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.

Microsoft 45

Microsoft Security Database Administration Software Development 45

Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

Speaking of Pulumi, Kyle Galbraith wrote up a comparison of Pulumi and Terraform for infrastructure as code. The CNCF blog has a great article written by an Alibaba software engineer (Xingyu Chen) on some performance optimizations for etcd that have been contributed back to the open source community. Operating Systems/Applications.

Linux 60

Linux Dell Open Source Licensing 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. Operating Systems/Applications. Shahidh Muhammad has a review/comparison of various tools aimed at helping developers build and deploy their apps on Kubernetes.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Virtualization Authentication Tools 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

VPCs, or Virtual Private Clouds, are Amazon’s software-defined networking mechanism for workloads running on AWS.). Andrés Martínez, a software engineer with Bitnami, shares a write-up on a serverless service mesh with kubeless and Istio. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Diógenes Rettori has a comparison of Istio and Linkerd as solutions for service mesh. This past week Microsoft and VMware announced Azure VMware Solutions, which allows customers to run the VMware software stack on Azure (an arrangement similar in nature to VMware Cloud on AWS, as I understand it). Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

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. With the availability of eBook creation software, it has become very easy to create an interactive textbook. Easy to Create. Easy to Publish. Low Cost of Production.

eBook 96

eBook Education Video Course 96

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

MARCH 17, 2016

At the recent OCP Summit, Microsoft introduced Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC). 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

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. This as an awful notion.

Apple 145

Apple Industry Cloud Mobile 145

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. installation caused by duplicate NSX Manager UUIDs.

Open Source 60

Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

I highly recommend you read the entire post, but in short the five skills Matt recommends are software skills (which includes configuration management and software development tools like Git ), Linux, deep protocol knowledge, hypervisor and container networking, and IPv6. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Vox

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

It’s the metaverse — defined most simply as a virtual world where people can socialize, work, and play — and Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes it is the future of the internet and of his trillion-dollar company. The futuristic tech Mark Zuckerberg is investing billions in could remake the internet. It’s a joke.

Virtualization 115

Virtualization Internet Apple Meeting 115

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. In fact I have a few friends that work at RIM, one specifically who works on the Playbook [software]. This comparison is helpful. and I recently acquired a Blackberry Playbook (thank you, the community , for that!),

Apple 53

Apple Comparison Windows SMB 53

ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

How could open source software be vulnerable for so long? Years ago, I was the lead security software reviewer at ZDNet and then at CNET. That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems.

Open Source 52

Open Source Operating Systems Software Software 52

ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

How could open source software be vulnerable for so long? Years ago, I was the lead security software reviewer at ZDNet and then at CNET. That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems.

Open Source 52

Open Source Operating Systems Software Software 52

Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

Operating Systems/Applications. This announcement of the Scarf Gateway popped into my Twitter timeline recently, and after taking a look at how the Scarf Gateway is described I can see how this is an important addition to companies’ secure software supply chain efforts, especially in the beginning. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Firewall Storage Comparison 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

If you’re interested in learning more about OpenFlow and software-defined networking but need to do this on a shoestring budget in your home lab, a number of guides have been written to help out. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Both KVM and QEMU are needed for a full virtualization solution.

Vmware 109

Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Technology Short Take #42.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Virtualization 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. Virtualization. Welcome to Technology Short Take #55!

Vmware 60

Vmware Virtualization Guidelines Network 60

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.

Microsoft 77

Microsoft Company Windows Internet 77