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CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 3, 2024
A VMware licensing cost increase of 150%. For many VMware customers, the licensing model and price changes were abrupt. Facing backlash from existing customers, Broadcom has attempted to explain the new product and licensing model with a hope that current customers can manage the transition. An increase of 300%.
Scott Lowe
APRIL 15, 2022
Xavier Avrillier walks readers through using Antrea (a Kubernetes CNI built on top of Open vSwitch—a topic I’ve touched on a time or two) to provide on-premise load balancing in Kubernetes. Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? Ulrich Speidel shares some of the findings after the volcanic eruption in Tonga.
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Scott Lowe
MAY 17, 2019
Servers/Hardware. The CNCF blog has a great article written by an Alibaba software engineer (Xingyu Chen) on some performance optimizations for etcd that have been contributed back to the open source community. These look interesting, but be aware that they are not licensed with an open source license.
Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 6, 2013
Here’s a good source. Servers/Hardware. In part 2 , Mike discusses things like using the appropriate virtual hardware, the right kernel modules for VMXNET3, getting rid of unnecessary hardware (like the virtual floppy), and similar tips. Want some additional information on layer 2 and layer 3 services in VMware NSX?
Scott Lowe
OCTOBER 14, 2017
Servers/Hardware. I’ll keep an eye open for links to include next time around. The popular open source container registry project, Harbor , has released a new version (version 1.2). Abdullah Abdullah shares some thoughts on design decisions regarding NSX VXLAN control plane replication modes.
Virtualized Greek
AUGUST 25, 2013
Microsoft, Citrix and open source hypervisors have quickly become good enough for basic virtualization use cases. There is still a ton to be done in virtualizing networks and storage. There’s no question that both storage virtualization and network virtualization are cool technologies. It was a great Trojan Horse.
CTOvision
JULY 9, 2014
In the text below, I examine an on-premise Hadoop ecosystem as a general purpose Big Data solution in relation to alternative commercial purpose-built storage technologies (-e.g. When including the cost of software, hardware, and licensing/support, the cost per terabyte (TB) of an MPP system is estimated at tens of thousands of dollars [4].
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