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 along the way. Michael Kashin shares the journey of containerizing NVIDIA Cumulus Linux.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

You may have heard of eBPF, the Linux technology that is reshaping Linux applications (and in some ways reshaping Linux itself). Something about Linux, and Fedora in particular, just keeps drawing me back. It almost feels like we are well into Windows Registry territory here. Good stuff! See the previous bullet!)

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Galido

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Today you can get a $200 laptop and get useful functions and hardware like an HD display, Windows 10, HDMI port, a decent hard drive, and sometimes even touch screen. Here are some of our favorite full Windows 10 machines (compatible with Linux) for 2016-2017. This laptop has a Intel® Dual-Core N2840 Processor.

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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. Drew Conry-Murray shines a light on Intel’s network ambitions. Drew Conry-Murray shines a light on Intel’s network ambitions.

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The Verge

JULY 29, 2021

My Flex 5 review unit has an Intel Core i3-10110U, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of eMMC storage. The base model, currently listed at $334.99 , has an Intel Celeron 5205U processor (which is likely to be slow) and 32GB of storage, and the top $564.99 Per Amazon, its MSRP is $429.99, but it’s currently listed at $341.95.)

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The Verge

MAY 2, 2021

I’m picky about touchpads, but this one is quite roomy, with a smooth Gorilla Glass surface — I’d choose it over plenty of touchpads I’ve used on multi-thousand dollar Windows laptops. Inside, the 7c processor comes paired with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage. Gen 1, DisplayPort, and DC-in), one USB 3.2 But I got impatient at times.

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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. J Metz offered to send me a few links for storage, so I happily took him up on that offer. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

In case you’re interested, here’s more details on CVE-2016-5195 , aka “Dirty Cow,” and how it might be used to allow a user to escape from a Linux container (like a Docker container). Intel has a tutorial series on Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX). Thomas Maurer has a write-up looking at Windows Nano Server.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Mirantis joins a number of other vendors also offering OpenStack distributions, though Mirantis claims to be different on the basis that its OpenStack distribution is not tied to a particular Linux distribution. Murano (a service for assisting in the deployment of Windows-based services on OpenStack). Linux Storage OpenStack OSS'

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Is Intel having second thoughts about software-defined infrastructure? That’s the core question in this blog post , which explores the future of Intel in a software-defined world and the increasing interest in non-x86 platforms like ARM. Running Hyper-V with Linux VMs? Servers/Hardware. Virtualization. LTS server.

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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.” An OS is nice, but it’s just window dressing without the applications. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This is a liveblog of the day 2 keynote at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 in San Francisco. Eul takes the stage; he’s the VP and General Manager of the Mobile and Communications Group at Intel. It appears it’s running some flavor of Windows. Here is the link for the liveblog from the day 1 keynote.).

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Jointly authored by VMware, Microsoft, Red Hat, and Intel, this new protocol proposal attempts to bring together the strengths of the various network virtualization encapsulation protocols out there today (VXLAN, STT, NVGRE). Via Kevin Houston, you can get more details on the Intel E7 v2 and new blade servers based on the new CPU.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

The article specifically calls out SR-IOV as well as Intel Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) support within Open vSwitch (OVS). This article is an interesting read on some work being done by Microsoft Research to leverage Intel SGX to address some security concerns with today’s cloud-heavy architectures/usage models.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

In this post, William Lam explores the potential benefits of Intel’s VMCS Shadowing functionality on nested virtualization. Need to do some port forwarding on a Linux box and want to automate the configuration with Puppet? and Windows Server 2012 NFS. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a configuration example.

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The Verge

APRIL 24, 2021

But the Flex is great for video conferences and regular music-listening, and certainly beats what I’ve heard from all kinds of Windows laptops that are over $1,000. When I’m using the Flex 3, I feel like I’m looking at a small window of screen floating in an abyss of black. On a Windows machine, these specs would be a hard pass.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The first was on RESTful control of Cumulus Linux ACLs (this one isn’t actually sFlow-related); the second was on combining sFlow telemetry and RESTful APIs for visibility and control in campus networks. Frank Denneman (with an admittedly vSphere-focused lens) takes a look at the Intel Xeon Scalable Family in a two-part (so far) series.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

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. Acra is open source and available via GitHub. (For

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Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

In this post, William Lam explores the potential benefits of Intel’s VMCS Shadowing functionality on nested virtualization. Need to do some port forwarding on a Linux box and want to automate the configuration with Puppet? and Windows Server 2012 NFS. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a configuration example.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Intel announced the E5 2600 v2 series of CPUs back at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 (you can follow my IDF 2013 coverage by looking at posts with the IDF2013 tag ). Although I’m just now catching Kevin’s posts, they were published almost immediately after the Intel announcements—thanks for the promptness, Kevin!).

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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. This gives them very fine-grained control over data access.

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Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Moreover, the Pocket AI GPU is compatible with both Windows and Linux systems, ensuring widespread usability. In a head-to-head showdown, it faces off against the Intel Xe GPU, an integrated solution, and the NVIDIA A5000 Laptop GPU, a high-end GA104 mobile processor with 6144 CUDA cores and 16GB of memory. PCI Express 3.0

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 20, 2020

This blending of “traditional” network engineering with containers, Linux, and DevOps tooling is how Matt is setting new trends and directions for the networking industry. Mark Ermolov discusses a vulnerability in the ROM (read-only memory) of the Intel Converged Security and Management Engine (CSME). Good stuff here!

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Linux Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Intel has finally started shipping silicon photonics gear, according to this report from El Reg (news coming out of IDF16). This blog post on shielded VMs in Windows Server 2016 is a bit light on details, but the embedded video may be more informative (I didn’t watch it). Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host (how’s that for a mouthful?)

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

There has to be storage somewhere so even sensors, end up sending their data someplace that has to be stored, and that might be in the cloud, for instance, which is increasingly a part of the Internet of Things. Woods: If you think about the overall system, within which some of these devices live. It's still a threat.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

There has to be storage somewhere so even sensors, end up sending their data someplace that has to be stored, and that might be in the cloud, for instance, which is increasingly a part of the Internet of Things. Woods: If you think about the overall system, within which some of these devices live. It's still a threat.

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The Verge

MAY 12, 2021

They are a target market for many manufacturers, due both to the dominance of Google Classroom across many different grade levels and also to Chromebooks’ affordable price tags (compared to similar Windows and macOS machines). The base C13 starts at $909 for 4GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, and an Athlon Gold 3150C processor.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2014

Intel recently announced a refresh of the E5 CPU line; Kevin Houston has more details here. Here’s a quick article on how to assess if your Linux-based server is affected. I recently built a Windows Server 2008 R2 image for use in my OpenStack home lab. See here for details. Servers/Hardware. Then someone sends me this.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2014

I’m going to go out on a limb and make a prediction: In a few years time (let’s say 3–5 years), Intel SGX (Software Guard Extensions) will be regarded as important if not more important than the virtualization extensions. What is Intel SGX, you ask? Well…read this post for all the gory details.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

The servers (right now, at least) are running Intel Atom S1260 CPUs, which are x86-based and do offer features like Intel VT-x. Via Forbes Guthrie on Twitter, I saw this post on how to setup a CA on Linux and use it in a Windows environment. Thanks to all who pointed this out, and my apologies for the error! App Firewall?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

So the base X1 Carbon (the Linux model) has an MSRP of $2,336 but is currently available for $1,401.60. That model includes a Core i5-1135G7, 8GB of RAM (soldered), 256GB of storage, and a 1920 x 1200, 14-inch, 400-nit, non-touch display. It is verified through Evo, which is the program Intel uses to certify top-performing models.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

Alex Galbraith recently posted a two-part series on what he calls the “NanoLab,” a home lab built on the Intel NUC (“Next Unit of Computing”). Cormac Hogan has a series going titled “Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA) Deep Dive” ( part 1 here , part 2 here , part 3 here ). Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

I’m back home in Denver after spending a few days in San Francisco at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013, so I thought I’d take a few minutes to sit down and share a summary of the event and my thoughts. Enhancing OpenStack with Intel Technologies for Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud: [link].

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

These articles are a bit long in the tooth, but CSS Corp has a useful series of articles on bundling various Linux distributions for use with OpenStack: bundling CentOS , bundling CentOS with VNC , bundling Debian , and bundling OpenSUSE. Need to compact a virtual hard disk in Windows 8/Windows Server 2012?

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

The servers (right now, at least) are running Intel Atom S1260 CPUs, which are x86-based and do offer features like Intel VT-x. Via Forbes Guthrie on Twitter, I saw this post on how to setup a CA on Linux and use it in a Windows environment. Thanks to all who pointed this out, and my apologies for the error! App Firewall?

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