The Verge

JUNE 22, 2020

Apple is officially moving to its own silicon chips for some of its Mac hardware. Calling it a “historic day for the Mac,” Apple CEO Tim Cook detailed the transitions to PowerPC, OS X 10, and a move to Intel chips before unveiling its plans to use Apple’s own ARM-powered silicon in Macs in the future.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Microsoft Pluton is a security processor that is built directly into future CPUs and will replace the existing Trusted Platform Module (TPM), a chip that’s currently used to secure hardware and cryptographic keys. Microsoft’s work with Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm also means that Pluton will be updated from the cloud. so you just get it.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

A truly robust endpoint solution will provide protection at all levels of the device, from the core BIOS, through to the hardware, firmware and application layers. This is what Intel has aimed to deliver with the Intel vPro® platform. This is particularly true with so many devices connecting to company networks remotely.

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The Verge

JUNE 29, 2021

Microsoft’s big security push is complicated Microsoft has had six years to prepare for the launch of Windows 11, but the company is still struggling to explain its new hardware requirements. Windows 11 will require Intel 8th Gen Coffee Lake or Zen 2 CPUs and up, TPM 2.0 It looks like that’s about to end with Windows 11.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

Servers/Hardware Menno Finlay-Smits shares information on reducing fan noise on Intel NUCs. This would be why I hate it when companies force me to use SMS for two-factor authentication—at least let me use a one-time passcode or something. TL;DR: It’s not as easy as it might seem.) Falco has graduated within the CNCF.

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The Verge

JUNE 22, 2020

back in September of 2000, as a successor to Mac OS 9, the last of the “classic” Apple operating systems that dated back to the original Macintosh in 1984. Microsoft even had began to follow suite, with the company declaring back in 2015 that it viewed Windows 10 as the “ final version of Windows.”. End of an era.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Microsoft will release a budget version of its Surface Laptop, the Surface Laptop Go , looking to appeal to quarantined home and student users with a 720p video camera and an advanced speaker system that the company describes an ideal combo for video calls, remote learning, and video streaming. The new laptop, with a 12.4-inch

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The Verge

JUNE 26, 2020

Earlier this week, on what Tim Cook called a “historic day,” Apple announced that it’s moving Macs away from Intel processors to its own silicon chips. The new Macs will use arm64, the same CPU architecture that recent iOS devices use (Intel-based Macs use an architecture called x86-64). Screenshot: Dan Seifert / The Verge.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 11, 2023

As an IT leader, you probably haven’t spent a lot of time obsessing over the microprocessors powering your corporate computing hardware. A chef doesn’t stop to consider the electronic systems powering her culinary tools as she’s trying to plan and execute a multi-course menu. Who can blame you? What more do you need to know?

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

In case you hadn’t noticed, I’m at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014 this week in San Francisco. Intel has a very large consumer presence: PCs, ultrabooks, tablets, phones, 2-in–1/convertibles, all-in–1 devices. Day 1 Keynote. Here’s a liveblog of the IDF 2014 day 1 keynote. Technical Sessions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 20, 2023

Companies benefit by keeping or acquiring geographically-dispersed top talent often attracted to a flexible work environment. Understanding VDI As a virtual desktop solution, VDI enables remote workers to interact with an operating system and software the same way they would if working locally—on a network-delivered endpoint device.

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Dataconomy

JUNE 22, 2023

This software suite is compatible with both Windows and macOS operating systems, and offers a spectrum of six different editions to cater to diverse user needs. This includes a complimentary edition that allows for the recovery of up to 1 GB of data, a testament to the company’s commitment to accessibility.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based. Servers/Hardware. the company) has recently announced they’ve added secrets management into Docker Datacenter.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2021

Nadella and Microsoft are explicitly positioning Windows as the opposite, saying it’s more open and that the goal of Windows is to allow other companies to build big businesses and platforms of their own without Microsoft getting in the way. POSIX, which is a set of operating system standards. This one’s deep.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Jointly authored by VMware, Microsoft, Red Hat, and Intel, this new protocol proposal attempts to bring together the strengths of the various network virtualization encapsulation protocols out there today (VXLAN, STT, NVGRE). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. x86 marches on!

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Isovalent—the company behind Cilium, the eBPF-powered networking solution for Kubernetes clusters—just launched with a $29M Series A round of funding. Uh oh… more hardware exploits. Adrian’s operational review readiness template is another great post as well. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

Cue the round of folks claiming that this is why proprietary network operating systems [NOSes] are the route the networking industry should be taking.). The article specifically calls out SR-IOV as well as Intel Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) support within Open vSwitch (OVS). Servers/Hardware. Seen this ? Storage.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

Servers/Hardware. News in the OpenStack space hasn’t been so good recently (Intel pulling out of OSIC, various companies laying off folks, other “pure play” companies shifting focus away from OpenStack), but here’s one architect’s perspective on what you may still want to attend the OpenStack Summit.

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Galido

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Automakers want to standardize on a Linux-based OS that would make vehicle infotainment systems act more like smartphones. Automakers are working to standardize on a Linux-based operating system for in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems that would make it easier for cars to act more like smartphones.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

You may have heard of Intel Rack-Scale Architecture (RSA), a new approach to designing data center hardware. This is an idea that was discussed extensively a couple of weeks ago at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014 in San Francisco, which I had the opportunity to attend. What’s the benefit to consumers?

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

This is my irregularly-published collection of links and articles from around the Internet related to the major data center technologies: networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications/OSes, storage, and virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take #85!

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

As described in this Metacloud blog post , vxfld is designed to “handle VXLAN traffic from any operationg system or hardware platform that adheres to the IETF Internet-Draft for VXLAN” Nir Yechiel recently posted part 1 of a discussion on the need for network overlays. Servers/Hardware. Technology Short Take #33.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Jeda Networks describes themselves as a “software-defined storage networking” company. Diablo was a new company to me; I hadn’t heard of them before their PR firm contacted me about a meeting while at VMworld. At that point, the system DRAM almost looks like another level of cache. Diablo Technologies.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Servers/Hardware. In this respect, it seems similar to HexaTier , a company I spoke with last year (as of this writing, the HexaTier product was no longer available per their website). Operating Systems/Applications. Need to locate duplicate MAC addresses in your environment, possibly caused by cloning VMs? and vSphere.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

When I started writing my first book when gadgets betray us, IoT was still known as hardware hacking, or embedded security. That's because early IoT systems consisted mostly of dumb sensors on embedded systems out in the field. So, 2021 is one of those years and many security researchers many companies.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

When I started writing my first book when gadgets betray us, IoT was still known as hardware hacking, or embedded security. That's because early IoT systems consisted mostly of dumb sensors on embedded systems out in the field. So, 2021 is one of those years and many security researchers many companies.

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TM Forum

JULY 19, 2021

Put simply, Open RAN is an attempt to disaggregate radio access network (RAN) functionality, by splitting up the hardware and software thus opening up the architectures and diversifying the supply chain for the radio portion of the network. is using Open RAN for its 5G test bed, where companies can try out Industry 4.0 What is it?

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This is a liveblog for the day 1 keynote at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014. Among the accomplishments Krzanich lists, he mentions that Intel was the #2 shipper of tablets last year. At this point Krzanich hands it off to Diane Bryant, SVP and GM of the Data Center Group at Intel. One would assume that Apple is #1.)

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SPF13

MARCH 20, 2015

60s & 70s • Computer companies sold hardware • Software was free • Software was colloborative • IBM dominates. 80s - 90s • Software as a business emerged • Software companies sold “bits” • Software was private and proprietary • Microsoft dominates. Summary: small poll for my new operating system?

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

I’m back home in Denver after spending a few days in San Francisco at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013, so I thought I’d take a few minutes to sit down and share a summary of the event and my thoughts. Enhancing OpenStack with Intel Technologies for Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud: [link].

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Servers/Hardware. Normally I talk about server hardware and such here, but with so much moving to public cloud providers, let’s expand that focus a little bit: in this post , Jeramiah Dooley provides his perspective on the Surface Duo after a month of use. Operating Systems/Applications. I guess time will tell.

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CTOvision

MARCH 27, 2017

PKWARE ’s Smartcrypt is a revolution in enterprise data centric security management enabling companies to maintain complete control over their protected data. An end-to-end encryption application available for every enterprise operation system. Takes advantage of IBM and Intel hardware encryption accelerators.

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Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

To stay secure and productive, IT operations must excel at the fundamentals: PC refreshes for security, and optimizing end-user computers with Microsoft Windows 10. In “ The Endpoint Imperative, ” a podcast series from Intel , learn from the experts how hardware and software together make for optimized security. You've got IP.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

” The speaker is Mohan Kumar, a Sr Principal Engineer with Intel. Kumar mentions that Krzanich mentions rack-scale architecture (RSA, not to be confused with a security company of the same name) as one of three pillars of accelerating the data center, and this session will be diving a bit deeper on rack-scale architecture.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

This article on eBPF and Isovalent (the company behind the Cilium CNI plugin for Kubernetes) has some statements with which I agree, and some that don’t make sense to me. Servers/Hardware. Even worse, this isn’t just limited to Intel chips, but may also affect ARM-based systems like Apple’s M1 CPUs.

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The Verge

JANUARY 13, 2021

The company says that device is coming in 2021 , but we’ll believe it when we see it. No bending pins trying to put in a CPU, no getting a motherboard that’s DOA, just an Intel compute unit and a graphics card slotted into a (frankly astonishingly) small case. As for the Intel NUC that formed the heart of this computer.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 20, 2020

Servers/Hardware. And while we are on the topic of Yubico: the company recently released this security advisory related to running a self-hosted one-time password (OTP) validation server. Mark Ermolov discusses a vulnerability in the ROM (read-only memory) of the Intel Converged Security and Management Engine (CSME).

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