Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Photo credit: Shutterstock As the industry matures, cloud computing will increasingly rely on interoperability in order to grow and deliver more value to industry. In cloud computing, interoperability generally refers to the ability of service models from different cloud service providers to work together.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 13, 2023

Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a technology that has revolutionized the way we access and control remote computers. VNC has also opened up new possibilities for remote collaboration, enabling teams to work together on projects even when they are in different parts of the world. What is Virtual Network Computing (VNC)?

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 12, 2015

It’s springtime in Kentucky and recently I had the opportunity to have a conversation with Kendrick Coleman to talk about S3motion, Buckets, Containers, Objects, AWS S3, Cloud and Object Storage, node.js, EMCcode and open source among other related topics which are available in a podcast here, or video here and available at StorageIO.tv.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2014

Platform9 was launched by former VMware veterans with the goal of making it easy for companies to consume their existing infrastructure in an agile, cloud-like fashion. For now, at least, that is especially true for OpenStack, which can be notoriously difficult for newcomers to the popular open source cloud management environment.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 9, 2022

With this announcement of Cilium support within AKS, Cilium is now available in managed Kubernetes offerings across all three major cloud providers. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Ricardo Sueiras captured some great links on open source at AWS in this newsletter. Virtualization. Networking. Programming.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Virtual private networks (VPN) servers are the gateway for Daixin actors, who have exploited unpatched vulnerabilities in organizations' VPN servers, or, in one case, previously compromised credentials were used to access a legacy VPN server without multifactor authentication (MFA) enabled.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

network virtualization). Is the relationship between network virtualization and service mesh closer than some folks might wish to admit? Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. marks the first release of the open source container orchestration platform that is signed using Sigstore (more details here ).

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Linux Academy

APRIL 10, 2020

By now you’ve heard the stories that Microsoft loves Linux and fully embraces the open-source world. Microsoft, under Satya Nadella, has taken a new stance on open-source , which to some is a complete flip-flop from the Microsoft of the past. Use one of our cloud sandboxes! Visual Studio Code.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Filippo Valsorda speculates on how open source maintainers need to evolve into professional maintainers. Virtualization. Thomas Leonard has an interesting blog on using virtualization to isolate Xwayland. I found this article on NSO/Pegasus a very interesting read.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 12, 2015

I just saw the news that Citrix has acquired Sanbolic , a storage virtualization company that I’ve written about before. It will be interesting to see how this acquisition affects the virtualization industry. TechCrunch also has a quick write-up as well.) So the big question becomes, “Will the Sanbolic acquisition change things?”

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 14, 2012

It’s no secret that I’ve been spending time over the last few months working with a number of open source technologies like KVM, Open vSwitch (OVS), and libvirt, all building up to a focus on how these pieces fit together as part of OpenStack. OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook Giveaway.

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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. I really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Career/Soft Skills.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

This is session SFTS012, titled “Designing a Trusted Cloud with OpenStack.” The speaker for the session is Vin Sharma, who helps lead open source software strategies at Intel. That’s a lot of “open” ). Sharma reviews again some of the ODCA cloud computing usage models.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

Tetragon is Isovalent’s newly open-sourced security framework. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Although it isn’t technically specific to storage, there are significant storage themes in this article on what might happen if you lock yourself out of your digital life. Virtualization.

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Kitaboo

MARCH 30, 2024

As a cloud-based, fully secure eBook distribution platform, the platform ensures that your content is adequately encrypted, watermarked, and protected against unauthorized access or distribution. With KITABOO, you can create a virtual environment to store and share all your eBooks and digital files.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 19, 2022

Founded in 2011, the Seattle-based nonprofit has 10 partner networks across Washington state, provides communities with investments and open-sourced tools, as well as advocating at the state and federal level. Conversica provides virtual assistants for revenue teams using conversational artificial intelligence. James Philips.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

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. Virtualization. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Galido

AUGUST 13, 2016

The ERP and Cloud Computing landscape is constantly changing, and moreso over the last few years. IT managers in many cases are finding cloud computing applications easier to use and deploy thus further reducing the time and cost of meeting specific business needs with robust, on demand ERP Cloud Computing technologies.

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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! Rory McCune shares some information on configuring Caddy , a Go-based open source web server. Welcome to Technology Short Take #164! to version 8.0.

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Linux Academy

JUNE 25, 2019

By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students can develop their Linux and Cloud skills even further. Cloud Security Fundamentals. The cloud has brought about tons of innovation and features. Serverless has been gaining momentum as cloud technology continues to become more widespread.

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Galido

APRIL 27, 2020

First of all, public cloud container adoption is slowly shifting to Kubernetes. Secondly, there is also a shift towards hybrid- and multi-cloud strategies, enabled by cloud-native technologies such as containers and Kubernetes. Few months after that, Kubernetes was donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

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Linux Academy

MARCH 28, 2019

A big reason is the proliferation of micro-services based applications in highly redundant and highly available cloud infrastructures. Add to that a desire for most enterprises to integrate cloud based workloads with legacy on-premises applications, and we have complex hybrid cloud deployments to deal with as the result.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

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. Acra is open source and available via GitHub.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been collecting articles I wanted to share with readers on major areas in technology: networking, security, storage, virtualization, cloud computing, and OSes/applications. Denis Mulyalin shows how to use Nornir, Salt, and NetBox to template your network tests.

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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.

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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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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. I really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Career/Soft Skills.

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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). Micro-segmentation is one of those terms (like SDN, cloud, DevOps, etc.) Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Components involved include the open source Kuma service mesh (in turn leveraging Envoy), anycast BGP, and mutual TLS (mTLS). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Jim Jones has an article on getting started with S3-compatible object storage. Virtualization. Yes, please. This was a pretty cool story.

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Linux Academy

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

To continually support your mission to learn and grow, we are always adding new, free courses and resources for developing Linux and Cloud skills. Students will explore how containers work, how they compare with virtual machines and Docker containers, and how they handle application isolation. Google Cloud Essentials (NEW).

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

This is an interesting project to watch, I think—it’s porting OVN (Open Virtual Network) from a “traditional” OvS back-end to an IOVisor-based back-end (IOVisor implements the data plane in eBPF). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Subbu Allamaraju makes his position pretty clear: don’t build private clouds.

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Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 25, 2013

They also have some great competition within their main space – Server Virtualization. Microsoft, Citrix and open source hypervisors have quickly become good enough for basic virtualization use cases. Even the real value add of management is starting to be challenged by Openstack for Cloud based deployments.

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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. That's the unique thing about clouds that's a different challenge.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

A fan of network virtualization might also say that decomposing today’s complex physical networks into multiple simple logical networks on top of a simpler physical transport network—similar to Mike’s suggestion of converging on a smaller set of reference architectures—might also help. (Of Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. He describes cloud as the synthesis of many different forms of innovation within IT , pulling together things like open source, virtualization, distributed programming, NoSQL, DevOps/NoOps, distributed teams, dynamic languages, and Big Data (among others). Virtualization.

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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). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

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. Virtualization.

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