HP Launches Open Source OS for Data Center Networking
Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 5, 2015
Intel, VMware, Arista, others join HP in push for open, disaggregated networking Read More.
Big Switch Networks Embraces VMware NSX
Data Center Knowledge
MAY 13, 2015
Big Switch Networks is trying to introduce a level of network agility that is currently missing from most data center environments, according to Big Switch's Prashant Ghandi. IT organizations want to be able to embrace an open SDN platform that supports both NSX and emerging open source.
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VMworld 2016: VMware vSphere updates streamline container delivery in virtual environments
Tech Republic Data Center
AUGUST 30, 2016
VMware recently enhanced its vSphere Integrated Containers with two new open source projects, Admiral and Harbor, that could boost management capabilities for production containerized applications.
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Xangati Adds Support for XenServer Hypervisors
Data Center Knowledge
MAY 14, 2015
In addition to VMware and Hyper-V, enterprises also want to be able to monitor open source XenServer and Xen Project hypervisors that have been embraced by many cloud service providers Read More.
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VMworld 2013 – VMware`s chance to stay relevant
Virtualized Greek
AUGUST 25, 2013
Trying to kill time on the plane on my way to VMworld 2013; my mind got to wondering what VMware needs to show at VMworld 2013 in order to maintain their position within the enterprise. VMware has some great technology. Microsoft, Citrix and open source hypervisors have quickly become good enough for basic virtualization use cases.
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VMworld 2016 Day 2 Keynote
Scott Lowe
AUGUST 29, 2016
Today, VMware is expected to talk more about containers, end-user computing, and other topics not covered in yesterday’s general session (which focused heavily on Cross-Cloud Services, VMware’s new set of SaaS-based offerings for multi-cloud management). Poonen “passes the baton” to Ray O’Farrell, EVP and CTO of VMware.
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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.” This is pretty cool: a WYSIWYG topology designer for VMware NSX.
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Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
So, here you go—here’s your latest collection of links from around the internet focused on data center and cloud-related technologies. It was, therefore, very satisfying to see not one but two Velero-related posts emerge recently from the VMware blogging community. I hope that you find something useful here.
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Kicking the Policy Discussion Into High Gear
Scott Lowe
APRIL 22, 2014
Most IT vendors agree that more extensive use of automation and orchestration in today’s data centers are beneficial to customers. I believe that creating an open source solution to the policy problem will further the cause of cloud computing and the transformation of our industry. Thinking About Open Source.
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Technology Short Take #75
Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 29, 2016
Until then, here’s some data center-related articles and links for your enjoyment. Customers don’t care about data centers, or DevOps pipelines, or toolkits…they just care about being able to do whatever it is you offer (buy stuff, consume a service, whatever). Networking. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.
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60 Technology Short Take #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. And while we are on the topic of Linux and open source in the networking industry…read this entertaining and informative article on the importance of (truly) open source libraries in networking.
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Federal Big Data Community Convenes 6 Feb at Apache Hadoop Forum
CTOvision
DECEMBER 21, 2013
As CSO, Mike is responsible for Cloudera’s product strategy, open source leadership, engineering alignment and direct engagement with customers. Prior to Cloudera Mike was CEO of Sleepycat Software, makers of Berkeley DB, the open source embedded database engine. LTG (R) Richard Zahner.
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Technology Short Take #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. And while we are on the topic of Linux and open source in the networking industry…read this entertaining and informative article on the importance of (truly) open source libraries in networking.
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60 Best IT and Tech Blogs – Must Read Information Technology Resources 2019
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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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. I recently came across a couple useful troubleshooting guides, one for Open vSwitch (OVS) and OpenStack Neutron and one for VMware NSX. VMware recently GA’d version 6.2 Have fun reading!
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Technology Short Take 98
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. VMware has released a PowerCLI preview/fling for NSX-T; Kyle Ruddy has a write-up here. Feedback is always welcome!
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Attend the 6 Feb @Cloudera Federal Forum: For the Analyst, Data Scientist, #BigData Technologist in DC
CTOvision
JANUARY 23, 2014
As CSO, Mike is responsible for Cloudera’s product strategy, open source leadership, engineering alignment and direct engagement with customers. Prior to Cloudera Mike was CEO of Sleepycat Software, makers of Berkeley DB, the open source embedded database engine. Shedd – Deputy Director, Defense Intelligence Agency.
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Technology Short Take #70
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? Welcome to Technology Short Take #70! Networking.
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60 Technology Short Take #59
Scott Lowe
JANUARY 14, 2016
This is a fascinating (to me, at least) paper on the implications of non-volatile storage on today’s data centers (and data center hardware). Dwayne Sinclair (an NSX SE at VMware) has a write-up on what micro-segmentation is not. Servers/Hardware. Good stuff here—I highly recommend reading this paper.
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Scott Lowe
FEBRUARY 9, 2018
Ready for another round of links, articles, and thoughts on data center technologies? Sam McGeown has a nice diagram of the communications channels between the various VMware NSX components. Nick Korte shares some “lessons learned” as his team explored VMware vSAN as a storage solution. Networking.
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How VMware aims to make multi-cloud seamless
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 23, 2022
VMware is offering organizations a flexible multi-cloud purchasing and consumption solution that aims for consistency in infrastructure across every cloud, so that migration now and in the future is seamless and less complex. But multi-cloud environments will quickly lose their allure if their operations are not seamless.
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98 Tech Blogs – Best Must Read Tech Resources 2019
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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Best Tech Blogs – Must Read Tech Resources 2019
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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107 Technology Short Take #59
Scott Lowe
JANUARY 14, 2016
This is a fascinating (to me, at least) paper on the implications of non-volatile storage on today’s data centers (and data center hardware). Dwayne Sinclair (an NSX SE at VMware) has a write-up on what micro-segmentation is not. Servers/Hardware. Good stuff here—I highly recommend reading this paper.
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60 IBM, Pivotal Team to Boost CloudFoundry » Data Center Knowledge
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. Google, IBM Team on Data Center Research. Modular Data Centers.
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Best IT Blogs – Must Read Information Technology Resources 2019
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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Top Tech Websites 2019
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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Technology Short Take #43
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. Another series on VMware NSX has popped up, this time from Jon Langemak. Networking.
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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. Nice use of VMware Fusion in part 2, by the way.). It makes me wonder when VMware will announce support for CoreOS on vCloud Air.
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Technology Short Take #58
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. Looking for a step-by-step install guide for VMware NSX? Now, on to the content! Networking. Kubernetes cheat sheet?
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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. Not sure if this link belongs in Networking or in Virtualization, but we’ll stick it here since it talks about VMware NSX. Without further ado, let’s get to the content. Networking. Servers/Hardware. PowerCLI 6.0
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Technology Short Take #82
Scott Lowe
MAY 4, 2017
Mircea’s right—bugs will happen in all software (VMware NSX has had its share, for example), but the key is in how it’s handled. Doug Youd of Cumulus has an excellent 3-part series on the use of LACP in VMware vSphere environments. Melissa Palmer (aka “vMiss”) has a post where she’s collecting tips and tricks for VMware Fusion.
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Technology Short Take #52
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. Dale Coghlan has a few useful NSX-related articles that I recently found.
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60 Looking Ahead: My 2013 Projects
Scott Lowe
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
Expand and deepen data center networking fundamentals. Making progress on CCNP was one of my 2012 goals, but it didn’t really fit in with the rest of my focus areas (which were almost all centered in the data center). This also ties in nicely with my new job role at Nicira/VMware.
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Scott Lowe
JANUARY 3, 2014
Reinforce data center networking fundamentals. Reinforce data center networking fundamentals: Naturally, my role at VMware has me spending a great deal of time on how network virtualization affects DC networking, and this translated into some progress on this project. Open Source Tools and Projects I Should Learn.
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Technology Short Take #41
Scott Lowe
MAY 9, 2014
Looking for more VMware NSX content? Anthony Burke has started a new series focusing on VMware NSX in pure vSphere environments. Juan Manuel Rey has launched a series of blog posts on deploying OpenStack with KVM and VMware NSX. This would include products like VMware VSAN as well as projects like Ceph and others.
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IDF 2014: Open Source Storage Optimizations
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 11, 2014
This is a liveblog of IDF 2014 session DATS009, titled “Ceph: Open Source Storage Software Optimizations on Intel Architecture for Cloud Workloads.” The speaker is Anjaneya “Reddy” Chagam, a Principal Engineer in the Intel Data Center Group. Orchestration (OpenStack, VMware). Management.
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61 AWS Careers: On the Road to All 9 AWS Certifications
Linux Academy
MARCH 15, 2019
My job encompasses supporting Linux and VMware on physical servers. I think we have close to 1600 virtual instances at any given time, spread across two data centers separated by 10 miles. The second one which we started July of last year was our data center migration project. I’ve always embraced new technology.
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Technology Short Take #61
Scott Lowe
FEBRUARY 11, 2016
VMware recently announced VSAN 6.2 , and along with the new release is plenty of coverage from the VMware community. are only available in all-flash configurations—this just underscores the growing importance/role of flash in modern data centers. Virtualization. Is now the time?
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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. Networking. No, really.
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Technology Short Take #36
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. Networking Security Storage Virtualization Automation CLI Hardware HyperV Linux OpenFlow OpenStack Puppet VMware' Networking.
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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. Macintosh Networking Security Storage Virtualization Automation iSCSI OpenFlow OpenStack Puppet SDN VMware' Networking. Interesting.
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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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OpenStack powered by VMware
Virtualized Greek
JUNE 9, 2013
The more I think about it the strategy of VMware joining OpenStack is starting to make more and more sense. Similar I don’t believe VMware and OpenStack compete at even the datacenter layer or Cloud layer for that matter. Why not an open project such as OpenStack? Instead of challenging OpenStack VMware embraced it.
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