Fountainhead

MARCH 25, 2013

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. landscape will include many servers (often virtual machines) linked by. unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). App Orchestration Concepts [Blog] Ashish Gujarathi. IBM DeveloperWorks on Cloud Orchestration [Blog].

Applications 214

Applications Cloud Data Center Load Balancer 214

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Russell Bryant has a post on Open Virtual Network (OVN) , a project within the Open vSwitch (OVS) community. This blog post discusses some of the new network security functionality available in vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC) version 1.2; specifically, the new container network firewall functionality. Virtualization.

Firewall 60

Firewall Virtualization Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Back in April of this year, Patrick Ogenstad announced Netrasp , a Go package for writing network automation tooling in Go. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Career/Soft Skills.

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

Linux Academy

MARCH 28, 2019

Kubernetes nodes rely on underlying virtual servers for both the master control plane and for worker nodes. It is important to use security tooling such as OpenSCAP, the open source version of the Security Content Automation Protocol, to harden virtual machine images prior to their deployment in virtual private clouds.

Policies 68

Policies Linux Security Virtualization 68

Galido

JULY 10, 2018

Information Technology Blog - - 7 IT Security Risks for Small Businesses - Information Technology Blog. Cyber criminals know that small businesses lack sophisticated resources or tools to protect against attacks. Install desktop and network firewalls and anti-spam email software. These statistics are quite scary.

Small Business 87

Small Business Security Malware Network 87

Galido

JUNE 30, 2016

VMI stands for Virtual Mobile Infrastructure and basically, it provides end users with a highly effective and an efficient way to have access to delicate mobile applications and information without much hassle. It creates virtual versions of mobile applications and sends them to a vast collection of devices.

Mobile 81

Mobile Virtualization Operating Systems Applications 81

Galido

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Information Technology Blog - - How to Achieve PCI Compliance in AWS? Information Technology Blog. They should institute measures including encrypting data, establishing secure network firewalls, monitoring the networks with testing, ensuring access controls, and establishing vulnerability management programs.

How To 84

How To Load Balancer Security Cloud 84

Linux Academy

MAY 31, 2019

Ansible can help automate the backup, and you can learn more in this month’s how-to video that covers using Ansible to back up a Cisco ASA firewall. I understand not everyone “builds” workstations and servers, as many organizations use imaging and virtual templates. How do we do this kind of monitoring?

Security 92

Security Backup Linux Operating Systems 92

Galido

APRIL 12, 2017

Sometimes, the Virtual Private Network setup on router is slower than the direct connection between the VPN and your device. Turn Off Your Firewall And All Other Security Apps. Both firewalls and antivirus software can slow down the VPN, because they filter through outgoing information. Change The Location Of Your Server.

Firewall 60

Firewall Internet Security Wireless 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Back in April of this year, Patrick Ogenstad announced Netrasp , a Go package for writing network automation tooling in Go. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Career/Soft Skills.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Galido

JUNE 28, 2018

Information Technology Blog - - Product Review: Paessler PRTG Network Monitor - Information Technology Blog. PRTG Network Monitor is a solid infrastructure management tool and network monitor. It is a helpful tool for organizations of all sizes, from SMEs to large corporations, making networks more solid and reliable.

Network 60

Network LAN VOIP Licensing 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

I was sure I had mentioned Skydive before, but apparently not (a grep of all my blog posts found nothing), so let me rectify that first. Tony Sangha took PowerNSX (a set of PowerShell cmdlets for interacting with NSX) and created a tool to help document the NSX Distributed Firewall configuration. Networking. What’s that?

Linux 60

Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 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 Numan Siddique describes the native DHCP support available in OVN (Open Virtual Network). Virtualization. Networking. Version 2.0

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Linux Academy

JUNE 26, 2019

Virtually every industry, from healthcare to banking and everything in between, has rules for how businesses handle data. Use a tool like USBGuard to blacklist and whitelist USB devices based on their attributes. To stay compliant with PCI DSS and HIPAA, your organization must use a compliance scanning tool like OpenSCAP.

Security 60

Security Linux Policies Meeting 60

Fountainhead

MAY 12, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. BTW, a great Blog by John Willis, Top 10 reasons for not using a cloud , was another initiator of my thought process) Customers of mine are attracted to the value prop of a cloud (or a "utility" infrastructure). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead.

Cloud 186

Cloud Data Center Applications Virtualization 186

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Greg Ferro examines a potential SDN use case (an OpenFlow use case) in the form of enterprise firewall migrations. Brian McClain, who was one of the presenters in a Cloud Foundry/BOSH session I liveblogged at VMworld 2012 , has his own personal blog and posted a series of articles on using BOSH with vSphere.

Storage 108

Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 108

Spearline Testing

AUGUST 24, 2022

With one simple click, your users can access our webRTC network testing and webRTC support tools to diagnose their own issues, referencing data from qualityRTCs myriad configurable tests. Firewall issues It is not uncommon for a disparity to exist between the bitrates of video bandwidth and bandwidth speed. See for yourself.

Firewall 29

Firewall Quality Assurance Network Data Center 29

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

This post by Matt Oswalt—the first in a series, apparently—provides a great introduction to 5 development tools for network engineers. VMware, Vagrant, and Docker together is the subject of this blog post by Fabio Rapposelli. Virtualization. of the Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter will keep popping up.

Vmware 65

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 65

Galido

JULY 27, 2018

Information Technology Blog - - How To Hide My IP Address Using A VPN - Information Technology Blog. Standard security solutions like firewalls and antiviruses aren’t sufficient enough to protect you. The acronym VPN stands for Virtual Private Network. VPNs are a good tool to use to prevent detection and penalties.

How To 66

How To Internet Resources Network 66

Linux Academy

APRIL 9, 2019

Our numerous hands-on training tools allow you to learn by doing and solidify your skills through real-world experience! In Cloud Playground, you can use hands-on virtual machines, instant terminals, or our Cloud Sandboxes to safely learn, build, and break whatever you like. Creating Firewall Rules on a Google Cloud VPC Network.

Training 60

Training Google Cloud Linux 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

In the event you’re interested in an idea of how much latency the use of in-kernel hypervisor firewalling (such as that offered by VMware NSX) adds, have a look at this article by Sean Howard. Massimo Re Ferrè recently commented on—in his words— the “incestuous” relationships between all the various orchestration/scheduling tools out there.

Vmware 60

Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 2, 2019

The key takeaway here is that anytime there is firewalling or other stateful services in place, the traffic will route to the (non-distributed) service router instead of just the distributed routers. Via the Packet Pushers blog, Daniel Himes provides a guide to a starting point for enterprise (network) automation. Virtualization.

Storage 60

Storage Applications Programming Firewall 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

If you’re looking for more examples of how to incorporate these sorts of tools into your own network automation workflow, I’d recommend having a look at this article. This article by Russell Bryant is a great overview and update of the work going on with Open Virtual Network (OVN). Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Firewall Network 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

Sysdig Falco , a behavioral security tool with support for containers (can run in a container and can monitor containers) looks like it could be a useful addition to your security toolset. here’s a blog post about the release. More details are available in this blog post. Virtualization. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Linux 60

Linux Network Hardware Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

I highly recommend you read the entire post, but in short the five skills Matt recommends are software skills (which includes configuration management and software development tools like Git ), Linux, deep protocol knowledge, hypervisor and container networking, and IPv6. This blog post highlights just one example. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Linux Academy

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Here are some of the most recent quizzes you can use to check out the updates: Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) AWS . If you have stories like that, leave them in the comments for this blog, or in the comments section on our YouTube channel for this month’s video. Securing a Virtual Network with Azure Firewall .

Linux 13

Linux Disaster Recovery Course Firewall 13

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2020

“We’ve seen numerous organizations fall victim to ransomware via an exploited Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) session, which allows threat actors to not only access an internal network but also move within it and implement their own tools/settings/privileges. Give employees the tools they need to move quickly.

Budget 98

Budget Network Tools Security 98

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Ivan Pepelnjak shares some links and thoughts on configuring the NSX-T firewall with a CI/CD pipeline built on GitHub Actions and Terraform Cloud. For reasons that I won’t go into here (maybe later), I was recently pointed toward the vcluster project (for running virtual Kubernetes clusters in a namespace of an actual cluster).

Open Source 107

Open Source Cloud Network Storage 107

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

Tom Nolle asks the question , “Is virtualization reality even more elusive than virtual reality?” This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. Jason Edelman is on a roll with a couple of great blog posts. App Firewall? Virtualization.

HP 105

HP Virtualization Hardware Network 105

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

has a great blog series going called “Hey, I can DevOps my Network too!” Sometimes I see blog posts that tout themselves as a “deep dive” but aren’t really that deep or detailed. We all know that security is more than just a host-based firewall, but a host-based firewall can be part of an overall security strategy.

Firewall 60

Firewall Windows Linux Architecture 60

ForAllSecure

MARCH 30, 2022

To access these sections of the building, there have to be doors, too, and behind these doors are the various companies, the various cloud clients with all their various virtual machines that can be spun up or spun down. When organizations move to the cloud, one of the first choices is who is going to manage your security. You don't have to.

Firewall 52

Firewall Virtualization Authentication Linux 52

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2020

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. ” Speaking of Linux networking…Marek Majkowski of Cloudflare digs deep into conntrack , used for stateful firewalling functionality. Virtualization.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Disaster Recovery Linux 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Ivan Pepelnjak shares some links and thoughts on configuring the NSX-T firewall with a CI/CD pipeline built on GitHub Actions and Terraform Cloud. For reasons that I won’t go into here (maybe later), I was recently pointed toward the vcluster project (for running virtual Kubernetes clusters in a namespace of an actual cluster).

Open Source 60

Open Source Cloud Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

Tom Nolle asks the question , “Is virtualization reality even more elusive than virtual reality?” This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. Jason Edelman is on a roll with a couple of great blog posts. App Firewall? Virtualization.

HP 60

HP Virtualization Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 25, 2015

In this post, I’ve gathered links to posts about networking, virtualization, Docker, containers, Linux, configuration management, and all kinds of other cool stuff. If you haven’t read Brent’s article on building network tools with Docker , I highly recommend it. Welcome to Technology Short Take #53. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Virtualization Tools 60

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

JANUARY 13, 2022

As the names imply, low-code might involve some level of coding while no-code tools require no coding whatsoever. How do these tools help? They let IT departments create solutions quickly while giving end-users the tools they need to build their own applications. But, the option is there if needed.

Applications 98

Applications Trends Security Data 98

Fountainhead

MAY 18, 2012

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Ive recently written about ITs need for financial metrics and financial transparency (a recent blog of mine has a great set of resource pointers on this very topic) but havent done a deep dive into the companies - and products - that enable this change.

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Financial Survey Budget Data Center 173