Virtualized Greek

APRIL 11, 2013

We aren’t looking at developer heavy environments such as Paypal, Netflix etc. We are looking at the enterprise that is highly virtualized, which looking at the market means VMware or Hyper-v with or KVM and others to a much lessor extent. I believe I’m of the same ilk of the typical traditional VMware enterprise sysadmin.

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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 6, 2015

Comment converged convergence I/O Networking IT Industry Activity IT Infrastructure Topics Lab report news Personal Computing perspective post Power and Cooling review server ssd Storage and Storage Management Tools Storage Architecture and Access tools virtualization computing development gaming Intel low power computing NUC programming Software Defined (..)

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Intel Storage Vmware Architecture 40

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 25, 2022

Based on VMware technology, that foundation is today relied on by a rapidly growing customer base that includes leaders in the automotive, education, government, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail industries that demand the elasticity, utter reliability, and ironclad security of the PeaSoup cloud. “We But that’s just the start.

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Cloud Vmware Data Center Automotive 98

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 28, 2022

Based on VMware technology, that foundation is today relied on by a rapidly growing customer base that includes leaders in the automotive, education, government, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail industries that demand the elasticity, utter reliability, and ironclad security of the PeaSoup cloud. “We But that’s just the start.

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Cloud Vmware Data Center Automotive 98

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 14, 2022

CIOs and their teams look to the tech industry to solve their problems, develop new, cost-effective technology solutions, and make implementation of new solutions smooth and easy, with built-in flexibility. A new product must help address or eliminate one or more pain points. Otherwise, what is its value? 1 concern of CEOs.

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Devops Storage Enterprise Enterprise 119

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2022

Gabriel Sieben ruminates on the potential dangers of Microsoft Pluton , a new security chip co-developed by Microsoft and AMD. Ivan Velichko takes readers on a journey of how Kubernetes reinvented virtual machines (in a good sense). For your fix of storage-related links, J Metz has relatively recently published Storage Short Take #47.

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Linux Storage Virtualization Hardware 90

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 109

Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

Thierry De Pauw lays out the arguments against the use of feature branches in software development. Although it isn’t technically specific to storage, there are significant storage themes in this article on what might happen if you lock yourself out of your digital life. Virtualization. That’s handy.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 74

Storage IO Blog

MARCH 7, 2015

Eric has run for several years now an annual top VMware, Virtualization, Storage and related blogs voting now taking place until March 16th 2015 (click on the image below). You will find a nice mix of new school, old school and a few current or future school theme blogs represented with some being more VMware specific.

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Vmware Storage Backup Big Data 40

Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

network virtualization). Is the relationship between network virtualization and service mesh closer than some folks might wish to admit? For relevant storage news, I’d recommend having a look at J Metz’ Storage Short Take 42. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Career/Soft Skills.

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Virtualization Storage Network Programming 79

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 20, 2023

Today, the Glasgow-based firm has customers in both the public and private sectors, including businesses in virtually every industry. In addition to VMware, these include Microsoft, Barracuda, Cohesity, and Dell among others. We are very committed to strengthening our partnerships with industry leaders like VMware,” adds Tebbutt. “We

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Cloud Vmware Disaster Recovery Enterprise 52

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

This is an interesting project to watch, I think—it’s porting OVN (Open Virtual Network) from a “traditional” OvS back-end to an IOVisor-based back-end (IOVisor implements the data plane in eBPF). It’s a bit deep in the programming side for me, but developers interested in adding SGX capabilities should give this a look. Good times.

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Vmware Storage Intel Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

A fan of network virtualization might also say that decomposing today’s complex physical networks into multiple simple logical networks on top of a simpler physical transport network—similar to Mike’s suggestion of converging on a smaller set of reference architectures—might also help. (Of Here’s a good source.

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Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

This post by Matt Oswalt—the first in a series, apparently—provides a great introduction to 5 development tools for network engineers. Nice use of VMware Fusion in part 2, by the way.). VMware, Vagrant, and Docker together is the subject of this blog post by Fabio Rapposelli. Virtualization. Networking.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 65

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As the cost of data storage has fallen, many organizations are keeping unnecessary data, or cleaning up data that’s out of date or no longer useful after a migration or reorganization. People aren’t going back and decluttering because there’s no cost to that — except in your risk profile and your decreased search performance,” says Buckley.

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Hardware Budget Data Security 143

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Anthony Burke has written a script that uses VMware NSX to protect VMware Log Insight instances. Dmitri Kalintsev examines some options for addressing storage-related connectivity in NSX environments. This is something I’ve been watching for a couple of years, since attending my first Intel Developer Forum (IDF).

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Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 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 Numan Siddique describes the native DHCP support available in OVN (Open Virtual Network). Is the era of the storage admin over ?

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Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

This post is a couple months old (a lifetime in the cloud-native world): the AWS Service Operator enables users/developers to consume a select set of AWS services via Kubernetes YAML manifests. J Metz has launched his own, storage-focused “Short Takes” series; the first of these is found here. Virtualization.

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Vmware Authentication Virtualization Storage 60

Fountainhead

APRIL 7, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Egenera creates physical & virtual servers transparently. Egenera just announced that its embedding virtual machine provisioning within its PAN Manager software for free. Virtualization. (31). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead.

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Virtualization Dell Data Center Hardware 100

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2023

It offers global compute, storage, data protection, and client device as-a-Service solutions, enabling cloud adjacency, multicloud connectivity, and a full suite of hosting, outsourcing, and application management services through Dell and its global partners.

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Cloud Dell Intel Agile 128

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

I’ve got a wide range of topics for you this time around—eBPF, Falco, Snort, Kyverno, etcd, VMware Code Stream, and more. Eclypsium discusses ways of protecting system firmware storage. Sebastian Kurfürst shares some insights on running Cilium in K3s and K3d on macOS (for development purposes). Virtualization.

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Vmware Storage Study Network 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Teammate Alex Brand has a look at VMware’s new OVS-based CNI plugin, Antrea. Cole Atkinson discusses the fact that osxfuse is no longer open source , and the ramifications of this development on open source in general. Virtualization. No, I mean I really am kidding—don’t read stuff over the holidays.

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Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 21, 2016

Here’s a pair of articles ( one here and one here ) that describe the port connections required between the various components in a VMware NSX deployment. These posts are a bit slanted toware VMware vSphere environments, but very detailed, very thorough, and very useful. William Lam has a quick look at ContainerX on VMware vSphere.

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Vmware Linux Storage Hardware 60

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. Want to install VMware NSX in your home lab, but concerned about resource utilization?

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Vmware Storage Network Windows 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Colin Lynch shares some details on his journey with VMware NSX (so far). I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX.

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Colin Lynch shares some details on his journey with VMware NSX (so far). I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX.

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Christian Elsen (who works in Integration Engineering at VMware) has a nice series of articles going on using OpenStack with vSphere and NSX. and talks about vSphere OpenStack Virtual Appliance (VOVA) as well. and talks about vSphere OpenStack Virtual Appliance (VOVA) as well. All in all, well worth a read in my opinion.

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Linux Vmware Storage Virtualization 60

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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Vmware Open Source Applications Video 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 29, 2017

Prior to the keynote, a number of announcements were released; here’s a quick look at a few of them: VMware and AWS Announce Initial Availability of VMware Cloud on AWS. VMware Integrated OpenStack 4.0 Gelsinger welcomes the crowd, and takes a minute to reflect upon his time at CEO of VMware.

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Vmware Cloud IBM Security 60

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Streaming data technologies unlock the ability to capture insights and take instant action on data that’s flowing into your organization; they’re a building block for developing applications that can respond in real-time to user actions, security threats, or other events. The storage for these features is referred to as a feature store.

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Strategy Data Applications Cloud 116

Scott Lowe

APRIL 27, 2018

VMware has released a PowerCLI preview/fling for NSX-T; Kyle Ruddy has a write-up here. Gergely Nemeth shares how to leverage skaffold so you can use Kubernetes for local development. VMware has launched a SIG for Kubernetes on VMware. Virtualization. VMware recently GA’d vSphere 6.7, Networking.

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Vmware Storage Open Source Security 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

I’ve got another collection of links to articles on networking, security, cloud, programming, and career development—hopefully you find something useful! Storage Stephen Wagner discusses a situation in which all VMs are inaccessible after graceful cluster shutdown and restart. Welcome to Technology Short Take #164!

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Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Participants include AT&T, Canonical, Cisco, DreamHost, Deutsche Telekom, Fujitsu, HPE, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Linaro, Mirantis, OSIC, OVH, Rackspace, Red Hat, SUSE and VMware. Knowing this, the Openstack Interop Challenge looks toward cultivating success by leveraging the open source cloud technology as a common integration layer.

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Cloud IBM Applications Architecture 107

Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

PowerNSX is pretty cool—it’s a set of PowerShell cmdlets for administrators of VMware NSX running in vSphere environments. Tony Sangha has a nice article providing step-by-step instructions on setting up a site-to-site IPSec VPN between VMware NSX and a Cisco CSR 1000v. Are you a developer? Virtualization. Networking.

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Vmware Linux Intel Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Craig Matsumoto of SDN Central helps highlight a recent (and fairly significant) development in networking protocols—the submission of the Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation (Geneve) proposal to the IETF. This next round of hardware offloads seems targeted at network virtualization and related technologies.

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Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

As opposed to just encrypting data at the transport level (although Acra does that between components of its architecture) or just encrypting data at the storage level (using an encrypted file system or similar), Acra targets encrypting data at the table/row/column level within a database. Virtualization.

Open Source 60

Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

There’s lots of talk about applying test-driven development (TDD) principles in various automation contexts, but I like the fact that Ajay Chenampara provides some practical examples in his blog post on applying TDD in network automation using Ansible. Virtualization. Operating Systems/Applications. Check out this post by Alan Renouf.

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