CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2024

Having segmentation between infrastructure providing data processing and data storage is an example of a broad IT security architectural pattern. As the technology portfolio changes, especially with the rapid adoption of the cloud, the architectural patterns included in the CCA have to be reevaluated periodically.

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Financial Architecture Resources Security 92

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2017

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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. That’s cool. Virtualization.

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Firewall Virtualization Network Storage 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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 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 What will happen when you combine GPUs and persistent storage? Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Networking.

Vmware 60

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. As the website describes it, it’s designed to “reverse engineer” servers so that you can migrate them into a configuration management system like Chef or Puppet.

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Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 111

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

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). Here are some general guidelines for configuring syslog forwarding on a Cisco ASA firewall. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Vmware Storage Firewall Network 60

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s one such example.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a good post on Kubernetes Ingress by Jay Gorrell. RegEx tester. Enough said.

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a good post on Kubernetes Ingress by Jay Gorrell. RegEx tester. Enough said.

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Alan Renouf shows you how to retrieve NVMe storage device details using PowerCLI.

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Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Maybe next time? The script itself is on GitHub.

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Vmware Windows Network Agile 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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Cloud Open Source Applications Storage 131

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a good post on Kubernetes Ingress by Jay Gorrell. RegEx tester. Enough said.

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Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

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

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

A discussion of “statefulness” brought me again to Ivan’s post on the spectrum of firewall statefulness. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Prasenjit Sarkar, who works in VMware R&D, and runs the Stretch Cloud site , has a write-up on using Data Center Extension (DCE) to VMware vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS).

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Vmware Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 60

Dataconomy

APRIL 13, 2023

This feature is particularly useful in environments where only HTTP traffic is allowed, such as in a web proxy or firewall. The VNC protocol is designed to be platform-independent, meaning that it can be used to access and control computers running on any operating system, including Windows, macOS, Linux, and others.

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Virtualization Network Linux Windows 36

Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The VM is given its own operating system and resources, but they are all contained within the host computer. Each virtualized OS has its own set of resources, such as CPU, memory, and storage, but they share the same physical hardware. Both virtual servers can access the same SATA hard drive for storage.

Virtualization 78

Virtualization Storage Hardware Disaster Recovery 78

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Vivek Gite over at nixCraft explains how to use ufw (Uncomplicated Firewall) on Ubuntu to limit SSH connections. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. If you’ve deployed the vRealize Operations Management Pack for NSX, there’s an option to enable Log Insight integration as well. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Dataconomy

MARCH 28, 2023

The ecosystem consists of various components, including devices, communication networks, data storage, and analytics tools, that work together to create an intelligent system that enables automation, monitoring, and control of various processes. Data storage solutions need to be scalable, secure, and cost-effective.

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Data Storage Security Network 28

Dataconomy

MARCH 28, 2023

The ecosystem consists of various components, including devices, communication networks, data storage, and analytics tools, that work together to create an intelligent system that enables automation, monitoring, and control of various processes. Data storage solutions need to be scalable, secure, and cost-effective.

Data 28

Data Storage Security Network 28

Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

I was also recently introduced to a company called HexaTier (formerly GreenSQL), which provides a database security product supporting both on-premises deployments as well as cloud-based deployments, and supports public cloud database-as-a-service (DBaaS) offerings. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Virtualization.

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Linux Network Hardware Vmware 60

Galido

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

How much storage for backups do they provide? 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 basic components of a hosting plan are the servers, operating systems, and the requisite software used for running websites.

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Backup Resources Security Virtualization 103

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).

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Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

This Technology Short Take is a bit heavy on cloud, OS, and programming topics, but there should be enough other interesting links to be useful to plenty of folks. (At Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Need to list assets across multiple cloud providers? Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

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Vmware Firewall Storage Comparison 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

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. ” Following that incident came news of “Azurescape,” billed as the first cross-account container takeover in the public cloud. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Open Source Cloud Network Storage 107

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

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. ” Following that incident came news of “Azurescape,” billed as the first cross-account container takeover in the public cloud. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Open Source Cloud Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2013

I try to keep the information linked to data center technologies like networking, storage, virtualization, and the like, but occasionally other items slip through. Ranga Maddipudi ( @vCloudNetSec on Twitter) has put together two blog posts on vCloud Networking and Security’s App Firewall ( part 1 and part 2 ). Networking.

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Vmware Storage Virtualization HP 109

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. Operating Systems/Applications.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Disaster Recovery Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. Another post by Tom Nolle explores the relationship—complicated at times—between SDN, NFV, and the cloud. App Firewall? Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 106

Galido

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

When you place your resources in the cloud utilizing Microsoft as a provider of public cloud, your network which is situated in the cloud can be termed as a n Azure virtual network (Vnet). The role of virtual appliances is extremely vital in your cloud security strategy. You can select from various operating systems.

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Virtualization Microsoft Firewall Network 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. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

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.

Firewall 52

Firewall Virtualization Authentication Linux 52

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. Another post by Tom Nolle explores the relationship—complicated at times—between SDN, NFV, and the cloud. App Firewall? Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 61

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

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. Servers/Hardware.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 25, 2015

Roie Ben Haim, who works in professional services at VMware, has a deep dive on the NSX distributed firewall (DFW). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. I haven’t had a chance to read it all, but it seems pretty comprehensive. on downloading the videos from the OpenStack Summit.

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Vmware Linux Virtualization Tools 60