Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Fusion-io Accelerates Flash Apps With Open Source Contributions. Fusion-io Accelerates Flash Apps With Open Source Contributions. In hyperscale computing key-value stores are popular for schema-less data structures used in NoSQL databases. 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

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Ready for another round of links, articles, and thoughts on data center technologies? Michael Wittig shares some details on migrating to Amazon Linux 2. Nick Korte shares some “lessons learned” as his team explored VMware vSAN as a storage solution. Welcome to Technology Short Take 94! Networking.

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Vmware Linux Network Storage 60

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. Networking. Per the README.md

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Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 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. 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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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

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

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Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 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. At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. You may also find this (related) article on memory inside Linux containers to be helpful.

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

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.” Welcome to Technology Short Take 93! Networking. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Open Source Linux Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 3, 2014

Reinforce base Linux knowledge. Reinforce data center networking fundamentals. If anyone has any other suggestions for additional tools, I’m open to your feedback. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Continue using Puppet for automation.

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Report Linux Network Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The speaker for the session is Vin Sharma, who helps lead open source software strategies at Intel. That’s a lot of “open” ). Based on feedback from ODCA (Open Data Center Alliance) members, security issues are top of mind for cloud implementations.

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Cloud Intel Open Source Data Center 109

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

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. Feedback is always welcome! Networking. Operating Systems/Applications. Part 1 is available here. Virtualization.

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Vmware Storage Open Source Security 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

IBM said today that it will make CloudFoundry a component of its open cloud architecture and work with Pivotal on further development of the CloudFoundry open source project and establishing an open governance model for the community. Storage Failures Hamper Cloud Foundry. Google, IBM Team on Data Center Research.

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Data Center IBM Data Cloud 197

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. Open Source Tools and Projects I Should Learn. Networking.

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Vmware Linux Virtualization Network 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

Ryan Kelly shows readers how to configure Harbor (open source container registry project) to use Amazon S3 for storage. Ajay Chenampara shares his workaround for storing GitHub credentials on Linux. (If You can get more details via this Google blog post. If you’re using GNOME, you may find this approach easier.).

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Vmware Storage Network Examples 60

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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Linux Network Vmware Disaster Recovery 60

Linux Academy

DECEMBER 5, 2019

For storage-intensive workloads, AWS Customers will have an opportunity to use smaller instance sizes and still meet EBS-optimized instance performance requirements, thereby saving costs. Athena executes federated queries using Athena Data Source Connectors that run on AWS Lambda. What Linux Academy can do to better serve you.

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Linux Open Source Programming Data 19

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. Networking. No, really.

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Network Virtualization Open Source Vmware 60

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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Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

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. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Networking.

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Vmware Network Virtualization Storage 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

In this episode, I’ve gathered an odd collection of links and articles about key data center technologies. Bird , by the way, is an open source routing daemon for Linux, *BSD, and other UNIX-like operating systems.). Welcome to Technology Short Take #54! Without further ado, let’s get to the content. Networking.

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Vmware Cloud Windows Linux 60

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? Networking. There are a lot of “container-optimized” OSes floating around out there.

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Vmware Devops Virtualization Network 60

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. Michael Dales shares his experience trying out Windows 10 and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) as a Linux development environment. Networking. Good stuff here!

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Linux Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

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! I didn’t think that OpenFlow itself was actually open source (even though there are multiple open source implementations of various OpenFlow products).

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Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60

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

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. Welcome to Technology Short Take #65! I hope you find something useful!

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Vmware Linux Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

This is my usual collection of links, thoughts, rants, and ideas about data center-related technologies. Rainier” will allow customers to combine PCIe-based SSD storage inside servers into a “virtual SAN” (now there’s an original and not over-used term). Welcome to Technology Short Take #27! Networking.

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

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. Someone recently brought the open source Open vStorage project to my attention.

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Vmware Storage Network Virtualization 60

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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