CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2022

These problems are exacerbated by a lack of hardware designed for ML use cases. Gartner reports, “86% of organizations identified at least one of the following areas as a weak link in their AI infrastructure stack: GPU processing, CPU processing, data storage, networking, resource sharing, or integrated development environments.”.

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Dell Artificial Intelligence Intel Enterprise 134

Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

Networking Lee Briggs (formerly of Pulumi, now with Tailscale) shows how to use the Tailscale Operator to create “free” Kubernetes load balancers (“free” as in no additional charge above and beyond what it would normally cost to operate a Kubernetes cluster). Storage Gergely Imreh discusses ZFS on a Raspberry Pi.

Linux 112

Linux Vmware Load Balancer Malware 112

Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2014

Here’s a quote from the KB article : The distributed switch network health check, including the VLAN, MTU, and teaming policy check can not function properly when there are hardware virtual NICs on the server platform. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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Network Vmware Virtualization Intel 63

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

This is session COMS003, titled “Enabling Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networking with the Intel Open Network Platform Server Reference Architecture Design.” This session is slightly related to IDF 2013 session COMS0002 , which focused more on the Intel ONP Switch reference design.

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Intel Architecture Virtualization Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2022

DNS, BGP, hardware-based security, Kubernetes, Linux—they’re all in here. Networking. Servers/Hardware. For your fix of storage-related links, J Metz has relatively recently published Storage Short Take #47. Hopefully I’ve managed to find something useful for someone. Programming. Virtualization.

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Linux Storage Virtualization Hardware 90

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 13, 2022

Many financial services firms host on-site and should investigate what kind of hardware is needed and whether potential vendors have systems designed specifically for conversational AI. So, what kind of hardware is needed for a conversational AI application? Intel® Technologies Move Analytics Forward. IT Leadership

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Financial Company Dell Artificial Intelligence 105

Scott Lowe

APRIL 7, 2023

Networking Jeff McLaughlin discusses what he calls the “war on expertise.” Servers/Hardware Manoj Kumar provides a beginner’s guide to Trusted Platform Module (TPM). Storage Al Rasheed takes readers on a quick journey through setting up Synology Cloud Sync. That’s all for now!

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Applications Comparison Cloud Operating Systems 97

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This is session EDCS008, “Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI).” ” The speakers are Brian Johnson (@thehevy on Twitter) from Intel and Jim Pinkerton from Microsoft. If you’re bypassing the hypervisor, how do you get on the virtual network? Why is this a big deal?

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Virtualization Network Intel Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

This is a liveblog of the Data Center Mega-Session from day 2 of Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014 in San Francisco. 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. new features, etc.,

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Data Center Intel Data Storage 60

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 11, 2022

However, as new data is uncovered and algorithms adapt, these changes will also need to be able to scale back out to deploy throughout the worldwide network. Intel® Technologies Move Analytics Forward. There’s always room to grow, and Intel is ready to help. Find out more about Intel advanced analytics.

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Artificial Intelligence Intel Dell Financial 59

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

” The speaker is Edwin Verplanke, a System Architect with Intel. Next, he discusses the evolution of network devices so far. Devices first started as tightly-coupled hardware and software solutions. The future, Verplanke believes, is fully virtualized network devices. For #2, we’ll examine the Intel DPDK.

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Virtualization Intel Cloud Data 113

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

In case you hadn’t noticed, I’m at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014 this week in San Francisco. Intel has a very large consumer presence: PCs, ultrabooks, tablets, phones, 2-in–1/convertibles, all-in–1 devices. Day 1 Keynote. Here’s a liveblog of the IDF 2014 day 1 keynote. Technical Sessions.

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Intel Hardware Linux Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This is session CLDS006, “Exploring New Intel Xeon Processor E5 Based Platform Optimizations for 10 Gb Ethernet Network Infrastructures.” The speakers are Brian Johnson from Intel and Alex Rodriguez with Expedient. Rodriguez shares some details on Expedient’s experience with Intel AES-NI, 10 GbE, and DDIO.

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Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 109

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

First, deliver more computing power in the hardware, either through the addition of FPGAs to existing CPUs or through the continued march of CPU power (via more cores or faster clock speeds or both). Second, make the hardware programmable, through standard interfaces. General Hardware IDF2014 Intel' Expo Floor.

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Intel Data Center Hardware Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Networking. I mean, if they aren’t willing to embrace the abstraction and automation that a cloud management platform brings, will abstraction and automation at the networking layer provide any significant benefit? Don’t think this “software-defined networking” thing is going to take off? x86 marches on!

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Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 7, 2021

In this Technology Short Take, I’ve gathered some links for you covering topics like Azure and AWS networking, moving from macOS to Linux (and back again), and more. Networking. ” Specifically, this post talks about Kubernetes networking. Servers/Hardware. maximizing revenue per hardware instance).

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Linux Hardware Network Cloud 60

Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Ever need to add another GbE port to a small server, workstation or perhaps Intel NUC, however no PCIe slots are available? The following are a collection of odd’s and end’s devices and tools for hardware and software defining your environment.

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Hardware Software Software Intel 40

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Networking. The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based. Servers/Hardware. William Lam has an update on the 7th-generation Intel NUC and ESXi 6.x.

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Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

Networking. If you’re a networking pro and didn’t understand most of that last sentence, I’d content that you’ve got some learning to do. If you’re a networking pro and didn’t understand most of that last sentence, I’d content that you’ve got some learning to do. Servers/Hardware.

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Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 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. Networking. Servers/Hardware. Gareth Lewis walks through a vCNS 5.5.4

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Windows 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Networking. Will Robinson talks about how to structure your Ansible playbooks in the context of using Ansible to control your network gear. This is an interesting project to watch, I think—it’s porting OVN (Open Virtual Network) from a “traditional” OvS back-end to an IOVisor-based back-end (IOVisor implements the data plane in eBPF).

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Vmware Storage Intel Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Networking. Matt Oswalt has a great post on the need for networking professionals to learn basic scripting skills—something he (rightfully) distinguishes from programming as a full-time occupation. Further, he follows that up with a post on how automation is more than just configuration management ; it’s about network services.

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Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Networking. Russ White tackles the issue of networking engineers needing to learn to code. Jason Messer has an article describing how networking works with Windows containers. Tom Hollingsworth discusses how the rise of overlay networks killed large layer 2 networks and tools for building large layer 2 networks, like TRILL.

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Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Galido

APRIL 11, 2017

Virtualization is popular these days for businesses for several reasons, but primarily to reduce hardware and infrastructure costs, performance, backups and redundancy, while being able to scale infrastructure and provide resources on demand. . Source: Intel. Layout your infrastructure, network IPs, software, etc.

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Virtualization Backup Vmware Operating Systems 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Networking. Back in April of this year, Patrick Ogenstad announced Netrasp , a Go package for writing network automation tooling in Go. Servers/Hardware. Travis Downs explores a recent Intel microcode update that may have negatively impacted performance. I hope this collection of links has something useful for you!

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Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

Galido

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The video processing with VideoProc allows the user to load it on a remote server or a cloud service using a significantly lower time, or simply store it in the local PC space “consuming” a lower part in the device of storage. It is very interesting to take advantage of what Digiarty calls 3-Level Hardware Acceleration.

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Video Software Software Examples 92

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2023

In the HPC community, we recognize a need for tools to support machine learning operations and data science management; these tools must be able to scale and integrate with HPC software, compute and storage environments. Yes, specific AI workflows require special hardware configurations. Find out more about Intel advanced analytics.

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Dell Data Center Intel Artificial Intelligence 59

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Networking. Biruk Mekonnen has an introductory article on using Netmiko for network automation. Gabriele Gerbino has a nice write-up about Cisco’s efforts with APIs ; his article includes a brief description of YANG data models and a comparison of working with network devices via SSH or via API. Servers/Hardware.

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Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Networking. To help resolve this issue, Cumulus Networks (and possibly Metacloud, I’m not sure of their involvement yet) has release an open source project called vxfld. I’d love to hear from more networking pros (please disclose company affiliations) about their thoughts on this matter. Servers/Hardware.

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Linux Network Vmware Disaster Recovery 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Jeda Networks. I’ve mentioned Jeda Networks before (see here ), and I was pretty excited to have the opportunity to sit down with a couple of guys from Jeda to get more details on what they’re doing. Jeda Networks describes themselves as a “software-defined storage networking” company.

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Meeting Storage Hardware Network 63

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Networking. Isovalent—the company behind Cilium, the eBPF-powered networking solution for Kubernetes clusters—just launched with a $29M Series A round of funding. Uh oh… more hardware exploits. Chris Mellor shares an interview with Hazelcast on the performance of Intel Optane PMem. Virtualization.

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Linux Vmware Open Source Examples 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Networking. The networking “old guard” likes to talk about how x86 servers and virtualization create network bottlenecks due to performance concerns, but as Ivan points out in this post , it’s rapidly becoming—or has already become—a non-issue. Servers/Hardware. Here’s one idea.

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Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 106

Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

Networking. There’s lots of talk about applying test-driven development (TDD) principles in various automation contexts, but I like the fact that Ajay Chenampara provides some practical examples in his blog post on applying TDD in network automation using Ansible. If you’re just starting your network automation journey, start small.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Examples 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This is a liveblog of the day 2 keynote at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 in San Francisco. Fisher sets the stage for people interacting with multiple devices, and devices that are highly mobile, supported by software and services delivered over a ubiquitous network connection. He then introduces Hermann Eul.

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Intel Hardware Mobile Dell 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

Networking. Cue the round of folks claiming that this is why proprietary network operating systems [NOSes] are the route the networking industry should be taking.). (Cue Cue the round of folks claiming that this is why proprietary network operating systems [NOSes] are the route the networking industry should be taking.).

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Vmware Linux Intel Network 60

Virtualized Greek

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

There has been a good deal of FUD spread since VMware has announced their NSX network hypervisor based on software from their $1 billion Nicira acquisition. VMware is a large corporation but, $1 billion is a lot of money to any company and a big bet on network virtualization. This post is Sponsored by – My Linked Profile.

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Vmware Virtualization Hardware Network 91

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Networking. Via BlueCat Networks, John Capobianco shares his network automation journey. Via BlueCat Networks, John Capobianco shares his network automation journey. Servers/Hardware. AnandTech has some coverage of the latest Intel processor announcements , which totally flew by my radar.

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Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60