Linux Academy

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Recently, when building content for one of my upcoming courses, Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies – Exam AZ-300 , I found the Microsoft documentation wasn’t immediately clear on the exclusivity of Storage Account Firewalls, and Service Endpoints. Do I need to use Service Endpoints and the Storage Firewall together?

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Firewall Storage Network Resources 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

The vulnerability affects virtually all Linux distributions and allows attackers to bypass the secure boot protections and insert a low-level bootkit. David Both has an article on using systemd journals for troubleshooting. Storage Gergely Imreh discusses ZFS on a Raspberry Pi. Cal Paterson explains why S3 is not a filesystem.

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Linux Vmware Load Balancer Malware 112

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 22, 2012

In a previous article , I talked about how to use Open vSwitch (OVS) fake bridges to bring VLAN support into your environment. In this article, I show you how to wrap a libvirt virtual network around your OVS fake bridge. First, create the appropriate OVS fake bridges using the instructions in this article.

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Virtualization Network .Net Linux 129

Dataconomy

APRIL 13, 2023

Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a technology that has revolutionized the way we access and control remote computers. In this article, we will delve deeper into the world of Virtual Network Computing, exploring its history, technology, and various applications. What is Virtual Network Computing (VNC)?

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Virtualization Network Linux Windows 36

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

A lesser-known challenge is the need for the right storage infrastructure, a must-have enabler. To effectively deploy generative AI (and AI), organizations must adopt new storage capabilities that are different than the status quo. With the right storage, organizations can accelerate generative AI (discussed in more detail here ).

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Banking Financial Artificial Intelligence Dell 133

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.

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Virtualization Network Vmware Load Balancer 134

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! This article is an interesting discussion on how to treat failure when it comes to breaches or security vulnerabilities. Virtualization. Welcome to Technology Short Take #158!

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Linux Storage Virtualization Hardware 90

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2013

A couple of weeks ago I had the privilege of joining Richard Campbell on RunAs Radio to talk VMware NSX and network virtualization. If you’d like to hear us get geeky about network virtualization and where it might take our industry, head over and listen to episode 346. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org.

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Virtualization Network Vmware Storage 60

Network World

MAY 18, 2021

Erosion of the traditional network perimeter and the transition to work-from-anywhere have conspired to bring an unprecedented threat level to endpoint devices, users, and applications, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins told the online audience at the virtual RSA Conference 2021. Backup lessons from a cloud-storage disaster.

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Security Backup Enterprise Enterprise 103

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. I certainly hope not!

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Virtualization Storage Programming Network 79

Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 31, 2015

This is a list of various articles, tips, post and other resources on server storage I/O performance benchmarking for legacy, virtual, cloud and software defined environments along with associated tools.

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Storage Resources Vmware Big Data 40

CTOvision

JUNE 30, 2016

Having too few resources can lead to overprovisioning, which can cause downtime as virtual machines become starved for compute, memory, and storage. Related articles. One of the perennial problems of data centers is monitoring server utilization to ensure right-sizing of resources.

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Data Center Resources Data Case Study 157

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Specifically, existing storage solutions are inadequate. Organizations need novel storage capabilities to handle the massive, real-time, unstructured data required to build, train and use generative AI. more about this in my article about accelerating generative AI here ).

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Storage Government Training Industry 119

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This article provides a few practical examples of how using VPC Endpoints to reduce network traffic moving through NAT Gateways can help save money. Rory McCune has a series of articles on PCI compliance in containerized and Kubernetes environments. food references in the title of this article are almost too much.

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Devops Virtualization Engineering Storage 87

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This is a live blog of session DATS004, titled “Bare-Metal, Docker Containers, and Virtualization: The Growing Choices for Cloud Applications.” Weaver includes a discussion of the drivers behind virtualization as well as the pros and cons of virtualization. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org.

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Virtualization Linux Intel Construction 100

Scott Lowe

JUNE 12, 2013

Good friend (and now colleague ) John Troyer asked me via e-mail if I had a “reading list” for networking and network virtualization. ” So, here it is—a list of resources for networking and network virtualization. Since Brad works with me at VMware, the focus of most of his material is on network virtualization.

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Resources Virtualization Network Vmware 65

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This is session COMS002, titled “Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization.” 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.

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Virtualization Intel Cloud Data 113

Kitaboo

MARCH 30, 2024

Unlimited digital files of magazines, books, journals, articles, audio, and more are preserved in these virtual libraries. They can be virtually managed from any location that has internet connectivity. The virtual libraries ensure non-profits can access digital data 24/7. After all, it helps to build their brand value.

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Nonprofit eBook Open Source Resources 78

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 5, 2024

I think there are some code snippets in Jonathan’s article, but my instance of Firefox wouldn’t render the code snippets (instead only showing empty black boxes). Although this article references additional posts, it doesn’t appear that any more posts on this topic have been published (yet). x and ESXi 8.x.

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Cloud Engineering Network Operating Systems 60

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 14, 2022

This article explores three examples of how listening to the concerns, and changing the requirements and needs of CIOs, has resulted in viable technological solutions that are now widely in demand. A new product must help address or eliminate one or more pain points. Otherwise, what is its value? 1 concern of CEOs.

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Devops Storage Enterprise Enterprise 119

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 2, 2013

I’ve been doing some experimenting with virtual Ethernet (veth) interfaces in Ubuntu as part of the ongoing work with network namespaces, LXC, and related technologies. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org. Weirdness with Virtual Ethernet Interfaces on Ubuntu. Anyone have any ideas?

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Virtualization Linux Network Storage 61

The Verge

JUNE 14, 2021

is a question nearly as old as Doom itself, as creative hardware hackers and software savants across the internet work to try and get the 1993 classic shooter to run on virtually anything that has a microprocessor. “Can it run Doom?”

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Storage Hardware Internet Virtualization 119

Network World

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Overlooked in the hoopla around the VMworld conference was an announcement of the availability of AppDefense, a new product that lets companies restrict the types of operations applications are allowed to run on virtualized servers. AppDefense secures the core virtual machines in vSphere itself.

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Vmware Security Virtualization Conference 115

Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

I’d never heard of Pipy before seeing it in this article , but it look like it could be quite useful for a number of use cases. Rob Salmond has a good article on Prometheus service discovery, Istio, and mTLS. Read Dan Moren’s article for details. Virtualization. Enjoy the links below, and enjoy your weekend!

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 74

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). Virtualization. Networking.

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IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 97

Scott Lowe

APRIL 7, 2023

Links to the previous three posts are embedded in the article. I’ll admit that his article tagline (“Amazingly, Lambda can sometimes make you less Serverless”) did catch my attention—as I’m sure it was intended to do! The article does a good job of explaining what’s meant by the tagline, though.

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Applications Comparison Cloud Operating Systems 97

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. The idea of a software bill of materials (SBOM) is gaining traction; here’s an article on a tool by Anchore that claims to be able to help.

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Linux Storage Programming Applications 74

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. I found this article on NSO/Pegasus a very interesting read. Virtualization. Via this Phoronix article , QEMU 6.2 Networking.

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Open Source Virtualization Applications Security 94

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This is session EDCS008, “Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI).” Brian starts the session with a review of how the data center has evolved over the last 10 years or so, driven by the widespread adoption of compute virtualization, increased CPU capacity, and the adoption of 10Gb Ethernet.

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Virtualization Network Intel Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 6, 2013

I’ve had a few conversations about network virtualization and software-defined networking (SDN) recently (see here and here ) and the amorphous use of the term “software-defined.” Separating the storage control plane from the storage data plane is a much closer storage analogy to SDN, in my opinion.

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Storage Virtualization Vmware Network 116

Storage IO Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Enjoy this edition of the Server and StorageIO update newsletter and watch for new tips, articles, StorageIO lab report reviews, blog posts, videos and podcasts along with in the news commentary appearing soon. Hello and welcome to this November Server and StorageIO update newsletter.

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Oracle Storage Backup IBM 74

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2023

To that end, here’s the latest Technology Short Take, with links to a variety of articles in various disciplines. He’s recently published articles on DHCP relaying in VXLAN segments , DHCP relaying in EVPN VRFs , and most recently DHCP relaying with redundant DHCP servers. I’m here to help, after all.

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Disaster Recovery Security Storage Social 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. Seriously.). Servers/Hardware.

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Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

CTOvision

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Palo Alto unveils latest release of virtual firewall series. Enterprise security company, Palo Alto Networks has announced the latest release of its virtual firewall series (VM-Series). DataDirect Networks combines IBM GPFS, Storage Fusion for HPC. Article Archives · DoD Budgets · Weapons Spotlight · Documents · RDDS.

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Dell Big Data Firewall Storage 258

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. A bunch of home Wi-Fi routers are suspectible to attack; see this article for more details.

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

Storage IO Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

A theme I mention in the above two articles as well as elsewhere about server, storage I/O and applications is PACE. That is, application Performance Availably Capacity Economics (PACE). Different applications will have various attributes, in general, as well as how they are used.

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Storage Applications Journal Examples 40

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 16, 2012

I’m positive there are additional resources that I’ve missed, so feel free to share more links and resources in the comments to this article. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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Storage Vmware Resources Virtualization 101