Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This is session EDCS008, “Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI).” ” The speakers are Brian Johnson (@thehevy on Twitter) from Intel and Jim Pinkerton from Microsoft. Brian now takes over again, focusing on virtual switch performance and behavior.

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Virtualization Network Intel Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

This is session COMS003, titled “Enabling Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networking with the Intel Open Network Platform Server Reference Architecture Design.” The speakers are Frank Schapfel, Senior Product Line Manager with Intel, and Brian Skerry, Open Networks System Architect with Intel.

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Intel Architecture Virtualization Network 60

CTOvision

JANUARY 18, 2015

Implementing an Enterprise Data Hub — Technical perspectives for implementing enterprise data hub architectures, converged analytics for workflow optimization, and the essential role of open standards and frameworks to ensure continuous innovation. Implementing an Enterprise Data Hub. Register here. 8:00 – 8:15 AM.

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Program Management Fractional CTO CTO Programming 150

CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Implementing an Enterprise Data Hub — Technical perspectives for implementing enterprise data hub architectures, converged analytics for workflow optimization, and the essential role of open standards and frameworks to ensure continuous innovation. Implementing an Enterprise Data Hub. Register here. 8:00 – 8:15 AM.

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Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire Big Data 150

CTOvision

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Eddie Garcia is chief security architect at Cloudera , a leader in enterprise analytic data management. Eddie helps Cloudera enterprise customers reduce security and compliance risks associated with sensitive data sets stored and accessed in Apache Hadoop environments. This creates the most secure Hadoop distribution on the market.

Big Data 150

Big Data Security Data Authentication 150

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Now that day 2 of Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2012 is behind me, here’s a quick summary of the day. Most of today was taken up by meetings; some of these were meetings with various Intel folk to get my feedback on the event, others were meetings that I’m not at liberty to discuss. General Networking IDF2012 Intel'

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Intel Meeting Virtualization Big Data 106

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This is session CLDS006, “Exploring New Intel Xeon Processor E5 Based Platform Optimizations for 10 Gb Ethernet Network Infrastructures.” The speakers are Brian Johnson from Intel and Alex Rodriguez with Expedient. Integrated I/O in the E5 CPUs has also allowed Intel to introduce something like Intel Data Direct I/O (DDIO).

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Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 109

CTOvision

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

We look forward to sharing critical data across threat vectors that can be leveraged not only for delivering Total Threat Protection for our customers but also toward benefiting the community as a whole.". ? Stephen Pao, GM Security of Barracuda , which provides cloud-connected security and storage solutions that simplify IT.

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Symantec Intel Network Security 150

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

This is a liveblog of the Data Center Mega-Session from day 2 of Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014 in San Francisco. Bryant then introduces Karl Triebes, EVP and CTO of F5 Networks, who takes the stage to talk about FPGAs in F5 and how the joint Xeon/FPGA integrated solution from Intel plays into that role. new features, etc.,

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Data Center Intel Data Storage 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The speaker for the session is Vin Sharma, who helps lead open source software strategies at Intel. The focus of this session, as you can tell from the title, is on security and trust (presumably talking about how to leverage Intel TXT with OpenStack). So how does this open attestation service that Intel has created work?

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Cloud Intel Open Source Data Center 109

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

” The speakers are John Hengeveld from Intel and Micahel Franklin from UC Berkeley. AMP was launched in February 2011 and is funded by a consortium of organizations, including Intel (hence the connection to IDF). The new approach is object-based storage; Hengeveld uses Lustre as an example. General IDF2012 Intel'

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Big Data Meeting Data Intel 103

Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2014

Here’s a quote from the KB article : The distributed switch network health check, including the VLAN, MTU, and teaming policy check can not function properly when there are hardware virtual NICs on the server platform. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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Network Vmware Virtualization Intel 63

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

I did have an extremely productive conversation regarding Intel’s rack-scale architecture (RSA) efforts. I pushed the Intel folks on the show floor to really dive into what makes up RSA, and finally got some answers that I’ll share in a separate post. I think this move by Intel will be good for optics in the data center.

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Intel Data Center Hardware Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

In case you hadn’t noticed, I’m at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014 this week in San Francisco. Intel has a very large consumer presence: PCs, ultrabooks, tablets, phones, 2-in–1/convertibles, all-in–1 devices. Bare Metal, Containers, and Virtualization: The Growing Choices for Cloud Applications.

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Intel Hardware Linux Virtualization 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. Via Kevin Houston, you can get more details on the Intel E7 v2 and new blade servers based on the new CPU.

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Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Intel NUC or SuperMicro E200-8D? Project Harbor, an enterprise-class container registry, has really been seeing some uptake in the community. Also on the Red Hat front, they recently announced a container base image based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Matt Behrens shows how.

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Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

” The presenters are Mario Mueller, VP of IT Infrastructure at BMW Group and John Pereira, a marketing director at Intel. Intel serves as a technical alliance to the ODCA, but does not have a voting role in the ODCA. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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Cloud Intel Data Center Licensing 100

Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Assuming this is a fact, what does it mean when eighteen major OpenStack vendors come together to work through the challenges involved with achieving enterprise interoperability? Photo credit: Shutterstock As the industry matures, cloud computing will increasingly rely on interoperability in order to grow and deliver more value to industry.

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Cloud IBM Applications Architecture 107

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This is a liveblog of the day 1 keynote at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2012 at Moscone West in San Francisco, CA. This is my first time attending IDF, and I appreciate the invitation to attend from Intel. At 9:01, David (Dadi) Perlmutter takes the stage after a short video about Intel. All this leads to cloud and big data.

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Intel Hardware Data Center Video 101

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Inktank Ceph Enterprise. Ceph , the open source distributed software system, is now coming in a fully-supported version aimed at enterprise markets. Inktank has announced Inktank Ceph Enterprise, a bundle of software and support aimed to increase adoption of Ceph among enterprise customers. Linux Storage OpenStack OSS'

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Open Source Linux Vmware Enterprise 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

The networking “old guard” likes to talk about how x86 servers and virtualization create network bottlenecks due to performance concerns, but as Ivan points out in this post , it’s rapidly becoming—or has already become—a non-issue. (By Virtualization. Seriously.). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 106

Scott Lowe

MAY 29, 2020

Virtualization. For those new to Linux virtualization—or even if you’ve been around Linux virtualization for a while—this article explaining how Intel VT-x, QEMU, and KVM work together is full of good information. Tomas provides resources for running Fedora Silverblue on Libvirt/KVM. Career/Soft Skills.

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Linux Virtualization Security Backup 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 5, 2014

New platforms with Open vSwitch: Docker, Hyper-V, and Intel DPDK (this is also listed on the VMware sessions above, but as you can tell it’s really not a “VMware” talk). Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Docker Making Its Move.

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Vmware Virtualization Policies Linux 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Intel » Management. Intel Rolls Out Development Kit for KVM Tools. Intel Rolls Out Development Kit for KVM Tools. It’s a virtual solution rather than a hardware approach to managing and troubleshooting. The Intel Virtual Gateway can support up to 10,000 managed devices and 50 simultaneous sessions of remote access.

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Data Center Intel Tools Development 192

Storage IO Blog

APRIL 25, 2016

This posts looks at the Servers Direct (www.serversdirect.com) converged Content Solution platforms with Seagate Enterprise Hard Disk Drive (HDD’s). I was given the opportunity to do some hands-on testing running different application workloads with a 2U content solution platform along with various Seagate Enterprise 2.5”

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Enterprise Enterprise Applications Storage 40

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Intel Wants To Re-Architect Data Center Services. Intel Wants To Re-Architect Data Center Services. Diane Bryant, senior vice president and general manager of the Datacenter and Connected Systems Group at Intel, discusses the company’s vision for the data center at an event Monday. Photo: Intel).

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Data Center Intel Data Storage 221

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Apple on Intel. Apple and Virtualization. It’s a shame…but such is life. The only constant is change. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org. Why I Might Leave OS X.

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Operating Systems Apple Applications Linux 131

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This is a liveblog of the day 2 keynote at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 in San Francisco. Eul takes the stage; he’s the VP and General Manager of the Mobile and Communications Group at Intel. Molina takes us through a quasi-live demo about virtual shopping software that leverages 3-D avatars and your personal measurements.

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Intel Hardware Mobile Dell 60

Fountainhead

MARCH 16, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Infrastructure Orchestration and Unified Computing are both terms referring to a technology whereby server CPU, I/O, storage connectivity, and network, are all able to be defined and configured in software. Virtualization. (31). Fountainhead.

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Data Center Storage Dell Virtualization 113

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

The networking “old guard” likes to talk about how x86 servers and virtualization create network bottlenecks due to performance concerns, but as Ivan points out in this post , it’s rapidly becoming—or has already become—a non-issue. (By Virtualization. Seriously.). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 60

Virtualized Greek

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

VMware is a large corporation but, $1 billion is a lot of money to any company and a big bet on network virtualization. VMware has looked to both storage and networking as areas of growth. Specifically, for the network VMware is not looking to add network virtualization as just another feature of their server virtualization platform.

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Vmware Virtualization Hardware Network 91

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Is Intel having second thoughts about software-defined infrastructure? That’s the core question in this blog post , which explores the future of Intel in a software-defined world and the increasing interest in non-x86 platforms like ARM. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Running Hyper-V with Linux VMs?

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Linux Network Vmware Disaster Recovery 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

This is a liveblog of the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) Day 1 keynote. The keynote starts promptly at 9AM with Ulmont Smith (I didn’t catch his title at Intel). Ulmont then introduces the new Intel CEO, Brian Krzanich, and the new Intel President, Renée James, who will be the keynote speakers in the day 1 keynote.

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Intel Internet Architecture Healthcare 63

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

This is a liveblog of the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) Day 1 keynote. The keynote starts promptly at 9AM with Ulmont Smith (I didn’t catch his title at Intel). Ulmont then introduces the new Intel CEO, Brian Krzanich, and the new Intel President, Renée James, who will be the keynote speakers in the day 1 keynote.

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Intel Internet Architecture Healthcare 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Intel announced the E5 2600 v2 series of CPUs back at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 (you can follow my IDF 2013 coverage by looking at posts with the IDF2013 tag ). Although I’m just now catching Kevin’s posts, they were published almost immediately after the Intel announcements—thanks for the promptness, Kevin!).

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Vmware Network Virtualization Storage 60

Fountainhead

MARCH 11, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. A "unified fabric" is part of what we term " infrastructure orchestration " and "unified computing" - it is the abstraction of compute, I/O, storage and network infrastructure into a dynamically-configurable "fabric". Virtualization. (31). Mobility.

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Energy Data Center Dell Virtualization 100

Fountainhead

MARCH 3, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Virtualization does not equal agility. Virtualization does not equal simplification In many ways, virtualization simplifies sofware. But the reality is that not everything gets virtualized. Not everything is, or will, be virtual.

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Data Center Data Virtualization Dell 100