Galido

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

It has a standard 15-inch form-factor and a good quality of the hardware. Operating System. Windows 10 Home 64-bit. The touchpad supports multi-finger gestures providing convenience to use Windows 10. 64GB eMMC Storage (Upgradable via SD card slot). Operating System. Windows 10 Pro S.

Budget 108

Budget Dell Intel Operating Systems 108

GeekWire

OCTOBER 1, 2020

in the consumer market for a configuration with an Intel Core i5 processor, 4GB of memory and 64GB of storage. A model of the Surface Laptop Go with an i5 processor, 8GB of memory and 256GB of storage will sell for $899.99. The base model, with an SQ 1 processor, 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage sells for $999.

Microsoft 96

Microsoft Storage Intel Windows 96

Dataconomy

JUNE 22, 2023

This software suite is compatible with both Windows and macOS operating systems, and offers a spectrum of six different editions to cater to diverse user needs. Recovery from non-booting Windows systems For Windows systems that fail to boot, Stellar Data Recovery Technician can still restore RAID data.

Data 68

Data Software Software Windows 68

The Verge

APRIL 22, 2021

Not a clamshell, but a Surface Pro type of deal: a tablet with laptop hardware and a laptop OS. It can come with up to 2TB of storage and 16GB of RAM. But now that the iPad Pro is an M1 system, I don’t see why it can’t run macOS apps. Because it has the same hardware as the MacBook Air (including the fanless form factor).

Hardware 134

Hardware Apple Video Course 134

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. All Things Distributed. Comments (). License Includedâ??

Development 116

Development Windows Disaster Recovery Licensing 116

Scott Lowe

APRIL 29, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Poorna Gaddehosur has an update on getting Linux-based eBPF programs to run with eBPF on Windows. Also from Howard, here’s an explanation of why you may be getting less-than-promised storage throughput for USB-C storage on your M1-based Macs.

Linux 74

Linux Storage Programming Applications 74

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. Operating Systems/Applications. I need to move it back to Windows from Linux. That’s cool. Both are good articles.

Linux 60

Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Ben Armstrong shows you how to use PowerShell to give your Windows server a proper fully-qualified domain name. Here’s a Windows-centric walkthrough to using Nginx to load balance across a Docker Swarm cluster. Intel NUC or SuperMicro E200-8D? Yes, please! (I

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

I’ve been a Mac OS X user for a long time; I switched from Windows to OS X in 2003 when the OS X flavor of the day was 10.2 “Jaguar.” Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well. I adopted OS X as my operating system of choice in 2003 because I wanted a stable, powerful, UNIX-based operating system.

Operating Systems 131

Operating Systems Apple Applications Linux 131

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Jason Messer has an article describing how networking works with Windows containers. Dmitri Kalintsev examines some options for addressing storage-related connectivity in NSX environments. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Drew Conry-Murray shines a light on Intel’s network ambitions.

Vmware 60

Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful. Operating Systems/Applications. This other post by Cody on automated Windows 10 post-install may also be useful.

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful. Operating Systems/Applications. This other post by Cody on automated Windows 10 post-install may also be useful.

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Sean Daniel

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 and Interaction with Small Business Server 2011 Essentials. I know I have talked before about Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 , and how it can help your Small Business with thin clients, old clients, seasonal employees and even reducing the number of machines in the office by getting one nice one.

Windows 80

Windows Small Business Backup SMB 80

Galido

AUGUST 7, 2018

IOTransfer allows you to transfer media files between PC and iOS and manage your iPhone or iPad without iTunes on Windows or on Mac. IOTransfer offers such capability and also works in Windows 7/8/8.1/10, IOTransfer: An easier to use alternative to iTunes for Windows. iTunes is not always favored by iOS and Mac users.

Video 66

Video Backup Windows Software 66

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

Servers/Hardware. dll , a core Windows cryptographic component) that was rumored to be fixed the next day (January 14) on the first “Patch Tuesday” of 2020. Now I really want to see hardware security key support in the desktop and mobile apps! Operating Systems/Applications. Time to get patching, folks!

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Windows Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Kevin Houston discusses workload acceleration options—specifically, storage acceleration via NVMe or PCIe SSDs—for blade servers. He also has a good article outlining some storage options for various blade server platforms that might be helpful as well. Operating Systems/Applications.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? Although Linux is often considered to be superior to Windows and macOS with regard to security, it is not without its own security flaws. Operating Systems/Applications. What happens to submarine cables when there are massive events, like a volcanic eruption?

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Bozhidar Batsov shares the story of how he left macOS for Linux and ended up on Windows 10 with WSL. Austin Hughley for sticking it out through all the challenges and documenting how to use a Windows gaming PC as a (Linux) Docker host. Plastic microchips ?

Linux 90

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Servers/Hardware. Another interesting tidbit regarding hardware: it seems as if we are now seeing the emergence of another round of “hardware offloads.” This next round of hardware offloads seems targeted at network virtualization and related technologies. Operating Systems/Applications.

Virtualization 60

Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

This is my irregularly-published collection of links and articles from around the Internet related to the major data center technologies: networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications/OSes, storage, and virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Feeling geeky?

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Windows 60

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. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Nothing this time around! Career/Soft Skills.

Storage 60

Storage Tools Architecture Network 60

The Verge

APRIL 8, 2022

The hardware differences between 2020’s Tab S7 / S7 Plus and this year’s Tab S8 versions are such: New Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor. Just like before, the hardware is impressive, and either tablet provides an excellent video watching experience. Either model can be had with a respectable 128GB or 256GB of built-in storage.

Hardware 59

Hardware Windows Apple Storage 59

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful. Operating Systems/Applications. This other post by Cody on automated Windows 10 post-install may also be useful.

Windows 60

Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. So, it’s pretty cool that you’ll be able to run Windows-based containers (via Docker) on Windows Server 2016; here’s an article that discusses using Packer and Vagrant to try it out yourself. It’s a good post, well worth reading (in my opinion). Maybe next time?

Vmware 60

Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Servers/Hardware. While all the attention is “up the stack,” there are still some occasions when you need to worry about the details in the hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. I’m not sure if this falls into storage or virtualization, but we’ll place it here in the Storage section.

Vmware 69

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Bozhidar Batsov shares the story of how he left macOS for Linux and ended up on Windows 10 with WSL. Austin Hughley for sticking it out through all the challenges and documenting how to use a Windows gaming PC as a (Linux) Docker host. Plastic microchips ?

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. The Windows Server team managed to shrink the size of the Windows Server Core container image by about 60%; get more details here. Nick Korte shares some “lessons learned” as his team explored VMware vSAN as a storage solution.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Servers/Hardware. On the hardware side of things, we have James Hamilton of AWS discussing two hardware-related items coming out of AWS re:Invent 2018. Weijuan Shi Davis collected some resources related to Windows containers on Kubernetes in this post-KubeCon post. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Case Study 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Uh oh… more hardware exploits. Adrian’s operational review readiness template is another great post as well. Operating Systems/Applications. It almost feels like we are well into Windows Registry territory here. OpenCSPM looks like it could be quite a useful tool. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Open Source Examples 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

Servers/Hardware. ” Operating Systems/Applications. Mark Church from Docker provides an update on Windows containers with Docker and Kubernetes , specifically calling out the support for Windows node as of the Kubernetes 1.14 configurations. Nothing this time around! There are some useful Bash tips here.

Open Source 60

Open Source Tools Policies Cloud 60

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!

Open Source 60

Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

As described in this Metacloud blog post , vxfld is designed to “handle VXLAN traffic from any operationg system or hardware platform that adheres to the IETF Internet-Draft for VXLAN” Nir Yechiel recently posted part 1 of a discussion on the need for network overlays. Servers/Hardware. Technology Short Take #44.

Linux 60

Linux Network Vmware Disaster Recovery 60

The Verge

DECEMBER 23, 2020

A great gaming rig and an okay laptop If you’re looking for the absolute most powerful gaming hardware out there. The base model comes with a Core i7-10875H, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super, 1GB of SSD storage, and a 240Hz screen. You can also use it to access a private storage space, which Asus refers to as a “shadow drive.”

Storage 106

Storage LAN Hardware Course 106

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Greg Schulz discusses new Power9-based systems announced by IBM; see his post. Operating Systems/Applications. Microsoft is adding a third Windows container image, in addition to the existing Nano Server and Windows Server Core images. An 8TB NVMe drive? Chris Evans has more details.

Vmware 60

Vmware Conference Cloud Windows 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Jeda Networks describes themselves as a “software-defined storage networking” company. Given my previous role at EMC (involved in storage) and my current role at VMware focused on network virtualization (which encompasses SDN), I was quite curious. At that point, the system DRAM almost looks like another level of cache.

Meeting 63

Meeting Storage Hardware Network 63

Scott Lowe

APRIL 27, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. I found this article on the “end of Windows” to be an interesting read. The Kubernetes blog has some more details on the Container Storage Interface (CSI) in Kubernetes 1.10, which has moved from alpha to beta as part of the 1.10 Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Open Source Security 60

GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2021

Device driver and E/PROM programmers are closest to the hardware, and that bottoms-up understanding how a computer operates — from booting to loading the OS, to launching apps and beyond — is still immensely valuable, even in the era of cloud and AI/machine learning!”. “My What did you learn from it?

Transportation 126

Transportation Windows Software Software 126