Virtualized Greek

MAY 9, 2013

Reblogged from GigaOM: The Open Compute Project, which Facebook launched a little more than two years ago, has decided that utterly disrupting the server and storage market isn''t enough. On Wednesday, it said it would solicit input on an open source top-of-rack switch.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 11, 2016

If those options weren’t enough, here comes the open hybrid cloud. An open hybrid cloud leverages the benefits of accessing data and processes across private and public implementations, while facilitating open source development. Providers are now offering services that combine IT assets in an open hybrid cloud.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 18, 2021

” That makes the International Space Station an extreme case study for edge computing, the concept of bringing storage and processing closer to the source of data to improve speed and reduce the bandwidth needed for cloud computing. Spaceborne Computer-2 (HPE Image).

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

In the past, one option was to use open-source data analytics platforms to analyze data using on-premises infrastructure. Another option was to leverage the compute, storage and analytics services of public cloud providers. Data analytics is the key to unlocking the most value you can extract from data across your organization.

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Galido

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

It can help to reduce IT costs by eliminating the need for expensive storage and hardware kept on-site. Use Open Source Software. Software costs can be incredibly expensive in terms of purchasing cost and annual maintenance. This is just one of the many benefits that cloud computing brings to businesses.

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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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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Filippo Valsorda speculates on how open source maintainers need to evolve into professional maintainers. This is a topic that comes up every time a notable vulnerability or flaw is found in some piece of heavily-used open source software; the prompt this time, as far as I can tell, is the Log4j vulnerability.

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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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Galido

JULY 20, 2018

With Android, the user has to choose between many brands that use Google software and between different price and quality options. This could be true as Apple software only needs to work on Apple hardware, where Android software needs to work on multiple varieties of devices. Aesthetics, Hardware and Price.

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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

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!

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CTOvision

JANUARY 15, 2014

The joint development work focuses on Apache Accumulo, the scalable, high performance distributed key/value store that is part of the Apache Software Foundation. Cloudera announced support for Accumulo in 2013 as part of their ongoing commitment to open source software.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 21, 2021

We’re sharing some of our hard-earned lessons on this behind-the-scenes episode of the GeekWire Podcast, including details on hardware and software. Microsoft audio gear: We used a few different Microsoft mics and accessories that integrate with the company’s Teams software. Different companies.).

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Galido

APRIL 27, 2020

For a start, it provides easy optimization of infrastructural resources since it uses hardware more effectively. However, even though the project was promising, in 2015, Google released this tool as an open-source project. The isolation containers enable users to run their software consistently across environments, ?n

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Infrastructure will be software defined. F5′s products use Intel CPUs, but they also leverage FPGAs to selectively enable certain functions in hardware for improved performance. Bryant shifts the discussion to software-defined infrastructure (SDI). Bryant shifts the discussion to software-defined infrastructure (SDI).

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

This is a liveblog of IDF 2014 session DATS009, titled “Ceph: Open Source Storage Software Optimizations on Intel Architecture for Cloud Workloads.” Chagam does admit that not all workloads are suited for distributed storage solutions. Chagam turns to discussing Ceph block storage.

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The Verge

APRIL 16, 2022

As someone who used a Switch Lite for a couple of years, though, I actually think Ayn’s hardware is better. The only real complaint I have about this hardware is the goofy Odin logo underneath the D-pad. I’ve been testing the $287 Odin Pro, which has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor, 8GB of RAM, and 128GB of storage.

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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

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. Thinking About Open Source. Group Policy Resources.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

One involves the development of a space robot operating system that will rely on open-source software and provide greater autonomy while reducing operating costs and improving interoperability with other space systems. Kent, Wash.-based based Blue Origin will partner with NASA on two projects. AI SpaceFactory of Secaucus, N.J.,

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

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. Side note: you’ll probably start seeing more Pure Storage-focused content from Jase moving forward.). That’s cool. Not cool , Wacom.

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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?

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Cloud Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

Jackson and Scott Goessling was selected for use by the Tulane University School of Professional Advancement, Applied Computing Systems & Technology Program as the textbook for their mandatory Enterprise Architecture - Hardware course starting Spring Semester 2019. I am proud and honored to be trusted by such a prestigious institution.

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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.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Tim Hinrichs discusses securing the Kubernetes API with Open Policy Agent. This article discusses four open source secrets management tools. Via Ivan Pepelnjak’s site, Albert Siersema shares some information on using Ansible to automate 802.1x configurations. Nothing this time around!

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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. Atomic writes are used in the popular MySQL databases for streamlining the software stack by replacing the need to write twice to maintain atomicty, or database ACID compliance.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2023

It’s a tall order, and one that will hinge on a few factors: Accelerator deployment and management at scale Changes to power and cooling design decisions at very large scale Open-source deployment of high-performance clusters to run simulation, AI, and data analytics workloads What’s New and Growing Among HPC Users?

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

And while we are on the topic of Linux and open source in the networking industry…read this entertaining and informative article on the importance of (truly) open source libraries in networking. Servers/Hardware. The project itself is open source and hosted on GitHub. Per the README.md

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Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Via the Kubernetes blog , Box announced it has open sourced a project called kube-iptables-tailer , which turns packet drops from iptables into Kubernetes events that can be logged for easier troubleshooting. Servers/Hardware. Who says you can’t please everyone all the time? Networking. It’s the end of an era.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

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. This is pretty cool: a WYSIWYG topology designer for VMware NSX. Virtualization.

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Nick Korte shares some “lessons learned” as his team explored VMware vSAN as a storage solution. Steve Tilkens has a review of some different storage options he’s explored in his VMware-based home lab. Ed Haletky has an updated Linux version of the VMware Software Manager.

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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? Technology Short Take #44. Similar Posts: Technology Short Take #43.

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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. Virtualization.

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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. Samuel Karp has a list of guidelines for designing and testing software daemons.

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Linux Academy

APRIL 30, 2019

You learn the basic knowledge of computer hardware, gain an understanding of open-source applications in the workplace, and learn to navigate systems on a Linux desktop, as well as rudimentary commands to navigate the Linux command line. AWS Concepts – This course is for the absolute beginner. Then this course is for you.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

For all your other desktop software needs, there’s usually a free, open-source program that can do just as good a job. Another advantage, which Mint shares with other Linux distros, is it runs on low-power hardware. When you create a USB drive, you’ll be given the option to set it up with persistent storage.

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