Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Servers/Hardware. William Lam takes a look at some potentially interesting homelab hardware. Rory McCune writes about a CVE in the Linux kernel that could allow for container escape in Kubernetes. Teri Radichel draws some connections between recent events in the Ukraine and cybersecurity. Virtualization.

Storage 79

Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 28, 2014

Or should I say, I haven’t seen a great operating model for seamlessly managing both Windows and Linux. Normally, the touch points between managing the two environments are at a very high level such as hardware and application management. Hypervisors should be treated the same as Linux and Windows management.

Vmware 68

Vmware Linux Comparison Windows 68

Scott Lowe

JULY 18, 2014

This was an important step in educating myself on Linux, KVM, libvirt, and Open vSwitch (OVS), all of which are critical core components in most installations of OpenStack. The only consistency appeared to be with Ubuntu, as virtually (no pun intended) all my KVM guests were running Ubuntu. Linux Virtualization KVM'

Linux 60

Linux Virtualization Dell Education 60

Galido

JUNE 28, 2018

Monitoring of virtual servers. Extensive event logging. SSH: For Linux / Unix and MacOS systems. As devices are discovered, probes will also detect the services and hardware it can monitor. Reducing the costs by buying only the hardware you need. Application monitoring. Web monitoring. Environmental monitoring.

Network 60

Network LAN VOIP Licensing 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. Virtualization. Dave Taylor provides s ome tips for configuring VMware Fusion for Linux usage. Benjamin Dale suggests that you don’t know JunOS.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Case Study 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

If you like geeking out over the hardware side of networking, you may find this Ars Technica article on the physical infrastructure of the global Internet to be an interesting read. (I Servers/Hardware. This is a highly technical article on scheduling in the Linux kernel , but it’s well worth reading. Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Network Hardware Vmware 60

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. Ivan Pepelnjak asks the question, “Is OpenFlow the best tool for overlay virtual networks?”

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Virtualization Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

I highly recommend you read the entire post, but in short the five skills Matt recommends are software skills (which includes configuration management and software development tools like Git ), Linux, deep protocol knowledge, hypervisor and container networking, and IPv6. Servers/Hardware. What does this mean?

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2015

Welcome to Technology Short Take #51, another collection of posts and links about key data center technologies like networking, virtualization, cloud management, and applications/operating systems. I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned Open Virtual Network (OVN) here before, as I’m pretty jazzed about the work going on with this project.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Virtualization IPv6 60

The Verge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The great thing about my job is that I get to work across so many areas — I’ve covered film festivals, virtual reality hardware, net neutrality and copyright, speech moderation, obsolete tech, and too many random gadgets to count. Turns out Chrome OS is almost shockingly convenient, but I still want actual control over my hardware.

Linux 60

Linux Film Windows Wireless 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 1, 2019

In any event, here you are—I hope you find something useful for you! VyOS is an open source Linux-based network operating system.). Servers/Hardware. Virtualization. Networking. Daniel Dib has a great article on how network engineers need to evolve. The network isn’t going away, it’s just changing.

Operating Systems 60

Operating Systems Authentication Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

Servers/Hardware. In the event you’re interested in an idea of how much latency the use of in-kernel hypervisor firewalling (such as that offered by VMware NSX) adds, have a look at this article by Sean Howard. Virtualization. It’s a good post, well worth reading (in my opinion). Nothing this time around. Maybe next time?

Vmware 60

Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 17, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Scott McCarty explains sVirt and how it’s used to isolate Linux containers. And in the event you’re not really familiar with the various autoscaling aspects of Kubernetes (of which cluster autoscaling is just one), this article by Mohamed Ahmed provides a 101-level overview. Virtualization.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Storage Network Linux 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

In this post, I’ve collected a few links on various data center technologies, news, events, and trends. Open Virtual Network (OVN) is really ramping up and getting lots of attention, which I personally think is absolutely well-deserved. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization. Welcome to Technology Short Take #56! Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Load Balancer Linux 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

This post is a bit older, but still useful in the event if you’re interested in learning more about OpenFlow and OpenFlow controllers. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. I hope you find something useful.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Virtualization Storage 60

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. ZDNet ’s breaking news, analysis, and research keep business technology professionals in touch with the latest IT trends, issues and events.

Resources 113

Resources Mobile Data Center Security 113

Galido

MAY 1, 2019

The deeper we dive into modern technology terms, the more it seems we try to blend physical and virtual worlds together. 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. 9 to 5 Mac.

Resources 107

Resources Mobile Data Center Security 107

Galido

MARCH 22, 2019

The deeper we dive into modern technology terms, the more it seems we try to blend physical and virtual worlds together. 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. 9 to 5 Mac.

Resources 107

Resources Mobile Data Center Security 107

Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The deeper we dive into modern technology terms, the more it seems we try to blend physical and virtual worlds together. 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. 9 to 5 Mac.

Mobile 77

Mobile Data Center Security Virtualization 77

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. ZDNet ’s breaking news, analysis, and research keep business technology professionals in touch with the latest IT trends, issues and events.

Resources 66

Resources Mobile Data Center Security 66

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

This article by Russell Bryant is a great overview and update of the work going on with Open Virtual Network (OVN). This is kind of cool, and (in my humble opinion) a sign of changing times: Juniper has Vagrant boxes as well as a Vagrant plugin for working with vSRX (virtual firewall) VMs (via this article from Matt Oswalt).

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Firewall Network 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Still, there’s a decent collection of networking, cloud computing, and virtualization articles as well as a smattering of other topics for you to peruse. ” Ivan Pepelnjak attempts to answer the question, “How much do I need to know about Linux networking?” Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Disaster Recovery Linux 60

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The more famous of these is Kali Linux, from Offensive Security. So get used to installing virtual machines, become familiar with using virtualization clients like Oracle VirtualBox or VMware and run ISOs for like wide variety of different operating systems, and just set that up and use that the target for some of the tests.

Network 52

Network Applications Security Operating Systems 52

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The more famous of these is Kali Linux, from Offensive Security. So get used to installing virtual machines, become familiar with using virtualization clients like Oracle VirtualBox or VMware and run ISOs for like wide variety of different operating systems, and just set that up and use that the target for some of the tests.

Network 52

Network Applications Security Operating Systems 52

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Fusion-io is contributing its NVMKV (nonvolatile memory key-value) interface to flash and is also posting the first flash-aware Linux kernel virtual memory Demand Paging Extension to GitHub for community testing. Events Calendar. Virtualization. Fusion-io Accelerates Flash Apps With Open Source Contributions. Convergence.

Open Source 177

Open Source Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 177

Scott Lowe

APRIL 21, 2016

Servers/Hardware. This Yelp Engineering blog post talks about one of these unintended side effects (processes running as PID 1 are treated differently by the Linux kernel). Virtualization. This one isn’t quite virtualization, but isn’t quite hardware either, so we’ll throw it in here. Nothing this time around.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Network 60

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

And DARPA made the event interesting. But also like vector graphics, like video games, there's, you know that so we were doing Capture the Flag events and building hackable video games. These other like virtual machines, have separate analysis that you would do for them and there's actually dedicated tools for each of those, right?

Engineering 40

Engineering Tools Software Software 40

Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

Ben Cherian, Chief Strategy Officer for Midokura, helps make a case for network virtualization. Note: Midokura makes a network virtualization solution.) If you’re wondering about network virtualization and why there is a focus on it, this post might help shed some light. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

Virtualization 102

Virtualization Storage Vmware Network 102

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Even Facebook, which has open sourced much of its designs for its data center hardware but remains vague about its server count, saying only that it operates “hundreds of thousands” of machines. If they ran Linux, maybe they wouldn’t have to run so many servers. Events Calendar. Virtualization.

Data Center 276

Data Center Microsoft Data Disaster Recovery 276

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Privately held CSL is a leading provider of virtualization management technology for IBM’s zEnterprise system. CSL’s CSL-WAVE software enables companies to monitor and manage thei z/VM and Linux on System z environments using a powerful and easy-to-use interface. Events Calendar. Virtualization. Consolidation.

Data Center 190

Data Center IBM System Cloud 190

Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

He makes comparisons among server virtualization, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, and SDN, and feels that in order for SDN to really hit this market it needs to be “not a user-facing feature, but rather a means to an end” (his words). Servers/Hardware. Virtualization. vCenter Log Insight 2.0

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Virtualization 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

I know that the company Linux Hosts Ltd. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Events Calendar. Virtualization. Host Europe Acquired for $667 Million. Host Europe Acquired for $667 Million. Barbara Johnson.

Data Center 188

Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 188

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

I’m back home in Denver after spending a few days in San Francisco at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013, so I thought I’d take a few minutes to sit down and share a summary of the event and my thoughts. Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI): [link]. General Hardware IDF2013 Networking'

Intel 60

Intel Network Architecture Virtualization 60

ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

So there’s a need, a definite need, for information security professionals to have access to industrial control systems -- not virtual, but actual hands on systems -- so they can learn. Vamosi: And a lot of these systems do not use the familiar Linux Mac Windows operating systems. And how might we defend ourselves?

System 52

System Industry Conference Network 52

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

tech preview of virtual networks for Docker. Tom’s key point is that disaggregating software from hardware—which is kind of a given if you’re buying whitebox networking gear—gives you the (potential) flexibility to repurpose network gear based on the software running on it. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60

ForAllSecure

AUGUST 2, 2022

Vamosi: DEF CON turns 30 This year what began simply as a going away party for a coworker has since evolved over the decades into an annual summer tradition for InfoSec leaders in Las Vegas, which now includes other events such as besides Las Vegas, Diana is known as hackers summer camp. is or what it controls. I can do those basic things.

Conference 40

Conference System Security Virtualization 40

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

IBM will incorporate Cloud Foundry into its open cloud architecture, and put its full support behind Cloud Foundry as an open and collaborative platform for cloud application development, as it has done historically for key technologies such as Linux and OpenStack.”. “We Events Calendar. Virtualization. Featured Cloud Articles.

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