Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

It was good to read this post on Cumulus Linux first impressions by Jeremy Stretch. I’m a fan of Cumulus, but I’m admittedly a Linux guy (see here ) so you might say I’m a bit biased. Jeremy is a “hard-core” networking professional, and so hearing his feedback on Cumulus Linux was, in my opinion, useful.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 18, 2017

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. Servers/Hardware. Stay tuned for a quick review of the hardware once it arrives. The post has a nice list of Linux replacements for popular OS X apps.

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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. Dave Taylor provides s ome tips for configuring VMware Fusion for Linux usage. Personally, I say just switch to Linux full-time, but hey not everyone is down for that.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. As a partial counterpoint to the increased use/visibility of Linux in the networking industry, check out Ivan’s take on Dell’s OS10 announcement.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

” Servers/Hardware. Christian Kellner provides a brief reminder that not all USB-C ports are Thunderbolt ports, and updates everyone on the status of bolt (Linux utility for working with Thunderbolt ports and peripherals). Matt Oswalt shares some details on how NRE Labs implements “curriculum-as-code.” Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Verplanke first goes over some of the challenges that are driving the industry to look at data plane and control plane virtualization solutions in next-generation infrastructure. Devices first started as tightly-coupled hardware and software solutions. Is the Linux bridge efficient enough?

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

This is my irregularly-published collection of links and articles from around the Internet related to the major data center technologies: networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications/OSes, storage, and virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Networking. First up we have the announcement of the release of the NVMe 1.3

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Andrey Khomyakov shares some information on automating the setup of whitebox switches running Cumulus Linux in part 2 of this series on learning network automation. Servers/Hardware. Alpine Linux 3.5 This is notable (for me, at least) primarily because a growing number of Docker images are based on Alpine Linux.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

As described in this Metacloud blog post , vxfld is designed to “handle VXLAN traffic from any operationg system or hardware platform that adheres to the IETF Internet-Draft for VXLAN” Nir Yechiel recently posted part 1 of a discussion on the need for network overlays. Servers/Hardware. Running Hyper-V with Linux VMs?

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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?

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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. Servers/Hardware. Here’s hoping you find something useful. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

Jason Edelman reminds folks that big changes in an industry—like fully embracing network automation, for example—often occurs as a series of smaller steps. Servers/Hardware. Ryan Kelly shows readers how to configure Harbor (open source container registry project) to use Amazon S3 for storage. Highly recommended! Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

His journey started in June 2014 as a result of the Microsoft announcement regarding support for Linux and Kubernetes on Azure—this really indicated a shift in the industry. He highly recommends using OS X on Apple hardware (he bought a used MacBook Pro, including SSD, for less than 300 euros). Otto and Terraform by Hashicorp.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Executives in all industries are using digital advances such as analytics, mobility, social media and smart embedded devices as well as improving their use of traditional technologies such as ERP to change customer relationships, internal processes and value propositions.

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Cloud Web Services Hardware Software 70

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. As a partial counterpoint to the increased use/visibility of Linux in the networking industry, check out Ivan’s take on Dell’s OS10 announcement.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 12, 2015

We are here to talk about what we’re seeing in the industry, what you’re seeing in the industry, and what new stuff this show has brought up in the world of Hadoop and big data. At least on the storage side of Hadoop, HDFS, the Hadoop Distributed File System, is that a unifying aspect or is even that …. That’s what they tell me.

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Big Data Data Course Oracle 150

Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

Cue the round of folks claiming that this is why proprietary network operating systems [NOSes] are the route the networking industry should be taking.). Servers/Hardware. ZFS will be in the next Ubuntu Linux LTS release. Check out Anthony Burke’s introductory post on PowerNSX for more details. Seen this ?

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Vmware Linux Intel Network 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

His journey started in June 2014 as a result of the Microsoft announcement regarding support for Linux and Kubernetes on Azure—this really indicated a shift in the industry. He highly recommends using OS X on Apple hardware (he bought a used MacBook Pro, including SSD, for less than 300 euros). Otto and Terraform by Hashicorp.

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Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 9, 2016

That prompted Cody Bunch to write this article on setting up a topology with BGP on Linux using the topology converter , which I’m now mentioning in this Technology Short Take. PowerShell on Cumulus Linux on a network switch? Servers/Hardware. Does your head hurt yet?). Pete Lumbis shows you how. It’s pretty cool stuff.

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Vmware Case Study Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

Barry Peddycord shares an update on Ansible support for the Cumulus Linux NCLU. Servers/Hardware. Robin Vasan (via The New Stack) talks a bit about how various forces are shaping the software industry. Ariya Hidayat shows how to run Debian under WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). Nothing this time around. Virtualization.

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Vmware Open Source Linux Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

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. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Technology Short Take #36.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Sunrise Trail will leverage one of a number of potential enterprise Linux distributions, integration with OpenStack, the Intel DPDK for packet acceleration, various hypervisors will be supported (KVM, Hyper-V, KVM), support for OpenFlow (which will undoubtedly come via Open vSwitch [OVS] ). General Networking Hardware IDF2013 OVS SDN'

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Intel Architecture Virtualization Network 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 11, 2018

Yep, get used to it folks—it’s where the industry is headed. Servers/Hardware. Thomas Graf explains why the Linux kernel community is replacing iptables with BPF. A network engineer using AWS and CloudFormation? Vince Power provides a high-level overview of some of the key principles underlying Kubernetes networking.

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Network Virtualization Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

” Eul walks through the basic components of the mobile platform, which includes not only hardware but also mobile software. Following the Asus demo, Victoria Molina—a fashion industry executive—takes the stage to talk about how technology has/will shape online shopping. Naturally, a great CPU is key to success.

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Intel Hardware Mobile Dell 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 14, 2015

Servers/Hardware. Containers may be all the rage in the IT industry these days, but Justin Warren reminds us that the value to many organizations (in his words) “lives in the data your organization has”. There’s a lot more too, so be sure to check out his site. Running vSphere 6? Good stuff. Career/Soft Skills.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

When I started writing my first book when gadgets betray us, IoT was still known as hardware hacking, or embedded security. There has to be storage somewhere so even sensors, end up sending their data someplace that has to be stored, and that might be in the cloud, for instance, which is increasingly a part of the Internet of Things.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

When I started writing my first book when gadgets betray us, IoT was still known as hardware hacking, or embedded security. There has to be storage somewhere so even sensors, end up sending their data someplace that has to be stored, and that might be in the cloud, for instance, which is increasingly a part of the Internet of Things.

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Internet Research Security Tools 52

Kitaboo

MARCH 18, 2024

As technology advances, eBooks are becoming more popular across industries and education. This capability will help content creators store their work online, and eliminate the need for local storage solutions. Here are some of its key features: It is compatible with Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux. Let’s dive in!

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eBook Software Software Storage 78

Scott Lowe

MARCH 20, 2020

This blending of “traditional” network engineering with containers, Linux, and DevOps tooling is how Matt is setting new trends and directions for the networking industry. Servers/Hardware. Robert Guske has a three-part series on running Linux development desktops with VMware Horizon ( part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 ).

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Linux Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 23, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Network bonding in Linux—as outlined in this article —is something I may have to explore. What I’d really like to have is something like ControlPlane (née Marco Polo for the longtime Mac users), but for Linux. When it comes to storage, Cormac Hogan is an invaluable resource. Networking.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

At the O’Reilly OSCON 2013 this week in Portland, Oregon, Fusion-io made the announcement that its Atomic Writes API contributed for standardization to the T10 SCSCI Storage Interfaces Technical Committee is now in use in mainstream MySQL databases MariaDB 5.5.31 Fusion-io: Making Apps Faster With Flash Storage. Networking.

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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. Industry Perspectives. Posted July 15th, 2013.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2015

Michael Webster isn’t a name that normally pops up here in the Networking section of my Technology Short Takes, but he recently wrote an article on installing Cumulus Linux from a MacBook Pro that I thought might be handy. Open Network Linux (main website here ; GitHub repo here ) was recently brought to my attention. Servers/Hardware.

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Linux Dell Vmware Network 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. I’ll let you read his post for all the details, but I do agree that it is important for the networking industry to converge on a consistent set of abstractions.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 3, 2016

Alban Crequy has a post on using Linux queueing disciplines (qdiscs, for short) to help with testing application behavior under degraded network conditions. Cumulus Networks has added another hardware partner to its list of supported hardware partners; this time it’s Mellanox, as outlined in this SDx Central article.

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Vmware Network Linux Hardware 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

I know that the company Linux Hosts Ltd. Industry Perspectives. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Barbara Johnson. Posted July 25th, 2013.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

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. The response by clients to the advantages of Linux on System z have been tremendous, with the shipped capacity nearly doubling in 1Q13 year to year. Industry Perspectives.

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