Linux Academy

APRIL 18, 2019

Consider the typical items in your budget in a traditional IT environment like hardware maintenance costs, costs associated with OS patching, storage administration, and testing. For storage and data transfer, pricing is tiered. Make sure your staff are properly prepared with hands-on training from Linux Academy.

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Linux Budget Cloud Resources 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This is session COMS002, titled “Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization.” Verplanke believes that DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) and virtualization are key to virtualizing workloads that move around lots and lots of packets, such as firewalls, routers, and other similar functions.

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Virtualization Intel Cloud Data 113

CTOvision

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Datameer kicked off their first Big Data & Brews on the East Coast at Strata + Hadoop World New York. Watch Part 1 of Big Data & Brews with Tony Baer here. Andrew: That’s sort of a prerequisite for Big Data and Brews. Tony: Exactly, is on a cluster that’s equipped with JBM and Linux.

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Big Data Data Course Oracle 150

Scott Lowe

MAY 7, 2021

In this Technology Short Take, I’ve gathered some links for you covering topics like Azure and AWS networking, moving from macOS to Linux (and back again), and more. Servers/Hardware. maximizing revenue per hardware instance). Justin Garrison shares some thoughts on whiteboarding software (and hardware). Networking.

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Linux Hardware Network Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 29, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Richard Seroter shares some data comparing container size and startup latency for serverless apps written in various programming languages. Jorge Castro encourages folks to just kill the silly myths (regarding desktop Linux). Lucas Pardue and Christopher Wood share a primer on proxies. Web views in macOS?

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Linux Storage Programming Applications 74

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Thus, these services will begin to commoditize, and with the popularity of multicloud, core services such as storage and computing will be pretty much the same from cloud to cloud.” Traditional hardware vendors also have as-a-service offerings that can run in data centers or at the edge: Dell Apex and HPE GreenLake.

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Trends Cloud Oracle Enterprise 144

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

I have another collection of links, articles, and thoughts about key data center technologies, and hopefully I’ve managed to include something here that will prove useful or thought-provoking. Here’s a handy list of deprecated Linux network commands and their replacements. Servers/Hardware. Welcome to Technology Short Take #81!

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

In any case, enough of that—here’s some data center-related content that I hope you find useful! Cumulus Networks recently introduced the Cumulus Linux Network Command Line Utility (NCLU) , which provides a more unified front-end to configuring switches running Cumulus Linux. Servers/Hardware. Networking. Virtualization.

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Linux Vmware Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Here’s another collection of links and articles from around the Internet discussing various data center-focused technologies. The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based.

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Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

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? Servers/Hardware. Networking. Virtualization.

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Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

If I’m understanding the article correctly (and feel free to correct me if I am mistaken) it looks as if Cilium Service Mesh will leverage/does leverage a combination of certificate-based mTLS for identity at the workload level and node-based transport encryption (via WireGuard) for data confidentiality. Servers/Hardware.

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Virtualization Storage Programming Network 79

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. Servers/Hardware. Welcome to Technology Short Take #46.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

JULY 21, 2016

In this post, I’ve collected a variety of links related to major data center technology areas. First up, there’s a great article on using IPVLAN with Docker and Cumulus Linux (with a tie back to sFlow, naturally!). Here’s a walkthrough by Cody Bunch on setting up BGP on Linux with Cumulus Quagga. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Linux Storage Hardware 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). Servers/Hardware. Nir Yechiel posted an article on using the Cumulus VX QCOW2 image with Fedora and KVM.

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Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 18, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Stay tuned for a quick review of the hardware once it arrives. Although Rowan doesn’t specifically mention it, this command relies on tools like tr , sort , and uniq , so I’m guessing it will only work on OS X/Linux/*BSD systems. The post has a nice list of Linux replacements for popular OS X apps.

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Linux Network Hardware Dell 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

Back in October of last year, Tom Hollingsworth weighed in on Hedgehog , the networking company that has set out to commercialize SONiC, a Linux-based NOS used extensively in Azure. Servers/Hardware What do you think of the ThinkPhone ? Ah, the bygone sounds of yesteryear …what a blast from the past!

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Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Ivan does a great job of describing the difference between the management, control, and data planes, as well as providing examples. Of course, the distinction between control plane protocols and data plane protocols isn’t always perfectly clear. Servers/Hardware. Here’s hoping you find something useful! Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

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. Servers/Hardware. William Lam takes a look at some potentially interesting homelab hardware. Seriously.). Yes, please.

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Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

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. Servers/Hardware. Flatpak is a (relatively) new application packaging/sandboxing mechanism for Linux applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take #77. Networking. Good advice.

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Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Galido

JUNE 28, 2018

The PRTG solution will provide you with detailed tracking data and historical reports on all network components. SSH: For Linux / Unix and MacOS systems. They also provide a Windows, Android and iOS app, enabling you to connect to more than one core server to retrieve monitoring data. Paessler’s CEO talks about PRTG.

Network 60

Network LAN VOIP Licensing 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Until then, here’s some data center-related articles and links for your enjoyment. Andrey Khomyakov shares some information on automating the setup of whitebox switches running Cumulus Linux in part 2 of this series on learning network automation. Servers/Hardware. Alpine Linux 3.5 Networking. Nothing this time around!

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Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Servers/Hardware. On the hardware side of things, we have James Hamilton of AWS discussing two hardware-related items coming out of AWS re:Invent 2018. Kenneth Hui digs into using AWS KMS Custom Key Store with CloudHSM to encrypt your data. Dave Taylor provides s ome tips for configuring VMware Fusion for Linux usage.

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Vmware Linux Hardware Case Study 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Dmitri Kalintsev examines some options for addressing storage-related connectivity in NSX environments. Servers/Hardware. Intel clearly has its sights set on expanding beyond just “servers” into many more platforms, including network hardware platforms. Drew Conry-Murray shines a light on Intel’s network ambitions.

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Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time around, although there may have been some hardware-related news coming out of re:Invent that I missed (such as new generations of AWS-designed chips being announced). Joel de la Garza has a post over on the a16z site on 16 steps to securing your data (and life). See this post for details.

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Vmware Network Linux Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Ready for another round of links, articles, and thoughts on data center technologies? Servers/Hardware. 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!

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Vmware Linux Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Next, Intel talks about how they have worked to expose hardware features into OpenStack. This involves work in libvirt as well as OpenStack, so that OpenStack can be aware of CPU functionality (which, in turn, might allow cloud providers to charge extra for “premium images” that offer encryption support in hardware).

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Intel Storage Open Source Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #38, another installment in my irregularly-published series that collects links and thoughts on data center-related technologies from around the web. Speaking of Cumulus Linux…did you see the announcement that Dell has signed a reseller agreement with Cumulus Networks? Servers/Hardware.

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Linux Vmware Storage Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well. It won’t happen overnight; nine years is a long time to accumulate files and data. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Macintosh iPhone Linux' The only constant is change.

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Operating Systems Apple Applications Linux 131

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! Networking. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Windows 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Jeda Networks describes themselves as a “software-defined storage networking” company. Given my previous role at EMC (involved in storage) and my current role at VMware focused on network virtualization (which encompasses SDN), I was quite curious. What effect might that have on modern data centers?

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Meeting Storage Hardware Network 63

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Servers/Hardware. I recently mentioned on Twitter that I was considering building out a new Linux PC to replace my aging Mac Pro (it’s a 2012 model, so going on 9 years old). Eclypsium discusses ways of protecting system firmware storage. A major security flaw in sudo has been discovered; more details available here.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Study Network 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. Servers/Hardware. Running Hyper-V with Linux VMs? Ben Armstrong details what versions of Linux support the various Hyper-V features in this post.

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Linux Network Vmware Disaster Recovery 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). Servers/Hardware. Nir Yechiel posted an article on using the Cumulus VX QCOW2 image with Fedora and KVM.

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Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

I don’t track or get involved in the consumer space; my focus is on the data center. There were no major data center-centric announcements yesterday (day 1), but I suspect there will be some today (day 2) in a mega-session with Diane Bryant (SVP and GM of the Data Center Group at Intel). Closing Thoughts.

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Intel Hardware Linux Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

Kristian Larsson shows how to validate data using YANG. Practical examples like this have really helped me better understand YANG and its relationship to structured data you might exchange with a device or service. Servers/Hardware. Ajay Chenampara shares his workaround for storing GitHub credentials on Linux. (If

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Examples 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Here’s a quick post on nftables , the (eventual) Linux replacement for iptables. Check out this blog on work done to bring firmware updates into the land of Linux. Even with public cloud and managed services, you can’t avoid good old-fashioned data management processes.” Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Here’s a quick post on nftables , the (eventual) Linux replacement for iptables. Check out this blog on work done to bring firmware updates into the land of Linux. Even with public cloud and managed services, you can’t avoid good old-fashioned data management processes.” Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60