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 What will happen when you combine GPUs and persistent storage? Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Networking.

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Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. He then goes on to provide examples of how organizations building or leveraging clouds are synthesizing these various independent technological innovations together.

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Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 111

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Skydive is (in the project’s own words) an “open source real-time network topology and protocols analyzer.” 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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. What’s that?

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Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

At the recent OCP Summit, Microsoft introduced Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC). Matt Oswalt recently unveiled (and open sourced) a framework called ToDD, which stands for “Testing on Demand: Distributed”. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Read more about it here. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

If you recently integrated cloud technologies into your IT environment, chances are your team spent many months working behind the scenes, diligently setting up the implementation to generate quick gains for the business. Either way, clouds of any flavor from public to on prem to hybrid don’t manage themselves. They have two options.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. I really appreciate Jay’s focus on what’s beneficial to the users of OpenStack: the cloud operators, the end users/consumers, and the developers building applications on top of OpenStack. you’ll need to be sure to unblock WMI in the Windows Firewall. Virtualization.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

Dataconomy

APRIL 13, 2023

and the open-source community. This feature is particularly useful in environments where only HTTP traffic is allowed, such as in a web proxy or firewall. It has become a popular tool for remote administration, allowing users to manage computers and servers from a remote location. What is a Virtual Network Computing port?

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Virtualization Network Linux Windows 36

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Well, let’s see…stuff on Envoy, network automation, network designs, M1 chips (and potential open source variants!), Ivan Pepelnjak shares some links and thoughts on configuring the NSX-T firewall with a CI/CD pipeline built on GitHub Actions and Terraform Cloud. Are open source M1-style chips a possibility?

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Managing What Matters In the Cloud: The Apps. Managing What Matters In the Cloud: The Apps. Paul Speciale is Chief Marketing Officer at Appcara , which is a provider of a model-based cloud application platform. Cloud Management. Cloud Application Management. By: Industry Perspectives July 17th, 2013.

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Data Center Cloud Data Applications 203

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Well, let’s see…stuff on Envoy, network automation, network designs, M1 chips (and potential open source variants!), Ivan Pepelnjak shares some links and thoughts on configuring the NSX-T firewall with a CI/CD pipeline built on GitHub Actions and Terraform Cloud. Are open source M1-style chips a possibility?

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Open Source Cloud Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Still, there’s a decent collection of networking, cloud computing, and virtualization articles as well as a smattering of other topics for you to peruse. ” Speaking of Linux networking…Marek Majkowski of Cloudflare digs deep into conntrack , used for stateful firewalling functionality. Networking. Servers/Hardware.

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Open Source Vmware Disaster Recovery Linux 60

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). Jason Edelman has posted a self-compiled list of networking projects that are open source ; this is a useful list, so thanks for compiling it Jason!

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Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We all know that security is more than just a host-based firewall, but a host-based firewall can be part of an overall security strategy. This article provides a good introductory overview of Linux iptables commands for configuring host-based firewall rules on your Linux systems. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Windows Firewall Linux Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

The use of VMware NSX for microsegmentation is a really popular use case, and so the topic of scripting distributed firewall (DFW) rules often comes up. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Pradipta Kumar Banerjee has an article on using local storage for instances in OpenStack. Now, I’m likely to take some heat (Ha!

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Vmware Linux Intel Storage 60

ForAllSecure

MARCH 30, 2022

You might start out with an innocent question, like what if someone misconfigured their cloud configuration could it lead to holding the keys to Microsoft’s Azure Surface Fabric framework? Vamosi: Cloud security is relatively new and as such it probably hasn’t gotten as much attention as it deserves. Like chasing a rabbit.

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