Dataconomy

AUGUST 8, 2023

Blocks contain groups of transactions, and these blocks are added to the blockchain in chronological order. Consensus mechanisms, such as Proof of Work (PoW) or Proof of Stake (PoS), verify and validate transactions, ensuring the network’s integrity. Users must understand how to secure their wallets properly.

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Financial Storage Security Hardware 68

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

These priorities are concretely influencing IT buying decisions: According to a global survey by Enterprise Strategy Group, 98% of IT decision-makers report that IT suppliers’ environmental, social, and governance (ESG) programs influence their IT purchasing decisions, and 85% have eliminated a potential technology supplier due to ESG concerns. [1]

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Dell Data Center Energy Disaster Recovery 122

Virtualized Greek

MARCH 25, 2014

The CPU, Storage and in some cases network are collapsing into tightly integrated platforms. Examples include Nutanix on the hardware side and VMware VSAN or EMC ScaleIO on the software side. These solutions compete with traditional compute and storage architectures in both capacity and performance.

Storage 80

Storage Hardware Architecture Enterprise 80

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 25, 2022

This needs to be a multidimensional review: Computational requirements Storage requirements (local, remote, and backup) Voice communication requirements Video communication requirements Security requirements Special access requirements (e.g. Best Practice 3: Helping employees choose the right hardware can go a long way.

Internet 90

Internet Backup Guidelines Hardware 90

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

Tech and tech-adjacent expenditures, including categories like Customer Relationship Management (CRM), cloud and data services, billing, software, network storage, business process outsourcing, telecommunications services, and data center technology, represent significant expenses.

Budget 59

Budget Strategy Change Management Case Study 59

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Networking. Koyeb describes , at a high level, the global networking stack for their serverless platform. Servers/Hardware. William Lam takes a look at some potentially interesting homelab hardware. Read this NCC Group article about some ways they’ve compromised CI/CD pipelines. Seriously.). Yes, please.

Storage 79

Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

The Verge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

“The metaverse may be the next major platform in computing after the world wide web and mobile,” an editorial begins from Raja Koduri , a senior vice president and head of Intel’s Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics Group. The problem, though, is that even Intel doesn’t think that the hardware alone is going to get us to 1,000x.

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Intel Hardware Virtualization Course 90

SecureWorld News

JANUARY 13, 2022

That is, our primary security controls of firewalls, intrusion prevention, network segmentation, and wired network security are no longer the primary method to manage technology in a COE. Organizations must adapt their security controls to home networks and even public WiFi. So how does this affect the COE?

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Authentication Resources Security Cloud 74

Sean Daniel

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Announcing Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. This morning, building on the Windows Small Business Server 2011 Announcement , we are announcing a new edition targeted at Small Business called Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. What is this Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials? SeanDaniel.com [tech].

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Storage Windows Small Business Backup 73

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 22, 2023

I’ve played a key role in Lenovo’s service-led transformation, as we transition from being a hardware business to one that provides end-to-end technology solutions to support business growth. It is no longer enough to manufacture and ship a piece of hardware. I’ve not done it alone, however.

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Trends Hardware CTO Budget 97

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Networking. Brian Boucheron provides a great article on how to inspect and debug Kubernetes network primitives. Servers/Hardware. The big news in the hardware space recently was the article regarding the purported Chinese hardware supply chain attack. This has generated a lot of discussion. Probably not.

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Hardware Open Source Vmware Linux 60

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Companies taking a multicloud approach can experience ballooning OpEx numbers, says Barrett Schrader, managing director of the technology consulting group at Protiviti: “Organizations can take advantage of volume discounts with reduced complexity.

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Fractional CTO CTO Hire Budget Licensing 137

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Networking. Ivan Pepelnjak has a great article that tries to get to the kernel of truth in the middle of the intent-based networking hype. The company is VirTool Networks (catchy, eh?), Servers/Hardware. Joep Piscaer discusses his use of ProtonVPN as an always-on VPN for his home network.

Storage 60

Storage Vmware Load Balancer Network 60

Dataconomy

APRIL 26, 2023

The realm of edge computing has witnessed a substantial surge in recent years, propelled by the proliferation of remote work, the Internet of Things (IoT), and augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR) technologies, which have necessitated connectivity at the network’s periphery and novel applications.

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WAN Wireless Network Cloud 62

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 18, 2017

Networking. Ivan Pepelnjak (one of my absolutely favorite folks in the IT industry) has a great post on using regex filters in Ansible to parse text printouts from network devices. This is a super-practical post that anyone working with network automation can put to use right away. Servers/Hardware. As of Vagrant 1.9.1,

Linux 60

Linux Network Hardware Dell 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Diane Bryant, SVP and GM of the Data Center Group takes the stage promptly at 9:30am to kick off the data center mega-session. 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.

Data Center 60

Data Center Intel Data Storage 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Networking. Matt Oswalt tackles the idea of “intent-driven” or “intent-based” networking—all the rage right now—and outlines how something like this must interact with domains outside of networking in order to be effective. Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time around (sorry!).

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Networking. This is a slightly older post providing an overview of container networking , but still quite relevant. Russell Bryant has a post on Open Virtual Network (OVN) , a project within the Open vSwitch (OVS) community. Servers/Hardware. specifically, the new container network firewall functionality.

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Firewall Virtualization Network Storage 60

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 16, 2023

Ethics and Bias: Civil society groups and consumer advocates warn that AI could perpetuate societal issues such as systemic bias and inequality or promote hate speech, mis/disinformation, and more. Data Storage: Computer scientists and programmers assert that blockchain offers certain advantages for data storage compared to alternatives.

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Artificial Intelligence Virtualization Research Industry 94

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). Here’s some information on Nuage Networks’ experimental Docker Network plugin.

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 25, 2013

There is still a ton to be done in virtualizing networks and storage. There’s no question that both storage virtualization and network virtualization are cool technologies. The argument for storage and network virtualization doesn’t revolve around direct cost savings from consolidation.

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Vmware CTO Virtualization VOIP 64

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Networking. Amanpreet Singh has a two-part series on Kubernetes networking ( part 1 , part 2 ). sFlow is a networking technology that I find quite interesting, but I never seem to have the time to really dig into it. Servers/Hardware. Part 1 covers the CPUs themselves; part 2 discusses the memory subsystem.

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Vmware Linux Network Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2013

Depending on network connectivity, this might not get published until after the keynote is finished. This leads to a talk about VMware’s 10 years of innovation, with products and features like ESX, vMotion, DRS, Storage vMotion, and more. ” This leads Pat into a discussion of VMware’s storage-focused features.

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Vmware Virtualization Data Center Storage 63

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

There were no major data center-centric announcements yesterday (day 1), but I suspect there will be some today (day 2) in a mega-session with Diane Bryant (SVP and GM of the Data Center Group at Intel). Intel announced yesterday that the new XL710 network adapters (which are 40Gbps adapters) will support Geneve hardware offloads.

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Intel Hardware Linux Virtualization 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. Networking. Jason Edelman recently took a look at Docker networking.

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Vmware Linux Virtualization Network 60

Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2016

NCTA Cloud Operations that helps you study the management of cloud operations and addresses the application need for compute power, managing CPU scaling, and meeting both structured and unstructured storage requirements. Groups will complete a cloud assessment of Fortune 100 firms using public information and make presentations to the client.

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Cloud Web Services Hardware Software 70

Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

They leverage past data to predict outcomes, categorize information, group data points, simplify complexity, and even create fresh content. These tools troubleshoot everything from password resets to intricate hardware configurations. Machine learning algorithms are designed to uncover connections and patterns within data.

Artificial Intelligence 48

Artificial Intelligence Tools Data Report 48

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Networking. Paul Fries takes on defining SDN , breaking it down into two “flavors”: host dominant and network dominant. This is a reasonable way of grouping the various approaches to SDN (using SDN in the very loose industry sense, not the original control plane-data plane separation sense). Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Network Virtualization Storage 60

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Why do we have data networks, storage networks and management networks (all distinct, I might add). OS virtualization has massively simplified complexity at the software level by abstracting-away the machine-level CPU commands, and has even contributed to simplifying networking between virtual machines.

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Industry Data Center Virtualization Network 100

Linux Academy

APRIL 30, 2019

Each month, we will kick off our community content with a live study group allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another. Linux Study Group in May. Ways to participate in the study group: 1) Watch – [link]. 3) Join us on YouTube!

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Linux Course Big Data Devops 113

Fountainhead

MARCH 11, 2009

This story is more than just about gaining energy efficiency by reducing the amount of network hardware. Rather, its all about using (and re-purposing) compute hardware more effectively. In turn, infrastructure orchestration (the "fabric") is the way to provide a logical way to create or re-configure I/O, network and storage.

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Energy Data Center Dell Virtualization 100

Sean Daniel

JULY 1, 2010

How to Stay Safe on Public Wi-Fi Networks. Over on Lifehacker.com , one of my favorite sites, they talk a bit about how to stay safe on Public, or even those looming “open” networks that you might discover in an apartment building. How To Install Windows Home Server 2011 on your MediaSmart or DataVault Hardware.

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Network How To SMB Windows 48

GeekWire

JUNE 1, 2021

When it comes to removing carbon there are two approaches: natural solutions such as planting and protecting forests and farming practices that trap carbon in the soil, and industrial solutions including technology that captures carbon from the air for permanent storage. Only one of the group is buying offsets.

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Energy Programming Airlines Travel 111

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

Networking. Matt Klein breaks down service mesh components , using terms networking professionals know well, like “data plane” and “control plane.” ” Those familiar with networking concepts will identify well with the ideas in this article, I think. Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time around.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Networking. Servers/Hardware. Mike Metral shows how to use Pulumi to migrate workloads across EKS node groups with no downtime (the “no downtime” part is subject to certain caveats and restrictions, largely driven by the nature of the application involved). Now, on to the content! Nothing this time around.

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Load Balancer Cloud Applications Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Networking. Open Virtual Network (OVN) is really ramping up and getting lots of attention, which I personally think is absolutely well-deserved. One new networking feature added to OpenStack in the Kilo release was Neutron subnet pools. Servers/Hardware. I hope you find something useful here.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Load Balancer Linux 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. Networking. Rick Sherman has an article on using Jinja2 templates for network automation , including a practical example.

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