CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2022

SGB-SMIT’s multi-cloud ambitions have been made possible using VMware Cloud on AWS and Google Cloud VMware Engine. Together, these enable SGB-SMIT to lift, shift, and scale its VMware applications to the cloud of its choice, anywhere in the world. . vRealize Network Insight gives us all of the information we need to act.” .

Cloud 96

Cloud Vmware Disaster Recovery Groups 96

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.

Network 60

Network LAN VOIP Licensing 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Networking. Matt Oswalt has a great post on the need for networking professionals to learn basic scripting skills—something he (rightfully) distinguishes from programming as a full-time occupation. Further, he follows that up with a post on how automation is more than just configuration management ; it’s about network services.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Virtualized Greek

APRIL 11, 2013

We are looking at the enterprise that is highly virtualized, which looking at the market means VMware or Hyper-v with or KVM and others to a much lessor extent. I believe I’m of the same ilk of the typical traditional VMware enterprise sysadmin. Most Linux admins wouldn’t have too much of a problem installing the solution.

Vmware 69

Vmware Data Center Cloud Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2015

There’s no question that the networking industry is undergoing significant changes. Sparked in part by software-defined networking (SDN), this sea change now includes an expanded focus on application programming interfaces (APIs), automation frameworks and toolkits, and improved manageability.

Engineering 60

Engineering Network Vmware Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 22, 2015

This is a liveblog of the Docker Networking breakout session. Madhu starts out the session with an overview of why networking (in particular Docker networking) is so important. Networking is vast and complex, and networking is an inherent part of distributed applications. Provide a pluggable networking stack.

Network 60

Network Linux Construction Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 22, 2015

This is a liveblog of the Docker Networking breakout session. Madhu starts out the session with an overview of why networking (in particular Docker networking) is so important. Networking is vast and complex, and networking is an inherent part of distributed applications. Provide a pluggable networking stack.

Network 60

Network Linux Construction Open Source 60

Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Introducing Windows Subsystem for Linux WSL and Overview. Microsoft has been increasing their support of Linux across Azure public cloud, Hyper-V and Linux Integration Services (LIS) and Windows platforms including Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) as well as Server along with Docker support.

Linux 47

Linux Windows Microsoft Cloud 47

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 13, 2022

The result of years of consolidation, the sprawling facility was the home of more than 40 networks, different virtualization platforms and hypervisor levels, nearly 10,000 virtual machines, 585 servers, and a massive collection of legacy software. The team also had to address the very old versions of Linux and Oracle still in use.

Software 100

Software Software Vmware Data Center 100

Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 27, 2013

Speaker: Martin Casado (VMware Networking CTO). You can save money if you consolidate your Windows & Linux workloads to fewer servers. You can save money if you consolidate your Windows & Linux workloads to fewer servers. NSX is basically a network hypervisor similar to how ESXi is a server hypervisor.

Virtualization 68

Virtualization Network Load Balancer Vmware 68

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. Networking. Russ White shares Russ' rules for network design. Nice to see that work on getting Linux up and running and fully functional on Apple’s proprietary M1 chips is progressing well. Servers/Hardware.

IPv6 97

IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 97

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Networking. Isovalent—the company behind Cilium, the eBPF-powered networking solution for Kubernetes clusters—just launched with a $29M Series A round of funding. You may have heard of eBPF, the Linux technology that is reshaping Linux applications (and in some ways reshaping Linux itself). Good stuff!

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Open Source Examples 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Networking. At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. Here’s another topic that came up at the recent DevOps Networking Forum: Spotify’s SDN Internet Router (SIR). Here’s some information on Nuage Networks’ experimental Docker Network plugin.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Linux Academy

APRIL 10, 2019

Anyone can take advantage of this pricing, and as long as you continue to renew annually, your Linux Academy subscription will stay $299 a year for the entire time you are a part of Linux Academy. One of the courses we are putting out this week is the AWS Advanced Networking Specialty by Tia Williams. This offer ends May 1st !

Linux 60

Linux Course Open Source Google 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 2, 2017

Sublime Text supports OS X, Linux, and Windows. I don’t have any Windows-based systems, so I only use it on OS X and Linux. Wire: My use of Wire is still a bit limited, but only because the reach of the platform is also still a bit limited (this is a classical example of network effect ). Well, that’s it for now.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Windows Journal 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

Networking. The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. See this SDx Central article or this Network World article for more details.). I hope something I’ve included here will be helpful—enjoy!

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Networking Brent Salisbury shares some code intended to help you “ChatGPT your project documentation.” This is a slightly older article (from January of this year) in which Josh Saul of Hedgehog pays homage to the achievements of Cumulus Networks in the open networking movement. ” What does that mean, exactly?

Vmware 74

Vmware Network Hardware Cloud 74

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

Networking. Via Ivan Pepelnjak, I was pointed to Jon Langemak’s in-depth discussion of working with Linux VRFs. The first is a post on Cilium and F5 load balancer integration , while the second discusses implementing Kubernetes network policies with Cilium and Linkerd. I hope that you find something useful here.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Load Balancer Apple 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Networking. The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based. I use OTR with Adium on OS X, and OTR with Pidgin on my Fedora Linux laptop.).

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Networking. Ansible has made some good progress in supporting network automation in the latest release (2.2), according to this blog post. Jeremy Stretch mulls over the (perceived) problem of getting traffic into and out of overlay networks. I’m admittedly a Cumulus Networks fan.) I’m curious to know what others think.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

Networking. Matt Klein breaks down service mesh components , using terms networking professionals know well, like “data plane” and “control plane.” ” Those familiar with networking concepts will identify well with the ideas in this article, I think. Here’s hoping you find something useful!

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 12, 2014

Welcome to part 11 of the Learning NSX blog series, in which I provide a high-level overview of the basics on integrating VMware NSX into an OpenStack deployment using OpenStack Neutron. VMware NSX was designed to be integrated into a cloud management platform.

Vmware 69

Vmware Network Linux Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Networking. The networking “old guard” likes to talk about how x86 servers and virtualization create network bottlenecks due to performance concerns, but as Ivan points out in this post , it’s rapidly becoming—or has already become—a non-issue. Here’s a configuration example.

Vmware 106

Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 106

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Networking. Anthony Burke has written a script that uses VMware NSX to protect VMware Log Insight instances. Russ White tackles the issue of networking engineers needing to learn to code. Jason Messer has an article describing how networking works with Windows containers. Welcome to Technology Short Take #67.

Vmware 60

Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2019

This year the event is back at Moscone Center in San Francisco, and VMware has already released some juicy news (see here , here , and here ) in advance of the keynote this morning, foreshadowing what Pat is expected to talk about. He talks about how VMware works to do “good engineering” and “engineering for good.”

Vmware 60

Vmware Cloud Nonprofit Dell 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Networking. This post by Matt Oswalt—the first in a series, apparently—provides a great introduction to 5 development tools for network engineers. Matt also recently posted part 4 (of 5) in his series on SDN protocols; this post covers OpFlex and declarative networking. I hope you are able to glean something useful.

Vmware 69

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Networking. In this post on why networking needs a Chaos Monkey , Mike Bushong applies to the terms to networks—a snowflake network is an intricately crafted network that is carefully tailored to utilize a custom subset of networking features unique to your environment. Here’s a good source.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Networking. Sam McGeown has a nice diagram of the communications channels between the various VMware NSX components. I particularly liked his (mini-)rant about how network automation can’t be only about making the network engineer’s life easier. Who knows, maybe I’ll throw a rant or two in there.)

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Networking. That prompted Cody Bunch to write this article on setting up a topology with BGP on Linux using the topology converter , which I’m now mentioning in this Technology Short Take. PowerShell on Cumulus Linux on a network switch? Clifford Haas has a review of VMware NSX (this is from back in January).

Vmware 60

Vmware Case Study Linux Network 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. Networking. Michael Kashin shares the journey of containerizing NVIDIA Cumulus Linux.

Linux 90

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. Networking. Russ White shares Russ' rules for network design. Nice to see that work on getting Linux up and running and fully functional on Apple’s proprietary M1 chips is progressing well. Servers/Hardware.

IPv6 60

IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 21, 2016

Networking. Netmiko, if you haven’t heard, is a fantastic Python library that’s really useful when writing Python-based network automation scripts. First up, there’s a great article on using IPVLAN with Docker and Cumulus Linux (with a tie back to sFlow, naturally!). This episode is a bit long; sorry about that! Thanks Jason!

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Networking. Ivan Pepelnjak addresses the idea that network automation is harmful. I believe that IT folks in all disciplines, including networking, need to embrace automation. William Lam writes about the beta for VMware Cloud Consumption Interface (CCI). I hope there’s something here that you find useful!

Open Source 79

Open Source Apple Vmware Cloud 79

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 8, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #43, another episode in my irregularly-published series of articles, links, and thoughts from around the web, focusing on data center technologies like networking, virtualization, storage, and cloud computing. Networking. Jason Edelman recently took a look at Docker networking. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Virtualization Network 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Networking. Ajay Chenampara has some observations about running Ansible at scale against network devices. Andrey Khomyakov shares some information on automating the setup of whitebox switches running Cumulus Linux in part 2 of this series on learning network automation. Alpine Linux 3.5 Way to go, Daniel!

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 20, 2013

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Storage 70

Storage IBM Software Software 70

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

Networking. The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. See this SDx Central article or this Network World article for more details.). I hope something I’ve included here will be helpful—enjoy!

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 60