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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Linux Academy

JUNE 25, 2019

By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students can develop their Linux and Cloud skills even further. Members of the Linux Academy community come together and share their insights and questions. Stay tuned to the Linux Academy blog for details! Linux Academy Free Courses in July.

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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. That, naturally, leads to a discussion of containers.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2022

DNS, BGP, hardware-based security, Kubernetes, Linux—they’re all in here. Also on the Sysdig blog, Miguel Hernández recaps his KubeCon EU 2022 talk on how attackers used an exposed Prometheus server to exploit Kubernetes clusters. Virtualization. Howard Oakley takes a look at virtualization on Apple silicon Macs.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 20, 2013

IBM Server Side Storage I/O SSD Flash Cache Software As I often say, the best server storage I/O or IOP is the one that you do not have to do. The second best storage I/O or IOP is the one with least impact or that can be done in a cost-effective way. Likewise the question […].

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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 12, 2014

Some Windows Server Storage I/O related commands The following are some commands and tools for Microsoft Windows environments that are useful for storage I/O activities (among others).

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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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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2016

lightweight Nano, full data center with desktop interface, on-premise, bare metal, virtualized (Hyper-V, VMware, etc) as well as cloud). Not only are the support for those environments and platforms enhanced, so to are the management capabilities and interfaces from Powershell to Bash linux shell being part of WIndows 10 and Server 2016.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 20, 2013

Part II IBM Server Flash Cache Storage I/O accelerator for SSD This is the second in a two-part post series on IBM’s Flash Cache Storage Accelerator (FCSA) for Solid State Device (SSD) storage announced today. You can view part I of the IBM FCSA announcement synopsis here.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

There are different reasons for benchmarking, such as, you might be asked or want to know how many IOPs per disk, Solid State Device (SSD), device or storage system such as for a 15K RPM (revolutions per minute) 146GB SAS Hard Disk Drive (HDD).

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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. Jorge Castro encourages folks to just kill the silly myths (regarding desktop Linux). Virtualization.

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Linux Academy

JUNE 10, 2019

While we go over what databases are and some of the various types of databases in this blog, we don’t go into how to work with them. All are handled safely inside the Linux Academy platform. . Database management systems are software that handle the storage, retrieval, and updating of data. The Importance of Databases.

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Linux SOA Course Examples 76

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Nice to see that work on getting Linux up and running and fully functional on Apple’s proprietary M1 chips is progressing well. Cloudflare recently introduced its own object storage offering, announced in this blog post. Virtualization.

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Linux Academy

MAY 7, 2019

We Azure, just like Microsoft Linux! Linux Academy is the only way to get exam-like training for multiple Microsoft Azure certifications, check out this blog post if you’re wondering where to get started in Azure. Develop solutions that use storage tables. Develop solutions that use Cosmos DB storage.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Introducing Windows Subsystem for Linux WSL and Overview. Microsoft has been increasing their support of Linux across Azure public cloud, Hyper-V and Linux Integration Services (LIS) and Windows platforms including Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) as well as Server along with Docker support.

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Storage IO Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

AWS made several announcements at re:invent including many around development tools, compute and data storage services. One of those to keep an eye on is cloud based Aurora relational database service that complement existing RDS tools. SQL Server among others).

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Linux Academy

APRIL 9, 2019

From new courses to new labs, we have a ton of exciting new Google Cloud updates at Linux Academy ( where you can get the most Google Cloud training on this planet! ). Practice what you’re learning by spinning up live environments within Linux Academy! Object Versioning in Google Cloud Storage.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

BPFDoor, as it is known, is a passive backdoor that allows threat actors to remotely connect to a Linux shell. Read more about it on the Isovalent blog. Although it isn’t technically specific to storage, there are significant storage themes in this article on what might happen if you lock yourself out of your digital life.

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Linux Academy

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Linux Academy is the only way to get exam-like training for multiple Microsoft Azure certifications. Creating and configuring storage accounts. Deploying and managing virtual machines. Securing Storage with Access Keys and Shared Access Signatures in Microsoft Azure. Azure Storage Accounts: Configuration and Security.

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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. Konstantin Ryabitsev has a series going on securing a SysAdmin Linux workstation. Virtualization. Need to customize the virtual networks that VMware Fusion offers?

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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.

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Linux Academy

MAY 7, 2019

Linux Academy is the only way to get exam-like training for multiple Microsoft Azure certifications, check out this blog post if you’re wondering where to get started in Azure. As always, remember that you have a range of content available here at Linux Academy if you have any gaps in prerequisite knowledge.

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Linux Academy

MARCH 19, 2019

You are cordially invited to the Linux Academy Google Next After Party ! Join us on Thursday night for the official Linux Academy Google Next After Party on April 11th from 6 – 9 PM PDT. Come and find us, and we may even give you a sneak peak into what all is being released on Linux Academy next! Google Cloud Functions.

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Google Linux Cloud Engineering 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

It was good to read this post on Cumulus Linux first impressions by Jeremy Stretch. I’m a fan of Cumulus, but I’m admittedly a Linux guy (see here ) so you might say I’m a bit biased. Jeremy is a “hard-core” networking professional, and so hearing his feedback on Cumulus Linux was, in my opinion, useful.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Nice to see that work on getting Linux up and running and fully functional on Apple’s proprietary M1 chips is progressing well. Cloudflare recently introduced its own object storage offering, announced in this blog post. Virtualization.

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IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 21, 2020

I’ve had this blog post sitting in my Drafts folder waiting to be published for almost a month, and I kept forgetting to actually make it live. ” Want to use a Yubikey to automatically lock and unlock your Linux system? Read about why the author created jc in this blog post. ” Storage. Virtualization.

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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. Although Linux is often considered to be superior to Windows and macOS with regard to security, it is not without its own security flaws. More information is available in this Helm blog post. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Some folks from Nicira (now part of VMware) recently published a blog post discussing the OVSDB IETF draft (see here ). Erik Smith, notably known for his outstanding posts on storage and FCoE, takes a stab at describing some of the differences between SDN and network virtualization in this post. storage enhancements.

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Linux Academy

MAY 7, 2019

Linux Academy is the only way to get exam-like training for multiple Microsoft Azure certifications, check out this blog post if you’re wondering where to get started in Azure. As always, remember that you have a range of content available here at Linux Academy if you have any gaps in prerequisite knowledge.

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

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

Back in October of last year, Tom Hollingsworth weighed in on Hedgehog , the networking company that has set out to commercialize SONiC, a Linux-based NOS used extensively in Azure. You can get more details on Koyeb’s Pulumi provider in this blog post. Ah, the bygone sounds of yesteryear …what a blast from the past!

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Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

Redpill Linpro talks to readers about their new routers running Cumulus Linux. Chip Zoller makes the argument in favor of running Kubernetes in/on virtual machines. Berk Ulsoy discusses WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), providing a “Linux veteran’s” perspective. Virtualization. That’s cool.

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Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

The networking “old guard” likes to talk about how x86 servers and virtualization create network bottlenecks due to performance concerns, but as Ivan points out in this post , it’s rapidly becoming—or has already become—a non-issue. (By Virtualization. Seriously.). The Dell VRTX made its debut recently.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

More information on the script is in his blog post. Dmitri Kalintsev examines some options for addressing storage-related connectivity in NSX environments. I’m not yet convinced that running something like the AWS CLI in a Docker container is worth the extra effort (a Python virtual environment may be more appropriate here).

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

In the process, he muses about the value of configuration management tool chains such as Chef and Puppet in a world of “open switch” platforms such as Cumulus Linux. Speaking of Cumulus Linux…did you see the announcement that Dell has signed a reseller agreement with Cumulus Networks? Operating Systems/Applications.

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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. Networking.

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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. Virtualization.

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