Cloud Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

Last week, Packt Publishing announced that " Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions " by Kevin L. Being an "Amazon Bestseller" cloud computing publications the book is doing well. I am proud and honored to be trusted by such a prestigious institution. I am proud and honored to be trusted by such a prestigious institution.

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Cloud Course Programming Open Source 70

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2022

These problems are exacerbated by a lack of hardware designed for ML use cases. Gartner reports, “86% of organizations identified at least one of the following areas as a weak link in their AI infrastructure stack: GPU processing, CPU processing, data storage, networking, resource sharing, or integrated development environments.”.

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Dell Artificial Intelligence Intel Enterprise 134

GeekWire

JULY 29, 2021

” The resulting insights could help computer scientists design better hardware for AI applications, and they could also help medical researchers figure out treatments for brain disorders that involve alterations in cortical wiring.

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Research Programming Storage Open Source 140

GeekWire

AUGUST 18, 2021

” That makes the International Space Station an extreme case study for edge computing, the concept of bringing storage and processing closer to the source of data to improve speed and reduce the bandwidth needed for cloud computing. Spaceborne Computer-2 (HPE Image).

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Microsoft Linux Artificial Intelligence Budget 145

Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. marks the first release of the open source container orchestration platform that is signed using Sigstore (more details here ). Here’s a user’s perspective on using infracost to bring cloud spend into your Terraform worfklows. Kubernetes 1.24

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Virtualization Storage Programming Network 79

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

I’ve got another collection of links to articles on networking, security, cloud, programming, and career development—hopefully you find something useful! Servers/Hardware What do you think of the ThinkPhone ? Rory McCune shares some information on configuring Caddy , a Go-based open source web server.

Programming 90

Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

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. I really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts.

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Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Filippo Valsorda speculates on how open source maintainers need to evolve into professional maintainers. I have a genuine question here (not trolling or being sarcastic): what is the use case/intended audience for Cloud Hypervisor ? Well worth reading!

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Open Source Virtualization Applications Security 94

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Given that I am originally from the Netherlands I have, of course, a special interest in how Dutch companies are using our cloud services. . But it is not just Dutch entrepreneurs who build their business in the cloud, also traditional Dutch enterprises are moving to the cloud to improve their agility and cost-effectiveness.

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Enterprise Enterprise Cloud Banking 130

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Seth Vargo walks through how to use Terraform to setup and configure a Google Cloud Run service. Continuing his focus on cloud-init , Luc Dekens has added four more articles to his site discussing this tool. Networking. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 60

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2023

And they all rely on the open-source NoSQL database Apache Cassandra ®. The solution to a storage cost problem is not adding more storage; it’s finding ways to process your data in place. Cassandra is an open-source NoSQL database that scales with performance and reliability better than any other.

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Galido

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Use The Cloud. The cloud has become a powerful tool that all businesses can benefit from greatly. It can help to reduce IT costs by eliminating the need for expensive storage and hardware kept on-site. This is just one of the many benefits that cloud computing brings to businesses. Use Open Source Software.

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How To Open Source Budget Software 66

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Servers/Hardware. As opposed to just encrypting data at the transport level (although Acra does that between components of its architecture) or just encrypting data at the storage level (using an encrypted file system or similar), Acra targets encrypting data at the table/row/column level within a database. Check back next time!

Open Source 60

Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Servers/Hardware. The big news in the hardware space recently was the article regarding the purported Chinese hardware supply chain attack. Of the (innumerable) articles commenting on the hardware hack, this article by Joe FitzPatrick and this ErrataSec article caught my eye. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Hardware Open Source Vmware Linux 60

Galido

APRIL 27, 2020

For a start, it provides easy optimization of infrastructural resources since it uses hardware more effectively. First of all, public cloud container adoption is slowly shifting to Kubernetes. However, even though the project was promising, in 2015, Google released this tool as an open-source project.

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Load Balancer Tools Applications Open Source 94

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

This is a liveblog of Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 session EDCS003, titled “Enhancing OpenStack with Intel Technologies for Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud.” The session will wrap up with a discussion of Intel’s Open IT Cloud, which is based on OpenStack. This work is enabled in the Grizzly release.

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Intel Storage Open Source Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Components involved include the open source Kuma service mesh (in turn leveraging Envoy), anycast BGP, and mutual TLS (mTLS). Servers/Hardware. William Lam takes a look at some potentially interesting homelab hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Seriously.). Yes, please. This was a pretty cool story.

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Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

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 Thinking of using a hardware VTEP (VXLAN Tunnel Endpoint) with VMware NSX? Servers/Hardware. Networking.

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Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Servers/Hardware. Micro-segmentation is one of those terms (like SDN, cloud, DevOps, etc.)

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Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

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. I really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts.

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Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 5, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Although I’ve by and large moved away from Apple hardware (I still have a MacBook Pro running macOS that sees very little use, and a Mac Pro running Fedora), I did see this article regarding a new keyboard for the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Kubernetes 1.15

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Storage Hardware Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Xavier Avrillier walks readers through using Antrea (a Kubernetes CNI built on top of Open vSwitch—a topic I’ve touched on a time or two) to provide on-premise load balancing in Kubernetes. Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Virtualization.

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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Open source has become so critical to so many aspects of our computing infrastructure. Uh oh… more hardware exploits. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. I recently stumbled across Ricardo Sueiras’ “AWS open source news and updates” posts. I’m glad to see this.

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Linux Vmware Open Source Examples 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

Servers/Hardware. This article is about hardware, just not the hardware I’d typically talk about in this section—instead, it’s about Philips Hue light bulbs. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. For readers who may be new to networking, Daniel Wray has a write-up on network cabling. Good for the EFF.

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Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

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.

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Cloud Government Data Security 40

Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

Part 2 of Stark and Wayne’s container-to-container networking for Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes dig deep into CNI workings. Servers/Hardware. This article discusses four open source secrets management tools. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. configurations. Nothing this time around! Nothing this time.

Open Source 60

Open Source Tools Policies Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Servers/Hardware. Micro-segmentation is one of those terms (like SDN, cloud, DevOps, etc.)

Devops 60

Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Linux Academy

APRIL 30, 2019

By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. Cloud Security Fundamentals — The cloud has brought about tons of innovation and features. One thing often forgotten about during implementation is security. What is AWS?

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Linux Course Big Data Devops 113

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2020

I don’t have any links for servers/hardware or security in today’s Short Take, but hopefully there’s enough linked content in the other sections that you’ll still find something useful. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Networking. Nothing this time around!

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Storage Tools Architecture Network 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Kit Colbert shares 5 predictions for cloud-native applications in 2017. The “TL;DR” is that Google’s efforts around Kubernetes make it easier for customers to switch to their cloud, and their work around machine learning is the “carrot” that will bring them over.

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Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

Servers/Hardware. Guiliano Bertello introduces PowerVCF , a PowerCLI module aimed at interacting with the SDDC Manager and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) stack. (If Now I really want to see hardware security key support in the desktop and mobile apps! Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. as well). Virtualization.

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Load Balancer Vmware Windows Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Even with public cloud and managed services, you can’t avoid good old-fashioned data management processes.” Cloud computing does make some things easier—but it doesn’t eliminate other necessary tasks and design considerations. Virtualization. Career/Soft Skills.

Linux 60

Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Even with public cloud and managed services, you can’t avoid good old-fashioned data management processes.” Cloud computing does make some things easier—but it doesn’t eliminate other necessary tasks and design considerations. Virtualization. Career/Soft Skills.

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Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 22, 2014

The vendors may vary in their approach to providing this automation and orchestration—some may prefer to do it in software (VMware would be one of these, along with other software companies like Microsoft and Red Hat), while others want to do it in hardware. Cloud Computing Interview with Dave Malcolm, CTO of Surgient.

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Policies Open Source Vmware Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. The VMware Cloud-Native Apps group has a breakdown of some of the new features/functionality found in the 1.9 Via Maish Saidel-Keesing, I saw this post about 10 open source Kubernetes tools for highly effective SRE and Ops teams. Nothing this time around.

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Vmware Open Source Linux Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. In part 2 , Mike discusses things like using the appropriate virtual hardware, the right kernel modules for VMXNET3, getting rid of unnecessary hardware (like the virtual floppy), and similar tips. Any thoughts? All good stuff, thanks Mike! limits and maximums.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

This is a liveblog of IDF 2014 session DATS009, titled “Ceph: Open Source Storage Software Optimizations on Intel Architecture for Cloud Workloads.” Chagam does admit that not all workloads are suited for distributed storage solutions. Chagam turns to discussing Ceph block storage.

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