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. The article specifically calls out SR-IOV as well as Intel Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) support within Open vSwitch (OVS). Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The Intel Management Engine (ME) has received a bit of attention as a potential security vulnerability; in this article , authors Maxim Goryachy and Mark Ermolov expose some new concerns around the Intel ME and its undocumented Manufacturing Mode. Virtualization. Many of these concepts had direct impacts on the design of Envoy.

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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

This worked very well and should be convenient for folks who are in and out of virtual meetings all day. Dell and Intel are pushing this combination as a way to please IT departments while also competing with the best consumer laptops on performance, battery life, and other standard productivity metrics. That’s quite a delta.

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Virtualized Greek

JUNE 10, 2019

I opened my big mouth and put it out there that I’d do a video series installing Kubernetes (K8s) and OpenFaaS on 3-Node Intel NUC cluster. The best comparison I have is VMware vSphere. So, it’s been awhile, right? What I am having trouble with is getting my bearings on what I don’t know.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2015

This session is titled “The Post-Cloud,” and the speaker is Nick Weaver, Director of SDI-X at Intel. The next answer was to use multiple virtual servers, for more density. Nick starts his presentation with a summary of our society: some people produce goods through an effort, and others consume what is produced.

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Cloud Web Services Devops Linux 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. Virtualization. Giuliano Bertello shares why it’s important to RTFM; or, how he fixed an issue with a Cross-vCenter NSX 6.2

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Vox

JANUARY 30, 2023

So it was no surprise when Google restricted employee travel , including to social events or in-person events with virtual options. The path forward It’s tough to figure out what’s next for Big Tech companies, since their scale makes it difficult to draw historical comparisons. one Google employee asked.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

Even worse, this isn’t just limited to Intel chips, but may also affect ARM-based systems like Apple’s M1 CPUs. This post from Enterprise Storage Forum attempts to provide a comparison of cloud storage between AWS and Google Cloud. Virtualization. Linux malware is getting more sophisticated.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Rainier” will allow customers to combine PCIe-based SSD storage inside servers into a “virtual SAN” (now there’s an original and not over-used term). Virtualization. Both KVM and QEMU are needed for a full virtualization solution. has posted a good hypervisor feature comparison document.

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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. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In those days, we were tackling terrible Android and BlackBerry tablets, evaluating the first wave of Intel ultrabooks , and heaping praise on the then-revolutionary Galaxy Nexus. Virtual reality wasn’t invented this decade. (It It also never truly died out in the ‘90s, Virtual Boy jokes aside.) Sam Byford. Oculus Rift.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Mark believes that this is due to the increasing maturity of software-defined networking and network virtualization. Mark shows data from Crehan Research that states SDN is growing twice as fast as server virtualization. Kyle starts up a quick demo of Kuryr, which—unfortunately—doesn’t work quite as expected.

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2020

If you put it side by side with a Book 2, the Book 3 looks identical, and inside, there are a few modest upgrades that are expected in 2020: more powerful GPUs, the latest Intel processor, up to 32GB of RAM, and faster SSDs on some models. Microsoft has picked Intel’s 10th Gen Core i7-1065G7 on the 15-inch Book 3, a quad-core 15W chip.

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