Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Last week at VMworld , I had the opportunity to meet with Lightbits Labs , a relatively new startup working on what they called “disaggregated storage.” So what is “disaggregated storage”? Lightbits has their own operating system, LightOS, which runs on industry-standard x64 servers from Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Here’s a user’s perspective on using infracost to bring cloud spend into your Terraform worfklows. Operating Systems/Applications. For relevant storage news, I’d recommend having a look at J Metz’ Storage Short Take 42. Kubernetes 1.24

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Virtualization Storage Programming Network 79

Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. 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. Scott Rosenberg has a piece on how to learn Tanzu. Scary stuff!

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 74

Kitaboo

DECEMBER 22, 2022

An interactive eBook reader, KITABOO presents a modern interface with a striking appearance that effortlessly combines videos, audio, image banks, and a host of interactive elements for an enthralling eReading experience. Despite functioning incredibly well with all Windows devices, this software operates on the latest Android versions.

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Windows eBook Adobe Cloud 78

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Continuing his focus on cloud-init , Luc Dekens has added four more articles to his site discussing this tool. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 1, 2019

I’m a couple weeks late on this one; wanted to publish it earlier but work has been keeping me busy (lots and lots of interest in Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies out there!). VyOS is an open source Linux-based network operating system.). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Networking. Servers/Hardware.

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Operating Systems Authentication Network 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. LPI Linux Essentials — This course teaches the basic concepts of processes, programs, and the components of the Linux operating system. 3) Join us on YouTube! Courses Free in May.

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Linux Course Big Data Devops 113

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

Guiliano Bertello introduces PowerVCF , a PowerCLI module aimed at interacting with the SDDC Manager and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) stack. (If Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Eric Shanks has a good walkthrough on setting up a Kubernetes cluster on AWS with the AWS cloud provider enabled. This is kind of cool.

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Load Balancer Vmware Windows Cloud 60

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Whether in-the-cloud or on-premise there is a shift to a model where individual applications need to protect themselves instead of relying on firewall-like techniques. That goes especially for the interaction between applications and storage engines, and between applications and databases.

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Firewall CTO Operating Systems Applications 83

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Check it out here. Does a dedicated iSCSI infrastructure make sense?

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Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 111

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

I adopted OS X as my operating system of choice in 2003 because I wanted a stable, powerful, UNIX-based operating system. Further, I need to ensure that the applications I need to get my job done will be present on my next platform. Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well.

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Operating Systems Apple Applications Linux 131

Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Cloud Musings on Forbes. NJVC Cloud Computing. GovCloud Presentations. Get "Cloud Musings" by RSS. operations. cloud services.

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Data Center Conference Data Cloud 122

Linux Academy

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and cloud skills further. March Study Group Course: Linux Operating System Fundamentals – Have you heard of Linux, but don’t really know anything about it?

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Linux Big Data Course Devops 80

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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. In the meantime, feel free to reach out to me—my e-mail address isn’t hard to find, I’m present in a number of Slack communities, and you can always hit me on Twitter (DMs are open). Virtualization. Thanks for reading!

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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

MAY 29, 2020

Banzai Cloud’s Toader Sebastian explains how to write WASM (WebAssembly) filters for Envoy and deploy those filters with Istio. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. tackles the question of whether an API gateway is needed if a service mesh is present. Operating Systems/Applications. Look no further.

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Linux Virtualization Security Backup 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

I think this three-part series on new network models for cloud computing ( part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 ), while almost a year old, is quite good. Erik Smith, notably known for his outstanding posts on storage and FCoE, takes a stab at describing some of the differences between SDN and network virtualization in this post.

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Linux Academy

MAY 28, 2019

By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. After taking this course, students will know how Azure App Service is used as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering for deploying cloud apps for web and mobile environments. What is AWS?

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Linux Course Big Data Devops 104

Dataconomy

JULY 25, 2023

Battery life is a crucial consideration to ensure uninterrupted usage throughout the day Software and operating system Wearable computers run on specialized operating systems (OS) optimized for their small form factors and specific functionalities.

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Energy Applications Operating Systems Data 36

Linux Academy

APRIL 29, 2019

By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. LPI Linux Essentials — This course teaches the basic concepts of processes, programs, and the components of the Linux operating system. 3) Join us on YouTube! Courses Free in May.

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Linux Course Big Data Devops 60

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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Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

Tyler Christiansen recently published a post on a network automation workflow that was based on a presentation he gave at the SF Network Automation meetup. This post contains a link to a useful presentation on the essential parts of EVPN. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. If you’d like to see the presentation, it’s available on Slideshare and Speakerdeck. If you’d like to re-create the demo environment, check out the presentation’s GitHub repository. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Tom Scanlan shares how to use VIC volumes as a way of helping address persistent storage challenges with containers. When I was using Fedora, I needed some useful information on firewall-cmd , and found this article to be helpful. That’s cool.

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Firewall Virtualization Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 21, 2016

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. The article also has a link to a paper that Burns will present at HotCloud ‘16. Want to get geeky with storage protocol stacks ? Want to get geeky with storage protocol stacks ? How about some icons for vRA/vCAC ? Virtualization.

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Vmware Linux Storage Hardware 60

Linux Academy

JANUARY 29, 2019

By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. Used across a variety of programs and languages for a vast array of reasons, YAML is a popular choice for data storage, configuration files, configurations management, and more. What is AWS?

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Linux Devops Big Data Course 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

see below in the “Operating Systems/Applications” section), Metaswitch has announced a Container Networking Interface (CNI) plugin for Project Calico. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Along with the release of rkt 1.0 (see on Azure VMs. Look at this.

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Vmware Network Operating Systems Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

has a nice write-up on Cisco XR stemming from a presentation at NFD 17. VPCs, or Virtual Private Clouds, are Amazon’s software-defined networking mechanism for workloads running on AWS.). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. I hope it proves useful! Networking.

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Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2015

Welcome to Technology Short Take #51, another collection of posts and links about key data center technologies like networking, virtualization, cloud management, and applications/operating systems. Also from Cody is this post talking about using the CIS Ansible role to apply the CIS benchmark against CentOS/RHEL systems.

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Vmware Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. If you think that “infrastructure as code,” particularly when in conjunction with cloud platforms (private or public) isn’t a thing, then you need only look at all the various orchestration tools designed to help you define infrastructure in some format. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

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). Operating Systems/Applications. Very good stuff! Technology Short Take #35. Technology Short Take #33.

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Vmware Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 11, 2018

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Typhoon, which describes itself as a “free and minimal Kubernetes distribution,” has announced support for Typhoon on Fedora Atomic systems. Operating Systems/Applications. William Lam discusses the new MAC learning functionality present in vSphere 6.7

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Network Virtualization Open Source Vmware 60

Dataconomy

APRIL 13, 2023

The ability to remotely access and control computers has been a game-changer for businesses, allowing them to provide technical support and troubleshoot issues without having to be physically present at the location. RDP is built into Windows and is available on most versions of the operating system.

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Virtualization Network Linux Windows 36

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2018

This post is a bit older, but covers a challenge faced by cloud-native darling Netflix—how does one, exactly, identify which application used which IP address at a given point in time? When you’re operating at the scale at which Netflix operates, this is no trivial feat. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Linux Vmware Comparison Network 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

JULY 14, 2015

You might also find it useful to review this OVN presentation from the recent OpenStack Summit in Vancouver. A video recording of the presentation is also available on YouTube. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Running vSphere 6? More details are found here.

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