Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based. Along the same lines as the previous bullet, here’s a write-up on how to encrypt your e-mails with PGP keys. Networking.

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Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 12, 2021

Here’s Chip Zoller’s comparison of Gatekeper and Kyverno. Operating Systems/Applications. Via TecMint, James Kiarie explains how to use VirtualBox VMs on KVM in Linux. Nic Cope has an interesting post discussing Crossplane and some design/implementation considerations. Virtualization.

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IPv6 Network Storage Policies 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

I share this not to encourage illegal activities, but instead to point out that no operating system is secure, so be alert at all times and use good computing practices regardless of your OS. Ric Harvey shows how to automatically deploy Hugo updates using AWS CodeBuild. Operating Systems/Applications. Good stuff!

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Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Virtualized Greek

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Engineers have to make really difficult choices on how to guide their careers. But, just as Novell was the best network operating system in the late 90’s/00’s, timing is everything. I used my Cisco/Novell comparison for a reason. They didn’t compete for customers but they did compete for system engineering talent.

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Vmware Engineering Comparison Virtualization 91

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This is an older article, but hopefully still useful nevertheless: Brian Mathews explains how to use the linkerd sidecar to find and fix application issues on Kubernetes. Operating Systems/Applications. Paul Johnston shares several comparisons in support of how tech teams should run more like sports teams.

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Linux Network Tools Hardware 60

Galido

MAY 26, 2016

of incoming college freshmen have described themselves as having above average computer skills in comparison to other people in the same age group. This is particularly true of Windows and Mac operating systems. In the 2011 Annual Freshman Survey at UCLA, it has been found that only 38.1% Only a very small 3.2%

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Education Course Survey Artificial Intelligence 72

Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate and Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert certifications cover a wide range of topics related to Microsoft’s technology suite, including Windows operating systems, Azure cloud computing, Office productivity software, Visual Studio programming tools, and SQL Server databases.

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Microsoft Security Database Administration Software Development 45

Kitaboo

OCTOBER 31, 2019

If you draw a comparison between the two, i.e., traditional textbooks and interactive textbooks, you will see that e-textbooks clearly fare better than regular textbooks. Here’s more on how to distribute ebooks on online platforms. Here’s how to select the best Digital Publishing Platform. Low Cost of Production.

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eBook Education Video Course 96

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Courtesy of Corey Quinn, here’s an awesome AWS versus Azure comparison , comic book style. Operating Systems/Applications. The Project Atomic blog shares how to use OCI image registries with Buildah. I think the omission of AWS support at GA is a mistake, but what do I know? Virtualization. Career/Soft Skills.

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Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 30, 2018

Vadim Eisenberg has two articles that describe how to integrate external services into an Istio service mesh. Chris Young shares some details on a little side project he did to show how to use the Arista eAPI to do dynamic VLAN assignment based on MAC address. Tirumarai Selvan has a comparison. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Linux Vmware Windows Applications 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 13, 2018

Bernd Malmqvist talks about Avi Networks’ software-defined load balancing solution, including providing an overview of how to use Vagrant to test it yourself. Chris Hein shows how to use the Heptio Authenticator with kops to link Kubernetes cluster authentication to AWS IAM. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Load Balancer Virtualization Authentication Tools 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2018

Tim’s review of each of the offerings is pretty balanced (thanks for that), and I’d recommend reading this post to get a better idea of how each of them work. Jorge Salamero Sanz (on behalf of Sysdig) provides a similar comparison, this time looking at ECS, Fargate, and EKS. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Linux Vmware Comparison Network 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Diógenes Rettori has a comparison of Istio and Linkerd as solutions for service mesh. Operating Systems/Applications. Alice Goldfuss’ article on how to get into SRE is also worth reading, in my opinion, even if you aren’t interested in SRE specifically.

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Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2017

The second is this post on Istio plus Linkerd , which talks about how to use Linkerd in conjunction with Istio to build a service mesh. (Do Do I need to talk about how understanding a service mesh is a good thing for networking professionals? Operating Systems/Applications. No worries, Andreas Wittig has you covered.

Hardware 60

Hardware Devops 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.). Roie Ben Haim has an article on how to improve the NSX GUI user experience. Operating Systems/Applications. I guess all I can really say about this is…oops.

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Vmware Linux Intel Network 60

Kitaboo

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Compatibility with Multiple Devices, Operating Systems and Browsers. Since there are different operating systems available and also web browsers that are either specific to each OS or accessible across all systems, the content you publish must be accessible on most if not all operating systems and browsers.

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eBook How To Licensing Operating Systems 103

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. Giuliano Bertello shares why it’s important to RTFM; or, how he fixed an issue with a Cross-vCenter NSX 6.2 Career/Soft Skills.

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Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 21, 2016

Kevin Houston has an updated blade server comparison chart that might be helpful in making hardware decisions. The article includes a pretty fair amount of sample CloudFormation code, which is—to me, at least—very helpful in understanding how everything fits together. How about some icons for vRA/vCAC ?

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Vmware Linux Storage Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Steve Flanders has a good article explaining how to configure NSX to log to Log Insight (a task which, in my humble opinion, is far too complicated and needs to be simplified). Here’s a handy “how to” on assigning a specific floating IP address to an OpenStack instance. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Steve Flanders has a good article explaining how to configure NSX to log to Log Insight (a task which, in my humble opinion, is far too complicated and needs to be simplified). Here’s a handy “how to” on assigning a specific floating IP address to an OpenStack instance. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware.

Devops 60

Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

In talking with customers, I find that one of the things that really challenges their thinking is how to best utilize security groups to their maximum effect. Operating Systems/Applications. Russell Pope at Kovarus recently wrote about using security groups to manage the VMware NSX distributed firewall.

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Future of CIO

JUNE 25, 2015

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. The brain is only an organic computer that creates an energy or operating system called the mind. It is hard to say we can make an ‘apple to apple’ comparison of mind vs. mind.

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Education Apple Comparison Programming 40

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. This comparison is helpful. Also an app-launching platform with brilliant task switching.

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Apple Comparison Windows SMB 53

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

If you’re looking for more examples of how to incorporate these sorts of tools into your own network automation workflow, I’d recommend having a look at this article. Kevin Houston’s March 2015 blade server comparisons might be a useful place to start. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Storage Firewall Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

Anthony Burke (disclaimer: Anthony works for VMware in the NSBU) has a post on how to use Python to automate the bulk creation of firewall rules for use with the VMware NSX distributed firewall. Operating Systems/Applications. His article also provides a quick look at some of the configuration commands involved.

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Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Eyre: We had to learn about the operating system that the machines are playing on. It was not an entirely fair comparison due to technical issues. Humans are needed to know how to encode that. Eyre: He found this bug, and he was looking at how to exploit the bug and trying to figure out what to do.

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System Operating Systems Tools Strategy 52

ForAllSecure

AUGUST 31, 2020

Eyre: We had to learn about the operating system that the machines are playing on. It was not an entirely fair comparison due to technical issues. Humans are needed to know how to encode that. Eyre: He found this bug, and he was looking at how to exploit the bug and trying to figure out what to do.

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System Operating Systems Tools Strategy 52

ForAllSecure

AUGUST 31, 2020

Eyre: We had to learn about the operating system that the machines are playing on. It was not an entirely fair comparison due to technical issues. Humans are needed to know how to encode that. Eyre: He found this bug, and he was looking at how to exploit the bug and trying to figure out what to do.

System 52

System Operating Systems Tools Strategy 52

Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

Tony Mackay has a tutorial showing how to use Traefik to rate-limit requests to a WordPress instance. Operating Systems/Applications. How about an OCI runtime for FreeBSD Jails ? Jan Grzegorowski shares how to remap a single Mac keyboard key using hidutil. At least, I hope that’s the case!) Networking.

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Vmware Firewall Storage Comparison 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. If any enterprise Puppet experts want to give it a go, I’d be happy to publish a guest blog post for you with full details on how it’s done. Operating Systems/Applications. in the comparison, even though RHEV 3.1

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

SecureWorld News

APRIL 30, 2023

For example, data classifiers built into the operating system do not have enough context to allow them to prioritize checking for recently modified files or data that has appeared in public folders. How to choose DCAP When choosing any solutions, the creators' proficiency and reputation are paramount.

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System Data Information Security Security 76

GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Here’s a comparison of the the same scene as photographed in the Galaxy Note 10 Plus, top and Surface Duo, bottom, unaltered. zacbowden @maryjofoley @bdsams , anyone else know how to stop that taskbar from jumping around? This is what I'm referring to. link] pic.twitter.com/SLx7TXs4Yc.

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Microsoft Google Hardware Real Estate 133

GeekWire

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

announced the Deck in July as its latest foray into both hardware and its support of gaming on the Linux operating system. For comparison’s sake. The Deck, like Valve’s Steam Machine before it, uses a custom operating system based on Linux, with a special Proton compatibility layer that allows Windows games to run.

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Hardware Linux Operating Systems Software 104

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Layers define how to configure a set of resources that are managed together. You define JSON templates and use them to provision and manage AWS resources, operating systems and application code. For a comparison of the different Application Management services visit this overview page.

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Cloud Applications Web Services Resources 157

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 22, 2015

The article shows you how to build a Cumulus VX lab on Ravello Systems. A follow-up blog post talks about how to use OVS on Hyper-V outside of an OpenStack context. 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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Vmware Virtualization Guidelines Network 60

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. Brent Salisbury has a write-up on how to OpenStack Icehouse (via DevStack) together with OpenDaylight.

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Vmware Storage Network Virtualization 60

Dataconomy

JULY 18, 2023

Depending on your inquiry or request, the response will likely contain not just information but also links or directives on how to use this information to perform certain actions. model, the bot would respond: “ As of my last update in September 2021, the latest Android operating system was Android 12. ”

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Microsoft Training Applications Travel 36