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? 4 comments: garyquigley.

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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. This worked very well and should be convenient for folks who are in and out of virtual meetings all day. That’s quite a delta.

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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. OpenSSH on Windows —what a time to be alive! Virtualization. When you’re operating at the scale at which Netflix operates, this is no trivial feat.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 30, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Tirumarai Selvan has a comparison. If I ever get my hands on a Windows 10 box (I’m seriously considering adding a Windows 10 box to my home office setup), I’m going to try this process. Windows Server 2019 is now in preview (see this blog post ), and will include Kubernetes support.

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

The closest we got to a comparison was effectively, “is machine learning faster with hardware acceleration turned on?”. Apple is promising its ARM-based Macs will be able to run more kinds of apps than before, thanks to both native iOS app support and hardware-accelerated machine learning chops built into the silicon.

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Sean Daniel

MAY 25, 2012

So I own an iPad (Hey, the Windows 8 tablet’s aren’t out yet, it’s ok!), 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.

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Virtualized Greek

JULY 10, 2013

My overall impression was that it was an interesting technology but the hardware support was too limited. So, I thought I’d do a quick hit comparison of the two solutions based on the use case. Both clients are based on hypervisor technologies but leverage two different approaches to virtualization. What do they do? .

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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. Unfortunately, if you were the owner of a Logitech device, you had to boot into Windows just to update the firmware—until now. Virtualization.

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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. Unfortunately, if you were the owner of a Logitech device, you had to boot into Windows just to update the firmware—until now. Virtualization.

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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. Need a comparison of CloudFormation versus Terraform? Virtualization. Did you catch the official announcement about the future of vCenter Server for Windows? That might be a good blog post topic right there!).

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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. Trevor Roberts recently posted an article discussing Windows images in your OpenStack cloud. Virtualization.

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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 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. Unfortunately, if you were the owner of a Logitech device, you had to boot into Windows just to update the firmware—until now. Virtualization.

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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. Via Cody Bunch, I found this GitHub repository to help set up development environments on Windows. and vSphere.

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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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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

After years of taking a back seat on Windows hardware, the Surface was a bold entry by Microsoft into the world of building its own PCs — showing both the world and its own hardware partners what the future of Windows could look like. In 2012, Windows Phone needed a big win. Chaim Gartenberg. Chaim Gartenberg.

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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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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

Internet performance and control company Cedexis announced an extension to its Radar community services with the addition of many new clouds, and the availability of Radar reports as an app for Windows 8. The Windows 8 Radar app is available immediately for free on the Windows App Store. Virtualization. Northern Virgina.

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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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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Neal Stephenson famously coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash , where it referred to a 3D virtual world inhabited by avatars of real people. The protagonist is a master hacker who gets in katana fights at a virtual nightclub. But wait, now Ready Player One isn’t a metaverse and virtual worlds don’t have to be 3D?

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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. The standard and all-digital editions are running the same hardware, so there’s no performance downgrade for going with the cheaper unit.

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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. VMworld 2014 Day 2 Keynote.

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Sean Daniel

MARCH 15, 2011

Online Backup using Proxure’s KeepVault for Windows Home Server 2011 and Windows Small Business Server 2011. When using Windows Home Server v1, I had found an Online Backup solution that I previously reviewed on this blog. Tuesday, March 15, 2011. However, for these business products, you need to get KeepVault Pro.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

Lack of Google software hampers incredible hardware In a different 2020, I could be telling you that the Huawei P40 Pro is one of the best phones you could buy. After all, it sees the Chinese telecoms giant at the height of its hardware powers, delivering a device that performs extremely well and leaves little off its spec sheet.

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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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