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How to switch an old Windows laptop to Linux

The Verge

Photo: Linux Mint. If you have an older system but are worried that it won’t support Windows 10 — or if you simply don’t want to deal with Windows anymore — I have a suggestion: Switch to desktop Linux. Desktop Linux can run on your Windows 7 (and older) laptops and desktops. Teams now runs on Linux. Which Linux?

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Amazon puts Fire TV Cube to work, repurposes streaming device for desktop computing

GeekWire

” It’s called the Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client, using the industry lingo for a basic type of hardware that relies on cloud-based storage and processing rather than a beefy CPU and hard drive on a traditional computer. Customers can choose to pay either fixed monthly subscription fees or usage-based costs based on hourly metering.

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Cloud Storage 2.0 Set To Dominate Market

Cloud Musings

The enterprise data storage marketplace is poised to become a battlefield. No longer the quiet backwater of cloud computing services, the focus of this global transition is now going from compute to storage. An overview of recent storage market history is needed to understand why this transition is important. is already with us.

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VMworld 2019 Vendor Meeting: Lightbits Labs

Scott Lowe

Last week at VMworld , I had the opportunity to meet with Lightbits Labs , a relatively new startup working on what they called “disaggregated storage.” So what is “disaggregated storage”? Lightbits has their own operating system, LightOS, which runs on industry-standard x64 servers from Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc.

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IDF 2014 Day 1 Recap

Scott Lowe

This would improve container security and move Linux containers closer to the Bromium “microvisor” architecture. Intel is working with a few other companies (Dell, Emerson, and HP) on a hardware API specification; early work on the API can be found here. Thanks for reading! IDF 2014 Day 1 Recap.

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Technology Short Take #33

Scott Lowe

Correction from the last Technology Short Take —I incorrectly stated that the HP Moonshot offerings were ARM-based, and therefore wouldn’t support vSphere. I missed this on the #vBrownBag series: designing HP Virtual Connect for vSphere 5.x. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. I was wrong.

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Technology Short Take #32

Scott Lowe

I try to keep the information linked to data center technologies like networking, storage, virtualization, and the like, but occasionally other items slip through. Chris Wahl provides a quick overview of the HP Moonshot servers , HP’s new ARM-based offerings. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

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