Kitaboo

JANUARY 31, 2024

8 Key Benefits of Cloud-Based K12 Classrooms Cost Effectiveness Environment Sustainability Scalability and Flexibility Security and Privacy Accessibility and Facilitation of Distance Learning Data Storage and Backup Streamlined Administrative Processes Professional Development Opportunities for Educators III.

Cloud 78

Cloud Education eBook Backup 78

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. Via Alex Mitelman’s Systems Design Weekly 015 , I was pointed to this AWS article on multi-site active-active architectures. Operating Systems/Applications.

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

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. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This is not a simple task since it could potentially involve costly updates in software/hardware, significant changes in the codes, dataflow, system calls and most importantly, a downtime of end user programs. Per PCI DSS, all of these in-between systems must be a part of the merchant’s scope of compliance and validation.

Airlines 52

Airlines Travel Security Firewall 52

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 2, 2019

I’ve got a little bit of something for most everyone, except for the storage nerds (I’m leaving that to my friend J Metz this time around). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s hoping you find something useful! Networking. AnandTech has a nice article on the future PCIe 6.0 Virtualization.

Storage 60

Storage Applications Programming Firewall 60

Galido

JUNE 28, 2018

PRTG monitors all types of systems, devices and applications in your IT infrastructure: SNMP: Ready to use and with customization options. SSH: For Linux / Unix and MacOS systems. Installed will be a proprietary database, web server, report engine, notification system, and other features required for the system to function.

Network 60

Network LAN VOIP Licensing 60

Dataconomy

MARCH 28, 2023

This data is a goldmine of insights that can be harnessed to optimize various systems and processes. It typically includes devices, communication networks, data storage, and analytics tools that work together to create an intelligent system. Component Description Sensors IoT sensors collect data from the physical environment.

Data 28

Data Storage Security Network 28

Dataconomy

MARCH 28, 2023

This data is a goldmine of insights that can be harnessed to optimize various systems and processes. It typically includes devices, communication networks, data storage, and analytics tools that work together to create an intelligent system. Component Description Sensors IoT sensors collect data from the physical environment.

Data 28

Data Storage Security Network 28

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. Via Alex Mitelman’s Systems Design Weekly 015 , I was pointed to this AWS article on multi-site active-active architectures. Operating Systems/Applications.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Servers/Hardware. specifically, the new container network firewall functionality. When I was using Fedora, I needed some useful information on firewall-cmd , and found this article to be helpful. Operating Systems/Applications. If you’re not familiar with OVN, this is a good post with which to start. Virtualization.

Firewall 60

Firewall Virtualization Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Servers/Hardware. While all the attention is “up the stack,” there are still some occasions when you need to worry about the details in the hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. I’m not sure if this falls into storage or virtualization, but we’ll place it here in the Storage section.

Vmware 69

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Servers/Hardware. 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. Operating Systems/Applications. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. This post has a list of 5 Docker utilities you may find helpful.

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Servers/Hardware. 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. Operating Systems/Applications. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. This post has a list of 5 Docker utilities you may find helpful.

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This includes monitoring network traffic, logs, and endpoints for suspicious activity, as well as implementing intrusion detection and prevention systems. Their team of experts works quickly to contain the threat, minimize damage, and restore systems to a secure state. What is SOC 2?

Security 74

Security Information Security Data System 74

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

” The speaker is Edwin Verplanke, a System Architect with Intel. 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. For #2, we’ll examine the Intel DPDK.

Virtualization 113

Virtualization Intel Cloud Data 113

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Greg Ferro examines a potential SDN use case (an OpenFlow use case) in the form of enterprise firewall migrations. Servers/Hardware. As the website describes it, it’s designed to “reverse engineer” servers so that you can migrate them into a configuration management system like Chef or Puppet. Virtualization.

Storage 111

Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 111

Galido

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

How much storage for backups do they provide? Ensure that your host specializes in custom firewalls for your CMS if you are using one, and updates web server scripts and systems regularly. This will prevent the conflict that often occurs on a shared system where other users are blacklisted for any reason.

Backup 103

Backup Resources Security Virtualization 103

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Servers/Hardware. 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. Operating Systems/Applications. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. RegEx tester. Enough said.

Windows 60

Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

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). Servers/Hardware. Here are some general guidelines for configuring syslog forwarding on a Cisco ASA firewall.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Firewall Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Tony Sangha took PowerNSX (a set of PowerShell cmdlets for interacting with NSX) and created a tool to help document the NSX Distributed Firewall configuration. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Alan Renouf shows you how to retrieve NVMe storage device details using PowerCLI. What’s that? See here.).

Linux 60

Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

With server virtualization, you can easily create, move, and delete virtual servers as needed, without the need for expensive hardware upgrades or complex reconfigurations. One of the key benefits of server virtualization is that it allows for more efficient use of hardware resources.

Virtualization 78

Virtualization Storage Hardware Disaster Recovery 78

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

As a provider, Expedient has to balance five core resources: compute, storage (capacity), storage (performance), network I/O, and memory. VM-to-VM (on the same host) via a hardware-based virtual switch in an SR-IOV network interface card (NIC). In this case, the switching is done in hardware in the SR-IOV NIC.

Intel 109

Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 109

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Patrick Ogenstad outlines what’s involved with managing Cisco IOS upgrades with Ansible.

Linux 60

Linux Network Hardware Vmware 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. Operating Systems/Applications. It’s a good post, well worth reading (in my opinion). Nothing this time around.

Vmware 60

Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Vivek Gite over at nixCraft explains how to use ufw (Uncomplicated Firewall) on Ubuntu to limit SSH connections. Operating Systems/Applications. The new filesystem is called LCFS, or Layer Cloning File System, and you can get more details on LCFS via its GitHub repository. Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Russell Pope at Kovarus recently wrote about using security groups to manage the VMware NSX distributed firewall. Ravello Systems (now part of Oracle Cloud following their acquisition by Oracle) has a REST API that allows you to programmatically interact with their service. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

Anthony Burke (disclaimer: Anthony works for VMware in the NSBU) has a post on how to use Python to automate the bulk creation of firewall rules for use with the VMware NSX distributed firewall. You may have heard about the “6-pack”, Facebook’s new open modular hardware switch introduced recently ( here’s a post on it ).

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

A discussion of “statefulness” brought me again to Ivan’s post on the spectrum of firewall statefulness. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Security. Very good stuff!

Vmware 60

Vmware Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 60

SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Hundreds of millions of websites on the internet today rely on the content management system WordPress. WordPress sites can be structured in an almost infinite number of ways, integrating with numerous other open-source plugins and third-party systems.

How To 90

How To Backup Firewall Open Source 90

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Fishbowl was using Latisys for colocation of its internal systems and intranet, while hosting customer-facing services with another managed hosting provider. Its customer systems were growing too fast for its previous provider. Storage and bandwidth is growing accordingly.” We had the same conversation about firewalls.

Cloud 189

Cloud Data Data Center Firewall 189

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Using the “same old” low-skill tactics, common tools, and a bit of social engineering, hackers can get around complex security policies such as multi-factor authentication (MFA) and identity and access management (IAM) systems. Let’s revisit the most prevalent security threats and see how they’re evolving in 2023.

Network 140

Network Authentication Firewall Security 140

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 31, 2023

APIs enable organizations to bring innovative applications and functionality to customers at an increasingly fast pace and also serve as applications for provisioning cloud platforms, hardware, and software, acting as service gateways to enable indirect and direct cloud services. Web Application Firewalls (WAF): Protect APIs from attacks.

Security 92

Security Authentication Applications Firewall 92

Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

In this post , Jakub Sitnicki digs way deep into the Linux kernel to uncover the answer to the question, “Why are there no entries in the conntrack table for SYN packets dropped by the firewall?” Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. ” Get ready to get nerdy! A browser-based side-channel attack ?

Vmware 60

Vmware Firewall Storage Comparison 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2013

I try to keep the information linked to data center technologies like networking, storage, virtualization, and the like, but occasionally other items slip through. Ranga Maddipudi ( @vCloudNetSec on Twitter) has put together two blog posts on vCloud Networking and Security’s App Firewall ( part 1 and part 2 ). Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 109

Vmware Storage Virtualization HP 109

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

Public cloud providers such as AWS, Google, and Microsoft Azure publish shared responsibility models that push security of the data, platform, applications, operating system, network and firewall configuration, and server-side encryption, to the customer. Have you set up ransomware protection? 2 – Governance & Compliance.

Cloud 138

Cloud Open Source Applications Storage 138

ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

And other hardware. On a computer system or network. And anyway, so you have these kind of short-lived systems which live in the cloud. And a lot of my customers use their systems every last 15 minutes. Something suspicious happened in my container in this kind of micro system. There are the servers you control.

Cloud 40

Cloud Government Data Security 40

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Ivan Pepelnjak shares some links and thoughts on configuring the NSX-T firewall with a CI/CD pipeline built on GitHub Actions and Terraform Cloud. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Adam Kotwasinski walks readers through deploying Envoy and Kafka to collect broker-level metrics. Thank you, Ben!

Open Source 107

Open Source Cloud Network Storage 107