Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Drew Conry-Murray shines a light on Intel’s network ambitions. This is something I’ve been watching for a couple of years, since attending my first Intel Developer Forum (IDF). Intel clearly has its sights set on expanding beyond just “servers” into many more platforms, including network hardware platforms.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 17, 2020

This collection is (mostly) data center- and cloud-focused, and hopefully I’ve managed to curate a list that has some useful information for readers. Jon Langemak is blogging again, and he jumps back into the “blogging saddle” with a post on working with tc on Linux systems. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

This is my irregularly-published collection of links and articles from around the Internet related to the major data center technologies: networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications/OSes, storage, and virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Welcome to Technology Short Take #85!

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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. Servers/Hardware. Is Intel having second thoughts about software-defined infrastructure? Running Hyper-V with Linux VMs? Networking. LTS server.

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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. Servers/Hardware. Via Kevin Houston, you can get more details on the Intel E7 v2 and new blade servers based on the new CPU. Networking. x86 marches on!

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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. Servers/Hardware. In this post, William Lam explores the potential benefits of Intel’s VMCS Shadowing functionality on nested virtualization. (I

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Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

Servers/Hardware. News in the OpenStack space hasn’t been so good recently (Intel pulling out of OSIC, various companies laying off folks, other “pure play” companies shifting focus away from OpenStack), but here’s one architect’s perspective on what you may still want to attend the OpenStack Summit. Nothing this time around.

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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. Servers/Hardware. Intel announced the E5 2600 v2 series of CPUs back at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 (you can follow my IDF 2013 coverage by looking at posts with the IDF2013 tag ).

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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. Servers/Hardware. In this post, William Lam explores the potential benefits of Intel’s VMCS Shadowing functionality on nested virtualization. (I

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

This “overcommitment” technique could have some negative effects on existing monitoring systems that are unaware of the underlying hardware configuration. What effect might that have on modern data centers? This gives them very fine-grained control over data access. Congrats to HyTrust. HyTrust Appliance 1.5.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2021

And if cloud computing is about computers far away from you in data centers, the edge is about the computers closest to you — like Windows PCs. WSL, which is the part of Windows that lets you run Linux. Pat, who is Pat Gelsinger, CEO of Intel. Linux is now first class on Windows, and Android is just another subsystem.

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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. Servers/Hardware. Via Forbes Guthrie on Twitter, I saw this post on how to setup a CA on Linux and use it in a Windows environment.

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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!

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 20, 2020

Welcome to Technology Short Take #125, where I have a collection of articles about various data center and cloud technologies collected from around the Internet. Servers/Hardware. Mark Ermolov discusses a vulnerability in the ROM (read-only memory) of the Intel Converged Security and Management Engine (CSME). 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. Servers/Hardware. Via Forbes Guthrie on Twitter, I saw this post on how to setup a CA on Linux and use it in a Windows environment.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2014

As usual, I’ve gathered a collection of links to various articles pertaining to data center-related technologies for your enjoyment. Servers/Hardware. What is Intel SGX, you ask? Linux Networking Security Storage Virtualization Docker Hardware HyperV Intel NSX OpenStack SSL vSphere VXLAN'

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

The first speaker starts out with a review of exactly what a microserver is; Intel sees microservers as a natural evolution from rack-mounted servers to blades to microservers. Key microserver technologies include: Intel Atom C2000 family of processors; Intel Xeon E5 v2 processor family; and Intel Ethernet Switch FM6000 series.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

This is my usual collection of links, thoughts, rants, and ideas about data center-related technologies. First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. Servers/Hardware. Is this the beginning of the data center fractal edge ? Networking. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2014

Servers/Hardware. Intel recently announced a refresh of the E5 CPU line; Kevin Houston has more details here. Here’s a quick article on how to assess if your Linux-based server is affected. Microsoft Networking Security Storage Virtualization Hardware HyperV iSCSI OpenStack VMware VPLEX vSphere Windows'

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