Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

I have another collection of links, articles, and thoughts about key data center technologies, and hopefully I’ve managed to include something here that will prove useful or thought-provoking. Here’s a handy list of deprecated Linux network commands and their replacements. Welcome to Technology Short Take #81! Networking.

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Linux Academy

JANUARY 26, 2019

Cloud computing is not just about having virtual servers in an off-premises data center. When he saw the costs of the infrastructure, networking, and other cloud resources he asked, “Why would we ever do anything in our own data center again?”. The post Cloud Migration Fundamentals appeared first on Linux Academy Blog.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2024

The CCA allows overarching enterprise functions and IT shared services to be assessed separately from the business unit’s products/applications that require PCI security compliance. Having segmentation between infrastructure providing data processing and data storage is an example of a broad IT security architectural pattern.

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Financial Architecture Resources Security 90

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Reinforce base Linux knowledge. I’ll be focusing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and RHEL variants, since that seems to be what’s most commonly found in enterprise deployments today. As with my base Linux knowledge, my primary goal here is to be able to do most anything that I need to do with Puppet.

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Linux Data Center Network Open Source 91

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #38, another installment in my irregularly-published series that collects links and thoughts on data center-related technologies from around the web. Speaking of Cumulus Linux…did you see the announcement that Dell has signed a reseller agreement with Cumulus Networks? Networking.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

The interior of a container packed with servers at a Microsoft data center in Chicago. “We have something over a million servers in our data center infrastructure. . “We have something over a million servers in our data center infrastructure. 12 Million SF of New Microsoft Data Centers?

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Data Center Microsoft Data Disaster Recovery 276

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles discussing the major data center technologies—networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications, virtualization…you name it! (If What will happen when you combine GPUs and persistent storage? Is the era of the storage admin over ? Networking.

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Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Julian Dunn’s article on the oncoming train of enterprise container deployments is a good read. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

That’s right, it’s time for yet another collection of links and articles from around the Internet on various data center-related technologies, products, projects, and efforts. It was good to read this post on Cumulus Linux first impressions by Jeremy Stretch. Welcome to Technology Short Take #46. Servers/Hardware.

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Fountainhead

MAY 5, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. One of those new technologies in the Enterprise Data Center space is what I call Infrastructure Orchestration (others term it fabric computing or unified computing ). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Tuesday, May 5, 2009.

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Data Center Virtualization Disaster Recovery Storage 100

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 3, 2014

Reinforce base Linux knowledge. Reinforce data center networking fundamentals. Reinforce base Linux knowledge: I’ve been suggesting to VMUG attendees that they needed to learn Linux, as it’s popping up all over the place in all sorts of roles. Continue using Puppet for automation. So, how did I do?

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Report Linux Network Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Julian Dunn’s article on the oncoming train of enterprise container deployments is a good read. Virtualization.

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Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Continuing to sharpen its focus on enterprise cloud computing, IBM is joining forces with Pivotal to support CloudFoundry, the versatile platform as a service (PaaS) framework that allows developers to build applications that can run on multiple clouds. “IBM Storage Failures Hamper Cloud Foundry. Modular Data Centers.

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Data Center IBM Data Cloud 197

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #34, my latest collection of links, articles, thoughts, and ideas from around the web, centered on key data center technologies. Need to do some port forwarding on a Linux box and want to automate the configuration with Puppet? Networking. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 106

Virtualized Greek

APRIL 11, 2013

It’s very difficult to imagine an enterprise Cloud that both would co-exist. The drivers for a Cloud provider selecting a Cloud management platform are different from an Enterprise selecting a Cloud manager. So, it is a consideration but we are just looking at traditional enterprise public Clouds on this post.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Intel’s “Cloud 2015″ vision recognizes there will be more users, more devices, and more data, and is shooting toward an ecosystem of open, interoperable cloud operating environments (OEs) built on open APIs and open standards. That’s a lot of “open” ). At this point Sharma wraps up the session.

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Cloud Intel Open Source Data Center 109

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As usual, I’ve collected some articles and links from around the Internet pertaining to various data center- and cloud-related topics. Chip Zoller has a write-up on doing HTTPS ingress with Enterprise PKS. Now, on to the content! Networking. Jeff Geerling explains how to test your Ansible roles with Molecule.

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Load Balancer Cloud Vmware Applications 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 8, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #43, another episode in my irregularly-published series of articles, links, and thoughts from around the web, focusing on data center technologies like networking, virtualization, storage, and cloud computing. Here’s hoping you find something useful. Networking. Technology Short Take #43.

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Vmware Linux Virtualization Network 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #35, another in my irregular series of posts that collect various articles, links and thoughts regarding data center technologies. Prasenjit Sarkar, who works in VMware R&D, and runs the Stretch Cloud site , has a write-up on using Data Center Extension (DCE) to VMware vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

About Rich Miller Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. I know that the company Linux Hosts Ltd. Modular Data Centers. Data Center Strategies.

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 188

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #44, the latest in my irregularly-published series of articles, links, ideas, and thoughts about various data center-related technologies. Running Hyper-V with Linux VMs? Ben Armstrong details what versions of Linux support the various Hyper-V features in this post. Networking. LTS server.

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Linux Network Vmware Disaster Recovery 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

I don’t track or get involved in the consumer space; my focus is on the data center. There were no major data center-centric announcements yesterday (day 1), but I suspect there will be some today (day 2) in a mega-session with Diane Bryant (SVP and GM of the Data Center Group at Intel).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

CSL’s CSL-WAVE software enables companies to monitor and manage thei z/VM and Linux on System z environments using a powerful and easy-to-use interface. The response by clients to the advantages of Linux on System z have been tremendous, with the shipped capacity nearly doubling in 1Q13 year to year. LinkedIn.

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Data Center IBM System Cloud 190

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #34, my latest collection of links, articles, thoughts, and ideas from around the web, centered on key data center technologies. Need to do some port forwarding on a Linux box and want to automate the configuration with Puppet? Networking. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles about the major data center technologies. Nick Janetakis discusses some of the differences it’s made for some of his Docker images to switch to using Alpine Linux as the base (instead of the more common Ubuntu or Debian base images). Welcome to Technology Short Take #66!

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Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 9, 2016

As usual, here’s my random collection of links, articles, and thoughts about various data center technologies. That prompted Cody Bunch to write this article on setting up a topology with BGP on Linux using the topology converter , which I’m now mentioning in this Technology Short Take. Networking. Does your head hurt yet?).

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Vmware Case Study Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

Welcome to Technology Short Take #50, the latest in my series of posts sharing various links and articles pertaining to key data center technologies. First, he provides a high-level overview of Mesos ; that’s followed up by a slightly deeper look at Mesos, then a discussion of persistent storage and fault tolerance. Networking.

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Vmware Storage Firewall Network 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Jeda Networks describes themselves as a “software-defined storage networking” company. Given my previous role at EMC (involved in storage) and my current role at VMware focused on network virtualization (which encompasses SDN), I was quite curious. What effect might that have on modern data centers?

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Meeting Storage Hardware Network 62

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

I try to keep things related to the key technology areas you’ll see in today’s data centers, though I do stray from time to time. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. In any case, enough with the introduction—bring on the content!

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

At the O’Reilly OSCON 2013 this week in Portland, Oregon, Fusion-io made the announcement that its Atomic Writes API contributed for standardization to the T10 SCSCI Storage Interfaces Technical Committee is now in use in mainstream MySQL databases MariaDB 5.5.31 Fusion-io Sets the Stage for the All-Flash Data Center.

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Open Source Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 177

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #39, in which I share a random assortment of links, articles, and thoughts from around the world of data center-related technologies. If you’re looking to get some storage geek on, this is worth a read. I hope you find something useful—or at least something interesting! Networking.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #33, the latest in my irregularly-published series of articles discussing various data center technology-related links, articles, rants, thoughts, and questions. Via Forbes Guthrie on Twitter, I saw this post on how to setup a CA on Linux and use it in a Windows environment. Networking.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 105

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

As always, I have a list of links related to various data center technologies found below; hopefully something here proves useful. Pradipta Kumar Banerjee has an article on using local storage for instances in OpenStack. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host (how’s that for a mouthful?) Networking. DVM looks handy.

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Vmware Linux Intel Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2013

I try to keep the information linked to data center technologies like networking, storage, virtualization, and the like, but occasionally other items slip through. Linux distributions that offer ARM support, though—like Ubuntu, RHEL, and SuSE—are supported, however. I hope you find something useful.

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Vmware Storage Virtualization HP 106

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

This is my usual collection of links, thoughts, rants, and ideas about data center-related technologies. 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. Is this the beginning of the data center fractal edge ?

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 108

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2014

Here’s a quick article on how to assess if your Linux-based server is affected. This isn’t as straightforward as building a Linux image (no surprises there), but I did find a few good articles that helped along the way. It’s being called the “data plane” for software-defined storage.

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Vmware Windows Virtualization Storage 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

This is another installation in my irregularly-published series of links, thoughts, rants, and raves across various data center-related fields of technology. Greg Schulz (aka StorageIO) has a couple of VMware storage tips posts you might find useful reading. Welcome to Technology Short Take #29! Networking.

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