Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

However, hopefully I’ve managed to gather together some articles with useful information for you. 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. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Fortunately, Gal Sagie is sharing information via his blog; for example, here’s a post on Kuryr support for Docker Networking’s pluggable IPAM (IP address management). This is a fascinating (to me, at least) paper on the implications of non-volatile storage on today’s data centers (and data center hardware). Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Fortunately, Gal Sagie is sharing information via his blog; for example, here’s a post on Kuryr support for Docker Networking’s pluggable IPAM (IP address management). This is a fascinating (to me, at least) paper on the implications of non-volatile storage on today’s data centers (and data center hardware). Servers/Hardware.

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Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 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. Steven Acreman shares a brief, high-level comparison of the major Kubernetes ingress solutions. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 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

MAY 25, 2017

This is a slightly shorter TST than usual, which might be a nice break from the typical information overload. Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). Operating Systems/Applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take #83!

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Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

This is a slightly shorter TST than usual, which might be a nice break from the typical information overload. Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). Operating Systems/Applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take #83!

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Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Diógenes Rettori has a comparison of Istio and Linkerd as solutions for service mesh. Operating Systems/Applications. Jim Handy (“The SSD Guy”) has a four-part series (I think only three parts have been published as of this post) on the two different operating modes for Intel’s Optane DIMMs (persistent memory).

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Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Courtesy of Corey Quinn, here’s an awesome AWS versus Azure comparison , comic book style. Operating Systems/Applications. Looks like PKS, the joint Kubernetes effort from VMware and Pivotal, has gone GA (see this VMware blog post ) with initial support for vSphere and GCP. This is a pretty interesting use case for Docker.

Vmware 60

Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2018

Jorge Salamero Sanz (on behalf of Sysdig) provides a similar comparison, this time looking at ECS, Fargate, and EKS. Good information here, in my opinion. Running distributed systems such as etcd, Kubernetes, Linkerd, etc., Operating Systems/Applications. Thanks Michael! Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Comparison Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2017

There is a wealth of information in this lengthy post. I think I’m going to have to read it multiple times just to digest all the information here. Good reason to make sure your systems and your images are patched! Operating Systems/Applications. Need a comparison of CloudFormation versus Terraform?

Hardware 60

Hardware Devops Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

This is a slightly shorter TST than usual, which might be a nice break from the typical information overload. Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). Operating Systems/Applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take #83!

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Open Source Network Linux Engineering 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Here’s some information on Nuage Networks’ experimental Docker Network plugin. 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.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 30, 2018

Giovanni Collazo shares some disturbing information about unsecured etcd clusters. Tirumarai Selvan has a comparison. Operating Systems/Applications. (Yes, I know privacy and anonymity aren’t the same as security…work with me here.). Trying to decide between GKE, AKS, and EKS?

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Windows Applications 60

The Verge

APRIL 13, 2021

How about providing you information about your day, such as the weather and upcoming calendar events? runs its own proprietary software, based on a real-time operating system. Is it the ability to show you notifications from your phone? The OnePlus Watch, on the other hand (or wrist?), Sorry, no dice.

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Apple Software Software Operating Systems 71

SecureWorld News

APRIL 30, 2023

Huge arrays of unstructured data utilized and modified by many users as well as the ever-growing complexity of attacks, lead to the fact that the usual means of protecting the perimeter of a corporate network no longer meet current information security requirements. Information tends to spread at a rate proportional to the number of users.

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System Data Information Security Security 82

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. You can even use it as temporary storage while you travel. This comparison is helpful.

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Apple Comparison Windows SMB 53

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

It’s a pretty detailed article with lots of useful information. Operating Systems/Applications. Per my list of 2015 projects , I’ve been investigating other configuration management systems (I’ve primarily focused my efforts on Puppet until now). He’s publishing lots of informative articles. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Operating Systems/Applications. I found this article on imperative vs. declarative system configuration is quite helpful in understanding Puppet’s declarative model. ” (Stu Miniman of Wikibon has more information here as well.) has posted a good hypervisor feature comparison document. Until the 1.3

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 108

Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

Although this post is a bit older (it’s from September of last year), it’s still an interesting comparison of both OpenStack and CloudStack. Operating Systems/Applications. Cormac Hogan has a series going titled “Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA) Deep Dive” ( part 1 here , part 2 here , part 3 here ).

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Virtualization Storage Vmware Network 101

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). Operating Systems/Applications. vCenter Log Insight 2.0

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Vmware Storage Network Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 19, 2018

I won’t go into all the gory details here; see this post for some background and then see this update from last October that summarized my previous efforts to migrate to Linux ( Fedora , specifically) as my primary desktop operating system. As of Fedora 28, the installer no longer creates an account during the installation.

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Linux Hardware Media System 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. Operating Systems/Applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take #55! Networking.

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Vmware Virtualization Guidelines Network 60