Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #37, the latest in my irregularly-published series in which I share interesting articles from around the Internet, miscellaneous thoughts, and whatever else I feel like throwing in. Of course, I am a fan of network virtualization, since I work with/on VMware NSX.). (Of Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Here’s another topic that came up at the recent DevOps Networking Forum: Spotify’s SDN Internet Router (SIR). I recently came across a couple useful troubleshooting guides, one for Open vSwitch (OVS) and OpenStack Neutron and one for VMware NSX. Servers/Hardware. VMware recently GA’d version 6.2 Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 20, 2020

Welcome to Technology Short Take #125, where I have a collection of articles about various data center and cloud technologies collected from around the Internet. Servers/Hardware. William Lam provides a sneak peek at deploying Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on vSphere and VMware Cloud on AWS. Virtualization. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2015

Welcome to Technology Short Take #51, another collection of posts and links about key data center technologies like networking, virtualization, cloud management, and applications/operating systems. I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned Open Virtual Network (OVN) here before, as I’m pretty jazzed about the work going on with this project.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #42, another installation in my ongoing series of irregularly published collections of news, items, thoughts, rants, raves, and tidbits from around the Internet, with a focus on data center-related technologies. Anthony Burke’s series on VMware NSX continues with part 5. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 9, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #41, the latest in my series of random thoughts, articles, and links from around the Internet. Many vendors are simply rushing to provide virtualized versions of their solution without addressing the orchestration and automation side of the house. Looking for more VMware NSX content? Networking.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

I’ve been scouring RSS feeds and various social media sites, collecting as many useful links and articles as I can find: from networking hardware and networking CI/CD pipelines to Kernel TLS and tricks for improving your working memory. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization. That’s quite the range! Networking.

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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. Want to install VMware NSX in your home lab, but concerned about resource utilization?

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

I hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday season, but now it’s time to jump back into the fray with a collection of technical articles from around the Internet. Servers/Hardware. Guiliano Bertello introduces PowerVCF , a PowerCLI module aimed at interacting with the SDDC Manager and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) stack. (If

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Looking for a step-by-step install guide for VMware NSX? Ray Budavari—who is an absolutely fantastic NSX resource—has a blog post up on the integration between VMware NSX and vRealize Automation. If you’d like to play around with Cumulus Linux but don’t have a compatible hardware switch, Cumulus VX is the answer. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

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. (By Could we use OpenFlow to build better internet exchanges?

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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. Virtualization.

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Virtualized Greek

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

The industry has traditionally taken a hardware first approach to solving protocol related issues. Looking back in history, as the BGP routing table for the Internet got bigger the solution was to add more memory to edge routers. Just improving the specs on the hardware was building a better Palm Treo.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

Built on VMWare vCloud Director 5.1 Designed for customers who rely on VMware technologies, Savvis Cloud Data Center streamlines extensions into the cloud with easy-to-use familiar interfaces and tools for scaling performance to their needs.”. Virtualization. Cloud Data Center – Private: dedicated compute infrastructure.

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Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

These areas of IT include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Here you can find latest news and insights from Google on security and how to be safe on the Internet. Dark Reading. Zero Day from ZDNet.

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Galido

MAY 1, 2019

The “Internet of Things” is a recent term we now hear more and more about. The deeper we dive into modern technology terms, the more it seems we try to blend physical and virtual worlds together. Gizmodo has been a must-follow site for a long time, with tons of relevant posts, a youthful vibe, and some funny posts on the Internet.

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Galido

MARCH 22, 2019

The “Internet of Things” is a recent term we now hear more and more about. The deeper we dive into modern technology terms, the more it seems we try to blend physical and virtual worlds together. Gizmodo has been a must-follow site for a long time, with tons of relevant posts, a youthful vibe, and some funny posts on the Internet.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As usual, I’ve collected some articles and links from around the Internet pertaining to various data center- and cloud-related topics. Servers/Hardware. Anthony Spiteri shares a Terraform configuration he created to deploy a sandbox Kubernetes cluster on VMware vSphere. Virtualization. Now, on to the content!

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Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The “Internet of Things” is a recent term we now hear more and more about. The deeper we dive into modern technology terms, the more it seems we try to blend physical and virtual worlds together. Gizmodo has been a must-follow site for a long time, with tons of relevant posts, a youthful vibe, and some funny posts on the Internet.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

If you like geeking out over the hardware side of networking, you may find this Ars Technica article on the physical infrastructure of the global Internet to be an interesting read. (I Servers/Hardware. Virtualization. Patrick Ogenstad outlines what’s involved with managing Cisco IOS upgrades with Ansible.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

I have, however, finally managed to pull together this list of links and articles from around the Internet, and I hope that something I’ve included here proves useful to readers. Servers/Hardware. Bahubali (Bill) Shetti walks through analyzing the cost of a self-managed Kubernetes cluster on AWS using VMware CloudHealth.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 30, 2018

This Tech Short Take marks the end of an era (sort of); it’s the last Tech Short Take published while I’m a VMware employee (today is my last day; see here for more details). Servers/Hardware. Virtualization. Welcome to Technology Short Take 97! But enough about me—let’s talk some tech! Networking.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 11, 2017

Every piece of hardware worked perfectly out of the box—wireless, touchpad, touch screen, USB-C/Thunderbolt docking station, etc. Internet applications: Firefox handles my web browsing, but I also have Google Chrome installed for cross-browser testing. I use HexChat for IRC, the Linux Slack client , and Pidgin for instant messaging.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 23, 2019

Otherwise, I leave you with this list of links and articles from around the Internet to keep you busy. Servers/Hardware. Via this blog post by Myles Gray, VMware has announced Cloud Native Storage (CNS), powered by a new CSI (Container Storage Interface) driver for Kubernetes (and other orchestration platforms that use CSI).

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Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

These areas of IT include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Here you can find latest news and insights from Google on security and how to be safe on the Internet. Dark Reading. Zero Day from ZDNet.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

VMware Invests $30 Million in Puppet Labs. In the past he’s covered all things Internet Infrastructure, including cloud (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS), mass market hosting, managed hosting, enterprise IT spending trends and M&A. Virtualization. RELATED POSTS: Puppet Labs Rolls Out Puppet Enterprise 3.0. Featured Cloud Articles.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 26, 2023

The realm of edge computing has witnessed a substantial surge in recent years, propelled by the proliferation of remote work, the Internet of Things (IoT), and augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR) technologies, which have necessitated connectivity at the network’s periphery and novel applications.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Lightsail is a virtual private server (VPS) offering, which is intended to make it super-simple to turn up instances on AWS. With the idea of hardware acceleration in mind, Jassy introduces an entirely new instance family, the F1 family. At this point, Pat Gelsinger, CEO of VMware, takes the stage with Jassy.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

Along with the SF9010, SolidFire also released SolidFire Element OS Version 5, which adds VMware VAAI and VASA support, full encryption-at-rest without performance impact, and more detailed per-volume and per-tenant performance reporting. Virtualization. RELATED POSTS: SolidFire Gains Traction for SSD-Powered Cloud Storage. Twitter.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

“For three years, elements of the OpenStack community have arbitrarily and unfairly positioned OpenStack agains the incumbents, especially Amazon Web Services and VMWare,” writes Bias. Virtualization. If the future is hybrid, he argues, OpenStack must play with the dominant public clouds. Featured Cloud Articles.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 3, 2011

Sure Virtualization Seems Neat In The Beginning, But…. To read the IT trade journals or speak with CIOs you’d think that we’ve all found the magic silver bullet that IT’s been looking for during the past few years: server virtualization. Virtualization has its own set of problems and we need to have a talk….

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