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. Networking. to VMware NSX 6.2.5 Gareth Lewis walks through a vCNS 5.5.4

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 29, 2017

Prior to the keynote, a number of announcements were released; here’s a quick look at a few of them: VMware and AWS Announce Initial Availability of VMware Cloud on AWS. VMware Integrated OpenStack 4.0 and vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) 3.5. I’m not really sure what this means, but it seems significant.).

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 25, 2014

The keynote starts with a catchy, jazzy dance/music piece, and then Robin Matlock, Chief Marketing Officer for VMware, takes the stage. VMware is on a voyage of brave transformation itself, and Gelsinger provides examples of VMware’s BYOD efforts and running all of VMware’s SAP ERP efforts on vCloud Air.

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Dataconomy

MAY 23, 2023

Edge computing refers to a distributed computing paradigm that brings data processing and computation closer to the edge of the network, in close proximity to the data source or end-users. In edge computing, small-scale data centers, known as edge nodes or edge devices, are deployed at the network edge. What is edge computing?

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Dataconomy

APRIL 26, 2023

The realm of edge computing has witnessed a substantial surge in recent years, propelled by the proliferation of remote work, the Internet of Things (IoT), and augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR) technologies, which have necessitated connectivity at the network’s periphery and novel applications.

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Fountainhead

JUNE 1, 2011

As I subtly alluded-to in March, The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE Euronext) today launched their Capital Markets Community Platform (CMCP) along with partners EMC and VMware. the CMCP is accessible to customers only via a highly-secure network and only to pre-validated users. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). Marketing.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

Networking. Guiliano Bertello introduces PowerVCF , a PowerCLI module aimed at interacting with the SDDC Manager and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) stack. (If Now I really want to see hardware security key support in the desktop and mobile apps! Here’s hoping that I found something useful for you! I’m so far behind.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

Networking. I love this post from Matt Oswalt on five next-gen skills for networking pros. Anthony Burke (disclaimer: Anthony works for VMware in the NSBU) has a post on how to use Python to automate the bulk creation of firewall rules for use with the VMware NSX distributed firewall. Bring on the content!

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Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

” From a network performance perspective, Matrix includes 2x10Gb ‘fabric’ connections, 16x8Gb SAN uplinks, and 16x10Gb Ethernet uplinks. Note, that at the bottom of their "stack", Cisco turns to partners such as BMC for "higher level" value such as high-availability and VMware for virtualization management.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Executives in all industries are using digital advances such as analytics, mobility, social media and smart embedded devices as well as improving their use of traditional technologies such as ERP to change customer relationships, internal processes and value propositions. So which future do you want for you and your family?

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Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Examples of hardware virtualization platforms include VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V Operating system-level virtualization : This type of virtualization allows multiple isolated operating systems to run on a single physical server. Both virtual servers can access the same SATA hard drive for storage.

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Fountainhead

APRIL 7, 2009

The software has always had the ability to provision physical and/or virtual servers with mission-critical levels of availability, including networking, I/O and storage configurations. Youll never need to re-cable a server again, and never have to worry about I/O, network configuration or DR configuration. Mobile Work. (4).

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Storage IO Blog

JUNE 30, 2017

New optional features include support for mobile platforms and book, along with scaling for enterprise as well as cloud environments. The NVMe Express trade group (e.g. nvmexpress.org) announced the completion of NVMe 1.3 specification.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 22, 2022

A VMware survey found that 73% of large companies are deploying to multi-cloud environments. . VMware Cloud Universal delivers unified compute, storage, networking infrastructure with workload portability across clouds, and across applications. To learn more about VMware Cloud Universal go to. [link]. .

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 22, 2022

As VMware has observed , “In simple terms, a DPU is a programable device with hardware acceleration as well as having an ARM CPU complex capable of processing data. That’s the question we posed to members of the Foundry/IDG Influencer Network, a community of industry analysts, IT professionals, and journalists. .

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2014

Ben Fathi, CTO of VMware, takes the stage to start the keynote, and goes through a recap of yesterday’s announcements: EVO and EVO:RAIL, vCloud Air rebranding and the availability of new services, VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO), and new product versions (vCloud Suite 5.8, betas of vSphere and VSAN).

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Vmware Architecture Applications Storage 63

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This is a liveblog of IDF 2014 session DATS002, titled “Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI)” The speakers are Brian Johnson (Solutions Architect, Intel) and Jim Pinkerton (Windows Server Architect, Microsoft). So why does networking need to be transformed for the cloud?

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

It starts by building upon the core of virtualized infrastructure, made possibe by VMware’s compute, storage, and network virtualization solutions. Somehow, though, this stuff needs to be connected to the end users—via desktop, mobile, content collaboration, and tying it all together with identity management.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

CloudFoundry is open source software developed by VMware and now part of the Pivotal Initiative, an independent entity funded by VMware and EMC. The framework allows developers to create apps that can run on Amazon Web Services, OpenStack clouds or VMware’s vCloud and vSphere environments. Networking. White Papers.

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Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Fundamentally, the concept abstracts-away a servers I/O, disk, storage connectivity, and out-of-band controls, making it a stateless entity. Both of these technologies instantly resulted in additional hardware on the motherboard: The Network Interface Card (NIC) for connection to Ethernet, etc., An alternative model.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

He has more than 20 years of experience in assisting cloud, storage and data management technology companies as well as cloud service providers to address rapidly expanding Infrastructure-as-a-Service and big data sectors. Many companies have now transitioned to using clouds for access to IT resources such as servers and storage.

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Virtualized Greek

MARCH 25, 2014

A smartphone takes a PDA, MP3 player and camera and merge them into a mobile phone. The CPU, Storage and in some cases network are collapsing into tightly integrated platforms. Examples include Nutanix on the hardware side and VMware VSAN or EMC ScaleIO on the software side.

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Fountainhead

MARCH 5, 2009

Chock-full of great presentations, networking and predictions, topped-off with a closing keynote from Nick Carr on The Big Switch. Over lunch, I was able to sit-in on a discussion with two IDC analysts discussing how virtualization is expanding the role of the network, and the steps IT operations were taking to simplify the data center.

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Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Four days packed with presentations and networking (of the social kind). Think of it this way: Fabric Computing is the componentization and abstraction of infrastructure (such as CPU, Memory, Network and Storage). Virtual networking. This permits physically flatter networks. Tuesday, December 8, 2009.

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Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

IO Virtualization is an approach whereby physical IO components such as Network Interface Cards (NICs) Host Bus Adaptors (HBAs) and Keyboard/video/Mouse ports (KVM) are reproduced logically rather than physically. Converged Networking Adapters (e.g. This blog is related to my 2009 installment on Fabric as an IT Enabler. What is IOV?

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI): [link]. The Future of Software-Defined Networking with the Intel Open Network Platform Switch Reference Design: [link]. Finally, I spent some time chatting with my friend Brian Johnson, who works in the networking group at Intel. Sorry folks!

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Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

These connections also give the blades very fast Ethernet access to both the network and storage devices and eliminate the need for a storage-area network (SAN). Instead, the blades would talk directly to the storage servers. The servers will also feature tight integration with and support for VMware software.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2022

Nvidia buys block storage software developer Excelero. In early March it announced its second of 2022, Excelero, which develops software for securing and accelerating arrays of flash storage for use in enterprise high-performance computing. India’s Sterlite buys UK network integrator Clearcomm. The price tag, a whopping $68.7

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