Cloud Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Is your company struggling with the idea of using “cloud hosting” in order to save money? Truth be known, using cost savings as the primary reason for moving to cloud will almost guarantee failure. 1] That means that moving to the cloud can actually make money! Generally accepted views are reflected in Table 1.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 20, 2023

2] In this arena, desktop virtualization and cloud technologies will play starring roles. Understanding VDI As a virtual desktop solution, VDI enables remote workers to interact with an operating system and software the same way they would if working locally—on a network-delivered endpoint device.

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Dell Intel Virtualization Cloud 57

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

At WPC 2013, Microsoft Points Partners to the Cloud. At WPC 2013, Microsoft Points Partners to the Cloud. With 3,265 software piracy cases settled around the world in the past year Microsoft gladly embraces the cloud computing advantages that it can benefit its partners. By: John Rath July 10th, 2013. Most won’t be.”.

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CTOvision

APRIL 7, 2014

in new contracts for advanced cybersecurity projects for defense and federal government agencies in the areas of cloud-based advanced malware analysis, spear-phishing attacks against Android, and big data analytics for compromise detection. In the first quarter of 2014, the company’s advanced research division—Invincea Labs—secured $8.1M

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TM Forum

JULY 19, 2021

This newly created multi-supplier ecosystem uses cloud technologies, network virtualization, artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning, open APIs and many of the other associated calling cards of 5G/cloud era communications. Live deployments are coming online. Momentum seems to be gathering as actual live deployments come online.

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The Verge

APRIL 16, 2021

It originally ran a custom Linux operating system that reviewers loved ( Laptop Mag ’s Mark Spoonauer said it was “ten times simpler to use than any Windows notebook”) and was generally heralded as a new kind of computer with tremendous mass appeal. We hadn’t invented the phrase “cloud services” yet.). And that was just Asus!

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Mobility and cloud computing have combined to obliterate any so-called network security perimeter. According to Bill Odell, the Dell Vice President of Marketing for Endpoint Device Management , you need to protect the enterprise front door. Could you please explain to my readers your role at Dell?

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 4, 2013

systems to use the Ubuntu Cloud Archive (which allows access to packaged versions of OpenStack for use with LTS releases of Ubuntu Server, like 12.04). As you may already know, I recently acquired two off-lease Dell PowerEdge C6100 systems. Using Puppet for Ubuntu Cloud Archive Support. Getting Hiera Working.

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Cloud Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The consumerization of IT and the adoption of cloud, mobile and social media by enterprise organizations is opening a new threat landscape and new threat vectors. This post was written as part of the Dell Insight Partners program, which provides news and analysis about the evolving world of tech. million in 2010.”

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Cloud Musings

MAY 30, 2016

(This post originally appeared on Direct2Dell, The Official Dell Corporate Blog) Enterprise storage is trending away from traditional, enterprise managed network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SAN) towards a more complex environment that includes software-defined and cloud-based solutions.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 27, 2023

Photo courtesy True) Veteran computer scientist and business leader Paul Maritz is perhaps best known for his work in PC and server operating systems, cloud computing, and enterprise infrastructure technology. a Seattle-based company that made software for managing personal information.

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Cloud Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Cloud Musings on Forbes. NJVC Cloud Computing. Get "Cloud Musings" by RSS. GovCloud Daily. GovCloud Presentations. GovCloud on Facebook.

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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

MAY 17, 2019

Apparently Dell’s new docking stations support firmware updates via Linux. This is a pretty detailed write-up of a remote code execution vulnerability prsent on most Dell computers (courtesy of Dell SupportAssist). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 11, 2023

For instance, you likely know that central processing units (CPUs) are often used for general-purpose work, such as running operating systems, loading data, and managing memory. Here’s where you can learn more about Dell Generative AI Solutions. Artificial Intelligence, Multi Cloud

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 21, 2016

Keep an eye on among others including Cisco (Servers), Dell (Servers), EMC (DSSD), HPE, Intel (Servers, Drives and Cards), Lenovo, Micron, Microsoft (Drivers, Operating Systems, Storage Spaces), NetApp, OCZ, Oracle, PMC, Samsung, Seagate, Supermicro, VMware and Western Digital (acquisition of SANdisk and HGST).

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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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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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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

The top priority for IT at Marco’s Pizza has been developing an in-house cloud-based technology platform at a time when digital ordering has grown threefold. The work continues as part of its cloud migration work. Replicating Dell’s IT structure, which is architected for 170,000 people, was not the right answer,” Kole says.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

AWS also mentions that these M5d instances are powered by (in their words) “Custom Intel Xeon Platinum” processors, which just goes to confirm the long-known fact that AWS is leveraging custom Intel CPUs in their stuff (as are all the major cloud providers, I’m sure). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2015

Speaking of Cumulus Linux, here’s a write-up on using Cumulus Linux on Dell Networking switches ; in particular, this article describes how to install Cumulus Linux on a Dell S6000-ON. 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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Fox Foundation (for Parkinson’s research), the Broad Institute (for cancer genomics research), the Francis Crick Institute (for bioinformatics training targeting oncologists), and the Knight Cancer Institute (to help create a 1.2PB cloud for genomics research). IDF 2013: Rack Scale Architecture for Cloud. IDF 2014 Day 1 Keynote.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 18, 2017

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). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Out of the cloud(s) and into the fog. Operating Systems/Applications. Stay tuned for a quick review of the hardware once it arrives.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

The Dell VRTX made its debut recently. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. By the way, congrats to Tom on becoming the first VCDX-Cloud!). Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a decent two-part series about running Vyatta on VMware Workstation ( part 1 and part 2 ). Here’s one idea.

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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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications.

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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). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Hats off to Massimo for writing this up.

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Fountainhead

APRIL 27, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Benefits included improvements in system administration, TCO, utilization, and provisioning time. A system administrator can configure and allocate a virtual -- or physical -- server in minutes. Cloud Computing. (55). Cloud Computing.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

The Dell VRTX made its debut recently. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. By the way, congrats to Tom on becoming the first VCDX-Cloud!). Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a decent two-part series about running Vyatta on VMware Workstation ( part 1 and part 2 ). Here’s one idea.

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Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Bare Metal, Containers, and Virtualization: The Growing Choices for Cloud Applications. Intel is working with a few other companies (Dell, Emerson, and HP) on a hardware API specification; early work on the API can be found here. Both were good sessions.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Dell is buying EMC. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. 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. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. What makes up a hybrid cloud? Operating Systems/Applications. Using Dell EqualLogic with VMFS? (Although I’m just now catching Kevin’s posts, they were published almost immediately after the Intel announcements—thanks for the promptness, Kevin!).

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Speaking of Cumulus Linux…did you see the announcement that Dell has signed a reseller agreement with Cumulus Networks? Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. I’m pretty excited about this announcement, and I hope that Cumulus sees great success as a result. Servers/Hardware.

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Sean Daniel

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

In fact, it’s the *only* server operating system that can be backed up by the SBS 2011 Essentials backup engine. Cloud Computing. (10). Cloud Computing. Personal Cloud. Good stuff! 12/11/2011 11:29 AM. Link explaining the HyperV virtualization rights for MultiPoint Premium: [link]. 1/16/2012 7:10 AM.

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Gizmodo

JUNE 22, 2021

Chromebooks had a big moment when the pandemic hit due in part to the searing desperation of parents looking for a computer so their kids could do school from home. But before the chaos, Chromebooks were regarded mostly as an enthusiast’s device, or perhaps as a secondary companion to a more capable machine stationed… Read more.

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