Cloud Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Cloud computing transitions information technology (IT) from being "systems of physically integrated hardware and software" to "systems of virtually integrated services". I''m concerned that this program isn''t focused on creating an inter-operable system that would allow unaffiliated systems to share medical information,” Sen.

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Cloud Healthcare Operating Systems Industry 101

Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

These technologies have transformed different industries, and the IT world is no exception. With the ability to analyze a vast amount of data in real-time, identify patterns, and detect anomalies, AI/ML-powered tools are enhancing the operational efficiency of businesses in the IT sector.

Artificial Intelligence 48

Artificial Intelligence Tools Data Report 48

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture. Operating Systems/Applications. Chris Evans evaluates the “HCI market segment” following some recent industry moves. Or, one could just use something like this.

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

Dataconomy

JULY 25, 2023

Devices like the Fitbit, launched in 2007, revolutionized the fitness industry by offering simple yet effective health monitoring capabilities. Wearable computers may appear sleek and unassuming on the outside, but beneath their stylish exteriors lies a complex integration of hardware, software, and communication technologies.

Energy 36

Energy Applications Operating Systems Data 36

Dataconomy

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A binary file is a fundamental element of computer systems, concealing a complex world of data manipulation and storage beneath its seemingly simple exterior. These files have been integral to computing since its inception, underpinning the basic arithmetic operations and data storage in early computers.

Storage 41

Storage System Video Data 41

Galido

JANUARY 28, 2020

The gaming industry has evolved to use higher resolution and framerate, but our ultimate gaming computer is well within your budget, while at the same time, it does not compromise on the performance at all. If you are here looking for the ultimate PC, you should be ready to spend some of your hard-earned money on decent hardware.

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Storage Hardware System Operating Systems 105

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

” Servers/Hardware. This is a pretty significant market move, and I believe this move impact the technology industry in a variety of ways. Operating Systems/Applications. Kevin Fleming discusses the idea of using a systemd-nspawn container to help with system recovery. Networking. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Authentication Virtualization Storage 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

The networking industry is changing, don’t get left behind! Servers/Hardware. AWS adds local NVMe storage to the M5 instance family; more details here. What I found interesting is that the local NVMe storage is also hardware encrypted. Operating Systems/Applications.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 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. Operating Systems/Applications. Anthony Burke has some information on preparing a node for Kubernetes and the NSX NCP. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Case Study 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.

Devops 60

Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 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.

Devops 60

Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 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.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Highly recommended! Check out part 1 , part 2 , and part 3. Just be sure to start! Nothing this time around.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Examples 60

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Windows 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture. Operating Systems/Applications. Chris Evans evaluates the “HCI market segment” following some recent industry moves. Or, one could just use something like this.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Dataconomy

MARCH 28, 2023

The ecosystem consists of various components, including devices, communication networks, data storage, and analytics tools, that work together to create an intelligent system that enables automation, monitoring, and control of various processes. Component Description Sensors IoT sensors collect data from the physical environment.

Data 28

Data Storage Security Network 28

Dataconomy

MARCH 28, 2023

The ecosystem consists of various components, including devices, communication networks, data storage, and analytics tools, that work together to create an intelligent system that enables automation, monitoring, and control of various processes. Component Description Sensors IoT sensors collect data from the physical environment.

Data 28

Data Storage Security Network 28

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. Technology Short Take #44.

Linux 60

Linux Network Vmware Disaster Recovery 60

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. As of Vagrant 1.9.1,

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Linux Network Hardware Dell 60

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Check out Anthony Burke’s introductory post on PowerNSX for more details. Seen this ?

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Intel Network 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. could make RDP connections to modern Windows systems. Jase McCarty talks about how to backup or recover storage policy-based management (SPBM) profiles. Ivan Pepelnjak shares a Python script that creates Ansible inventory from Vagrant’s SSH configuration.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

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. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Robin Vasan (via The New Stack) talks a bit about how various forces are shaping the software industry. Operating Systems/Applications. This is pretty cool: a WYSIWYG topology designer for VMware NSX. Daniel Hertzberg provides an overview of Salt integration in Arista EOS. Nothing this time around.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Cloud 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. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Virtualization Network 60

GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2021

Device driver and E/PROM programmers are closest to the hardware, and that bottoms-up understanding how a computer operates — from booting to loading the OS, to launching apps and beyond — is still immensely valuable, even in the era of cloud and AI/machine learning!”. What did you learn from it? Zenoti Photo).

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Transportation Windows Software Software 122

Scott Lowe

MAY 11, 2018

Yep, get used to it folks—it’s where the industry is headed. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. A network engineer using AWS and CloudFormation? Vince Power provides a high-level overview of some of the key principles underlying Kubernetes networking. Sorry, I don’t have anything for you.

Network 60

Network Virtualization Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Lindsay Hill recently took Simon Wardley’s pioneers/settlers/town planners (PST) model—which is itself based on Cringely’s Accidental Empires book and the commandos/infantry/police model—and applied to it the networking industry. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. It’s pretty cool stuff. and LXC at 2.0.4;

Vmware 60

Vmware Case Study Linux Network 60

Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2012

The disruptive impact of cloud is uprooting old industries and making way for new ,” said Cary Landis , NJVC senior architect, Cloudcuity AppDeployer and Virtual Global CEO. the biggest disruption to the IT industry in the past 25 years.” India and outsourcing countries will drive industry adoption of PaaS worldwide.

Cloud 162

Cloud Data Center Virtualization Government 162

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). I’d like to add to Paul’s analysis that it’s important to understand that, in reality, host dominant and network dominant systems can coexist.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Virtualization Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

You may have heard about the “6-pack”, Facebook’s new open modular hardware switch introduced recently ( here’s a post on it ). Not everyone agrees, though—here’s Steven Noble’s take on the introduction of 6-pack and why this is pushing the networking industry forward. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

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. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 60

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. That's because early IoT systems consisted mostly of dumb sensors on embedded systems out in the field. Woods: If you think about the overall system, within which some of these devices live.

Internet 52

Internet Research Security Tools 52

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. That's because early IoT systems consisted mostly of dumb sensors on embedded systems out in the field. Woods: If you think about the overall system, within which some of these devices live.

Internet 52

Internet Research Security Tools 52

Scott Lowe

JULY 14, 2015

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. 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?

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Virtualization Network 60

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. Let’s dive in! Table of Contents: I.

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eBook Software Software Storage 78

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 22, 2022

As VMware has observed , “In simple terms, a DPU is a programable device with hardware acceleration as well as having an ARM CPU complex capable of processing data. That’s the question we posed to members of the Foundry/IDG Influencer Network, a community of industry analysts, IT professionals, and journalists. .

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Data Center Data Architecture Fractional CTO 131

Phil Windley

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This figure shows the relationship between an agent, a wallet, and the underlying operating system. The key-management functions in the wallet includes actions on cryptographic keys like generation, storage, rotation, and deletion. Key management is performed in cooperation with the operating system and underlying hardware.

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Operating Systems Authentication Security Storage 95