AT&T to Open Source Network Hardware, NFV Software
Data Center Knowledge
JUNE 17, 2015
As it replaces complex appliances with commodity hardware and software, the telco plans to make some of its own innovation public Read More.
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10 highest-paying IT skills for 2024
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 12, 2024
These roles include data scientist, machine learning engineer, software engineer, research scientist, full-stack developer, deep learning engineer, software architect, and field programmable gate array (FPGA) engineer. It is used to execute and improve machine learning tasks such as NLP, computer vision, and deep learning.
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5 open source alternatives for routing/firewall
Network World
SEPTEMBER 12, 2016
Economical and flexible Open source software offers an economical and flexible option for deploying basic home, SMB or even enterprise networking. These products can be downloaded and deployed on your own hardware, on a virtual platform, or in the cloud. Many of them sell pre-configured appliances as well.
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Review: 5 open source alternatives for routers/firewalls
Network World
SEPTEMBER 12, 2016
Open source software offers an economical and flexible option for deploying basic home, SMB or even enterprise networking. These open source products deliver simple routing and networking features, like DHCP and DNS. We reviewed five products: ClearOS, DD-WRT, pfSense, Untangle and ZeroShell.
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21-22 May O’Reilly Solid Conference Heralds the Merging of the Physical and Virtual Worlds
CTOvision
APRIL 21, 2014
Here are details: Solid Heralds the Merging of the Physical and Virtual Worlds. Call it the Internet of Things, the Age of Intelligent Devices, the Industrial Internet, the Programmable World, a neologism of your own choosing—it amounts to the same thing—the intersection of software, the Internet, big data, and physical objects.
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Inside our hybrid studio: GeekWire’s tech tips and tricks for the latest twist in virtual meetings
GeekWire
AUGUST 21, 2021
The last 18 months have been an audio-visual adventure, requiring many of us to improve and refine our at-home tech setups for virtual meetings and remote work. 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.
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Modernizing the mainframe for the digital era
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 24, 2022
The program enables customers to pay only for what they use of Z system hardware and software. Z upgrades and open source. IBM’s hardware timetable calls for CPU upgrades approximately every two and a half years. “We But hardware alone will not guarantee the future of IBM’s mainframe architecture.
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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 18, 2023
Still, software developers seeking to leverage graphics chips for non-graphical applications had to wrangle their calculations into a form that could be sent to the GPU as a series of instructions for either Microsoft’s DirectX graphics API or the open-source OpenGL (Open Graphics Library).
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How Open Hybrid Clouds Will Change Cloud Computing
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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Meet the Seattle-area startups that just graduated — remotely — from Y Combinator
GeekWire
APRIL 26, 2021
Five Seattle-area startups just graduated from Y Combinator’s remote accelerator with new ideas on software containers, note-taking, reusable rockets and managing a hybrid workplace. Silicon Valley-based YC accepted a record 350 new companies for its winter program, which participated in a virtual Demo Day March 23.
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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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Watch A New World Of Innovation Launch At O’Reilly Solid Conference 21-22 May 2014 in San Francisco
CTOvision
MARCH 13, 2014
By Bob Gourley It is time we all began to focus more on the coming age of a totally networked, software-enhanced, continually enhancing, device enabled world. Here are details: Solid Heralds the Merging of the Physical and Virtual Worlds. Brian Gerkey, CEO of Open Source Robotics Foundation.
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Juniper SDN – OpenContrail
Virtualized Greek
JANUARY 27, 2014
Recently, I wrote a post on about VMware and Cisco jockeying for the position as the dominate player in network virtualization. VMware believes their software first initiative called NSX is the way to go. It allows any network to be virtualized using a software overlay. It’s a battle between software and hardware.
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Cloud PC preps Grant Thornton for hybrid future
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 8, 2022
The UK-based accounting and tax consulting firm was one of few accountants in the UK that weathered the 2020 tax season without a hitch, thanks to its early bet on SaaS, Microsoft Azure, and software-defined networking. We increased our resources by a couple hundred people, and we couldn’t have done it without the Virtual Desktop.”.
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Comprehending Machine Intelligence: Research and Graphic by Shivon Zilis
CTOvision
JANUARY 18, 2016
New organizational models: Bringing software development methodologies to other applications (e.g., Human-computer interaction: Hardware companies with network effects. Technology platforms: Exploiting the increasing power of the browser, and WebRTC in particular; exploring companion businesses to open source software.
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Cybersecurity for Nonprofits: Cost-Effective Defense Strategies
SecureWorld News
JANUARY 21, 2024
It's also important to be picky when it comes to software purchases since things like using invoice financing platforms with weak security can override any internal security efforts you've already undertaken. For instance, hardware- or software-based firewalls can monitor incoming and outgoing network traffic and block suspicious activity.
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Facebook is giving up on brain-typing as an AR glasses interface
The Verge
JULY 14, 2021
On the hardware side, we need to build systems that have higher data resolution to record more information from the brain, and more quickly. The Facebook Reality Labs headset, which was not used in the study. In a press release, UCSF neurosurgery chair Eddie Chang says the next step is to improve the system and test it with more people. “On
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Why Kubernetes Is So Popular in the Tech World
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
(Lack of) Patch Management Highlighted in US Congress
Cloud Musings
MARCH 9, 2018
According to the former Equifax CEO’s testimony to Congress , one of the primary causes of this now infamous data breach was the company’s failure to patch a critical vulnerability in the open source Apache Struts Web application framework. A process to identify vulnerabilities in hardware, operating systems, and applications.
Best Practices for Securing Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)
SecureWorld News
DECEMBER 3, 2020
Open-source reports indicate that Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) usage jumped an estimated 41% when COVID-19 struck.". Open-source reports also tell us that over 3.5 million devices have RDP open publicly. However, just because these are open publicly does not mean the devices are actively exploited.
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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). Virtualization.
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Supply chain woes? Analytics may be the answer
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 5, 2022
Supply chain woes continue to plague organizations around the world and in virtually all sectors. It is also leveraging open source libraries such as XGBoost and Prophet; a variety of analytics tools; and Apache Airflow, an open-source workflow management platform, for data engineering and report automation.
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Best IT and Tech Blogs – Must Read Information Technology Resources 2019
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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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. Virtualization. Thanks for reading!
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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Fuzzing Message Brokers
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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Carrier-Grade SDN-Based OpenStack Networking Solution
Scott Lowe
NOVEMBER 7, 2017
This involves more extensive use of virtual network functions (VNFs) and software-defined infrastructure based on open software and open hardware. exclusively leverages open source software. Virtual router scalability. Optimized East-West routing (no virtual router needed).
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Crypto-currencies and their promise for enterprise technology professionals
CTOvision
JANUARY 25, 2016
It was invented by Satoshi Nakamoto, who published the invention in 2008 and released it as open source software in 2009. The design of this system operates without a central repository, making it a decentralized virtual currency. More precisely, bitcoin is a digital asset and a payment system.
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150 Tech Blogs – Best Must Read Tech Resources 2019
Galido
MAY 1, 2019
The deeper we dive into modern technology terms, the more it seems we try to blend physical and virtual worlds together. 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.
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Best Tech Blogs – Must Read Tech Resources 2019
Galido
MARCH 22, 2019
The deeper we dive into modern technology terms, the more it seems we try to blend physical and virtual worlds together. 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.
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107 Gaming Trends of the Past, 2016 and Beyond
Galido
MAY 10, 2016
Virtual Reality and Immersive Gaming. With improved hardware capabilities, 3D technologies and virtual reality is becoming more and more popular in gaming. With improved hardware capabilities, 3D technologies and virtual reality is becoming more and more popular in gaming. Conclusion.
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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
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. Chip Zoller makes the argument in favor of running Kubernetes in/on virtual machines. Virtualization. That’s cool. Good for the EFF.
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what every open source project needs
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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Kicking the Policy Discussion Into High Gear
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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Top Tech Websites 2019
Galido
SEPTEMBER 25, 2019
The deeper we dive into modern technology terms, the more it seems we try to blend physical and virtual worlds together. 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.
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IDF 2014: Data Center Mega-Session
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). Open source investments in Ceph and OpenStack Swift.
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IDF 2013: Enhancing OpenStack with Intel Technologies
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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60 Technology Short Take #70
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 Numan Siddique describes the native DHCP support available in OVN (Open Virtual Network). Servers/Hardware.
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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. Virtualization.
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iPhone Vs Android — A Comparative Study 2018
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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66 Best IT Blogs – Must Read Information Technology Resources 2019
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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Technology Short Take 113
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. Virtualization. Who says you can’t please everyone all the time? Networking.
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Technology Short Take 112
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. Virtualization. Via Ivan Pepelnjak’s site, Albert Siersema shares some information on using Ansible to automate 802.1x configurations. Larry Smith Jr.
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Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 6, 2013
A fan of network virtualization might also say that decomposing today’s complex physical networks into multiple simple logical networks on top of a simpler physical transport network—similar to Mike’s suggestion of converging on a smaller set of reference architectures—might also help. (Of Here’s a good source.
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