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.” This brings Chagam to discussing Ceph, which he describes as the “only” (quotes his) open source virtual block storage option.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2024

Servers/Hardware Alex Ellis provides some details on his workflow for booting Raspberry Pi 5 from NVMe. Tom Hummel finds himself veering back into a hardware-based home lab (instead of a cloud-based lab). A set of vulnerabilities in the open source reference implementation of the UEFI specification has been uncovered.

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Network World

APRIL 5, 2017

A critical vulnerability in the widely used Xen hypervisor allows attackers to break out of a guest operating system running inside a virtual machine and access the host system's entire memory. The new vulnerability affects Xen 4.8.x, x, and 4.4.x x and has existed in the Xen code base for over four years.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

Servers/Hardware Menno Finlay-Smits shares information on reducing fan noise on Intel NUCs. The vulnerability affects virtually all Linux distributions and allows attackers to bypass the secure boot protections and insert a low-level bootkit. Ivan Pepelnjak dives deep on DHCP relaying on a Linux host.

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CTOvision

APRIL 21, 2014

Here are details: Solid Heralds the Merging of the Physical and Virtual Worlds. As big data moves from the Web into the physical world, it’s more important than ever that people who deal with software and people who deal with hardware and machinery understand each other,” says Jon Bruner, who chairs Solid with MIT Media Lab’s Joi Ito.

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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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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Built upon the foundational research powering Google’s impressive Gemini models , Google Gemma AI is part of the company’s ongoing commitment to open-source AI development. Google Gemma AI represents a suite of lightweight language models released for open-source use. What is Google Gemma AI?

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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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The Verge

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The video shows off virtually the whole development process. The video also shows off just how difficult it was to fit the extra circuitry, with the board bending around both sides of Apple’s Taptic Engine hardware to squeeze in all the necessary components.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Servers/Hardware. The open source ko project has applied to become a CNCF Sandbox project. Virtualization. Mike McQuaid talks about entitlement in open source. I think some of the lessons in this article could apply to a lot of different scenarios, not just open source usage. I love this idea

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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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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

MAY 27, 2022

network virtualization). Is the relationship between network virtualization and service mesh closer than some folks might wish to admit? Servers/Hardware. marks the first release of the open source container orchestration platform that is signed using Sigstore (more details here ). Virtualization.

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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). Nvidia gets two bites at this market.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. I really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts. Virtualization. Jeremy Cowan shows how to use Cluster API to provision an AWS EKS cluster.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Still, there’s a decent collection of networking, cloud computing, and virtualization articles as well as a smattering of other topics for you to peruse. Servers/Hardware. Docker recently open-sourced the Docker Compose integration for Amazon ECS and Microsoft ACI. Virtualization. Networking. Programming.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Well, let’s see…stuff on Envoy, network automation, network designs, M1 chips (and potential open source variants!), Servers/Hardware. Are open source M1-style chips a possibility? Virtualization. Welcome to Technology Short Take #145! What will you find in this Tech Short Take?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The Engage is due to be unveiled on September 12th at the virtual UbiComp conference, after which its design, hardware, and firmware will all be open-sourced on GitHub. You can read all about its development in a feature published by CNET.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 7, 2023

For the enterprise, planning edge strategies and reaping their rewards is often a complex and challenging process, with myriad applications to deploy, a proliferation of hardware devices to manage, multiple data types and sources to integrate, and significant security risks to avoid.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

The data security pillar includes data encryption, conforming to key management policies, and integration with existing Hardware Security Module as part of key management infrastructure. The Navigator Key Trustee is a “virtual safe-deposit box” with built-in audit capabilities. Cloudera has various methods for keeping your data secure.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 26, 2021

A quantum hardware engineer works on one of the dilution refrigerators used at the AWS Center for Quantum Computing. “We’re in the building,” Painter, the AWS center’s head of quantum hardware, told GeekWire. AWS Photo). “Our people have been working there, which has been great. ”

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 8, 2022

“We were winning more work, but we wondered how we were going to fulfill it,” Swift says, adding that he was able to hire 200 new contractors in India and in the Philippines to meet the firm’s contractual obligations by using Microsoft’s Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD). “It It will also save the firm a bundle on hardware costs.

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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. It allows any network to be virtualized using a software overlay. Cisco which is a hardware company, first believes in a Hardware first approach. It’s a battle between software and hardware.

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The Verge

MARCH 7, 2022

It was the beginning of something small but profound: the Uxn , a virtual ecosystem to make experimental tools and games that exists outside the revolving door of always-online tech anchored to subscriptions, needlessly complicated upgrades, and increasingly problematic forms of digital ownership.

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GeekWire

APRIL 26, 2021

Silicon Valley-based YC accepted a record 350 new companies for its winter program, which participated in a virtual Demo Day March 23. What was it like going through the Y Combinator program virtually? Building features and support onto their open-source model is a big part of what differentiates them from their competitors, they said.

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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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CTOvision

MARCH 13, 2014

Here are details: Solid Heralds the Merging of the Physical and Virtual Worlds. Brian Gerkey, CEO of Open Source Robotics Foundation. Do so by attending and engaging with others at the 21-22 May O’Reilly Solid conference in San Francisco. You can sign up with our CTOvision discount code to register with a 20% discount.

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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. This is especially true when compared to making a virtual machine with its own OS for each application.

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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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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Michael Kashin has a good post on source IP address selection in Linux. Servers/Hardware I must admit that I always wanted to have a Sun workstation, and I’ve had an interest in SunOS/Solaris for years (check out this link if you don’t believe me). Here are some design considerations for Wi-Fi 6E (6GHz) networks.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. I really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts. Virtualization. Jeremy Cowan shows how to use Cluster API to provision an AWS EKS cluster.

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Galido

JANUARY 21, 2017

Hadoop is a software framework under open-source technologies for storing the information and running the applications on commodity hardware clusters. It enables huge storage for any type of data, high power of processing and the capability to manage virtually unlimited jobs or tasks concurrently.

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Vox

MAY 9, 2023

For years, Meta has employed a world-class AI research team that, as recently as last month, has been publishing industry-changing research, and is taking a notably different, open-source approach that could give it an advantage over its peers. I’m talking, of course, about open source.”

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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

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.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 18, 2016

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. Media distribution: Over-the-top television. To track more on this topic see: @BloombergBeta.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Cole Atkinson discusses the fact that osxfuse is no longer open source , and the ramifications of this development on open source in general. Virtualization. I recently spotted Multipass , a virtualization solution for working with Linux instances. Networking.

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