Sean Daniel

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Announcing Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. This morning, building on the Windows Small Business Server 2011 Announcement , we are announcing a new edition targeted at Small Business called Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. What is this Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials? SeanDaniel.com [tech].

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Storage Windows Small Business Backup 73

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. In case you’re interested, here’s a collection of storage trends and predictions for 2016.

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Devops Vmware Storage 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. Want to get geeky with storage protocol stacks ? Virtualization.

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Vmware Linux Storage Hardware 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. Virtualization. installation caused by duplicate NSX Manager UUIDs. Check back next time! and vSphere.

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Open Source Storage Vmware Network 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. Virtualization. The second article is by Rob Beekmans examining several virtual desktop platforms available to customers/users. Networking. Career/Soft Skills.

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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. Virtualization. Next is an older article from Patrick Ogenstad that provides an introduction to ZTP (Zero Touch Provisioning). There’s some good information in their article.

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Network Resources Devops 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. Virtualization. Michael Kashin has a handy little tool that functions like ssh-copy-id on servers, but for network devices (leveraging Netmiko). Check out the GitHub repository.

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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. Virtualization. Michael Kashin has a handy little tool that functions like ssh-copy-id on servers, but for network devices (leveraging Netmiko). Check out the GitHub repository.

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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

Most significantly, the Latitude line supports Intel’s vPro, a hardware and firmware platform that includes a number of security features and makes it easier for IT departments to manage devices remotely. The base model starts at $2,039 and includes a Core i5-1135G7, 8GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, and a 14-inch 1920 x 1200 screen.

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Dell Comparison Windows Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

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. Servers/Hardware. Kenneth Hui has a couple of great articles on persistent storage with application containers (first one here , then this follow-up post ).

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Servers/Hardware. 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. Read more about it here.

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Vmware Linux 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. 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. It’s the end of an era.

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Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

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

The Verge

JULY 21, 2020

The Nord will be available in both blue and gray with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage for £379 / €399 or with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage for £469 / €499 (around $594). The 8 has the curved display, while the Nord’s is flat, and the rear of the Nord is a little cheaper and more plastic-feeling in comparison.

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Storage 3D Comparison Wireless 99

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. Virtualization. Viktor van den Berg writes on deploying NSX load balancers with vRA.

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Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Jorge Salamero Sanz (on behalf of Sysdig) provides a similar comparison, this time looking at ECS, Fargate, and EKS. It almost makes me want to add a Windows 10 machine to my collection… I enjoyed this developer-centric comparison of Kubernetes and Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Virtualization.

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Linux Vmware Comparison Network 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).

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Vmware Storage Firewall Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Werner Ruegg has a post on an alternative hardware solution for vSphere home labs. 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? No worries, Andreas Wittig has you covered.

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Hardware Devops Network Vmware 60

Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Theyre also both teaming with virtualization providers, as well as hoping for success in cloud computing. True, both have made huge strides in the hardware world to allow for blade repurposing, I/O, address, and storage naming portability, etc.

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Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

Scott Lowe

MARCH 30, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Tirumarai Selvan has a comparison. 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. Trying to decide between GKE, AKS, and EKS?

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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. Virtualization. Michael Kashin has a handy little tool that functions like ssh-copy-id on servers, but for network devices (leveraging Netmiko). Check out the GitHub repository.

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Open Source Network Linux Engineering 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, Videos, pictures, etc.

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Apple Comparison Windows SMB 53

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).

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Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

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. Virtualization. I needed to fill in some other knowledge gaps first.)

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

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.

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Virtualization Storage Vmware Network 102

Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

Servers/Hardware. This post from Enterprise Storage Forum attempts to provide a comparison of cloud storage between AWS and Google Cloud. Frankly, though, I found the article to be a bit unfocused, also discussing other cloud services instead of really concentrating on being the best comparison of cloud storage services.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

In the last couple of generations, the first year has traditionally been the roughest for a new console, as both manufacturers and game developers work the unexpected bugs out of the hardware. Note that the PlayStation does not support cloud storage access without PlayStation Plus.

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System Storage Hardware Microsoft 89

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. Virtualization. Technology Short Take #42. Technology Short Take #41.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

Collecting nearly 1 billion measurements per day around the world, Radar provides performance metrics on cloud platform performance, both in absolute terms and in comparison to other providers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Virtualization. Modular Data Centers. Networking. Cloud Computing.

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Data Center Cloud Data Windows 191

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

By comparison, the U.S. One Wilshire is an iconic 30-story, 663,000 square feet building housing data center, office, storage and retail space with a five-level subterranean parking garage. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Virtualization. Bank Tower recently sold for about $260 a square foot.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 20, 2023

” A digit-computer is capable of performing mathematical operations and logical comparisons on digital information using a combination of hardware and software. Digit-computers are also essential for the development of new technologies like virtual reality, augmented reality, and self-driving cars.

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Artificial Intelligence Applications Industry Transportation 61

Dataconomy

APRIL 20, 2023

” A digit-computer is capable of performing mathematical operations and logical comparisons on digital information using a combination of hardware and software. Digit-computers are also essential for the development of new technologies like virtual reality, augmented reality, and self-driving cars.

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Artificial Intelligence Applications Industry Transportation 41

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2014

Poonen revisits the VMware Workspace Suite announcement from yesterday, drawing a comparison between vCloud Suite for SDDC and the Workspace Suite for EUC. Colbert next dives into more detail on Project Fargo, which enables vastly faster provisioning of virtual desktops by via cloning process.

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Vmware Architecture Applications Storage 65

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. Welcome to Technology Short Take #55! Networking. Dell is buying EMC.

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Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Essentially the punchline is this: Weve taken the most commonly-purchased hardware configuration and management tools used by mission-critical IT Ops, and integrated them into a single product with a single GUI that you can install and use in ~ 1 day.

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Dell Data Center Virtualization Cloud 138

The Verge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

As has virtually every other company, ours included, because of the Delta variant and rising cases of COVID everywhere. Ashley raising those contamination concerns brought up all of these other concerns that she had while working in the hardware organization, which was very male-dominant. They ask to get the storage upgrade.

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Apple Survey Retail Google 97

Sean Daniel

MARCH 15, 2011

While this blog covers KeepVault on Windows Home Server 2011 (codename “Vail), the same add-in offers cloud storage to both the Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials (codename “Aurora”) and the Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. However, for these business products, you need to get KeepVault Pro.

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