Computerworld Vertical IT

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Nearly every day, software updates of some kind roll out for our systems. From operating systems to antivirus software, to cloud services, to hardware devices, virtually none of the technology we use is static. To read this article in full, please click here

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Software Software How To Operating Systems 72

CTOvision

AUGUST 16, 2016

From an enterprise IT standpoint, their championing of the Android operating system has earned them a place in the mobility domain, and their Google Apps offering helped show many businesses that the cloud can work for office automation. Its technical infrastructure and Virtual Reality are also included in Google segment.

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Google Cloud Advertising Operating Systems 150

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2022

Well, you’ll have to read the whole article to find out for sure, but I have links to articles on…well, lots of different topics! DNS, BGP, hardware-based security, Kubernetes, Linux—they’re all in here. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

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Linux Storage Virtualization Hardware 90

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. As Alec shares in the article, it turns out that adding Tor to a “standard” DoH configuration doesn’t significantly impact performance (as measured by latency). Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

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IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 97

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.

Virtualization 79

Virtualization Storage Programming Network 79

Scott Lowe

APRIL 7, 2023

Links to the previous three posts are embedded in the article. Servers/Hardware Manoj Kumar provides a beginner’s guide to Trusted Platform Module (TPM). The article does a good job of explaining what’s meant by the tagline, though. This article provides a comparison of Apache APISIX 3.0

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Applications Comparison Cloud Operating Systems 97

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

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Open Source Virtualization Applications Security 94

Network World

MAY 3, 2017

The Xen Project has fixed three vulnerabilities in its widely used hypervisor that could allow operating systems running inside virtual machines to access the memory of the host systems, breaking the critical security layer among them. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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Data Center Operating Systems Virtualization Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. As Alec shares in the article, it turns out that adding Tor to a “standard” DoH configuration doesn’t significantly impact performance (as measured by latency). Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

IPv6 60

IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 60

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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Open Source Apple Vmware Cloud 79

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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Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

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. In truth, the answer is exactly as Ivan says at the top of the article: when it comes to migrating container hosts, you don’t. Servers/Hardware. Seriously.).

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Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. I hope you find something useful!

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The list of articles is a bit shorter than usual this time around, but I’ve still got a good collection of articles and posts covering topics in networking, hardware (mostly focused on Apple’s processors), cloud computing, and virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Cloud Network Hardware 74

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Having recently needed to dig into Open Policy Agent (OPA) , I took renewed interest in this slightly older article by Chip Zoller that compares OPA/Gatekeeper with Kyverno. Via Alex Mitelman’s Systems Design Weekly 015 , I was pointed to this AWS article on multi-site active-active architectures.

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Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

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. As detailed in this article , it turns out BitLocker can be bypassed—assuming physical access to the hardware—with a cheap logic analyzer.

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Vmware Network Hardware Cloud 74

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2023

If you’re new to this site, the Technology Short Takes are essentially “link lists”—I collect links and articles about various technologies and I share them about every 3-4 weeks (sometimes more frequently). Servers/Hardware. Get more details in this article. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Network Vmware Cloud Operating Systems 74

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

This time around, my list of links and articles is a tad skewed toward cloud computing/cloud management, but I’ve still managed to pull together some links on other topics that readers will hopefully find useful. Lucky for you there’s a link to an article about it below. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

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Cloud Tools Applications Policies 87

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.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

APRIL 29, 2022

My link of links and articles from around the Internet is a bit light on networking and virtualization this time around, but heftier in the security, cloud, and OS/application sections. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Hint: DRM means something entirely different in the context of the article.).

Linux 74

Linux Storage Programming Applications 74

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The list of articles is a bit shorter than usual this time around, but I’ve still got a good collection of articles and posts covering topics in networking, hardware (mostly focused on Apple’s processors), cloud computing, and virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Cloud Network Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Here’s another collection of links and articles from around the Internet discussing various data center-focused technologies. The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based.

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Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

This article from Marcos Hernandez shows one way to do dynamic routing in OpenStack. Jason Messer has an article describing how networking works with Windows containers. Servers/Hardware. Intel clearly has its sights set on expanding beyond just “servers” into many more platforms, including network hardware platforms.

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Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Cloud Musings

MARCH 9, 2018

2] The methodology itself should include: A detailed inventory of all hardware, operating systems, and applications that exist in the network a nd the creation of the process to keep the inventory up-to-date. A process to identify vulnerabilities in hardware, operating systems, and applications.

Operating Systems 79

Operating Systems Enterprise Enterprise Virtualization 79

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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Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Servers/Hardware. Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful.

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Servers/Hardware. Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful.

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

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.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq along the way. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 7, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Chris Evans examines the pricing of virtual instances compared to managed servie offerings as he ponders how hyper-scalers like AWS, Azure, and Google will go about/are going about optimizing service density (i.e., maximizing revenue per hardware instance). Operating Systems/Applications.

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Linux Hardware Network Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

In response to my request for feedback in the last Technology Short Take, a few readers responded in favor of a more regular publication schedule even if that means the articles are shorter in length. ” Servers/Hardware. Michael Hausenblas has an informative article with information on Kubernetes RBAC defaults. Networking.

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Vmware Authentication Virtualization Storage 60

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Networking. Check this out.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Load Balancer Apple 60

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

Hardware 60

Hardware Open Source Vmware Linux 60

Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

These areas of IT include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Sign up here for those links: Information Technology Articles. Find the links to these blogs in the descriptions below.

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Resources Mobile Data Center Security 113

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #39, in which I share a random assortment of links, articles, and thoughts from around the world of data center-related technologies. I might contend that Open vSwitch (OVS) alone isn’t an option for network virtualization, but that’s just splitting hairs. Servers/Hardware.

Virtualization 60

Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

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). Operating Systems/Applications.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Having recently needed to dig into Open Policy Agent (OPA) , I took renewed interest in this slightly older article by Chip Zoller that compares OPA/Gatekeeper with Kyverno. Via Alex Mitelman’s Systems Design Weekly 015 , I was pointed to this AWS article on multi-site active-active architectures.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60