CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In a traditional environment, everyone must collaborate on building servers, storage, and networking equipment. For instance, if IT requires more processing or storage, the team needs to initiate a capital expenditure to purchase additional hardware. The business has to get involved.

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Cloud How To Resources Analysis 98

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

You’ve implemented robust security and privacy policies and outlined best practices. You’ve done everything a smart and responsible organization needs to do to safeguard your systems, networks, data, and other assets from cyber threats. Cloud storage is your best bet when it comes to accelerating the time to recovery.

Disaster Recovery 98

Disaster Recovery Storage Backup Data 98

Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2014

Here’s a quote from the KB article : The distributed switch network health check, including the VLAN, MTU, and teaming policy check can not function properly when there are hardware virtual NICs on the server platform. vSphere Network Health Check and Cisco UCS. VMware ESX Networking Articles.

Network 63

Network Vmware Virtualization Intel 63

Scott Lowe

APRIL 22, 2014

The vendors may vary in their approach to providing this automation and orchestration—some may prefer to do it in software (VMware would be one of these, along with other software companies like Microsoft and Red Hat), while others want to do it in hardware. Kicking the Policy Discussion Into High Gear. Group Policy Resources.

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Policies Open Source Vmware Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. Networking. Russ White shares Russ' rules for network design. Servers/Hardware. Cloudflare recently introduced its own object storage offering, announced in this blog post. ” Who will be correct?

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IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 60

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Compounding the challenge is the fact that the major cloud service providers (CSPs) offer as many as 600 different service options based on factors such as processor type, memory configuration, storage, networking, hypervisor, and other variables. Reducing costs is also more than just a matter of choosing instance types.

Cloud 98

Cloud Intel Hardware Survey 98

Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 14, 2009

I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 NAS Network Storage for the Home and Advice for Device Manufacturers. and business transformation.

Storage 100

Storage Network Backup Agile 100

Kitaboo

DECEMBER 20, 2023

6 Steps to Follow to Implement Data-Driven Decision Making Step 1 – Define Policies and Procedures Step 2 – Use Trending Technology to Analyze Data Step 3 – Conduct Needs Assessment Step 4 – Support and Maintenance Services Step 5 – Monitor and Evaluate Step 6 – Encourage Continuous Feedback IV.

Strategy 88

Strategy Data Education eBook 88

CTOvision

JANUARY 24, 2017

Cloud computing provides businesses with quality solutions for their IT needs, as well as substantial cost savings over purchasing and maintaining their own hardware and software. Your data should be securely stored on the provider's computers—not only in database or file storage, but in application processing. Exposed Data Transfers.

Cloud 150

Cloud Software Software Security 150

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Networking. Koyeb describes , at a high level, the global networking stack for their serverless platform. Servers/Hardware. William Lam takes a look at some potentially interesting homelab hardware. Jim Jones has an article on getting started with S3-compatible object storage. Seriously.). Yes, please.

Storage 79

Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

Virtualized Greek

DECEMBER 30, 2013

I am wondering if Cisco’s ACI Software Defined Networking (SDN) solution is vaporware. VMware’s purchase of Nicira seems to be the catalyst for Cisco’s stepped up campaign against “software only” network virtualization, a form of SDN. A centralized policy management and Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC).

Virtualization 97

Virtualization Hardware Network Software 97

Scott Lowe

MAY 7, 2021

In this Technology Short Take, I’ve gathered some links for you covering topics like Azure and AWS networking, moving from macOS to Linux (and back again), and more. Networking. ” Specifically, this post talks about Kubernetes networking. Servers/Hardware. maximizing revenue per hardware instance).

Linux 60

Linux Hardware Network Cloud 60

SecureWorld News

JANUARY 13, 2022

That is, our primary security controls of firewalls, intrusion prevention, network segmentation, and wired network security are no longer the primary method to manage technology in a COE. Organizations must adapt their security controls to home networks and even public WiFi. So how does this affect the COE?

Authentication 81

Authentication Resources Security Cloud 81

Scott Lowe

APRIL 29, 2022

My link of links and articles from around the Internet is a bit light on networking and virtualization this time around, but heftier in the security, cloud, and OS/application sections. Networking. Servers/Hardware. Liam Galvin shows a couple of ways that Rego (the language behind Open Policy Agent) can be used maliciously.

Linux 74

Linux Storage Programming Applications 74

Galido

OCTOBER 10, 2019

This activity is known as Vulnerability Assessment, and it aims to find weaknesses in software or hardware platforms to solve failures, before they can generate a negative impact. Every security analyst knows that managing vulnerabilities in a corporate network is a never-ending task. Perform “Mapping” of the Network.

Development 72

Development How To Analysis Hardware 72

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Networking. Back in April of this year, Patrick Ogenstad announced Netrasp , a Go package for writing network automation tooling in Go. Servers/Hardware. Having recently needed to dig into Open Policy Agent (OPA) , I took renewed interest in this slightly older article by Chip Zoller that compares OPA/Gatekeeper with Kyverno.

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2020

I don’t have any links for servers/hardware or security in today’s Short Take, but hopefully there’s enough linked content in the other sections that you’ll still find something useful. Networking. Andreas Wittig takes a look at some advanced AWS networking pitfalls to avoid. Servers/Hardware.

Storage 60

Storage Tools Architecture Network 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Networking. 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. Here’s a post by Ron Fuller on changing the IP address of NSX Manager.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Networking. Brian Boucheron provides a great article on how to inspect and debug Kubernetes network primitives. Servers/Hardware. The big news in the hardware space recently was the article regarding the purported Chinese hardware supply chain attack. Matthew Green rants on Chrome’s new forced login policy.

Hardware 60

Hardware Open Source Vmware Linux 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

Networking. There’s lots of talk about applying test-driven development (TDD) principles in various automation contexts, but I like the fact that Ajay Chenampara provides some practical examples in his blog post on applying TDD in network automation using Ansible. If you’re just starting your network automation journey, start small.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Examples 60

GeekWire

AUGUST 15, 2021

As an example, we understood that customers would want basic capabilities to work even if they happen to lose network connectivity. In recent years, we’ve pursued various techniques to make neural networks efficient enough to run on-device and minimize the memory and compute footprint without losing accuracy.

Policies 142

Policies Examples Artificial Intelligence Training 142

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

This builds on TCP to enforce policies about where instances are allowed to run. Next, Intel talks about how they have worked to expose hardware features into OpenStack. Gopal now takes over and moves the discussion into storage in OpenStack. Users can then request that their instances are scheduled onto trusted nodes.

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Intel Storage Open Source Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Networking. Brian Linkletter has a post on how to run the Antidote network emulator on KVM for better performance. Antidote, as I understand it, is the network emulator that runs the labs on the NRELabs web site (which is another cool thing in and of itself). Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time; sorry! Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Linux Hardware 60

Galido

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Not all service providers have a transparent data management policy, and when you live it on the blind. Neither software or hardware is reliable when it comes to downtime experienced due to data backup. Data Deletion Policy. A data deletion policy is as good as a security policy. Service Downtime.

Backup 87

Backup How To Data Policies 87

Sean Daniel

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Announcing Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. This morning, building on the Windows Small Business Server 2011 Announcement , we are announcing a new edition targeted at Small Business called Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. What is this Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials? SeanDaniel.com [tech].

Storage 73

Storage Windows Small Business Backup 73

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.

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Meeting Storage Hardware Network 63

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. Tom Hollingsworth discusses how the rise of overlay networks killed large layer 2 networks and tools for building large layer 2 networks, like TRILL.

Vmware 60

Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Networking. Ivan Pepelnjak has a great article that tries to get to the kernel of truth in the middle of the intent-based networking hype. The company is VirTool Networks (catchy, eh?), Servers/Hardware. Joep Piscaer discusses his use of ProtonVPN as an always-on VPN for his home network.

Storage 60

Storage Vmware Load Balancer Network 60

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.

WAN 62

WAN Wireless Network Cloud 62

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Networking. Back in April of this year, Patrick Ogenstad announced Netrasp , a Go package for writing network automation tooling in Go. Servers/Hardware. Having recently needed to dig into Open Policy Agent (OPA) , I took renewed interest in this slightly older article by Chip Zoller that compares OPA/Gatekeeper with Kyverno.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

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.

Linux 60

Linux Network Vmware Disaster Recovery 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Networking. Via Kirk Byers (who is himself a fantastic resource), I read a couple of articles on network automation that I think readers may find helpful. First up is a treatise from Mircea Ulinic on whether network automation is needed. I first ran into Forward Networks a few years ago at Fall ONUG in New York.

Network 60

Network Resources Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 1, 2019

Networking. Daniel Dib has a great article on how network engineers need to evolve. The network isn’t going away, it’s just changing. I referenced part 1 of Ajay Chenampara’s series on the Ansible network-engine command parser back in Technology Short Take 102 (July of last year). Servers/Hardware.

Operating Systems 60

Operating Systems Authentication Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

Networking. Part 2 of Stark and Wayne’s container-to-container networking for Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes dig deep into CNI workings. Milind Gunjan shares some tips for troubleshooting Linux bridged networking on a KVM host. Milind Gunjan shares some tips for troubleshooting Linux bridged networking on a KVM host.

Open Source 60

Open Source Tools Policies Cloud 60

The Verge

JULY 4, 2021

Much like its predecessor, the 20 Pro 5G combines a high-end look with a budget price tag — $499 for 6GB of RAM and 256GB of storage in this case. That’s $50 higher than the 10 Pro’s starting price, but this time you get more storage and 5G, too. The camera hardware is clearly capable of good things.

Wireless 66

Wireless Budget Network Policies 66

Scott Lowe

MAY 29, 2020

Let’s see what I’ve managed to collect for you this time around… Networking. Ivan Pepelnjak provides a 101-level overview of AWS networking. Andrew Sy Kim tackles explaining a (somewhat) obscure part of Kubernetes networking: the externalTrafficPolicy setting. Servers/Hardware. Read his write-up here.

Linux 60

Linux Virtualization Security Backup 60

Galido

JANUARY 31, 2020

Your business has critical technology-related assets that include hardware and software systems. The Development of Policies, Procedures, and Systems. This system sets important policies, procedures, and systems in place. Your formal IT organization must include a well-defined network, storage, and computing elements.

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System Resources Policies Development 94