Scott Lowe

MARCH 21, 2017

This post is part of a series of posts sharing other users’ stories about their migration to Linux as their primary desktop OS. As I mentioned in part 1 of the series , there seemed to be quite a bit of pent-up interest in using Linux as your primary desktop OS. Q: Why did you switch to Linux? is awesome).

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Dataconomy

MARCH 19, 2024

During its GTC conference, NVIDIA unveiled NVIDIA NIM, a software platform engineered to simplify the integration of both custom and pre-trained AI models into operational settings. These services are poised to be incorporated into platforms like Deepset, LangChain, and LlamaIndex. “We

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Data Center Knowledge

JANUARY 24, 2017

String of hardware and software products seek to commercialize Facebook's open source networking tech Read More.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 18, 2021

HPE’s Spaceborne Computer-2 uses off-the-shelf servers and components encased in hardware designed for harsh environments. They’re using standard and open-source tools such as Python and Linux containers to ensure that others can participate or build on their approaches in the future.

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Dataconomy

DECEMBER 25, 2023

It’s packed with tools for exploring hardware, software, and wireless protocols. Wall of Flippers is an open-source Python project offers a beacon of hope. Attackers can use Linux computers or Android devices with specific apps to carry out the same type of attacks.

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Linux Academy

JUNE 4, 2019

The Serverless Framework is an open-source project that replaces traditional platforms (hardware, operating systems) with a platform that can run in a cloud environment. Check out Linux Academy’s free Serverless Concepts course that will get you up to speed on how to do more by going serverless. Why use it?

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Servers/Hardware. The big news in the hardware space recently was the article regarding the purported Chinese hardware supply chain attack. Of the (innumerable) articles commenting on the hardware hack, this article by Joe FitzPatrick and this ErrataSec article caught my eye. This has generated a lot of discussion.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 21, 2022

Servers/Hardware. The story of a developer deliberately polluting their open source projects—as outlined here for the “colors.js” ” libraries hosted on NPM—is a software supply chain issue that I suspect many organizations hadn’t considered. What do you think microsegmentation means ?

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Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

Courtesy of Tigera, Alex Pollitt shares some guidelines on when Linux conntrack is no longer your friend. Servers/Hardware. Apparently Dell’s new docking stations support firmware updates via Linux. This article has good information on safely using /tmp and /var/tmp on systemd-powered Linux distributions.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

Redpill Linpro talks to readers about their new routers running Cumulus Linux. Servers/Hardware. This article is about hardware, just not the hardware I’d typically talk about in this section—instead, it’s about Philips Hue light bulbs. I need to move it back to Windows from Linux.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. As a partial counterpoint to the increased use/visibility of Linux in the networking industry, check out Ivan’s take on Dell’s OS10 announcement. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Bruce Schneier writes about how some Chinese hackers are bypassing RSA software token authentication (the title is a bit more broad, implying other forms of two-factor authentication are affected, but the article focuses on attacks against the use of RSA software tokens). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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SPF13

MARCH 20, 2015

In the last few years open source has transformed the software industry. From Android to Wikipedia, open source is everywhere, but how does one succeed in it? What Every Successful Open Source Project Needs. The Software Era: ? Open Source is taking over the world. Transcript.

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Open Source Linux Software Software 100

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. As a partial counterpoint to the increased use/visibility of Linux in the networking industry, check out Ivan’s take on Dell’s OS10 announcement. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. At the recent OCP Summit, Microsoft introduced Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC). Servers/Hardware. You may also find this (related) article on memory inside Linux containers to be helpful.

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

Barry Peddycord shares an update on Ansible support for the Cumulus Linux NCLU. Servers/Hardware. Via Maish Saidel-Keesing, I saw this post about 10 open source Kubernetes tools for highly effective SRE and Ops teams. Robin Vasan (via The New Stack) talks a bit about how various forces are shaping the software industry.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Jonathan Knudsen from Synopsys joins The Hacker Mind to discuss his presentation at SecTor 2021 on fuzzing message brokers such as RabbitMQ and VerneMQ, both written in Erlang, demonstrating that any type of software in any environment can still be vulnerable. Vamosi: The idea behind Open Source is great.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

Milind Gunjan shares some tips for troubleshooting Linux bridged networking on a KVM host. Servers/Hardware. Tim Hinrichs discusses securing the Kubernetes API with Open Policy Agent. This article discusses four open source secrets management tools. configurations. Nothing this time around!

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles discussing the major data center technologies—networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications, virtualization…you name it! (If Thinking of using a hardware VTEP (VXLAN Tunnel Endpoint) with VMware NSX? Servers/Hardware. Welcome to Technology Short Take #70!

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The one caveat to his approach that may be worth mentioning is that some policies (a PodSecurityPolicy or the use of Open Policy Agent) may prevent the user from launching a Pod connected to the host’s network namespace. Servers/Hardware. Here’s an article from Marko Saric on his switch from macOS to Linux.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Here’s a good source. Servers/Hardware. While written for OS X, most of these tips apply to Linux or other Unix-like operating systems as well. Mike Preston has a great series going on tuning Debian Linux running under vSphere. Want some additional information on layer 2 and layer 3 services in VMware NSX?

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

In the future, they are looking at creation and certification of private-public pairs, software support for periodic background tasks, KMIP support, and potential AES-XTS support for enhanced performance. Next, Intel talks about how they have worked to expose hardware features into OpenStack. Where is Intel IT Open Cloud headed?

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Servers/Hardware. I’m a 1Password user (just wish they’d release a “real” Linux client and bring back support for local vaults to all platforms), so seeing this article on how Agile Bits (the company behind 1Password) is using Terraform with AWS was pretty cool. Nothing this time around (sorry!). Virtualization.

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Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

Information technology is the use of any tech devices, infrastructure, software and processes to create and process, store, secure and exchange all forms of digital data. Our articles are typically focused on software recommendations, business, security, interesting topics and search engine optimization and marketing. CIO Dashboard.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Fusion-io Accelerates Flash Apps With Open Source Contributions. Fusion-io Accelerates Flash Apps With Open Source Contributions. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. By: John Rath July 23rd, 2013.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

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. Servers/Hardware. Is Intel having second thoughts about software-defined infrastructure? Running Hyper-V with Linux VMs? Virtualization. LTS server.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

If you’d like to play around with Cumulus Linux but don’t have a compatible hardware switch, Cumulus VX is the answer. Servers/Hardware. This article listing 20 Linux server hardening tips contains some basic tips but is nevertheless a very good resource for someone looking for Linux security recommendations.

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Galido

MAY 1, 2019

These areas of tech 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. Operating System & Software Blogs. Find the links to these blogs in the descriptions below. CIO Dashboard. Zero Day from ZDNet.

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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.” The speakers are Frank Schapfel, Senior Product Line Manager with Intel, and Brian Skerry, Open Networks System Architect with Intel.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Acra is open source and available via GitHub. Here’s a post outlining some of VMware’s more prominent open source projects in the “cloud-native” space. VMware recently announced the open sourcing of some software development kits (SDKs) for the new REST APIs in vSphere 6.5.

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Galido

MARCH 22, 2019

These areas of tech 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. Operating System & Software Blogs. Find the links to these blogs in the descriptions below. CIO Dashboard. Zero Day from ZDNet.

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Resources Mobile Data Center Security 107

Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

Information technology is the use of any tech devices, infrastructure, software and processes to create and process, store, secure and exchange all forms of digital data. Our articles are typically focused on software recommendations, business, security, interesting topics and search engine optimization and marketing. CIO Dashboard.

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Resources Mobile Data Center Security 66

Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

These areas of tech 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. Operating System & Software Blogs. Find the links to these blogs in the descriptions below. CIO Dashboard. Zero Day from ZDNet.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

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). Servers/Hardware. Intel has a tutorial series on Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX). on Ubuntu 16.04. Have a look here.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

Mircea’s right—bugs will happen in all software (VMware NSX has had its share, for example), but the key is in how it’s handled. Servers/Hardware. Ryan Kelly shows readers how to configure Harbor (open source container registry project) to use Amazon S3 for storage. Nothing this time around.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 8, 2014

It would be great to see Docker get support for connecting containers directly to Open vSwitch (OVS), which is generally considered the de facto standard for networking on Linux hosts. Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time around, but I’ll keep my eyes open for more content to include next time.

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Tech Republic

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The attestation service is designed to allow data in confidential computing environments to interact with AI safely, as well as provide policy enforcements and audits.

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