Cloud Musings
DECEMBER 19, 2017
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.
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 9, 2023
According to the Rocket Software Survey Report 2022: The State of the Mainframe , four out of five IT professionals see the mainframe as critical to business success. The mainframe may seem like a relic of a day gone by, but truth be told, it’s still integral. Modernizing in place. DevOps innovations (e.g.,
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Scott Lowe
APRIL 15, 2022
Although Linux is often considered to be superior to Windows and macOS with regard to security, it is not without its own security flaws. I, personally, would posit that Linux can be more secure than other platforms, but it requires proper configuration and can still be undone by a loose nut behind the keyboard.
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 22, 2017
Vincent Bernat has a really in-depth article on IPv4 route lookup on Linux (and one on IPv6 route lookup as well). The folks over at Cloudify recently did a survey on the state of “enterprise multi-cloud”; the report is available here (doesn’t appear to be behind a paywall/regwall). Networking.
Scott Lowe
JUNE 2, 2016
Dmitri Kalintsev examines some options for addressing storage-related connectivity in NSX environments. Tom Hollingsworth discusses how the rise of overlay networks killed large layer 2 networks and tools for building large layer 2 networks, like TRILL. Servers/Hardware. Drew Conry-Murray shines a light on Intel’s network ambitions.
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 22, 2023
Role growth: 30% of companies have added cloud architect roles as part of their cloud investments, according to Foundry’s survey. Skills: Relevant skills for a DevOps engineer include automation, Linux, QA testing, security, containerization, and knowledge of programming languages such as Java and Ruby.
Scott Lowe
MARCH 8, 2016
There’s been a fair amount of noise regarding moving the Docker official image library from Ubuntu to Alpine Linux (see Solomon’s post here ; this is the only “official” mention I’ve been able to find). In any case, Fournova Software—the company behind the OS X Git client Tower (which I use regularly)—has a developer survey here.
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