Based Big Data Encryption to Secure Hadoop and NoSQL (insidebigdata.com). For more information and context on data in the enterprise read Stefan Groschupf's blog here. Click here to learn more about Datameer. Datameer CEO talks Hadoop and the big data landscape (itproportal.com).

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

The collection of links shared below covers a fairly wide range of topics, from old Sun hardware to working with serverless frameworks in the public cloud. Servers/Hardware. Alessandro Perilli has a very lengthy article on NoOps. Michael Gasch has a nice post on git and using it to collaborate on an open source project.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

There will be a longer gap than usual before the next Tech Short Take (more details to come on Monday), but in the meantime here’s some articles and links to feed your technical appetite. Servers/Hardware. Michael Allen published an article on weaponizing the Yubikey. Networking. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 15, 2021

This article by Joshua Fox outlines how and when to use each of the various types of firewalls offered by AWS. Servers/Hardware. The popular open source cryptography library known as Bouncy Castle has uncovered a severe authentication bypass vulnerability. More details are available in this article. Compute safely.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 5, 2019

I also appreciate that Jon included a “Lab time” section in his article that encourages readers to try out the concepts he’s explaining. Servers/Hardware. If you’re unfamiliar with public key infrastructure (PKI), digital certificates, or encryption, you may find this Linux Journal article helpful.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

It seems like the natural progression of the Tech Short Takes is moving toward monthly articles, since it’s been about a month since my last one. Servers/Hardware. This article is about hardware, just not the hardware I’d typically talk about in this section—instead, it’s about Philips Hue light bulbs.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

However, hopefully I’ve managed to gather together some articles with useful information for you. Biruk Mekonnen has an introductory article on using Netmiko for network automation. Servers/Hardware. Acra is open source and available via GitHub. There’s some good information in this article; I recommend reading it.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

I have, however, finally managed to pull together this list of links and articles from around the Internet, and I hope that something I’ve included here proves useful to readers. Servers/Hardware. Tim Hinrichs discusses securing the Kubernetes API with Open Policy Agent. Welcome to Technology Short Take #112! Networking.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

As usual, I’ve gathered what I hope to be a useful but varied collection of articles and links on key data center technologies. See this SDx Central article or this Network World article for more details.). (See See this SDx Central article or this Network World article for more details.). Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

I hope the collection of links and articles I’ve gathered for you contains something useful for you. Via the Kubernetes blog , Box announced it has open sourced a project called kube-iptables-tailer , which turns packet drops from iptables into Kubernetes events that can be logged for easier troubleshooting. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

I hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday season, but now it’s time to jump back into the fray with a collection of technical articles from around the Internet. David Gee has an interesting set of articles exploring service function chaining in service mesh environments ( part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , and part 4 ). Networking.

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

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Galido

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Some senior management managers may have concerns about the ability of the cybersecurity team to absorb a larger budget in terms of execution and increased headcount, the only alternative is a clever combination of hardware, software, and few personnel to enforce data loss prevention in a custom methodology. Ice Cream Sandwich.

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