Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

Information Technology Blog - - Best IT Blogs – Must Read Information Technology Resources 2019 - Information Technology Blog. Thus it is essential to always stay on top of news and information, whether it be by newsletter, following rss feeds and blogs, tutorials or going back to school.

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Resources Mobile Data Center Security 66

Linux Academy

JUNE 10, 2019

Wireless security is not only a huge subject, but it’s also extremely important. It was patched quickly but this raised wireless security questions about WPA2. This is a great example of being proactive in security. An attempt to help secure open wireless networks with Opportunistic Wireless Encryption (OWE).

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Wireless Security Authentication Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2022

DNS, BGP, hardware-based security, Kubernetes, Linux—they’re all in here. Alex Neihaus provides readers with a walkthrough for adding BGP routes to AWS security groups. Servers/Hardware. A “highly evasive” Linux malware named OrBit has emerged; see here for more details. Networking.

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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. Servers/Hardware. Jimmy Mankowitz talks in some detail about using NSX-T in vSphere with Tanzu to secure applications. Cloudflare recently introduced its own object storage offering, announced in this blog post.

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IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 97

Linux Academy

MAY 6, 2019

In the past few weeks, we’ve discussed patch management and using vulnerability scanning to see what vulnerabilities are in your infrastructure, and then we dove into the importance of data backups , as well as passwords and policies such as using MFA and proactively identifying compromised passwords to help secure your infrastructure.

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Security Firewall Backup Malware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 7, 2021

In this Technology Short Take, I’ve gathered some links for you covering topics like Azure and AWS networking, moving from macOS to Linux (and back again), and more. Maegan Jong and Dominik Tornow have a blog series that, in their words, “aims to advance the understanding of Kubernetes and its underlying concepts.

Linux 60

Linux Hardware Network Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

My personal and professional life has kept me busy over the last couple of months, so things have been quiet here on the blog. Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? Although Linux is often considered to be superior to Windows and macOS with regard to security, it is not without its own security flaws.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Linux Academy

APRIL 29, 2019

We are also excited to announce Linux Academy’s next live study group, Command Line Threat Hunting. These planned courses will be released as they are finished, so make sure to subscribe both to our blog and YouTube to make sure you don’t miss an announcement. After that, a fascinating discussion about the Linux community.

Linux 60

Linux Course Microsoft Study 60

Linux Academy

APRIL 18, 2019

Consider the typical items in your budget in a traditional IT environment like hardware maintenance costs, costs associated with OS patching, storage administration, and testing. In my next article, I’ll wrap up this blog series by diving into cost reduction techniques put into practice through simplifying the application stack.

Linux 60

Linux Budget Cloud Resources 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 21, 2022

Aidan Steele examines how VPC sharing could potentially improve security and reduce cost. Servers/Hardware. I was very glad to see this blog post about the financial future of the GnuPG project. Orca Security discusses the “Superglue” vulnerability in AWS Glue. What do you think microsegmentation means ?

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Load Balancer Linux Intel Cloud 90

Linux Academy

APRIL 18, 2019

As we promised, this week is all about Linux. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Prep Course is ready for you to dive into and learn everything you’ll need to know for the Redhat Certified Architect certification exam. So don’t forget to refer a friend when signing up for your new discounted price!

Linux 60

Linux Course Systems Administration Network 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Servers/Hardware. Kay Singh collects some user comments on the new M1-powered Apple hardware. SilentKnight is a set of security tools/checks for macOS. This list of best practices for securing OpenSSH systems may be useful. Here’s a post on using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to run Linux containers on Windows.

Linux 60

Linux Network Tools Hardware 60

Linux Academy

MAY 6, 2019

We are also excited to announce Linux Academy’s next live study group, Command Line Threat Hunting. These planned courses will be released as they are finished, so make sure to subscribe both to our blog and YouTube to make sure you don’t miss an announcement. After that, a fascinating discussion about the Linux community.

Linux 60

Linux Course Microsoft Study 60

Linux Academy

MAY 6, 2019

We are also excited to announce Linux Academy’s next live study group, Command Line Threat Hunting. These planned courses will be released as they are finished, so make sure to subscribe both to our blog and YouTube to make sure you don’t miss an announcement. After that, a fascinating discussion about the Linux community.

Linux 60

Linux Course Microsoft Study 60

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. release of netsim-tools in this blog post. Servers/Hardware. GitHub recently shared details on a Git security vulnerability. Networking.

Linux 74

Linux Storage Programming Applications 74

Kitaboo

MAY 14, 2024

Through this blog, we share with you the top tools and tips to convert PDF to ePub. It’s not dependent on the hardware, software, or OS being used, making PDF compatible across various devices. This tool is compatible with Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. Let’s get into the details. Table of Contents I.

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Tools eBook Software Software 78

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. Servers/Hardware. Jimmy Mankowitz talks in some detail about using NSX-T in vSphere with Tanzu to secure applications. Cloudflare recently introduced its own object storage offering, announced in this blog post.

IPv6 60

IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 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. Via Ivan Pepelnjak, I was pointed to Jon Langemak’s in-depth discussion of working with Linux VRFs. I read a couple of Cilium-related blog posts recently that may be useful.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Load Balancer Apple 60

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 ? Security Adrian Mouat reviews some of the security-focused changes in Go 1.20.

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Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

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. Servers/Hardware. The big news in the hardware space recently was the article regarding the purported Chinese hardware supply chain attack. Networking. Probably not.

Hardware 60

Hardware Open Source Vmware Linux 60

Linux Academy

JUNE 4, 2019

The Serverless Framework is an open-source project that replaces traditional platforms (hardware, operating systems) with a platform that can run in a cloud environment. Data security is another concern. Check out Linux Academy’s free Serverless Concepts course that will get you up to speed on how to do more by going serverless.

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Linux Cloud Architecture Open Source 92

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Here’s a handy list of deprecated Linux network commands and their replacements. Yves Fauser discusses NSX integration with Kubernetes in this blog post. Servers/Hardware. Konstantin Ryabitsev has a series going on securing a SysAdmin Linux workstation. Intel NUC or SuperMicro E200-8D? Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Michael Kashin has a good post on source IP address selection in Linux. Servers/Hardware I must admit that I always wanted to have a Sun workstation, and I’ve had an interest in SunOS/Solaris for years (check out this link if you don’t believe me). Here are some design considerations for Wi-Fi 6E (6GHz) networks.

Vmware 74

Vmware Network Hardware Cloud 74

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

Redpill Linpro talks to readers about their new routers running Cumulus Linux. 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. I need to move it back to Windows from Linux.

Linux 60

Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Information Technology Blog - - Top Tech Websites 2019 - Information Technology Blog. Thus it is essential to always stay on top of news and information, whether it be by newsletter, following RSS feeds and blogs, tutorials or going back to school. Find the links to these blogs in the descriptions below.

Mobile 77

Mobile Data Center Security Virtualization 77

Scott Lowe

JULY 17, 2020

Jon Langemak is blogging again, and he jumps back into the “blogging saddle” with a post on working with tc on Linux systems. Servers/Hardware. The first, by Guarav Chaware, discusses using Open Policy Agent (OPA) to implement Pod Security Policies (PSPs). The world has moved on, and so did I.”

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Linux Apple Operating Systems Policies 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 Thinking of using a hardware VTEP (VXLAN Tunnel Endpoint) with VMware NSX? Servers/Hardware. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

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. Servers/Hardware. I use OTR with Adium on OS X, and OTR with Pidgin on my Fedora Linux laptop.).

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 5, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Although I’ve by and large moved away from Apple hardware (I still have a MacBook Pro running macOS that sees very little use, and a Mac Pro running Fedora), I did see this article regarding a new keyboard for the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. It provides the basics behind X.509v3 Kubernetes 1.15

Storage 60

Storage Hardware Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. As a partial counterpoint to the increased use/visibility of Linux in the networking industry, check out Ivan’s take on Dell’s OS10 announcement. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 21, 2016

First up, there’s a great article on using IPVLAN with Docker and Cumulus Linux (with a tie back to sFlow, naturally!). Here’s a walkthrough by Cody Bunch on setting up BGP on Linux with Cumulus Quagga. Servers/Hardware. Rob Hirschfeld has an article listing some ways containers are more secure than VMs. Thanks Jason!

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. Check out Mark Russinovich’s blog post on SONiC , then pop over to Kamala Subramaniam’s more in-depth SONiC post. Servers/Hardware. Here’s the Docker blog post talking about the performance study. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

I’m not really sure if this belongs in networking or not (how does one classify OS kernel-level work on networking and security?), but we’ll stick it here anyway: check out this blog post on cilium-health , a tool for troubleshooting cluster connectivity. Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time around (sorry!).

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Ansible has made some good progress in supporting network automation in the latest release (2.2), according to this blog post. Cumulus Networks recently introduced the Cumulus Linux Network Command Line Utility (NCLU) , which provides a more unified front-end to configuring switches running Cumulus Linux. Servers/Hardware.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

Courtesy of Tigera, Alex Pollitt shares some guidelines on when Linux conntrack is no longer your friend. Servers/Hardware. Apparently Dell’s new docking stations support firmware updates via Linux. This article has good information on safely using /tmp and /var/tmp on systemd-powered Linux distributions.

Linux 60

Linux Dell Open Source Licensing 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Servers/Hardware. On the hardware side of things, we have James Hamilton of AWS discussing two hardware-related items coming out of AWS re:Invent 2018. My colleague Josh Rosso has a post up on securing communication to the Kubernetes controller manager and Kubernetes scheduler. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Case Study 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Devices first started as tightly-coupled hardware and software solutions. In recent years, we’ve seen more devices running off-the-shelf software (like Linux). For the security appliance, all traffic is actually intercepted by the hypervisor, which will generate context switches for every I/O packet received.

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Virtualization Intel Cloud Data 109