Dataconomy

AUGUST 8, 2023

Trusted computing stands as a pivotal milestone in the ever-evolving landscape of digital security, strategically weaving hardware and software mechanisms into the very fabric of computing systems. These concepts collectively contribute to the creation of a comprehensive system compliant with TCG specifications.

Hardware 36

Hardware Security Storage Software 36

Scott Lowe

APRIL 7, 2023

Servers/Hardware Manoj Kumar provides a beginner’s guide to Trusted Platform Module (TPM). Operating Systems/Applications In Technology Short Take 166 , I mentioned Nick Schmidt’s article on D2. Storage Al Rasheed takes readers on a quick journey through setting up Synology Cloud Sync.

Applications 97

Applications Comparison Cloud Operating Systems 97

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. Consider storage space, ram, CPU, network adapters, etc.

Virtualization 60

Virtualization Backup Vmware Operating Systems 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Nothing this time around, sorry!

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

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.

Intel 60

Intel Hardware Linux Virtualization 60

Dataconomy

JUNE 22, 2023

This software suite is compatible with both Windows and macOS operating systems, and offers a spectrum of six different editions to cater to diverse user needs. Recovery from non-booting Windows systems For Windows systems that fail to boot, Stellar Data Recovery Technician can still restore RAID data.

Data 68

Data Software Software Windows 68

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Jointly authored by VMware, Microsoft, Red Hat, and Intel, this new protocol proposal attempts to bring together the strengths of the various network virtualization encapsulation protocols out there today (VXLAN, STT, NVGRE). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. x86 marches on!

Virtualization 60

Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 7, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Ben Wilcock shares his experience with an Intel NUC 11. maximizing revenue per hardware instance). Operating Systems/Applications. Justin Garrison shares some thoughts on whiteboarding software (and hardware). Justin Garrison shares some thoughts on whiteboarding software (and hardware).

Linux 60

Linux Hardware Network Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well. Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well. I adopted OS X as my operating system of choice in 2003 because I wanted a stable, powerful, UNIX-based operating system. Apple on Intel. The only constant is change.

Operating Systems 131

Operating Systems Apple Applications Linux 131

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Travis Downs explores a recent Intel microcode update that may have negatively impacted performance. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture. Operating Systems/Applications. Or, one could just use something like this.

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

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. Guy Maliar has a detailed post describing dynamic secrets on Kubernetes pods using HashiCorp Vault.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Intel NUC or SuperMicro E200-8D? Operating Systems/Applications. Brian Ragazzi shares a lesson learned the hard way regarding VVols: place the VSM/VASA on a non-VVol storage location. Yves Fauser discusses NSX integration with Kubernetes in this blog post. A command-line client for Twitter ?

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Dmitri Kalintsev examines some options for addressing storage-related connectivity in NSX environments. Servers/Hardware. Drew Conry-Murray shines a light on Intel’s network ambitions. This is something I’ve been watching for a couple of years, since attending my first Intel Developer Forum (IDF). Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Servers/Hardware. The Intel Management Engine (ME) has received a bit of attention as a potential security vulnerability; in this article , authors Maxim Goryachy and Mark Ermolov expose some new concerns around the Intel ME and its undocumented Manufacturing Mode. Operating Systems/Applications. Good stuff!

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Intel has a tutorial series on Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX). Operating Systems/Applications. J Metz recently published an article that helps understand when to use NAS (Network Attached Storage) versus SAN (Storage Area Network). on Ubuntu 16.04. Have a look here.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Intel Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Servers/Hardware. This is an interesting deep dive into Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP architecture. Operating Systems/Applications. Michael Kashin shares the journey of containerizing NVIDIA Cumulus Linux. Plastic microchips ? That’s kind of cool. —see this post for an explanation.).

Linux 90

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

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. Feeling geeky?

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Windows 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

Servers/Hardware. News in the OpenStack space hasn’t been so good recently (Intel pulling out of OSIC, various companies laying off folks, other “pure play” companies shifting focus away from OpenStack), but here’s one architect’s perspective on what you may still want to attend the OpenStack Summit. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Examples 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Uh oh… more hardware exploits. Adrian’s operational review readiness template is another great post as well. Operating Systems/Applications. Chris Mellor shares an interview with Hazelcast on the performance of Intel Optane PMem. OpenCSPM looks like it could be quite a useful tool. Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Open Source Examples 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Travis Downs explores a recent Intel microcode update that may have negatively impacted performance. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture. Operating Systems/Applications. Or, one could just use something like this.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 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.). The article specifically calls out SR-IOV as well as Intel Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) support within Open vSwitch (OVS). Servers/Hardware. Seen this ?

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Intel Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Servers/Hardware. 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. Check back next time!

Open Source 60

Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 29, 2020

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Nicola Apicella has a nice, in-depth write-up discussing Docker images, overlay file systems, and the OCI specification. This recent post by Eric Sloof shows how to do BGP neighbor adjacency between GNS3 and NSX-T 3.0. Read his write-up here. Ubuntu 20.04 Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Virtualization Security Network 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Servers/Hardware. AnandTech has some coverage of the latest Intel processor announcements , which totally flew by my radar. Operating Systems/Applications. Personally, I could’ve done without the little product advertisement at the end, but that’s just me. It’s the end of an era.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Jeda Networks describes themselves as a “software-defined storage networking” company. Given my previous role at EMC (involved in storage) and my current role at VMware focused on network virtualization (which encompasses SDN), I was quite curious. At that point, the system DRAM almost looks like another level of cache.

Meeting 63

Meeting Storage Hardware Network 63

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Servers/Hardware. This is an interesting deep dive into Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP architecture. Operating Systems/Applications. Michael Kashin shares the journey of containerizing NVIDIA Cumulus Linux. Plastic microchips ? That’s kind of cool. —see this post for an explanation.).

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Frank Denneman (with an admittedly vSphere-focused lens) takes a look at the Intel Xeon Scalable Family in a two-part (so far) series. Both articles are worth reviewing if hardware selection is an important aspect of your role. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

You may have heard of Intel Rack-Scale Architecture (RSA), a new approach to designing data center hardware. This is an idea that was discussed extensively a couple of weeks ago at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014 in San Francisco, which I had the opportunity to attend. What’s the benefit to consumers?

Intel 105

Intel Architecture Hardware Data Center 105

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Servers/Hardware. In this post, William Lam explores the potential benefits of Intel’s VMCS Shadowing functionality on nested virtualization. (I Operating Systems/Applications. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Here’s one idea.

Vmware 106

Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 106

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Servers/Hardware. Intel announced the E5 2600 v2 series of CPUs back at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 (you can follow my IDF 2013 coverage by looking at posts with the IDF2013 tag ). Operating Systems/Applications. on flow table explosion with OpenFlow. is needed in order to see broader adoption of OpenFlow.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Virtualization Storage 60

Galido

MAY 10, 2019

In this case, we are referring to hardware slowdown which could be remedied through computer repair or upgrades. Sometimes you just need to replace one or two hardware parts to give new life to an old and slow PC. Suppose you have an Intel i5 3570, a 2012 processor with LGA1155 socket. Let’s take a practical example.

Hardware 81

Hardware Intel Energy Examples 81

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Servers/Hardware. In this post, William Lam explores the potential benefits of Intel’s VMCS Shadowing functionality on nested virtualization. (I Operating Systems/Applications. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Here’s one idea.

Vmware 60

Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 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

JUNE 19, 2020

The collection seems a tad heavier than normal in the hardware and security sections, probably due to new exploits discovered in Intel’s speculative execution functionality. Servers/Hardware. This is one of those times when an article belongs in multiple categories—in this case, hardware and security.

Linux 60

Linux Intel Hardware Storage 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

This is session COMS002, titled “The Future of Software-Defined Networking with the Intel Open Network Platform Switch Reference Design.” ” The speakers are Recep Ozdag, a PME with Intel, and Gershon Schatzberg, a PLM with Wind River Systems. It is hardware switch independent.

Intel 61

Intel Load Balancer Architecture Virtualization 61