Intel, VMware, Linux Foundation & Others Form Open Platform for Enterprise AI
Tech Republic
APRIL 17, 2024
Organizations can contribute to the platform’s GitHub or receive a framework for creating enterprise-grade generative AI systems.
Storpool upgrades software-defined storage but remains Linux-only
Computer Weekly
JULY 7, 2016
Bulgarian software-defined storage maker Storpool adds Cloudstack support and boosted performance, but holds fire on adding enterprise-friendly VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V environments
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Heptio founder leads Stacklok, a new software supply chain startup that just raised $17.5M
GeekWire
MAY 17, 2023
Stacklok Photo) A pair of cloud computing vets are jumping back into entrepreneurship with a new startup that helps enterprises vet software supply chains amid a rise in cyber-breaches stemming from open-source code. VMWare acquired Heptio in 2018 for $600 million. Stacklok co-founders Luke Hinds, left, and Craig McLuckie.
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The University of Phoenix and Expedient: Making the Transformation from a Legacy Datacenter to Software-Defined Excellence
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.
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The Linux Migration: Other Users’ Stories, Part 4
Scott Lowe
MARCH 21, 2017
This post is part of a series of posts sharing other users’ stories about their migration to Linux as their primary desktop OS. As I mentioned in part 1 of the series , there seemed to be quite a bit of pent-up interest in using Linux as your primary desktop OS. Q: Why did you switch to Linux? is awesome).
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Microsegmentation – Secure Your Internal Network
CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 20, 2016
Microsegmentation like that provided by vendors CISCO and VMware state that traditional perimeter defenses akin to medieval castles walls no longer work. Microsegmentation brings three important things to the table: 1) support for network virtualization; 2) support for software defined networking; and 3) automation. Nathaniel Crocker.
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Understanding VMware vCloud vs. Openstack
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.
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IBM Server Side Storage I/O SSD Flash Cache Software
Storage IO Blog
AUGUST 20, 2013
IBM Server Side Storage I/O SSD Flash Cache Software As I often say, the best server storage I/O or IOP is the one that you do not have to do. The second best storage I/O or IOP is the one with least impact or that can be done in a cost-effective way. Likewise the question […].
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70 Meltdown and Spectre exploits: Cutting through the FUD
Network World
JANUARY 4, 2018
And all the major software vendors of Linux, Microsoft for Windows, Apple for macOS, and virtualization software suppliers such as VMware and Citrix have all collaborated to mitigate this threat. To read this article in full, please click here
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AWS Careers: On the Road to All 9 AWS Certifications
Linux Academy
MARCH 15, 2019
I had the pleasure of speaking with one of our amazing students about his experience training for AWS certifications on Linux Academy. My job encompasses supporting Linux and VMware on physical servers. Anytime someone comes with software or solution, we always ask what are the PaaS or cloud offerings.
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60 Technology Short Take 93
Scott Lowe
JANUARY 19, 2018
This is pretty cool: a WYSIWYG topology designer for VMware NSX. Barry Peddycord shares an update on Ansible support for the Cumulus Linux NCLU. The VMware Cloud-Native Apps group has a breakdown of some of the new features/functionality found in the 1.9 Klaus Aschenbrenner shares how he designed his VMware vSAN-based home lab.
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Technology Short Take 156
Scott Lowe
JUNE 24, 2022
BPFDoor, as it is known, is a passive backdoor that allows threat actors to remotely connect to a Linux shell. Thierry De Pauw lays out the arguments against the use of feature branches in software development. Here’s Chris Evans’ take on the Broadcom acquisition of VMware. Check out this write-up. Think again.
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Technology Short Take #63
Scott Lowe
MARCH 17, 2016
At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. I recently came across a couple useful troubleshooting guides, one for Open vSwitch (OVS) and OpenStack Neutron and one for VMware NSX. Have fun reading! Networking. Check these out if you’re using any of these technologies.
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Technology Short Take #60
Scott Lowe
JANUARY 28, 2016
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. As a partial counterpoint to the increased use/visibility of Linux in the networking industry, check out Ivan’s take on Dell’s OS10 announcement. Networking.
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60 Technology Short Take #49
Scott Lowe
MARCH 10, 2015
I highly recommend you read the entire post, but in short the five skills Matt recommends are software skills (which includes configuration management and software development tools like Git ), Linux, deep protocol knowledge, hypervisor and container networking, and IPv6. What does this mean? Servers/Hardware.
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Technology Short Take 94
Scott Lowe
FEBRUARY 9, 2018
Sam McGeown has a nice diagram of the communications channels between the various VMware NSX components. Michael Wittig shares some details on migrating to Amazon Linux 2. Nick Korte shares some “lessons learned” as his team explored VMware vSAN as a storage solution. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.
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60 Guess what: Windows Server is still around
Virtualized Greek
DECEMBER 11, 2013
Linux is obviously a major force in the enterprise but traditional enterprises haven’t stopped deploying Windows Server 2012/2008 or 2003 for that matter. My experience has been that companies still embrace packaged software that runs on Windows and use Linux to replace legacy Unix based applications and appliances.
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7 cloud market trends and how they will impact IT
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 17, 2023
And AWS recently announced Bedrock, a fully managed service that enables enterprise software developers to embed gen AI functionality into their programs. The business model for cloud providers is to lock in a customer, get them used to that particular vendor’s tools, processes, marketplaces, software development platforms, etc.,
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Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 6, 2013
Of course, I am a fan of network virtualization, since I work with/on VMware NSX.). Martijn Smit has launched a series of articles on VMware NSX. Want some additional information on layer 2 and layer 3 services in VMware NSX? While written for OS X, most of these tips apply to Linux or other Unix-like operating systems as well.
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60 Technology Short Take #60
Scott Lowe
JANUARY 28, 2016
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. As a partial counterpoint to the increased use/visibility of Linux in the networking industry, check out Ivan’s take on Dell’s OS10 announcement. Networking.
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Some Recent OSS-Related Announcements
Scott Lowe
OCTOBER 30, 2013
Recently a couple of open source software (OSS)-related announcements have passed through my Inbox, so I thought I’d make brief mention of them here on the site. Ceph , the open source distributed software system, is now coming in a fully-supported version aimed at enterprise markets. Linux Storage OpenStack OSS'
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60 Technology Short Take #70
Scott Lowe
AUGUST 11, 2016
Thinking of using a hardware VTEP (VXLAN Tunnel Endpoint) with VMware NSX? VMware recently announced Open Hardware Management Services (OHMS) , a project intended to help manage servers and switches in a software-defined data center (SDDC) context. The issue lies with VMware Tools, apparently; see Jason’s post for full details.
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Technology Short Take #43
Scott Lowe
AUGUST 8, 2014
It would be great to see Docker get support for connecting containers directly to Open vSwitch (OVS), which is generally considered the de facto standard for networking on Linux hosts. Another series on VMware NSX has popped up, this time from Jon Langemak. Servers/Hardware. Here’s a tutorial for running Docker on CloudSigma.
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60 Technology Short Take #74
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). Blueprints that demonstrate VMware-Chef integration. Good times.
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Technology Short Take 122
Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 27, 2019
Teammate Alex Brand has a look at VMware’s new OVS-based CNI plugin, Antrea. I recently saw an article stating that VMware is going to use Minio as the object storage platform for Kubernetes, but the evidence presented in the article is anything but convincing. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.
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Technology Short Take 105
Scott Lowe
OCTOBER 5, 2018
Both articles point out the incredible difficulty of finding such a hardware hack, and point out that exploiting software vulnerabilities would probably be a much faster/easier way to accomplish the same goal. Grant Orchard has a three-part series (so far) on VMware Cloud Assembly ( part 1 , part 2 , part 3 ). Probably not.
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60 Federal Big Data Community Convenes 6 Feb at Apache Hadoop Forum
CTOvision
DECEMBER 21, 2013
Sudhanshu Arora – Software Engineer, Cloudera. The Evolution of Machine Learning from Science to Software. Tom has a distinguished 30-year career in the enterprise software market. Prior to Cloudera Mike was CEO of Sleepycat Software, makers of Berkeley DB, the open source embedded database engine.
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Microsoft Azure Software Defined Data Infrastructure Reference Resources
Storage IO Blog
AUGUST 17, 2017
Need to learn more about Microsoft Azure Cloud Software Defined Data Infrastructure topics including reference architecture among other resources for various application workloads? The post Microsoft Azure Software Defined Data Infrastructure Reference Resources appeared first on StorageIOblog.
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Attend the 6 Feb @Cloudera Federal Forum: For the Analyst, Data Scientist, #BigData Technologist in DC
CTOvision
JANUARY 23, 2014
Sudhanshu Arora – Software Engineer, Cloudera. 2:00 PM The Evolution of Machine Learning from Science to Software. Tom has a distinguished 30-year career in the enterprise software market. Prior to Cloudera Mike was CEO of Sleepycat Software, makers of Berkeley DB, the open source embedded database engine.
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Technology Short Take #85
Scott Lowe
AUGUST 16, 2017
Want to install VMware NSX in your home lab, but concerned about resource utilization? Although it’s not called out in the article, it’s important to note that this is not supported by VMware.). to VMware NSX 6.2.5 WekaIO recently came out of stealth, touting their “cloud-scale storage software.”
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Technology Short Take #58
Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 17, 2015
Looking for a step-by-step install guide for VMware NSX? Ray Budavari—who is an absolutely fantastic NSX resource—has a blog post up on the integration between VMware NSX and vRealize Automation. If you’d like to play around with Cumulus Linux but don’t have a compatible hardware switch, Cumulus VX is the answer. Networking.
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Technology Short Take 121
Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 6, 2019
A new VPN security flaw has been uncovered that affects a wide range of UNIX- and Linux-based systems. Here’s an article from Marko Saric on his switch from macOS to Linux. Samuel Karp has a list of guidelines for designing and testing software daemons. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Nothing this time; sorry!
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Product Review: Paessler PRTG Network Monitor
Galido
JUNE 28, 2018
This network software is not only powerful but also easy to use. PRTG is network software that monitors your entire infrastructure 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and alerts you to problems before users even realize it. SSH: For Linux / Unix and MacOS systems. It is one of the most powerful network monitoring software you buy.
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60 COMS002: Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
Devices first started as tightly-coupled hardware and software solutions. In recent years, we’ve seen more devices running off-the-shelf software (like Linux). Is the Linux bridge efficient enough? Third, DPDK provides optimized vNIC drivers for Xen, KVM, and VMware.
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Technology Short Take #62
Scott Lowe
MARCH 8, 2016
PowerNSX is pretty cool—it’s a set of PowerShell cmdlets for administrators of VMware NSX running in vSphere environments. Tony Sangha has a nice article providing step-by-step instructions on setting up a site-to-site IPSec VPN between VMware NSX and a Cisco CSR 1000v. ZFS will be in the next Ubuntu Linux LTS release.
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60 Technology Short Take #82
Scott Lowe
MAY 4, 2017
Mircea’s right—bugs will happen in all software (VMware NSX has had its share, for example), but the key is in how it’s handled. Doug Youd of Cumulus has an excellent 3-part series on the use of LACP in VMware vSphere environments. Ajay Chenampara shares his workaround for storing GitHub credentials on Linux. (If
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60 Technology Short Take #44
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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Looking Back: 2013 Project Report Card
Scott Lowe
JANUARY 3, 2014
Reinforce base Linux knowledge. Reinforce base Linux knowledge: I’ve been suggesting to VMUG attendees that they needed to learn Linux, as it’s popping up all over the place in all sorts of roles. General Linux Networking Personal Automation OpenStack OVS Puppet Ubuntu' Continue using Puppet for automation.
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60 Next-Generation Network Engineering Skills
Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 27, 2015
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. Here’s a quick look at some of the topics we’re tackling: An introduction to Linux, written from a networking perspective.
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Running Arista vEOS on KVM
Scott Lowe
AUGUST 11, 2014
In this post, I’ll show you how I got Arista’s vEOS software running under KVM to create a virtualized Arista switch. The vEOS disk image, provided as a VMware VMDK. Linux Containers via LXC and Libvirt. Interoperability Linux Networking Virtualization KVM Libvirt OVS'
Azure Stack TP3 Overview Preview Review Part II
Storage IO Blog
MAY 4, 2017
This is part two of a two-part series looking at Microsoft Azure Stack with a focus on my experiences installing Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview 3 (TP3) including into a nested VMware vSphere ESXi environment. Read part one here that provides a general overview of Azure Stack.
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Technology Short Take #35
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 3, 2013
VMware introduced VMware NSX recently at VMworld 2013. Cisco shared some thoughts on what they termed a “software-only” approach; naturally, they have a different vision for data center networking (and that’s OK). x that involves booting on a Linux CD. This looks interesting. Technology Short Take #33.
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