Scott Lowe

JANUARY 18, 2017

Servers/Hardware. I mentioned in a tweet a few weeks ago that I ordered my new corporate laptop, a Dell Latitude E7370 (which will run Ubuntu 16.04). Stay tuned for a quick review of the hardware once it arrives. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Interesting.

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Galido

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Today, most applications are now on the cloud, meaning, you don’t need much to run many applications, as all the processing is done on the server in the cloud. Today you can get a $200 laptop and get useful functions and hardware like an HD display, Windows 10, HDMI port, a decent hard drive, and sometimes even touch screen.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

” As it turns out, their product is actually quite interesting, and has relevance not only in “traditional” VMware vSphere environments but also in environments more focused on cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes. So what is “disaggregated storage”?

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Bare Metal, Containers, and Virtualization: The Growing Choices for Cloud Applications. The first one, on virtualizing the network, did highlight an important development regarding hardware offloads for Geneve, the next-generation network overlay encapsulation protocol. Both were good sessions. That’s cool.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Servers/Hardware. The Dell VRTX made its debut recently. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. By the way, congrats to Tom on becoming the first VCDX-Cloud!). Need to do some port forwarding on a Linux box and want to automate the configuration with Puppet? Here’s one idea. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Is the abstraction layer better served by being integrated into a cloud management platform, like OpenStack? Naturally, the argument then would be, “Not everyone will use a cloud management platform,” which is a valid argument. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. x86 marches on!

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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? Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Servers/Hardware. The Dell VRTX made its debut recently. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. By the way, congrats to Tom on becoming the first VCDX-Cloud!). Need to do some port forwarding on a Linux box and want to automate the configuration with Puppet? Here’s one idea. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. What makes up a hybrid cloud? Using Dell EqualLogic with VMFS? Networking Security Storage Virtualization Automation CLI Hardware HyperV Linux OpenFlow OpenStack Puppet VMware' on flow table explosion with OpenFlow. Operating Systems/Applications.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2021

Azure is one of Microsoft’s cloud computing platforms that competes with Amazon’s AWS and one of its biggest and most important lines of business. And if cloud computing is about computers far away from you in data centers, the edge is about the computers closest to you — like Windows PCs. We’re in a mobile-first, cloud-first world.”.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2023

And while virtualization technologies have long provided developers the option to run multiple applications on single virtual machines, sometimes developers must run specialized workloads that require greater control over physical hardware without sacrificing the simplicity and agility that comes with a cloud experience.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Cloud Computing » IBM. IBM Acquires CSL to Advance the Cloud on System z. IBM Acquires CSL to Advance the Cloud on System z. CSL’s CSL-WAVE software enables companies to monitor and manage thei z/VM and Linux on System z environments using a powerful and easy-to-use interface. By: John Rath July 12th, 2013.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2023

Servers/Hardware Kevin Houston provides some instructions on backing up the Dell PowerEdge MX7000 settings and configurations. Alberto Pellitteri with Sysdig discusses SCARLETEEL , an operation conducted by an attacker that leveraged many of the tools found in modern cloud environments: Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2015

Michael Webster isn’t a name that normally pops up here in the Networking section of my Technology Short Takes, but he recently wrote an article on installing Cumulus Linux from a MacBook Pro that I thought might be handy. I spoke to some folks at Dell a while ago about getting my hands on a Cumulus-compatible switch, but never heard back.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

This time around, the content is a bit heavier on cloud management and applications/operating systems, but still lots of good content all the way around (I hope, anyway). Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Networking. Matt Oswalt recently wrapped up his 3-part “DevOps for Networking” series.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Servers/Hardware. Dell is buying EMC. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. If you’re running some Juniper equipment and are interested in getting started with network automation on that equipment, this article by Jason Edelman on Juniper vSRX automation with Ansible is a good resource. What—you hadn’t heard?

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