Galido

JULY 20, 2018

Many iPhone users and Apple fanboys alike stand by their product no matter how limited Apple makes their storage capacities, while Android geeks have long time been able to freely add storage/memory cards to their devices and take advantage of more powerful hardware. Aesthetics, Hardware and Price. iPhones have a beautiful design.

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Study Apple Google Operating Systems 66

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Serve The Home takes a critical look at the Bloomberg Supermicro stories, debunking or at least calling into question many details of the alleged hardware hack as reported by Bloomberg. Steven Acreman shares a brief, high-level comparison of the major Kubernetes ingress solutions. Virtualization.

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Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

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. Virtualization. The second article is by Rob Beekmans examining several virtual desktop platforms available to customers/users. Networking.

Linux 60

Linux Dell Open Source Licensing 60

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Next is an older article from Patrick Ogenstad that provides an introduction to ZTP (Zero Touch Provisioning). Career/Soft Skills.

Network 60

Network Resources Devops Vmware 60

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). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

The Verge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

There’s virtual reality and there’s augmented reality — both of these are incredibly interesting. 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.

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Apple Education 3D Virtualization 118

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Diógenes Rettori has a comparison of Istio and Linkerd as solutions for service mesh. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Here’s a great post with more details on concerns over randomness in virtual machines. Here’s a good article on packets-per-second limits in EC2.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

VPCs, or Virtual Private Clouds, are Amazon’s software-defined networking mechanism for workloads running on AWS.). Servers/Hardware. Courtesy of Corey Quinn, here’s an awesome AWS versus Azure comparison , comic book style. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

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). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Devops 60

Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. I was recently reviewing some articles on Git, the popular distributed version control system, and came across a few related posts.

Linux 60

Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. I was recently reviewing some articles on Git, the popular distributed version control system, and came across a few related posts.

Linux 60

Linux Open Source Network Vmware 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.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Intel Network 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2018

When you’re operating at the scale at which Netflix operates, this is no trivial feat. Servers/Hardware. Jorge Salamero Sanz (on behalf of Sysdig) provides a similar comparison, this time looking at ECS, Fargate, and EKS. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Comparison Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Personally, I think it’s an apples-to-oranges comparison, since Kubernetes is more than just a scheduler (think about replication controllers and services and such), but to each his own. Finally, you might find the VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

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. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Werner Ruegg has a post on an alternative hardware solution for vSphere home labs. Operating Systems/Applications. Need a comparison of CloudFormation versus Terraform? Virtualization. (Do I need to talk about how understanding a service mesh is a good thing for networking professionals?

Hardware 60

Hardware Devops Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 30, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Tirumarai Selvan has a comparison. Operating Systems/Applications. Hmmm…maybe I could install Windows 10 on my quad-proc Mac Pro, then run macOS virtualized on it…that might be something to try one day (as if I’ll ever have time for that!). Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Windows Applications 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. I was recently reviewing some articles on Git, the popular distributed version control system, and came across a few related posts.

Open Source 60

Open Source Network Linux Engineering 60

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. Virtualization. Sorry, I don’t have anything this time around.

Open Source 60

Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

What’s really interesting to me is the (completely uncoordinated) alignment between Matt’s list of skills for networking pros and the list I provided to virtualization pros in a series of recent VMUG presentations (refer to slide 15, but the list is software development basics, Linux, automation/orchestration, and public cloud services).

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

This article by Russell Bryant is a great overview and update of the work going on with Open Virtual Network (OVN). This is kind of cool, and (in my humble opinion) a sign of changing times: Juniper has Vagrant boxes as well as a Vagrant plugin for working with vSRX (virtual firewall) VMs (via this article from Matt Oswalt).

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Firewall Network 60

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,

Apple 53

Apple Comparison Windows SMB 53

The Verge

AUGUST 15, 2020

But as Epic made clear in an unprecedented video mocking Apple’s iconic “1984” Macintosh ad — one that also aired directly to players within the virtual world of Fortnite itself — the primary target here is Apple and its longstanding and often controversial stewardship of the iOS app ecosystem.

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Apple Industry Cloud Mobile 145

Vox

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

It’s the metaverse — defined most simply as a virtual world where people can socialize, work, and play — and Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes it is the future of the internet and of his trillion-dollar company. The futuristic tech Mark Zuckerberg is investing billions in could remake the internet. It’s a joke.

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Virtualization Internet Apple Meeting 115

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. Not unsurprisingly, one of the key advantages of STT that’s highlighted is its improved performance due to TSO support in NIC hardware. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Vmware 109

Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. This post from Enterprise Storage Forum attempts to provide a comparison of cloud storage between AWS and Google Cloud. Virtualization. I’m not sure about that. If you have strong feelings about this, hit me on Twitter and let’s discuss.

Vmware 60

Vmware Firewall Storage Comparison 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

Ben Cherian, Chief Strategy Officer for Midokura, helps make a case for network virtualization. Note: Midokura makes a network virtualization solution.) If you’re wondering about network virtualization and why there is a focus on it, this post might help shed some light. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

Virtualization 102

Virtualization Storage Vmware Network 102

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. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Here’s hoping I’ve managed to find something of value and interest to you in this latest collection of links and articles from around the web on networking, storage, virtualization, security, and other data center-related technologies. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Virtualization Guidelines Network 60

Vox

JANUARY 27, 2022

Microsoft says it wants to offer as many games as possible to as many people as possible on as many devices as possible — including in new spaces like the metaverse, the virtual world that some companies ( most notably, Facebook ) see as the next tech frontier. The timing of Microsoft’s announcement wasn’t ideal.

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Microsoft Company Windows Internet 77