Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

As usual, I’ve gathered what I hope to be a useful but varied collection of articles and links on key data center technologies. The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

As usual, I’ve gathered what I hope to be a useful but varied collection of articles and links on key data center technologies. The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Galido

MAY 1, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Cloud Computing & Data Center Tech Blogs. Data Center Knowledge. Data Center Knowledge.

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Galido

MARCH 22, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Cloud Computing & Data Center Tech Blogs. Data Center Knowledge. Data Center Knowledge.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

Today I have another collection of data center technology links, articles, thoughts, and rants. Matt Klein breaks down service mesh components , using terms networking professionals know well, like “data plane” and “control plane.” Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 2, 2020

I’m back with another collection of articles on various data center technologies. This recent Ars Technica article points out that a feature in Chromium—the open source project leveraged by Chrome and Edge, among others—is having a significant impact on root DNS traffic. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Components involved include the open source Kuma service mesh (in turn leveraging Envoy), anycast BGP, and mutual TLS (mTLS). Ivan Pepelnjak does a great job of describing all the things you really shouldn’t do (or don’t really need to do) when trying to deal with migrating container hosts in a data center fabric.

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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. At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. Operating Systems/Applications. I’ll try to correct that for the next one.

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Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

These areas of IT include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Cloud Computing & Data Center IT Blogs. Data Center Knowledge. Data Center Knowledge.

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Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Cloud Computing & Data Center Tech Blogs. Data Center Knowledge. Data Center Knowledge.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Ready for another round of links, articles, and thoughts on data center technologies? Operating Systems/Applications. Michael Wittig shares some details on migrating to Amazon Linux 2. Ed Haletky has an updated Linux version of the VMware Software Manager. Welcome to Technology Short Take 94! Networking.

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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). VMware open-sourced an identity and access management service called Lightwave ( project web site , GitHub repo ).

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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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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). VMware open-sourced an identity and access management service called Lightwave ( project web site , GitHub repo ).

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 27, 2018

Now that I’m starting to get settled into my new role at Heptio, I’ve managed to find some time to pull together another collection of links and articles pertaining to various data center technologies. Operating Systems/Applications. Feedback is always welcome! Networking. Part 1 is available here.

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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 Operating Systems/Applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take #70! Networking. Is the era of the storage admin over ?

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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. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

Operating Systems/Applications. Ryan Kelly shows readers how to configure Harbor (open source container registry project) to use Amazon S3 for storage. YACOOS (Yet Another Container-Optimized Operating System) has gone GA; this time it’s Google’s (imaginatively-named) “Container-Optimized OS”.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 11, 2018

What follows below is a collection of various links and articles about (mostly) data center-related technologies. ” While the post is clearly Sysdig-oriented (as would be fully expected), it’s also cool to see how powerful the assembly of various open source projects can be. Operating Systems/Applications.

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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. Operating Systems/Applications. Open Source Tools and Projects I Should Learn.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Before I present this episode’s collection of links, articles, and thoughts on various data center technologies, allow me to first wish all of my readers a very merry and very festive holiday season. If you’d like to play around with Cumulus Linux but don’t have a compatible hardware switch, Cumulus VX is the answer. Networking.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 27, 2023

There are two CCT paths to choose from: data center or routing and switching. The CCT Data Center certification covers support and maintenance of Cisco Unified Computing systems and server. It’s targeted at field support engineers working with Cisco data center system devices and software.

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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. To help resolve this issue, Cumulus Networks (and possibly Metacloud, I’m not sure of their involvement yet) has release an open source project called vxfld.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

In this episode, I’ve gathered an odd collection of links and articles about key data center technologies. Here’s a three-part series on running VMware NSX on vSphere on AWS via Ravello Systems ( part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 ). No problem, Ravello Systems has a blog (and a blueprint) to help you set all this up.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 14, 2015

Welcome to Technology Short Take #52, the latest collection of news, links, and articles from around the web on data center technologies. Want to know a bit more about how OVN (Open Virtual Network) plans to integrate support for containers? Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Good stuff.

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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. with the Floodlight open source controller. Operating Systems/Applications. In any case, enough with the introduction—bring on the content! Networking.

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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. Operating Systems/Applications. Kornelis Sietsma looks at the options for working with multiple git identities on a single system. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

This time around, the content is a bit heavier on cloud management and applications/operating systems, but still lots of good content all the way around (I hope, anyway). Jason Edelman has posted a self-compiled list of networking projects that are open source ; this is a useful list, so thanks for compiling it Jason!

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 21, 2016

As usual, I gathered an odd collection of links and articles from around the web on key data center technologies and trends. Couple something like GoBGP with IPVLAN L3 (see Brent’s article ) and you’ve got a new model for your data center network. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Ubuntu 16.04

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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. Operating Systems/Applications. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host (how’s that for a mouthful?) Welcome to Technology Short Take #71! Networking. Then again, what do I know?

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 30, 2013

The statement claimed NSX was nothing more than a collection of tools, and that it was possible to get the equivalent of NSX using completely free (as in speech and as in beer) open source tools—specifically, IPTables , StrongSwan , OpenVPN , and Open vSwitch (OVS). Networking Virtualization IPSec Linux VPN'

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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. Operating Systems/Applications. I found this article on imperative vs. declarative system configuration is quite helpful in understanding Puppet’s declarative model. Welcome to Technology Short Take #27!

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #42, another installation in my ongoing series of irregularly published collections of news, items, thoughts, rants, raves, and tidbits from around the Internet, with a focus on data center-related technologies. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s hoping you find something useful!

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