Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 14, 2013

This means that basically, just like Hyper-V the hypervisor is native to the operating system. A better comparison would be with XenClient which I wrote about here. The largest drawback for XenClient has been its lacklustre hardware support. Microsoft has done general purpose operating systems well, forever.

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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. The CNCF blog has a great article written by an Alibaba software engineer (Xingyu Chen) on some performance optimizations for etcd that have been contributed back to the open source community.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2021

POSIX, which is a set of operating system standards. In 2019, I think you had said to Wired , “The operating system is no longer the most important layer for us. ” So anything that is a client operating system ultimately does rendezvous with cloud computing. PWAs, which are progressive web apps.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

VPCs, or Virtual Private Clouds, are Amazon’s software-defined networking mechanism for workloads running on AWS.). Servers/Hardware. Andrés Martínez, a software engineer with Bitnami, shares a write-up on a serverless service mesh with kubeless and Istio. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

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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The Verge

APRIL 13, 2021

All of those have software platforms that integrate with other apps and services, so you can download apps or watchfaces to the watch itself, just like you might with a phone. runs its own proprietary software, based on a real-time operating system. OnePlus Watch software. OnePlus Watch hardware and design.

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The Verge

AUGUST 15, 2020

Games, in Apple’s eyes, aren’t to be treated the same as music, movies, and TV shows, but rather as software that warrants careful inspection lest they be updated later in ways that violate its strict content guidelines, the company tells The Verge. But the comparison to Netflix or Spotify is beside the point. This as an awful notion.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

I highly recommend you read the entire post, but in short the five skills Matt recommends are software skills (which includes configuration management and software development tools like Git ), Linux, deep protocol knowledge, hypervisor and container networking, and IPv6. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

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 17, 2016

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

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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. In fact I have a few friends that work at RIM, one specifically who works on the Playbook [software]. Note that the Playbook hardware was not updated for Playbook 2.0,

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Apple Comparison Windows SMB 53

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Gabriele Gerbino has a nice write-up about Cisco’s efforts with APIs ; his article includes a brief description of YANG data models and a comparison of working with network devices via SSH or via API. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. installation caused by duplicate NSX Manager UUIDs. and vSphere.

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The Verge

MAY 5, 2021

“You are basically building a piece of hardware to do a specific thing,” she told a judge. As a result, Microsoft keeps tight control of what content users can access — it’s a “curated, custom-built hardware/software experience.” The Xbox is designed to give you a gaming experience. Why is this useful to Apple?

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The Verge

JUNE 2, 2021

Not only are they the company’s first tablets running its own HarmonyOS operating system, but the smaller MatePad Pro and MatePad 11 use Snapdragon chips produced by Qualcomm rather than the Huawei-designed Kirin processors found in its previous devices. The flagship 12.6-inch

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Wireless Open Source Comparison Google 126

Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. This announcement of the Scarf Gateway popped into my Twitter timeline recently, and after taking a look at how the Scarf Gateway is described I can see how this is an important addition to companies’ secure software supply chain efforts, especially in the beginning.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

It’s got its share of rough edges, especially as you start to dive into the weirder fringes of Steam’s software library. Valve Software, headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., announced the Deck in July as its latest foray into both hardware and its support of gaming on the Linux operating system.

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The Verge

APRIL 8, 2021

App Store exclusivity is part of that, but so are security measures like the code-signing and hardware root-of-trust systems. On the software side, there is a range of private APIs and OS-level entitlements that are only enabled after App Store review, tying the systems that much tighter together.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Today, Facebook still has to operate under the parameters set by Apple and Google, which make and control the world’s dominant smartphone operating systems. But in this new world that will likely rely on VR/AR headsets and digital sensors, Facebook is striving to create its own rules and operating platform.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

If you’re interested in learning more about OpenFlow and software-defined networking but need to do this on a shoestring budget in your home lab, a number of guides have been written to help out. First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. Servers/Hardware. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

Bob McCouch has a post over at Network Computing (where I’ve recently started blogging as well—see my first post ) discussing his view on how software-defined networking (SDN) will trickle down to small and mid-sized businesses. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Technology Short Take #41.

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Vmware Storage Network Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 22, 2015

This is pretty cool and underscores the power of pooling data from compute, storage, and networking in a software-defined data center environment. Servers/Hardware. Speaking of metadata services, have a look at this comparison of metadata services (which compares DigitalOcean, Amazon, and Google, but not OpenStack).

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Vox

JANUARY 27, 2022

Even now, it’s the example in the definition of a monopolization on the FTC’s website , which details how Microsoft used its monopoly on computer operating systems to exclude and harm competitors — especially the nascent web browser market. It’s a tech conglomerate with many lines of business, from software to social media.

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