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 Thinking of using a hardware VTEP (VXLAN Tunnel Endpoint) with VMware NSX? Servers/Hardware. Networking.

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Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Rodriguez provides the usual “massive growth” numbers that necessitated Expedient’s relatively recent migration to 10 GbE in their data center. Rodriguez shares some of the reasons why Expedient felt 10 GbE was the right choice for their data center. These tests were 256-bit SSL tests with Open SSL.).

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Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 109

Fountainhead

MAY 12, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. N Apps that are inherently bound to hardware Such as physical instances of software for specific (e.g. high-performance) hardware, or physical instances remaining so for scale-out reasons. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).

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Cloud Data Center Applications Virtualization 186

Scott Lowe

APRIL 29, 2015

These protections are also expensive to implement in hardware. What about data centers, where workload mobility is a key requirement? This bypasses some IPv6 limitations because host routes are treated in hardware like ND cache entries (which means you get something like 32K entries).

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IPv6 Firewall Network Mobile 60

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. Servers/Hardware. you’ll need to be sure to unblock WMI in the Windows Firewall. Welcome to Technology Short Take #46.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

I have here for your reading pleasure an eclectic collection of links and articles from around the web, focusing on data center-related technologies. You may have heard about the “6-pack”, Facebook’s new open modular hardware switch introduced recently ( here’s a post on it ). Servers/Hardware. Bring on the content!

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Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 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. A discussion of “statefulness” brought me again to Ivan’s post on the spectrum of firewall statefulness. Servers/Hardware. Networking.

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Vmware Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

Welcome to Technology Short Take #68, my erratically-published collection of links, articles, and posts from around the web—all focused on today’s major data center technologies. Servers/Hardware. As always, I hope that something I’ve included here proves useful to you. (As I won’t spoil Ivan’s conclusion; go read the article!

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Linux Network Hardware Vmware 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

The user level elements that are managed within such an IaaS cloud are virtual servers, cloud storage and shared resources such as load balancers and firewalls. Firewall rules. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter.

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Data Center Cloud Data Applications 203

Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Look for a Managed Security Service Provider that has invested heavily in cutting-edge security tools and technologies, such as next-generation firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and advanced threat protection platforms.

Security 74

Security Information Security Data System 74

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

I’ve got a new collection of links and articles from around the Web on various data center-focused technologies. Servers/Hardware. Vivek Gite over at nixCraft explains how to use ufw (Uncomplicated Firewall) on Ubuntu to limit SSH connections. Welcome to Technology Short Take #77. Networking. Good advice.

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Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

In any case, here’s another collection of links and articles from around the Net on the major data center technology areas. Servers/Hardware. Russell Pope at Kovarus recently wrote about using security groups to manage the VMware NSX distributed firewall. I’ll try to correct that for the next one. Have fun reading!

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles about the major data center technologies. Servers/Hardware. In the event you’re interested in an idea of how much latency the use of in-kernel hypervisor firewalling (such as that offered by VMware NSX) adds, have a look at this article by Sean Howard.

Vmware 60

Vmware Windows Network Agile 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. Servers/Hardware. Here are some general guidelines for configuring syslog forwarding on a Cisco ASA firewall. I hope that you find something useful here! Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Firewall Network 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

They manage dedicated firewalls for us, but as far as load balancers we use the cloud. When we need highly detailed control over the firewalls, Latisys provided us with dedicated.”. We had the same conversation about firewalls. Cloud based firewalls aren’t the answer.”. Managed Data Becomes Latisys. White Papers.

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Cloud Data Data Center Firewall 189

CTOvision

OCTOBER 19, 2016

The new stack design is very simple – an isolated compute partition on the user’s device is connected to an isolated compute partition in a data center with a single use VPN connection. Before connectivity is provisioned, the hardware identity and software hashes from the user’s device are checked.

Security 150

Security Data Center Hardware Virtualization 150

CTOvision

AUGUST 31, 2016

According to the International Association for IT Asset Management ( IAITAM ), ITAM is Software Asset Management (SAM), Hardware Asset Management (HAM), and Asset Portfolio Management (APM). Special software (usually with agents) discovers the hardware and the software that is installed on it. IT hardware is no simple matter either.

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Software Software Data Center Hardware 165

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #31, my irregularly published series that takes a look at links, posts, articles, and thoughts from around the web related to core data center technologies. Greg Ferro examines a potential SDN use case (an OpenFlow use case) in the form of enterprise firewall migrations. Servers/Hardware.

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Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 111

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2023

For maximum flexibility, you should seek out licensing options that can be applied in all the environments where you need to deploy your solutions, including on-premises, physical and virtual data centers, clouds, hybrid clouds, and hybrid mesh firewall environments.

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Licensing Firewall Programming Data Center 52

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. This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. Servers/Hardware.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 106

ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

And other hardware. And then you go and help the customer on site because the data is on site and you need to actually kind of get hands on to the point we used to do imaging in big data centers and stuff and it take hours because terabytes of data and you'd have people sleeping in the data center, like which is crazy.

Cloud 40

Cloud Government Data Security 40

Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

With server virtualization, you can easily create, move, and delete virtual servers as needed, without the need for expensive hardware upgrades or complex reconfigurations. One of the key benefits of server virtualization is that it allows for more efficient use of hardware resources.

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Virtualization Storage Hardware Disaster Recovery 78

Fountainhead

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. She shares these folders with her co-workers as well as client contacts within each company (and who are behind each clients firewall) as interactive project-based workspaces. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).

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Data Center Virtualization Applications Firewall 246

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

Public cloud providers such as AWS, Google, and Microsoft Azure publish shared responsibility models that push security of the data, platform, applications, operating system, network and firewall configuration, and server-side encryption, to the customer. Have you set up ransomware protection? 2 – Governance & Compliance.

Cloud 145

Cloud Open Source Applications Storage 145

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. This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. Servers/Hardware.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 61

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. Ranga Maddipudi ( @vCloudNetSec on Twitter) has put together two blog posts on vCloud Networking and Security’s App Firewall ( part 1 and part 2 ). Networking.

Vmware 109

Vmware Storage Virtualization HP 109

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2014

The hardware specification for EVO:RAIL is a 2U, four-node enclosure (think Dell C6100 or similar hardware form factor). Fathi paints containers as “having been around for years,” including pointing to a feature in Windows Data Center Server 15 years ago. That’s nice, and will be quite useful I think.

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Vmware Architecture Applications Storage 65

Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 27, 2013

The ability to virtualize the network devices such as firewalls, IPS and load balancers also means that these once physical devices that have discrete interfaces can be controlled by software. The question is if IT has the ability to implement and support a physical data center let alone a Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC).

Vmware 58

Vmware Load Balancer Data Center Virtualization 58

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. Dmitri Kalintsev is back with another article in a series of articles on using hardware VXLAN tunnel endpoints (VTEPs) with VMware NSX. Servers/Hardware. Welcome to Technology Short Take #71!

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Intel Storage 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Tom’s key point is that disaggregating software from hardware—which is kind of a given if you’re buying whitebox networking gear—gives you the (potential) flexibility to repurpose network gear based on the software running on it. Servers/Hardware. However, it’s at least possible with whitebox networking gear.

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Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60

Linux Academy

APRIL 11, 2019

Think about all the controls we have in place on our networks today: firewalls, authentication systems, intrusion detection and prevention systems (network- and host-based), router and switch security, operating system security, data encryption — the list goes on and on. It’s in this domain that we lump the following: Firewalls.

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Authentication Security Disaster Recovery Firewall 60