Kitaboo

MARCH 30, 2024

In today’s digital world, eBook security has become one of the top priorities for authors, content creators, and publishers. Leading digital textbook platforms like KITABOO offer extensive security with a range of features that enable you to secure the integrity and value of your eBooks without having to compromise the user experience.

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eBook Adobe Security Education 78

Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

network virtualization). Is the relationship between network virtualization and service mesh closer than some folks might wish to admit? Researchers have uncovered a potential security flaw in Apple Silicon CPUs; more details in this 9to5Mac article. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Virtualization 79

Virtualization Storage Network Programming 79

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The Log4J vulnerability and associated exploits has been on many folks' minds, so it’s only natural that many security companies have been looking into how to mitigate this attack vector. Aqua Security has a write-up on some of their analysis here. Virtualization. Jeff Geerling describes his backup plan.

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Open Source Virtualization Applications Security 94

CTOvision

JANUARY 11, 2016

If those options weren’t enough, here comes the open hybrid cloud. An open hybrid cloud leverages the benefits of accessing data and processes across private and public implementations, while facilitating open source development. Providers are now offering services that combine IT assets in an open hybrid cloud.

Cloud 150

Cloud Open Source Applications Firewall 150

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 9, 2022

These are worth a read if security and compliance are your jam (see here , here , here , here , here , here , and here ). Chris Farris shares some tips for securing GitHub organizations. Ricardo Sueiras captured some great links on open source at AWS in this newsletter. Virtualization. See here for more details.

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Devops Virtualization Engineering Storage 87

Dataconomy

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

WordPress offers you the freedom to select your hosting provider , enabling you to make data storage decisions based on quality and affordability rather than constraining you to a specific builder. Publishing For those aiming to create content-centric websites, WordPress leaves virtually no room for competition. Image credit ) 2.

Budget 77

Budget Virtualization Open Source Comparison 77

Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

Tetragon is Isovalent’s newly open-sourced security framework. I think the headline (“defeats ’the last line of security’”) is a bit sensationalist, but I guess that’s the world we live in. Virtualization. Check out this write-up. Think PDF files are safe? Think again.

Vmware 74

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 74

Linux Academy

APRIL 10, 2020

By now you’ve heard the stories that Microsoft loves Linux and fully embraces the open-source world. Microsoft, under Satya Nadella, has taken a new stance on open-source , which to some is a complete flip-flop from the Microsoft of the past. Visual Studio Code. TypeScript.NET Core. and many more.

Linux 143

Linux Open Source Groups Applications 143

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. I really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts. Virtualization. Michael Kashin explains how he built a DIY (Do It Yourself) SD-WAN using Envoy and Wireguard.

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

I’ve got another collection of links to articles on networking, security, cloud, programming, and career development—hopefully you find something useful! Security Adrian Mouat reviews some of the security-focused changes in Go 1.20. Welcome to Technology Short Take #164! to version 8.0.

Programming 90

Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Cole Atkinson discusses the fact that osxfuse is no longer open source , and the ramifications of this development on open source in general. Virtualization. I recently spotted Multipass , a virtualization solution for working with Linux instances. Servers/Hardware. Michael Gasch shares his tmux setup.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Components involved include the open source Kuma service mesh (in turn leveraging Envoy), anycast BGP, and mutual TLS (mTLS). If you aren’t paying attention to the security of your CI/CD pipelines, you probably should. Jim Jones has an article on getting started with S3-compatible object storage. Virtualization.

Storage 79

Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

Scott Lowe

JUNE 20, 2016

Using eBPF, Plumgrid has created in-kernel virtual network functions (VNFs) that do things like bridging, routing, network address translation (NAT), and firewalling. Route aggregation is leveraged wherever possible, and Calico programs IPTables on each host to handle security policies. Pricing is capacity-based.

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Meeting Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been collecting articles I wanted to share with readers on major areas in technology: networking, security, storage, virtualization, cloud computing, and OSes/applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take #165! There’s quite a bit of good information there.

Programming 96

Programming Policies Network Cloud 96

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.

Open Source 60

Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. I really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts. Virtualization. Michael Kashin explains how he built a DIY (Do It Yourself) SD-WAN using Envoy and Wireguard.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). VMware open-sourced an identity and access management service called Lightwave ( project web site , GitHub repo ).

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 14, 2013

The cost of having to create a backup for your big data that would be virtually unlimited in size much like your big data itself would simply too expensive to do. The reason that tape storage might be something that once again you should consider as you enter into the world of big data is that all data is not created the same.

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Big Data Backup Data Storage 183

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

In addition to trust, Intel has done work on security with OpenStack. Intel also helped update the OpenStack Security Guide ([link]. Gopal now takes over and moves the discussion into storage in OpenStack. In addition to block storage, many OpenStack environments also leverage Swift for object storage.

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Intel Storage Open Source Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

That’s a no-no from a security perspective—see here to learn why. Mike Foley shared recently that the release candidate of the vSphere 5 Security Hardening Guide has been released. Dmitry Ukov of Mirantis has a write-up on Swift and Ceph as object storage in OpenStack environments. Virtualization.

Storage 111

Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 111

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

A fan of network virtualization might also say that decomposing today’s complex physical networks into multiple simple logical networks on top of a simpler physical transport network—similar to Mike’s suggestion of converging on a smaller set of reference architectures—might also help. (Of Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles discussing the major data center technologies—networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications, virtualization…you name it! (If Numan Siddique describes the native DHCP support available in OVN (Open Virtual Network). Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Data Security—What’s New and What’s Next? Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Security Spotlight: Focus on HIPAA and PCI Compliance. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Security and Compliance in the Era of Big Data. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera.

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Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire Big Data 150

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

This is an interesting project to watch, I think—it’s porting OVN (Open Virtual Network) from a “traditional” OvS back-end to an IOVisor-based back-end (IOVisor implements the data plane in eBPF). Jake Bennett discusses strengthening your AWS security posture by protecting application credentials and rotating EC2 and IAM keys.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Intel Virtualization 60

CTOvision

JANUARY 18, 2015

Data Security—What’s New and What’s Next? Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Security Spotlight: Focus on HIPAA and PCI Compliance. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Security and Compliance in the Era of Big Data. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera.

Program Management 150

Program Management Fractional CTO CTO Programming 150

Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

Since we’re on a bit of a security kick this time around, then the recent announcement by HyTrust of HyTrust CloudControl 6.0 The CNCF blog has a great article written by an Alibaba software engineer (Xingyu Chen) on some performance optimizations for etcd that have been contributed back to the open source community.

Linux 60

Linux Dell Open Source Licensing 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

And while we are on the topic of Linux and open source in the networking industry…read this entertaining and informative article on the importance of (truly) open source libraries in networking. This post on automating NSX security rules using Splunk (and some custom code) is pretty cool. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Erik Smith, notably known for his outstanding posts on storage and FCoE, takes a stab at describing some of the differences between SDN and network virtualization in this post. I found this series of posts to be helpful when I was working on configuring LACP with Open vSwitch (I hope to have a blog post on that up soon).

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Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Linux Academy

APRIL 30, 2019

You learn the basic knowledge of computer hardware, gain an understanding of open-source applications in the workplace, and learn to navigate systems on a Linux desktop, as well as rudimentary commands to navigate the Linux command line. Cloud Security Fundamentals — The cloud has brought about tons of innovation and features.

Linux 113

Linux Course Big Data Devops 113

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

James Green shares some information on Docker Bench , a tool designed to help secure Docker environments. Jase McCarty talks about how to backup or recover storage policy-based management (SPBM) profiles. Virtualization. Ivan Pepelnjak shares a Python script that creates Ansible inventory from Vagrant’s SSH configuration.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Lots of folks like using Dropbox , the ubiquitous store-and-sync cloud storage service; I am among them. However, concerns over the privacy and security of my data have kept me from using Dropbox for some projects. Of course, Dropbox is not without its flaws, and security and privacy are considered among the prime concerns.

Open Source 137

Open Source Storage Security Guidelines 137

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

I find it enormously helpful to stay connected to various open source-related IRC channels, but staying logged while on the move is, for all intents and purposes, impossible. I’m not sure if this falls into storage or virtualization, but we’ll place it here in the Storage section. Virtualization.

Vmware 69

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The speaker for the session is Vin Sharma, who helps lead open source software strategies at Intel. The focus of this session, as you can tell from the title, is on security and trust (presumably talking about how to leverage Intel TXT with OpenStack). Sharma reviews again some of the ODCA cloud computing usage models.

Cloud 109

Cloud Intel Open Source Data Center 109

Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

Tim Hinrichs discusses securing the Kubernetes API with Open Policy Agent. Pod Security Policies (PSPs) are an important security feature in Kubernetes. This article discusses four open source secrets management tools. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time around! Nothing this time.

Open Source 60

Open Source Tools Policies Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

There’s a security vulnerability , so don’t let your smart home get hacked. I recently found this page , and thought it was a great idea—trying to bring improved security to the masses. Chip Zoller makes the argument in favor of running Kubernetes in/on virtual machines. Virtualization. Good for the EFF.

Linux 60

Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

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. Virtualization.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Knowing this, the Openstack Interop Challenge looks toward cultivating success by leveraging the open source cloud technology as a common integration layer. Participants include AT&T, Canonical, Cisco, DreamHost, Deutsche Telekom, Fujitsu, HPE, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Linaro, Mirantis, OSIC, OVH, Rackspace, Red Hat, SUSE and VMware.

Cloud 107

Cloud IBM Applications Architecture 107