Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Kevin: Hello everyone and welcome to this episode of " The Endpoint Imperative " podcast series from Intel. With me is Kaitlin Murphy, director of marketing for business clients at Intel. Kevin: Can we zoom in on this migration to Windows 10. Not to mention there's huge enhancements with the introduction of Windows 10.

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

But are Apple’s ARM chips actually powerful enough now to replace the likes of Intel and AMD? The closest we got to a comparison was effectively, “is machine learning faster with hardware acceleration turned on?”. It also seems telling that Apple isn’t publicly planning to get rid of Intel anytime soon. Dirt looked.

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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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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. Servers/Hardware. Drew Conry-Murray shines a light on Intel’s network ambitions. Welcome to Technology Short Take #67.

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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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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. It appears it’s running some flavor of Windows.

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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. Networking. Servers/Hardware. Gareth Lewis walks through a vCNS 5.5.4 to VMware NSX 6.2.5

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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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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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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Networking. Servers/Hardware. This is an interesting deep dive into Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP architecture. Bozhidar Batsov shares the story of how he left macOS for Linux and ended up on Windows 10 with WSL. I hope you find something useful! Plastic microchips ? That’s kind of cool. Kudos to J.

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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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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. It almost feels like we are well into Windows Registry territory here. See, something for everyone!

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Scott Lowe

JULY 16, 2021

This time around, the Networking section is a bit light, but I’ve got plenty of cloud computing links and articles for you to enjoy, along with some stuff on OSes and applications, programming, and soft skills. Networking. Servers/Hardware. Welcome to Technology Short Take #142!

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The Verge

JULY 10, 2020

And with or without 5G, this isn’t a great laptop for $1,399 Lenovo’s Flex 5G has a lot to live up to as the world’s first 5G-enabled Windows 10 2-in-1 laptop. On average, I got around 500Mbps download speeds and 50Mbps upload (note: Verizon still pushes uploads through its LTE network). No pressure.

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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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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Networking. Servers/Hardware. This is an interesting deep dive into Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP architecture. Bozhidar Batsov shares the story of how he left macOS for Linux and ended up on Windows 10 with WSL. I hope you find something useful! Plastic microchips ? That’s kind of cool. Kudos to J.

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

This is a liveblog of the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) Day 1 keynote. The keynote starts promptly at 9AM with Ulmont Smith (I didn’t catch his title at Intel). Ulmont then introduces the new Intel CEO, Brian Krzanich, and the new Intel President, Renée James, who will be the keynote speakers in the day 1 keynote.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

This is a liveblog of the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) Day 1 keynote. The keynote starts promptly at 9AM with Ulmont Smith (I didn’t catch his title at Intel). Ulmont then introduces the new Intel CEO, Brian Krzanich, and the new Intel President, Renée James, who will be the keynote speakers in the day 1 keynote.

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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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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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Scott Lowe

JULY 17, 2020

Networking. Chip Zoller takes a look at Antrea , a new Kubernetes CNI (Container Networking Interface) plugin that leverages Open vSwitch (OVS). Ivan Pepelnjak has a fantastic article on adapting network design to acommodate automation. Servers/Hardware. Now, on to the good stuff! The world has moved on, and so did I.”

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Networking. Paul Fries takes on defining SDN , breaking it down into two “flavors”: host dominant and network dominant. 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. Servers/Hardware.

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The Verge

JANUARY 11, 2021

Verizon is doing the keynote, however, so perhaps it will have something to say about improving its lackluster 5G network, which can often be slower than LTE. Verizon’s 4G LTE network remains great, at least.). Perhaps a few companies will take a shot at making a better Arm-based Windows laptop, too.

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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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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. Vormetric.

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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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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. For some people, for instance, a router might be internet of things for other people it might not be it might be considered network infrastructure. I would think secure IoT attacks would be different.

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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. For some people, for instance, a router might be internet of things for other people it might not be it might be considered network infrastructure. I would think secure IoT attacks would be different.

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Internet Research Security Tools 52

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This is a liveblog of IDF 2014 session DATS002, titled “Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI)” The speakers are Brian Johnson (Solutions Architect, Intel) and Jim Pinkerton (Windows Server Architect, Microsoft). Naturally, all of this runs on Windows Server and Windows Azure.

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Sean Daniel

APRIL 4, 2011

How To Install Windows Home Server 2011 on your MediaSmart or DataVault Hardware. Well, I’m positive this is something that HP will not support, so don’t even think of calling them if you go down this road, but I figured it’d be fun if you wanted to continue to use the same hardware. Monday, April 04, 2011.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

Networking. What happens when multiple VXLAN logical networks are mapped to the same multicast group? This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. I talked before about the difference between network virtualization and SDN, so no need to mention that again.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

I’m back home in Denver after spending a few days in San Francisco at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013, so I thought I’d take a few minutes to sit down and share a summary of the event and my thoughts. Enhancing OpenStack with Intel Technologies for Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud: [link].

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The Verge

MAY 11, 2020

It features a sturdy build, 10th Gen Intel processors with powerful integrated graphics, and a nearly bezel-free 16:10 panel. The Air comes with 10th Gen Intel processors (though in a lower power variation than the XPS 13), a sharp Retina display, and a new scissor-switch keyboard. Dell XPS 13 (2020). The best laptop you can buy.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Networking. If you’re not really a networking pro and need a “gentle” introduction to VXLAN, this post might be a good place to start. Servers/Hardware. What is Intel SGX, you ask? Linux Networking Security Storage Virtualization Docker Hardware HyperV Intel NSX OpenStack SSL vSphere VXLAN'

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2014

Networking. Matthew Brender touches on a networking issue present in VMware ESXi with regard to VMkernel multi-homing. Servers/Hardware. Intel recently announced a refresh of the E5 CPU line; Kevin Houston has more details here. I recently built a Windows Server 2008 R2 image for use in my OpenStack home lab.

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Galido

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

This application for Mac OS and Windows OS allow you to quickly convert your video DVDs in various digital formats compatible with your iPhone and iPad. MacX DVD Ripper Pro is available for Mac, iPhone and Windows. Most of the excellent performance is due to the implementation of the Intel QSV tech system.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

Networking. What happens when multiple VXLAN logical networks are mapped to the same multicast group? This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. I talked before about the difference between network virtualization and SDN, so no need to mention that again.

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