Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

There are different reasons for benchmarking, such as, you might be asked or want to know how many IOPs per disk, Solid State Device (SSD), device or storage system such as for a 15K RPM (revolutions per minute) 146GB SAS Hard Disk Drive (HDD).

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Storage Vmware Devops Backup 40

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Networking. This article provides a few practical examples of how using VPC Endpoints to reduce network traffic moving through NAT Gateways can help save money. Jim Counts’ beginner’s guide to Pulumi CI/CD pipelines provides an overview of Pulumi and a guide on using it with Azure DevOps. Virtualization.

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Devops Virtualization Engineering Storage 87

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Servers were replaced with cloud servers (like EC2) and network-attached storage with cloud storage (like S3). Beware of the tool tax Nearly half of DevOps use between two and five tools, and 41% use between six and 10 tools. The first wave of cloud provided flexibility and lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

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Budget Tools Cloud Storage 98

Linux Academy

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

DevOps Essentials. Students will learn by doing through installing and configuring containers and thoughtfully selecting a persistent storage strategy. This course also covers container networking including inter-container communication, managing container networks, and exposing container ports on the host. AWS Concepts.

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Course Linux Devops Big Data 104

Linux Academy

MAY 28, 2019

Courses Free in May: Network Routing Protocol Fundamentals – Network routing is the process of enabling computers to transfer data over networks, including the internet. This is an introductory course that is designed to give you a solid foundation in the basics of network routing. Build images using a Dockerfile.

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Linux Course Big Data Devops 104

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 22, 2023

Every business unit has a stake in the IT services, apps, networks, hardware, and software needed to meet business goals and objectives, and many of them are hiring their own technologists. But you’ll also find demand for quality assurance, DevOps, technical support, and software sales engineers.

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Industry Project Management Quality Assurance Engineering 122

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Networking. NAPALM (Network Automation and Programmability Layer with Multivendor support) looks like a really cool tool. Gabriele (the author of that post) also has a nice article on some resources to get you started with network automation. Micro-segmentation is one of those terms (like SDN, cloud, DevOps, etc.)

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Vmware Devops Storage Linux 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! Networking William Morgan’s 2022 service mesh recap captures some of the significant events in service mesh in 2022, although through a Linkerd-colored lens.

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Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

Linux Academy

JANUARY 29, 2019

Used across a variety of programs and languages for a vast array of reasons, YAML is a popular choice for data storage, configuration files, configurations management, and more. Courses Free in February: Git Quick Start – In the increasingly DevOps culture, source control has become a foundational skill for any IT Professional.

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Linux Devops Big Data Course 60

Linux Academy

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Hadoop Quick Start — Hadoop has become a staple technology in the big data industry by enabling the storage and analysis of datasets so big that it would be otherwise impossible with traditional data systems. Students will get hands-on training by installing and configuring containers and thoughtfully selecting a persistent storage strategy.

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Linux Big Data Course Devops 80

Linux Academy

APRIL 30, 2019

We will discuss how to use your professional network of contacts, the importance of cover letters, how to tailor your resume, and what key topics to highlight in pursuit of that position. Students will get hands-on experience installing and configuring containers and thoughtfully selecting a persistent storage strategy.

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Linux Course Big Data Devops 113

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

By Zachary Malone, SE Academy Manager at Palo Alto Networks The term “shift left” is a reference to the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) that describes the phases of the process developers follow to create an application. About Zachary Malone: Zachary is the SE Academy Manager at Palo Alto Networks. This creates risks.

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Security SDLC Applications Development 52

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2022

Gartner reports, “86% of organizations identified at least one of the following areas as a weak link in their AI infrastructure stack: GPU processing, CPU processing, data storage, networking, resource sharing, or integrated development environments.”. And PowerScale F600 or H600 provides highly scalable storage. IDC agrees.

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Dell Artificial Intelligence Intel Enterprise 134

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Networking. NAPALM (Network Automation and Programmability Layer with Multivendor support) looks like a really cool tool. Gabriele (the author of that post) also has a nice article on some resources to get you started with network automation. Micro-segmentation is one of those terms (like SDN, cloud, DevOps, etc.)

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Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

Networking. I also recently discovered Anaïs Urlichs’ weekly-but-not-so-weekly Seven-Day DevOps newsletter , which—like the rest of her site—has some great information. I still have quite the backlog of links to read!) Hopefully something I share here will prove useful to someone. Scary stuff! Virtualization.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 74

Linux Academy

JUNE 25, 2019

DevOps Monitoring Deep Dive. Students will learn by doing through installing and configuring containers and thoughtfully selecting a persistent storage strategy. This course also covers container networking including inter-container communication, managing container networks, and exposing container ports on the host.

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Course Linux Cloud Devops 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

Networking. 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. See this SDx Central article or this Network World article for more details.). I hope something I’ve included here will be helpful—enjoy!

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Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60

Linux Academy

JANUARY 26, 2019

When he saw the costs of the infrastructure, networking, and other cloud resources he asked, “Why would we ever do anything in our own data center again?”. Compute- and storage-intensive applications find their way to the cloud because of the need to scale so large that on-premises data centers are simply no longer feasible.

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Cloud Data Center Artificial Intelligence Applications 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Networking. Ahmet Alp Balkan talks about how the Knative Serving component addresses some key networking challenges within Kubernetes. Geert Baeke walks readers through deploying AKS with Nginx, External DNS, the Helm Operator, and Flux (all using an Azure DevOps pipeline, if I read the article correctly). Servers/Hardware.

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Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Networking. Skydive is (in the project’s own words) an “open source real-time network topology and protocols analyzer.” Alan Renouf shows you how to retrieve NVMe storage device details using PowerCLI. I really enjoyed this article by Evgeny Zislis on DevOps transformation using Theory of Constraints. Virtualization.

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Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Networking. Via Kirk Byers (who is himself a fantastic resource), I read a couple of articles on network automation that I think readers may find helpful. First up is a treatise from Mircea Ulinic on whether network automation is needed. I first ran into Forward Networks a few years ago at Fall ONUG in New York.

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Network Resources Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Networking. —but I wonder how much cooperation Big Switch will get from the major networking vendors with regards to OpenFlow interoperability now that Big Switch is competing even more directly with them via Switch Light. Just getting started in the networking field? I hope that you find something useful! Virtualization.

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Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 111

Linux Academy

MAY 7, 2019

You must be familiar with cloud and network fundamentals. Develop solutions that use storage tables. Develop solutions that use Cosmos DB storage. Develop solutions that use blob storage. Network Security in Azure. Microsoft Certified Azure Developer – Exam AZ-203 Prep. Create Azure App Service mobile apps.

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Training Course Linux Microsoft 83

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

Bart’s view is that a full-stack engineer knows about operations, the hardware stack (compute, storage, network), the software (network, operating system [OS], management, logging), and most importantly knows how to “code” an immutable infrastructure. GitHub is a great way to share.

Devops 60

Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

Bart’s view is that a full-stack engineer knows about operations, the hardware stack (compute, storage, network), the software (network, operating system [OS], management, logging), and most importantly knows how to “code” an immutable infrastructure. GitHub is a great way to share.

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Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Networking. Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful.

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Networking. Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful.

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Linux Academy

MAY 7, 2019

You must be familiar with cloud and network fundamentals. Develop solutions that use storage tables. Develop solutions that use Cosmos DB storage. Develop solutions that use blob storage. Network Security in Azure. Microsoft Certified Azure Developer – Exam AZ-203 Prep. Create Azure App Service mobile apps.

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Training Linux Course Microsoft 80

Linux Academy

APRIL 29, 2019

We will discuss how to use your professional network of contacts, the importance of cover letters, how to tailor your resume, and what key topics to highlight in pursuit of that position. Students will get hands-on experience installing and configuring containers and thoughtfully selecting a persistent storage strategy.

Linux 60

Linux Course Big Data Devops 60

Linux Academy

MARCH 28, 2019

On the heals of the still wet DevOps movement we are introduced to the new era of DevOps that reaches beyond pipeline automation and into the realm of pipeline evolution. High speed low latency networks now allow us to add these nodes anywhere in a cloud infrastructure and configure them under existing load balancers.

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Open Source Devops Linux Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Networking. I mean, if they aren’t willing to embrace the abstraction and automation that a cloud management platform brings, will abstraction and automation at the networking layer provide any significant benefit? Don’t think this “software-defined networking” thing is going to take off? x86 marches on!

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Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Networking. At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. Here’s another topic that came up at the recent DevOps Networking Forum: Spotify’s SDN Internet Router (SIR). Have fun reading! VMware recently GA’d version 6.2 Career/Soft Skills.

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 3, 2023

With nearly 140 employees, the high-performance data center provides government agencies with mission-critical compute, storage, and networking solutions needed to provide important services to citizens. ODC-Noord’s agile teams are comprised of skilled personnel.

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Data Center Government Vmware Data 52

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Networking. Want to understand kube-proxy , a key part of Kubernetes networking, a bit better? Ajeet Singh Raina shares a list of the top 200 Kubernetes tools for DevOps engineers. I hope you’re able to find something useful here! Start here. Levent Ogut takes a deep dive into Kubernetes init containers. Virtualization.

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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

Networking. 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. See this SDx Central article or this Network World article for more details.). I hope something I’ve included here will be helpful—enjoy!

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 60

Linux Academy

APRIL 9, 2019

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional Level. There are also specialty AWS certifications: AWS Certified Advanced Networking. AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional. An understanding of network technologies as they relate to AWS. Understanding of network technologies as they relate to AWS.

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Devops Architecture Web Services Applications 60

Cloud Musings

MAY 28, 2018

In later chapters, this book dives into how to leverage DevOps, Cloud-Native, and Serverless architectures in your Cloud environment. Jackson is a globally recognized cloud computing expert, technology thought leader, and CEO/founder of GovCloud Network, LLC. About the authors: Kevin L.

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Disaster Recovery Cloud CTO Hire Architecture 79