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. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. should keep blogging.

Linux 74

Linux Storage Programming Applications 74

Scott Lowe

APRIL 7, 2023

Operating Systems/Applications In Technology Short Take 166 , I mentioned Nick Schmidt’s article on D2. Howard Oakley has uncovered some changes to the macOS Gatekeeper/app notarization process; see more details in this blog post. Storage Al Rasheed takes readers on a quick journey through setting up Synology Cloud Sync.

Applications 97

Applications Comparison Cloud Operating Systems 97

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2021

This is useful, in my opinion, because now platform operators have a “starting point” on the specific threats they need to try to mitigate. There’s also some great information in this Google Project Zero blog post. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Open Source 94

Open Source Virtualization Applications Security 94

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Operating Systems/Applications. Cloudflare recently introduced its own object storage offering, announced in this blog post. Cloudflare recently introduced its own object storage offering, announced in this blog post. Virtualization. Feel free to hit me up on Twitter if you have any feedback.

IPv6 60

IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 60

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

They’re concerned that Microsoft is using software licensing to limit European businesses’ choice of cloud service provider for services including desktop virtualization and application hosting. Cloud Computing, Cloud Management, Cloud Storage, Microsoft, Software Licensing OVH, along with fellow CISPE member Aruba.it

Licensing 98

Licensing Software Software Microsoft 98

Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

Read more about it on the Isovalent blog. Operating Systems/Applications. 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. Virtualization. Check out this write-up. Think again.

Vmware 74

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 74

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

You can get more details on Koyeb’s Pulumi provider in this blog post. Operating Systems/Applications Dewan Ahmed has a great run-down on options for documentation-as-code. It would seem that AWS is going to take on Docker Desktop with its Finch project; see this blog post for more details. to version 8.0.

Programming 90

Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Do not expect too many blog posts or twitter updates. It was not until later in the year that I started to recording the readings here on the blog, so I hope this is indeed the complete list. Bar-Yam, Journal of Systems Science and Complexity. Although there are still a few very exciting AWS news updates to happen this year.

Operating Systems 144

Operating Systems Conference Survey System 144

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? Operating Systems/Applications. Read about why the author created jc in this blog post.

Handbook 60

Handbook Linux Storage Windows 60

Galido

AUGUST 27, 2019

Information Technology Blog - - How to Transfer Large Scale Data. Information Technology Blog. As we all know, at the moment safe data exchange with large amount of information between different devices with various operative systems is not easy for every user. It will “load” files via virtual cloud storage.

How To 77

How To Data Storage Operating Systems 77

Scott Lowe

MAY 7, 2021

Maegan Jong and Dominik Tornow have a blog series that, in their words, “aims to advance the understanding of Kubernetes and its underlying concepts.” The folks at Netskope have a pair of blog posts on GCP OAuth token hijacking in Google Cloud ( part 1 , part 2 ). Operating Systems/Applications. Programming.

Linux 60

Linux Hardware Network Cloud 60

The Verge

JUNE 29, 2021

Trusted Platform Module) support, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage. Microsoft doesn’t typically enforce such specific processor requirements with Windows — with both Windows 8 and Windows 10 only requiring a 1GHz processor, 1GB of RAM (2GB for 64-bit), and 16GB of storage (20GB for 64-bit). Trusted Platform Module).

Windows 91

Windows Microsoft Hardware Intel 91

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Humair Ahmed of VMware shares some details on a new control plane resiliency feature recently added to VMware NSX: Controller Disconnected Operation (CDO) mode. Yves Fauser discusses NSX integration with Kubernetes in this blog post. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Yes, please! (I

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

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).

Vmware 60

Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware.

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Operating Systems/Applications. J Metz has launched his own, storage-focused “Short Takes” series; the first of these is found here. Virtualization. More information is also available via Jeff Barr’s blog post , the Firecracker web site , and the Firecracker GitHub repository. Career/Soft Skills.

Vmware 60

Vmware Authentication Virtualization Storage 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. Operating Systems/Applications. Cormac Hogan has a brief update on storage options for containers on VMware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 12, 2021

I didn’t do so well on storage links; apologies to my storage-focused friends! The Google Project Zero blog takes a look at iMessage in iOS 14. This blog post by Alex DeBrie on AWS API Gateway access logs is a real tour de force. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Networking.

IPv6 60

IPv6 Network Storage Policies 60

SPF13

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Virtualization, standardization, and automation have all played key roles in making disaster recovery more affordable. They have reduced the number of people required to restore systems which significantly decreases personnel costs. These services are critical for keeping businesses running after system failures. SlideShare.

Disaster Recovery 191

Disaster Recovery Insurance Virtualization Data Center 191

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. Operating Systems/Applications.

Storage 92

Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Anders Eknert shows how to do—or at least provides a framework on getting started with—dynamic policy composition with Open Policy Agent (OPA) in this blog post from April 2021. It’s a shame the site doesn’t appear to have an RSS/Atom feed… Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Storage 79

Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

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 Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Vmware 106

Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 106

Scott Lowe

JULY 5, 2019

This blog post outlines some of the changes/new features in kubeadm with the Kubernetes 1.15 Operating Systems/Applications. John Griffith of Red Hat provides more details in this blog post on the Kubernetes web site. Virtualization. Chris Humphries shares his experience in using OpenBSD as his workstation.

Storage 60

Storage Hardware Open Source Vmware 60

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; Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware.

Firewall 60

Firewall Virtualization Network Storage 60

Galido

JULY 20, 2018

Information Technology Blog - - iPhone Vs Android — A Comparative Study 2018 - Information Technology Blog. Apple has shown great skill in designing an easy-to-use mobile operating system, while Android has been increasingly developing their product to be more intuitive and give you more control over it’s OS and applications.

Study 66

Study Apple Google Operating Systems 66

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

VMware, Vagrant, and Docker together is the subject of this blog post by Fabio Rapposelli. Operating Systems/Applications. I’m not sure if this falls into storage or virtualization, but we’ll place it here in the Storage section. Virtualization. Here’s one such example.

Vmware 69

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

He describes cloud as the synthesis of many different forms of innovation within IT , pulling together things like open source, virtualization, distributed programming, NoSQL, DevOps/NoOps, distributed teams, dynamic languages, and Big Data (among others). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Storage 111

Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 111

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. More information is available in this Helm blog post. Operating Systems/Applications. Nothing here this time around—maybe go check J Metz' blog instead ? Virtualization.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

to Google Container Engine; this blog post talks about some of the new features and functionality. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Check out Frank’s blog for more details. Google is rolling out Kubernetes 1.8 Check out the beginning of the series here. Larry Smith Jr. Career/Soft Skills.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Engineering Network 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). Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Here’s hoping you find something useful to you!

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

see below in the “Operating Systems/Applications” section), Metaswitch has announced a Container Networking Interface (CNI) plugin for Project Calico. Only a year late, I found this article about Cisco IOS XRv (as in “virtual”). Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Along with the release of rkt 1.0 (see

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Operating Systems Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Craig Matsumoto of SDN Central helps highlight a recent (and fairly significant) development in networking protocols—the submission of the Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation (Geneve) proposal to the IETF. This is interesting enough that I might actually write up a separate blog post about it; stay tuned for that.

Virtualization 60

Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 2, 2019

I’ve got a little bit of something for most everyone, except for the storage nerds (I’m leaving that to my friend J Metz this time around). Via the Packet Pushers blog, Daniel Himes provides a guide to a starting point for enterprise (network) automation. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Storage 60

Storage Applications Programming Firewall 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

and their product (VirTool Network Analyzer) is aimed at providing some operational visibility into OpenStack virtual networks. I saw a demo of the product—it looks quite handy, and provides a pretty fair amount of information to help operators figure out what’s happening “under the covers. Virtualization.

Storage 60

Storage Vmware Load Balancer Network 60

Linux Academy

APRIL 30, 2019

Stay tuned to the Linux Academy blog for further details. That viruses and malware are Windows problems is a misnomer that is often propagated through the Linux community and it’s an easy one to believe until you start noticing strange behavior on your system. Linux Study Group in May. 3) Join us on YouTube! Courses Free in May.

Linux 113

Linux Course Big Data Devops 113

Scott Lowe

MAY 9, 2014

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is a networking topic that is starting to get more and more attention (some may equate “attention” with “hype”; I’ll allow you to draw your own conclusion there). Juan Manuel Rey has launched a series of blog posts on deploying OpenStack with KVM and VMware NSX.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage HP Virtualization 60