CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 11, 2023

As an IT leader, you probably haven’t spent a lot of time obsessing over the microprocessors powering your corporate computing hardware. A chef doesn’t stop to consider the electronic systems powering her culinary tools as she’s trying to plan and execute a multi-course menu. Who can blame you? What’s next for silicon?

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Hardware Tools Dell 52

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. Julia Evans recently released a tool named dnspeep to help folks understand how DNS works. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Welcome to Technology Short Take #146! Networking.

IPv6 97

IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 97

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Manoj Bhagwat provides a high-level overview of Kiali and how to install it. Programming.

Virtualization 79

Virtualization Storage Programming Network 79

GeekWire

JULY 21, 2021

In addition, Amazon will let developers promote their skills in the regular rotation of content on the Echo Show home screen, using a tool called Featured Skill Cards. Amazon announced more than 50 new developer features and tools as part of its Alexa Live virtual conference. .

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Development Real Estate Conference Apple 122

The Verge

OCTOBER 20, 2021

He noted that Google’s acquisition of Fitbit is still “pretty early in the integration” since the purchase only went through a few months ago — it takes time to develop a product, after all, especially one with a new operating system that Fitbit has never used before. But years later, Google’s list of hardware partners is wearing thin.

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Hardware Google Apple Examples 124

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 24, 2022

After all, entry-level pricing for mainframes in the z15 family running IBM Z operating systems is $250,000. IBM LinuxONE III systems run only Linux at prices starting at $135,000. The program enables customers to pay only for what they use of Z system hardware and software. Z upgrades and open source.

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IBM Banking Linux Open Source 144

SecureWorld News

APRIL 9, 2023

The browser isolation technique considers non-whitelisted websites unreliable and isolates them from the local machine in a virtual environment. Let's examine this process and explore the various browser isolation tools available today. This approach decouples actual browsing from the endpoint and uses a remote virtual browser.

Security 84

Security Malware Virtualization Network 84

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Misconfigurations and unpatched systems – cyber criminals can purchase tools from dark Web marketplaces that will scan IT networks and devices for poor configurations and unpatched systems that they can exploit. There are tools available to IT teams to remotely access PCs and deploy patches.

Security 87

Security Intel Malware Training 87

GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Yet the company needed top hardware engineers to devote themselves to the project. He joined Microsoft in 2004, working on hardware projects in the company’s Entertainment & Devices Division before he was recruited to the nascent Surface team. Windows revenue fell 13% to $24.7 A shot in the arm for Alexa?

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Microsoft Windows Hardware Artificial Intelligence 106

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2023

Networking Kevin Jin’s post on the APNIC blog about network automation tools is a great read. He discusses Netmiko, NAPALM, and Nornir in some detail, and provides some guidance around which network automation tool may be right for you. ffmpeg is such a useful tool (prompted by this article ). Both are great reads.

IPv6 74

IPv6 Linux Tools Network 74

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

For example, did you know about the secret macOS network quality tool? Servers/Hardware. Pavan Gudiwada almost convinces me to switch tools for managing Kubernetes contexts based on this review , but ultimately I’m sticking with my fork of ktx (an old Heptio Labs tool). Operating Systems/Applications.

Cloud 87

Cloud Tools Applications Policies 87

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Ivan Pepelnjak has a post on running network automation tools in a container. In fact, he’s already built some container images, and the post has information on running tools from his prebuilt container image. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Well worth reading!

Open Source 94

Open Source Virtualization Applications Security 94

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. Julia Evans recently released a tool named dnspeep to help folks understand how DNS works. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Welcome to Technology Short Take #146! Networking.

IPv6 60

IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 60

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. Virtual RAID construction for recovery In cases where RAID parameters are unknown, Stellar Data Recovery can rebuild a likely RAID configuration.

Data 68

Data Software Software Windows 68

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Contrast that with Kubernetes, which started out “difficult” but invested in core tooling like kubeadm and Cluster API. Operating Systems/Applications. Engin Diri shares some tools and techniques for learning Rust. Virtualization. Got (or getting) a new Mac? Programming.

Open Source 79

Open Source Apple Vmware Cloud 79

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. release of netsim-tools in this blog post. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Networking.

Linux 74

Linux Storage Programming Applications 74

Cloud Musings

MARCH 9, 2018

2] The methodology itself should include: A detailed inventory of all hardware, operating systems, and applications that exist in the network a nd the creation of the process to keep the inventory up-to-date. A process to identify vulnerabilities in hardware, operating systems, and applications.

Operating Systems 79

Operating Systems Enterprise Enterprise Virtualization 79

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Alan Scott discusses options for enforcing policy with Kubernetes, including using your existing CI/CD infrastructure, leveraging Kubernetes’ own admission control functionality, and using tools like OPA/Gatekeeper. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. are covered). Programming.

Virtualization 84

Virtualization Journal Construction Operating Systems 84

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Gian Paolo takes a look at using tools like curl and jq when working with networking-related APIs. It’s not unusual to see “networking professionals need to learn developer tools,” but how often do you see “developers need to learn these networking tools”? Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Network Tools Hardware 60

Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

With the ability to analyze a vast amount of data in real-time, identify patterns, and detect anomalies, AI/ML-powered tools are enhancing the operational efficiency of businesses in the IT sector. How’s it reshaping the way businesses operate? Why does AI/ML deserve to be the future of the modern world?

Artificial Intelligence 48

Artificial Intelligence Tools Data Report 48

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

I’ve been scouring RSS feeds and various social media sites, collecting as many useful links and articles as I can find: from networking hardware and networking CI/CD pipelines to Kernel TLS and tricks for improving your working memory. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Network 79

Network Hardware Vmware Tools 79

Scott Lowe

MAY 7, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Chris Evans examines the pricing of virtual instances compared to managed servie offerings as he ponders how hyper-scalers like AWS, Azure, and Google will go about/are going about optimizing service density (i.e., maximizing revenue per hardware instance). Operating Systems/Applications.

Linux 60

Linux Hardware Network Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Linux 90

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Back in April of this year, Patrick Ogenstad announced Netrasp , a Go package for writing network automation tooling in Go. Servers/Hardware. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Career/Soft Skills.

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Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

Tom Nolle asks the question , “Is virtualization reality even more elusive than virtual reality?” Next, Jason dives a bit deeper on the relationship between network overlays and hardware , and shares his thoughts on where it does—and doesn’t—make sense to have hardware terminating overlay tunnels.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 106

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The list of articles is a bit shorter than usual this time around, but I’ve still got a good collection of articles and posts covering topics in networking, hardware (mostly focused on Apple’s processors), cloud computing, and virtualization. Julia Evans shares some tools to explore BGP. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 74

Vmware Cloud Network Hardware 74

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. I recently stumbled across this utility to help protect your macOS-based system against persistent malware. Operating Systems/Applications.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Disaster Recovery Linux 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Servers/Hardware. For reasons that I won’t go into here (maybe later), I was recently pointed toward the vcluster project (for running virtual Kubernetes clusters in a namespace of an actual cluster). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Thank you, Ben!

Open Source 107

Open Source Cloud Network Storage 107

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

” Servers/Hardware. This post is a couple months old (a lifetime in the cloud-native world): the AWS Service Operator enables users/developers to consume a select set of AWS services via Kubernetes YAML manifests. And speaking of YAML manifests, I saw this tool mentioned somewhere among my various feeds. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Authentication Virtualization Storage 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

Servers/Hardware What do you think of the ThinkPhone ? This article by Brian Caffey on deploying the same web application on ECS Fargate using three different IaC tools (CDK, Terraform, and Pulumi) has some really great and useful information in it. Ah, the bygone sounds of yesteryear …what a blast from the past!

Programming 90

Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

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. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 26, 2023

It’s a solid choice as an entry-level certification that is well-regarded in the industry and will verify that you have the skills to troubleshoot and resolve problems around networking, operating systems, mobile devices, and security. To earn the certification, you’ll need to pass two exams.

SCRUM 120

SCRUM Project Management Network Security 120

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). 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.

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). 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.

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? Ajeet Singh Raina shares a list of the top 200 Kubernetes tools for DevOps engineers. Operating Systems/Applications. Steven Bright shows how to deploy Salt minions automatically using VMware Tools. Virtualization. This is such an invaluable resource.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

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. Operating Systems/Applications.

Hardware 60

Hardware Open Source Vmware Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Tom Hollingsworth discusses how the rise of overlay networks killed large layer 2 networks and tools for building large layer 2 networks, like TRILL. Servers/Hardware. Intel clearly has its sights set on expanding beyond just “servers” into many more platforms, including network hardware platforms. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60