CTOvision

MAY 9, 2017

Delivers 1000s Virtual NICs for Ultimate Scalability with the Lowest Possible Latency. These include leading edge cloud service providers, Web 2.0 making it an ideal workhorse for 10GbE data center and cloud workloads, providing high bandwidth, high-packet rate and CPU efficient processing of network traffic. Marty Meehan.

Software 151

Software Software Data Center Hardware 151

Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2013

Is there a difference between network virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)? So, in a similar fashion to my post on network overlays vs. network virtualization , I thought I’d weigh in with some thoughts. With this definition in hand, let’s compare network virtualization to SDN.

Virtualization 134

Virtualization Network Vmware Load Balancer 134

TM Forum

JANUARY 27, 2022

“When we talk about cloudification we think of it as a way to optimize capex on the hardware infrastructure. “For that, of course, we need a telco cloud infrastructure and we need the network workloads to be containerized,” explains Leboucher. ” Orange is testing how its vision will work in practice.

CTO 130

CTO Network Cloud Virtualization 130

Fountainhead

MAY 12, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Profiling questions nobodys asking re: cloud applications. I find it odd that so much is being written about defining cloud terminology, cloud operation, and cloud construction. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead.

Cloud 186

Cloud Data Center Applications Virtualization 186

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 20, 2023

2] In this arena, desktop virtualization and cloud technologies will play starring roles. Notably, businesses are adopting virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) as a way to keep data secure, teams collaborative, and staff productive while reducing costs. Additionally, VDI can reduce operational costs in two ways.

Dell 59

Dell Intel Virtualization Cloud 59

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Virtualization. Michael Kashin explains how he built a DIY (Do It Yourself) SD-WAN using Envoy and Wireguard. Career/Soft Skills.

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

SecureWorld News

APRIL 9, 2023

The browser isolation technique considers non-whitelisted websites unreliable and isolates them from the local machine in a virtual environment. However, conventional solutions such as antivirus, firewalls, and other detection and blocking tools can only offer a limited level of security.

Security 84

Security Malware Virtualization Network 84

ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

Incident response in the cloud. James Campbell, CEO of Cado Security , shares his experience with traditional incident response, and how the cloud, with its elastic structure, able to spin up and spin down instances, is changing incident response. And other hardware. There are the servers you control.

Cloud 40

Cloud Government Data Security 40

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). Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

SecureWorld News

MAY 25, 2022

Many software and hardware products come "out of the box" with overly permissive factory default configurations intended to make the products user-friendly and reduce the troubleshooting time for customer service. Remote services, such as a virtual private network (VPN), lack sufficient controls to prevent unauthorized access.

SMB 69

SMB Network Software Software 69

SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Security Network Accelerators to improve latency and operational efficiency: "As network operations become more complex, additional purpose-built hardware supporting security functions such as firewalls, IDS, DDoS, Probes and Packet brokers are deployed throughout the network.

Network 52

Network Security Firewall Engineering 52

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Servers/Hardware. Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful.

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Servers/Hardware. Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful.

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Russell Bryant has a post on Open Virtual Network (OVN) , a project within the Open vSwitch (OVS) community. Servers/Hardware. specifically, the new container network firewall functionality. When I was using Fedora, I needed some useful information on firewall-cmd , and found this article to be helpful. Virtualization.

Firewall 60

Firewall Virtualization Network Storage 60

Kitaboo

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

It prevents students from accessing the institute’s network for classes or retrieving educational material or work saved on the cloud. They disturb the virtual classes by exposing unwanted and harmful media during ongoing classes or sessions. For instance, you can create cloud backups and also store data in external hardware.

Education 78

Education Malware eBook Backup 78

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Virtualization. Michael Kashin explains how he built a DIY (Do It Yourself) SD-WAN using Envoy and Wireguard. Career/Soft Skills.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Servers/Hardware. Anthony Burke gives a little bit of a sneak peek at some functionality from the upcoming v3 release of PowerNSX: searching NSX Distributed Firewall (DFW) rules.

Windows 60

Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 60

SecureWorld News

JANUARY 21, 2024

For instance, hardware- or software-based firewalls can monitor incoming and outgoing network traffic and block suspicious activity. Cloud services offer another avenue for cost-effective cybersecurity solutions since providers often include security measures in their service offerings.

Nonprofit 86

Nonprofit Strategy Budget Backup 86

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Servers/Hardware. While all the attention is “up the stack,” there are still some occasions when you need to worry about the details in the hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. I’m not sure if this falls into storage or virtualization, but we’ll place it here in the Storage section.

Vmware 69

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 2, 2019

The key takeaway here is that anytime there is firewalling or other stateful services in place, the traffic will route to the (non-distributed) service router instead of just the distributed routers. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Virtualization. spec , expected in to land in 2021.

Storage 60

Storage Applications Programming Firewall 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Johnson shows a great diagram that reviews all the various types of VM-to-VM communications that can exist in modern data centers: VM-to-VM (on the same host) via the software-based virtual switch (could be speeds of 30 to 40 Gbps in this use case). Intel VT-c actually provides a couple of different ways to work in virtualized environments.

Intel 109

Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 109

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

At the recent OCP Summit, Microsoft introduced Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC). Servers/Hardware. Russell Pope at Kovarus recently wrote about using security groups to manage the VMware NSX distributed firewall. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Finally, you might find the VMware Virtual SAN 6.2

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Tony Sangha took PowerNSX (a set of PowerShell cmdlets for interacting with NSX) and created a tool to help document the NSX Distributed Firewall configuration. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Virtualization. Thinking of virtualizing Linux on Hyper-V? What’s that? See here.).

Linux 60

Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

If you like geeking out over the hardware side of networking, you may find this Ars Technica article on the physical infrastructure of the global Internet to be an interesting read. (I Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Virtualization. I won’t spoil Ivan’s conclusion; go read the article!

Linux 60

Linux Network Hardware Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Greg Ferro examines a potential SDN use case (an OpenFlow use case) in the form of enterprise firewall migrations. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. I think I might have mentioned this before (sorry if so), but here’s a good write-up on using the Edge Gateway CLI for monitoring and troubleshooting.

Storage 111

Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 111

Galido

JUNE 28, 2018

Monitoring of virtual servers. As devices are discovered, probes will also detect the services and hardware it can monitor. Reducing the costs by buying only the hardware you need. Monitoring of operating time and periods of inactivity (uptime /downtime). Application monitoring. Web monitoring. Environmental monitoring.

Network 60

Network LAN VOIP Licensing 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Michael Kashin has a great article on how Open Virtual Network (OVN, part of the Open vSwitch project) implements virtual networks in OpenStack. Servers/Hardware. Vivek Gite over at nixCraft explains how to use ufw (Uncomplicated Firewall) on Ubuntu to limit SSH connections. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Linux 60

Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

This article by Russell Bryant is a great overview and update of the work going on with Open Virtual Network (OVN). This is kind of cool, and (in my humble opinion) a sign of changing times: Juniper has Vagrant boxes as well as a Vagrant plugin for working with vSRX (virtual firewall) VMs (via this article from Matt Oswalt).

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Firewall Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

What’s really interesting to me is the (completely uncoordinated) alignment between Matt’s list of skills for networking pros and the list I provided to virtualization pros in a series of recent VMUG presentations (refer to slide 15, but the list is software development basics, Linux, automation/orchestration, and public cloud services).

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Galido

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Ensure that your host specializes in custom firewalls for your CMS if you are using one, and updates web server scripts and systems regularly. The term only becomes applicable when we start looking for Virtual Private Servers (VPS) and Dedicated Servers. Virtual Private Server. Enhanced Security. What Is Managed Hosting?

Backup 103

Backup Resources Security Virtualization 103

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

Servers/Hardware. In the event you’re interested in an idea of how much latency the use of in-kernel hypervisor firewalling (such as that offered by VMware NSX) adds, have a look at this article by Sean Howard. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Virtualization. It’s a good post, well worth reading (in my opinion).

Vmware 60

Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Server virtualization can do the trick for you if you also struggle to scale your applications to meet growing demands without breaking the bank. Server virtualization is a game-changing technology that has revolutionized the way organizations deploy and manage their IT infrastructure.

Virtualization 78

Virtualization Storage Hardware Disaster Recovery 78

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Art Fewell takes a deeper look at the increasingly important role of the virtual switch. A discussion of “statefulness” brought me again to Ivan’s post on the spectrum of firewall statefulness. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Vmware 60

Vmware Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Cloud Computing » Latisys. Fishbowl Finds the Right Fit for Hybrid Cloud With Latisys. Fishbowl Finds the Right Fit for Hybrid Cloud With Latisys. “Hybrid” has replaced “cloud” as the hot buzzword, and from a customer perspective, there’s even more confusion around exactly what it means. .

Cloud 189

Cloud Data Data Center Firewall 189

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2023

For maximum flexibility, you should seek out licensing options that can be applied in all the environments where you need to deploy your solutions, including on-premises, physical and virtual data centers, clouds, hybrid clouds, and hybrid mesh firewall environments.

Licensing 52

Licensing Firewall Programming Data Center 52

Sean Daniel

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Only yesterday, a third product that I worked on over the past little while called Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials was announced, on hardware provided by Western Digital. The WD Sentinel DX4000 looks pretty awesome from a hardware perspective as well. Cloud Computing. (10). Cloud Computing. Virtualization.

Storage 48

Storage Network SMB Windows 48

Dataconomy

MARCH 3, 2024

Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) have become significant considerations. Understanding VPNs A Virtual Private Network, commonly known as a VPN, creates a safe connection between a user’s device and the internet by coding the data that is being sent. One must also take into account scalability.

Network 41

Network Security Authentication Hardware 41