Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

The key to making it work is the idea of a virtual resource. With a virtual resource, though, you can define the resource once (as a virtual resource; denoted with an “@” in front of the resource). The Puppet Labs site does a much better job of explaining virtual resources. or similar.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

As opposed to just encrypting data at the transport level (although Acra does that between components of its architecture) or just encrypting data at the storage level (using an encrypted file system or similar), Acra targets encrypting data at the table/row/column level within a database. Virtualization.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Bayer Crop Science has applied analytics and decision-support to every element of its business, including the creation of “virtual factories” to perform “what-if” analyses at its corn manufacturing sites. These systems integrate storage and processing technologies for document retrieval and analysis. Clinical DSS. Document-driven DSS.

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

JANUARY 20, 2021

Cloud storage and backup. As data volumes grow, so does the need for efficient storage and backup. “In Many organizations don’t yet realize that video storage costs can run into millions of dollars annually. AR/VR: Augmented and Virtual reality has been around for a while now, but hasn’t really exploded yet.

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Kitaboo

JANUARY 31, 2024

Users also get the advantage of keeping track of various versions of digital book creations and include advanced AI-enhanced options like text-to-speech, cloud storage services, and built-in analytics tools. Attend webinars, workshops, or virtual events related to self-publishing and digital book creation.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

Courtesy of Tigera, Alex Pollitt shares some guidelines on when Linux conntrack is no longer your friend. Virtualization. The second article is by Rob Beekmans examining several virtual desktop platforms available to customers/users. Networking. Servers/Hardware. Michael Allen published an article on weaponizing the Yubikey.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Lots of folks like using Dropbox , the ubiquitous store-and-sync cloud storage service; I am among them. The encfs program will run through some questions; select “x” for Expert mode and configure it according to the guidelines described in this support article. Interoperability Macintosh Security Storage Encryption OSS'

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 24, 2023

Meant specifically to support self-service analytics, TrustCheck attaches guidelines and rules to data assets. Alation Alation is an enterprise data catalog that automatically indexes data by source. One of its key capabilities, TrustCheck, provides real-time “guardrails” to workflows.

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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).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Storage Wars: Dispelling the Myth of Flash Economics. Storage Wars: Dispelling the Myth of Flash Economics. Director of Field Marketing at Virident , a performance leader in flash-based storage-class memory (SCM) solutions. Storage Causes the Bottleneck. We must dispel a myth about storage costs, particularly for flash.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2019

In perusing some of Brian’s content, I see lots of stuff at the intersection of networking and virtualization. Samuel Karp has a list of guidelines for designing and testing software daemons. Virtualization. That’s a good place to be right now, in my opinion. Nothing this time; sorry! Nothing this time; sorry!

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Eric D. Brown

MARCH 5, 2024

Infrastructure Investment : Invest in the necessary infrastructure to support data collection, storage, and analysis at scale. Chatbots and virtual assistants powered by NLP provide customers with 24/7 support, handling inquiries and transactions seamlessly.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Virtualization. Nick Shrock provides some guidelines and advice on performing code reviews. Useful nevertheless, though. I loved this set of Bash tips. Andrej Yemelianov has a quick introduction to managing containers in runC. Nothing this time around, but I’ll stay alert for items I can include in the next Technology Short Take.

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Dataconomy

MAY 17, 2023

These intelligent virtual assistants can understand customer inquiries, provide instant responses, and even handle complex interactions through natural language processing ( NLP ) capabilities. Improving customer support with AI-powered chatbots: AI-driven chatbots have become invaluable tools for providing round-the-clock customer support.

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Eric D. Brown

MARCH 5, 2024

Infrastructure Investment : Invest in the necessary infrastructure to support data collection, storage, and analysis at scale. Chatbots and virtual assistants powered by NLP provide customers with 24/7 support, handling inquiries and transactions seamlessly.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2017

RedLock shares some guidelines around AWS access key deletion (in the event that an access key gets compromised). Virtualization. That might be a good blog post topic right there!). Servers/Hardware. Werner Ruegg has a post on an alternative hardware solution for vSphere home labs. Nothing this time around.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

For reasons that I won’t go into here (maybe later), I was recently pointed toward the vcluster project (for running virtual Kubernetes clusters in a namespace of an actual cluster). Virtualization. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. See the vcluster web site or the GitHub repository for more information.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

The term refers to an IT facility where the networking, storage, CPU and security are virtualized and delivered as a service. To be specific, implementing the concept of SDDR allows for simple disaster recovery implementation by extending the benefits of virtualization, such as flexibility and portability, to Disaster Recover (DR).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

I’ve been in the data storage industry for years, and our customers STILL have some sort of tape storage lingering around. In the past, linear storage media was used as the first line of defense to restore lost data. Evolution of Storage and Backup Technology. Yet in 2013, many data centers are still using tape.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Brad Hedlund (who will be my co-worker starting on 2/11) created a great explanation of network virtualization that clearly breaks down the components and explains their purpose and function. Speaking of Puppet, the puppet-lint tool is very handy for ensuring that your Puppet manifest syntax is correct and follows the style guidelines.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 28, 2013

Storage Wars: Dispelling the Myth of Flash Economics – There are new metrics for measuring flash costs and taking a look at them can illustrate that the return on investment (ROI) that can be achieved with this new technology, writes Walter Hinton of Virident. See our guidelines and submission process for information on participating.

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 232

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2023

This article by Kirill Shirinkin provides, in the author’s words, “some guidelines that will help you to assess if Argo CD makes sense for your setup” Operating Systems/Applications Stewart X Addison shares some macOS “first experiences” from a Linux user. Do you need Argo CD? Wonder no longer.

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IPv6 Linux Tools Network 74

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

For reasons that I won’t go into here (maybe later), I was recently pointed toward the vcluster project (for running virtual Kubernetes clusters in a namespace of an actual cluster). Virtualization. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. See the vcluster web site or the GitHub repository for more information.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Virtualization has helped to avoid some of these costs in the data center. Plus, legacy sites where virtualization is not an option cannot take advantage of the benefits of control offered by KVM. The Virtual Gateway to the Future. Virtualizing the KVM switch comes at an opportune time. This is just the beginning.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Alan McMahon works for Dell in enterprise solution design, across a range for products from servers, storage to virtualization, and is based in Ireland. A private cloud is your own virtualized environment, while a public cloud is one that another company provides for you. Virtualization. ALAN McMAHON. Networking.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

coordinate Design Team to Clients pre-determined Design Guidelines and standards, and assist with City and/or other Authority approvals process, permitting, etc. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Virtualization. To view full details and apply, see job listing details. Modular Data Centers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

See our guidelines and submission process for information on participating. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Many organizations are leveraging larger, more comprehensive storage arrays and the cloud that help them distribute their environment. Virtualization. Modular Data Centers. Networking.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

See our guidelines and submission process for information on participating. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Many organizations are leveraging larger, more comprehensive storage arrays and the cloud that help them distribute their environment. Virtualization. Modular Data Centers. Networking.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

See our guidelines and submission process for information on participating. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Many organizations are leveraging larger, more comprehensive storage arrays and the cloud that help them distribute their environment. Virtualization. Modular Data Centers. Networking.

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Data Center Data Telecommunications Infosys 212

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Here’s hoping I’ve managed to find something of value and interest to you in this latest collection of links and articles from around the web on networking, storage, virtualization, security, and other data center-related technologies. Welcome to Technology Short Take #55! Networking.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 27, 2023

Sovereign cloud technology plays an important role in these environments because it enables organizations to maintain control over sensitive data while leveraging cloud-scale compute and storage capabilities. Its extensive portfolio also ensures that customers are free to choose the infrastructure and cloud journey that works best for them.

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Industry Cloud Vmware Healthcare 52

Dataconomy

JULY 26, 2023

ChatGPT login options empower businesses to deploy AI-powered virtual assistants with ease ( Image credit ) What should you do now? Custom Applications: API access enables the development of custom applications, chatbots, virtual assistants, and more, delivering personalized experiences to users.

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Artificial Intelligence Applications How To Tools 68

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 20, 2023

These encryption keys always stay within the custody of the customer and are never imported into OCI, enabling customers to move regulated workloads to OCI that require control over the physical storage of keys outside the cloud,” Oracle said, adding that Dedicated Key Management was developed in partnership with the Thales Group.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

See our guidelines and submission process for information on participating. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Many organizations are leveraging larger, more comprehensive storage arrays and the cloud that help them distribute their environment. Virtualization. Modular Data Centers. Networking.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 21, 2013

In the past, linear storage media was used as the first line of defense to restore lost data. See our guidelines and submission process for information on participating. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Virtualization. RELATED POSTS: Industry Insights Wanted. Modular Data Centers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

This is especially true if the majority of those addresses are assigned to virtual machines. What we’re seeing from vendors: In this arena, we can expect hypervisor/virtual machine (VM) vendors to rush to be the SDN controller, and push hardware vendors to expose rich Southbound SDN APIs. Keep Grains of Salt Handy.

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Data Center Network Software Software 207

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Kirk Byers has a helpful article that provides some suggestions and guidelines for how to make your network automation/network scripts become more than just your own personal hobby at work. Virtualization. Yes, containerization is a key part of the future, but virtualization isn’t going away anytime soon. Servers/Hardware.

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