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).

IPv6 60

IPv6 Firewall Network Mobile 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. Art Fewell takes a deeper look at the increasingly important role of the virtual switch. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization. Networking. Security.

Vmware 60

Vmware Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 60

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. Michael Kashin has a great article on how Open Virtual Network (OVN, part of the Open vSwitch project) implements virtual networks in OpenStack. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization. Networking.

Linux 60

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. Finally, you might find the VMware Virtual SAN 6.2

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 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. Virtualization. As always, I hope that something I’ve included here proves useful to you. (As

Linux 60

Linux Network Hardware Vmware 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 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.

Storage 111

Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 111

Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Server virtualization can do the trick for you if you also struggle to scale your applications to meet growing demands without breaking the bank. Server virtualization is a game-changing technology that has revolutionized the way organizations deploy and manage their IT infrastructure.

Virtualization 78

Virtualization Storage Hardware Disaster Recovery 78

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. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 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. This article by Russell Bryant is a great overview and update of the work going on with Open Virtual Network (OVN). Servers/Hardware. Virtualization. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Firewall Network 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

The term “Cloud Management” is nebulous, but typically refers to a distinct set of tasks related to managing the infrastructure level (IaaS) cloud layers, typically comprised of the physical and virtual infrastructure, as well as the cloud orchestration layer – whether inside a corporation or a Service Provider cloud. Firewall rules.

Data Center 203

Data Center Cloud Data Applications 203

CTOvision

OCTOBER 19, 2016

In panic, many organizations deployed more security products or utilized capabilities like Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) to create virtual air gaps. Before connectivity is provisioned, the hardware identity and software hashes from the user’s device are checked. If anything fails, an alarm is generated!

Security 150

Security Data Center Hardware Virtualization 150

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.

Cloud 189

Cloud Data Data Center Firewall 189

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.

Licensing 52

Licensing Firewall Programming Data Center 52

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.

Software 165

Software Software Data Center Hardware 165

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. Tom Nolle asks the question , “Is virtualization reality even more elusive than virtual reality?” Servers/Hardware.

HP 106

HP Virtualization Hardware Network 106

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. Enter the concepts of "Mobile applications" and "Virtual desktops".

Data Center 246

Data Center Virtualization Applications Firewall 246

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

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. Tom Nolle asks the question , “Is virtualization reality even more elusive than virtual reality?” Servers/Hardware.

HP 61

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 ).

Vmware 109

Vmware Storage Virtualization HP 109

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

tech preview of virtual networks for Docker. 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. Virtualization.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2014

Colbert next dives into more detail on Project Fargo, which enables vastly faster provisioning of virtual desktops by via cloning process. The hardware specification for EVO:RAIL is a 2U, four-node enclosure (think Dell C6100 or similar hardware form factor). That’s nice, and will be quite useful I think.

Vmware 65

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. VMware is of course pushing their virtual SAN solution (vSAN) to provision and control storage.

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. Virtualization. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Intel Storage 60