Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2013

A couple of weeks ago I had the privilege of joining Richard Campbell on RunAs Radio to talk VMware NSX and network virtualization. If you’d like to hear us get geeky about network virtualization and where it might take our industry, head over and listen to episode 346. Talking Network Virtualization on RunAs Radio.

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Virtualization Network Vmware Storage 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 12, 2013

Good friend (and now colleague ) John Troyer asked me via e-mail if I had a “reading list” for networking and network virtualization. ” So, here it is—a list of resources for networking and network virtualization. Network Heresy is a great site. Virtualization Short Take #28.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Various Data Infrastructure including hardware, software, services related […] The post Data Infrastructure server storage I/O network Recommended Reading #blogtober appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Storage Network Data Virtualization 47

Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 24, 2014

Instead of a VM host accessing its virtual disk (aka VMDK) which is stored in a VMFS formatted data store (part of ESXi hypervisor) built on top of a SCSI LUN (e.g. VVOL’s shift more intelligence and work from the hypervisor down into the storage system.

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Storage Vmware Virtualization Architecture 92

Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

Networking Lee Briggs (formerly of Pulumi, now with Tailscale) shows how to use the Tailscale Operator to create “free” Kubernetes load balancers (“free” as in no additional charge above and beyond what it would normally cost to operate a Kubernetes cluster). Storage Gergely Imreh discusses ZFS on a Raspberry Pi.

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Linux Vmware Load Balancer Malware 112

Galido

MAY 30, 2019

Information Technology Blog - - PCI Compliance and Network Segmentation - Information Technology Blog. The first step to determining the scope of your Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance is segmenting your data networks. What You Should Know About PCI DSS Network Segmentation.

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Spearline Testing

AUGUST 29, 2019

The execution of VoIP , playing around with the idea of cognitive networks , the evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT), using enhanced features like A.I. Augmented reality and virtual reality technologies are now changing the way we interact, whether that interaction be with systems or other humans. The network is key.

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Network Telecommunications Virtualization Applications 84

Storage IO Blog

JULY 22, 2017

Data storage regardless of if hardware, legacy, new, emerging, cloud service or various software defined storage (SDS) approaches are all fundamental resource components of data infrastructures along with compute server, I/O networking as well as management tools, techniques, processes and procedures.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 24, 2014

VVOL’s are accessed via the VMware software and associated API’s that are supported by various storage providers. DAS or SAN) storage that use SAS, iSCSI, FC, FCoE, IBA/SRP, nor are they NAS volumes like NFS mount points. Likewise VVOL’s are not accessed using any of the various object storage access methods mentioned above (e.g.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 18, 2017

Data Infrastructures exist to protect, preserve, secure and serve information along with the applications and data they depend on. The post Chelsio Storage over IP and other Networks Enable Data Infrastructures appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 19, 2013

I’m getting ready to start a “Virtual Networking 101″ series of blog posts, where I’m going to try to help introduce the ideas and concepts of virtual networking to VM admins that might not be familiar with these concepts. Call for Networking Topics. Networking'

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Network Virtualization Storage Enterprise 110

Storage IO Blog

APRIL 24, 2014

Listen in to our podcast conversation here as we cover cloud, convergence, software defined and more pertaining to data storage. The post Data Storage Innovation Chat with SNIA Wayne Adams and David appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This is session EDCS008, “Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI).” This naturally leads to a discussion of software-defined networking (SDN) as a means whereby the network can evolve to keep up the rapid pace of change and innovation in other areas of the data center.

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Virtualization Network Intel Data Center 60

Galido

APRIL 11, 2017

Virtualization is popular these days for businesses for several reasons, but primarily to reduce hardware and infrastructure costs, performance, backups and redundancy, while being able to scale infrastructure and provide resources on demand. . What is Virtualization? There are two methods of running virtualized software.

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Virtualization Backup Vmware Operating Systems 60

Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 27, 2013

Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) and Software Defined Networks (SDN) […].

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Vmware Storage Network HP 64

Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The crucial role of AI and ML in the IT industry Information technology allows computers to perform various tasks, such as storing, transmitting, retrieving, and manipulating data. When it comes to the role of AI in information technology, machine learning, with its deep learning capabilities, is the best use case.

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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 31, 2015

Green and Virtual IT Data Center Links Moving beyond Green Hype and Green washing Green hype and green washing may be on the endangered species list and going away, however, green IT for servers, storage, networks, facilities as well as related software and management techniques that address energy efficiency including power and cooling along with (..)

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Data Center Virtualization Data Storage 40

Storage IO Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Cisco buys Whiptail continuing the Storage storage I/O flash cash cache dash Congratulations to Virident for being bought today for $645 Million USD by Western Digital (WD). Virident a nand flash PCIe card startup vendor has been around for several years and in the last year or two has gain more industry awareness as a […].

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Storage Big Data Architecture Tools 70

CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Solarflare is a leading provider of application-intelligent networking I/O software and hardware that facilitate the acceleration, monitoring and security of network data. With this post we are initializing our coverage of Solarflare. We are tracking Solarflare in our Disruptive IT Directory in two categories.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This is session COMS002, titled “Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization.” Verplanke believes that DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) and virtualization are key to virtualizing workloads that move around lots and lots of packets, such as firewalls, routers, and other similar functions.

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Virtualization Intel Cloud Data 113

CTOvision

MAY 16, 2017

Solarflare, a global leader in networking solutions for modern data centers, is releasing an Open Compute Platform (OCP) software-defined, networking interface card, offering the industry’s most scalable, lowest latency networking solution to meet the dynamic needs of the enterprise environment. Marty Meehan.

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 24, 2014

The post Enterprise SSHD and Flash SSD Part of an Enterprise Tiered Storage Strategy appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As the cost of data storage has fallen, many organizations are keeping unnecessary data, or cleaning up data that’s out of date or no longer useful after a migration or reorganization. It also means many more machine identities to manage, says Murali Palanisamy, chief solutions officer at IAM platform provider AppViewX.

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Hardware Budget Data Security 143

Storage IO Blog

MARCH 7, 2017

Cloud products and services among others, along with associated data infrastructures including object storage, file systems, repositories and access methods are at the center of bulk, big data, big bandwidth and little data initiatives on a public, private, hybrid and community basis.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Talking about tools and technologies is one thing, installing as well as trying them is the next step for gaining experience so how about some quick hands-on time with Microsoft Diskspd (download your copy here).

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Storage Tools Microsoft Backup 40

Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 31, 2015

Green hype and green washing may be on the endangered species list and going away, however, green IT for servers, storage, networks, facilities as well as related software and management techniques that address energy efficiency including power and cooling along with e-waste, environmental health and safety related issues are topics that wont be going (..)

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Virtualization Data Center Data Storage 40

Galido

JUNE 28, 2018

Information Technology Blog - - Product Review: Paessler PRTG Network Monitor - Information Technology Blog. PRTG Network Monitor from Paessler AG is a powerful network monitoring solution. This network software is not only powerful but also easy to use. Problems in the network cause emergencies in business.

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Network LAN VOIP Licensing 60

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Today Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Storage Gateway, making the power of secure and reliable cloud storage accessible from customersâ?? With the launch of the AWS Storage Gateway our customers can now integrate their on-premises IT environment with AWSâ??s

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Storage Web Services Disaster Recovery Applications 115

Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 31, 2015

Green IT is about enabling efficient, effective and productive information services delivery. There is a growing green gap between green hype messaging or green washing and IT pain point issues including limits on availability or rising costs of power, cooling, floor-space as well as e-waste and environmental health and safety (PCFE).

Data Center 40

Data Center Virtualization Data Storage 40

CTOvision

MAY 9, 2017

Delivers 1000s Virtual NICs for Ultimate Scalability with the Lowest Possible Latency. It allows organizations the flexibility to develop and implement applications without having to modify their applications or networks. specification, with the addition of NC-SI (Network Controller Sideband Interface) manageability.

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Software Software Data Center Hardware 151

Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Diskspd is a command line tool which means it can easily be scripted to do reads and writes of various I/O size including random as well as sequential activity.

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Storage Tools Microsoft Big Data 40

Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2014

Here’s a quote from the KB article : The distributed switch network health check, including the VLAN, MTU, and teaming policy check can not function properly when there are hardware virtual NICs on the server platform. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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Network Vmware Virtualization Intel 63

SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have issued a joint cybersecurity advisory with information about "Daixin Team," a cybercrime group actively targeting U.S. Exfiltrated personal identifiable information (PII) and patient health information (PHI) and threatened to release the information if a ransom is not paid.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

There are different reasons for benchmarking, such as, you might be asked or want to know how many IOPs per disk, Solid State Device (SSD), device or storage system such as for a 15K RPM (revolutions per minute) 146GB SAS Hard Disk Drive (HDD).

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Storage Vmware Devops Backup 40

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 2, 2013

I’ve been doing some experimenting with virtual Ethernet (veth) interfaces in Ubuntu as part of the ongoing work with network namespaces, LXC, and related technologies. Because of this, nothing works—I can’t use the veth pair to connect network namespaces, or to connect a Linux bridge to OVS, or anything else.

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Virtualization Linux Network Storage 61

Storage IO Blog

MARCH 25, 2015

Some of those tools and technologies are open-source or free, some are freemium and some are premium for a few that also vary by interface (some with GUI, others with CLI or APIs) including ability to mount an S3 bucket as a local network drive and use tools to sync or copy.

Storage 40

Storage Cloud Backup Open Source 40

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Over the last few years, it has become more and more apparent that the status quo for networking and security is no longer viable. Endlessly extending hub-and-spoke networks to more remote users, branch offices, and cloud apps increases risk, harms the user experience, and is prohibitively complex and expensive.

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