Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The folks over at Cilium took a look at a recent CNI benchmark comparison and unpacked it a bit. Servers/Hardware. Maarten Goet has a few recommendations on securing Kubernetes on Microsoft Azure. Operating Systems/Applications. There’s some good information in their article. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Speaking of Pulumi, Kyle Galbraith wrote up a comparison of Pulumi and Terraform for infrastructure as code. Operating Systems/Applications. Microsoft recently introduced some new remote development extensions for Visual Studio Code. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Diógenes Rettori has a comparison of Istio and Linkerd as solutions for service mesh. Servers/Hardware. This past week Microsoft and VMware announced Azure VMware Solutions, which allows customers to run the VMware software stack on Azure (an arrangement similar in nature to VMware Cloud on AWS, as I understand it).

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Microsoft seems to be all about shocking the world these days (see my related mention of their SQL Server announcement below). At the recent OCP Summit, Microsoft introduced Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Read more about it here.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Werner Ruegg has a post on an alternative hardware solution for vSphere home labs. Microsoft’s Azure team is doing some very interesting (in my opinion) things. Operating Systems/Applications. Need a comparison of CloudFormation versus Terraform?

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Sean Daniel

MAY 25, 2012

and I thought it would be great to do a little bit of a comparison now that I’ve played with it for a bit. So let’s get down to business, my impressions and comparisons between the iPad (3rd generation) and the Playbook 2.0. Note that the Playbook hardware was not updated for Playbook 2.0,

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The Verge

AUGUST 15, 2020

The first escalation occurred when Apple laid out in clear terms why it has no plans to ever approve cloud gaming services from its tech rivals Google and Microsoft. When the company explained why Google Stadia and Microsoft xCloud can’t ever exist on iOS, condemnation of the move was swift even among Apple-focused sites.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

February 2017: Cook expands his thoughts on AR’s potential , adding a new comparison: AR is a big idea, like the smartphone. The first step in making it a mainstream kind of experience is to put it in the operating system. Apple’s AR hardware is perennially two years away. Even we can’t predict what’s going to come out.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 21, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Kevin Houston has an updated blade server comparison chart that might be helpful in making hardware decisions. Kevin Houston has an updated blade server comparison chart that might be helpful in making hardware decisions. Operating Systems/Applications. Three more posts are planned.

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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.). Cumulus Networks recently shifted their pricing and licensing model toward perpetual licenses; this article has more information and a comparison of the old vs. new models.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 30, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Thomas Maurer has a “first impressions” post on the Microsoft Surface Book 2. (I I must admit I’ve been considering adding a Microsoft device to my collection.). Tirumarai Selvan has a comparison. Operating Systems/Applications. Trying to decide between GKE, AKS, and EKS?

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The Verge

MAY 5, 2021

Apple’s attorneys issued a dire warning to Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft during its opening statement, saying that their business models were all fundamentally similar. “If But today, Epic called up Microsoft’s Xbox business development head Lori Wright as a sympathetic witness. “You Why is this useful to Apple?

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

Servers/Hardware. Kevin Houston’s March 2015 blade server comparisons might be a useful place to start. Operating Systems/Applications. Much ado was made about the Microsoft-Docker announcement a while back regarding the availability of Docker on Windows. Clearly this article is spot on!

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2020

GeekWire Summit: Panos Panay, Microsoft’s chief product officer, to join our signature tech event. Those have become some of my favorite ways to use Microsoft’s Surface Duo in the month since its release. It’s a beautiful piece of hardware, and a novel take on mobile computing. Microsoft Photo). We survived.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Other observers have noted that Facebook’s metaverse idea isn’t new — plenty of other companies , like Roblox, Nvidia, and Microsoft, have also been building out virtual worlds with virtual or augmented reality tech. For comparison, an HP Reverb G2 Virtual Reality Headset currently costs $450, and the HTC Vive Cosmos goes for upward of $600.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

He makes comparisons among server virtualization, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, and SDN, and feels that in order for SDN to really hit this market it needs to be “not a user-facing feature, but rather a means to an end” (his words). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Technology Short Take #41.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Servers/Hardware. Speaking of metadata services, have a look at this comparison of metadata services (which compares DigitalOcean, Amazon, and Google, but not OpenStack). Operating Systems/Applications. Looks like Microsoft is jumping in the nested virtualization ring. Dell is buying EMC. What—you hadn’t heard?

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Dataconomy

JULY 18, 2023

model, the bot would respond: “ As of my last update in September 2021, the latest Android operating system was Android 12. ” Intriguingly, GPT-4-based ChatGPT Plus possesses the ability to integrate with Microsoft Bing, allowing for access to up-to-the-minute information. Enter your question and wait for the response.

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Vox

JANUARY 27, 2022

Microsoft, the second-most-valuable company in the world, has managed to stay out of the antitrust crackdown on other Big Tech companies. How Microsoft’s 20-year-old antitrust battle prepared it for today’s techlash. Over the next few weeks, we’ll cover what’s happening with Apple , Amazon , Microsoft, Facebook, and Google.

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