CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 17, 2023

This can occur due to insecure configurations, inadequate access controls, or vulnerabilities in cloud storage or databases. Attackers may upload malicious files or applications to cloud storage or use cloud infrastructure to propagate malware to unsuspecting users. What can businesses do?

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Cloud How To Open Source Applications 94

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 12, 2015

I just saw the news that Citrix has acquired Sanbolic , a storage virtualization company that I’ve written about before. It will be interesting to see how this acquisition affects the virtualization industry. TechCrunch also has a quick write-up as well.) So the big question becomes, “Will the Sanbolic acquisition change things?”

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Open Source Operating Systems Storage Virtualization 60

SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Virtual private networks (VPN) servers are the gateway for Daixin actors, who have exploited unpatched vulnerabilities in organizations' VPN servers, or, in one case, previously compromised credentials were used to access a legacy VPN server without multifactor authentication (MFA) enabled.

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Healthcare Open Source Groups Virtualization 68

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.

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Cloud Open Source Applications Firewall 150

Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

network virtualization). Is the relationship between network virtualization and service mesh closer than some folks might wish to admit? marks the first release of the open source container orchestration platform that is signed using Sigstore (more details here ). Virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Kubernetes 1.24

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Virtualization Storage Programming Network 79

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Filippo Valsorda speculates on how open source maintainers need to evolve into professional maintainers. This is a topic that comes up every time a notable vulnerability or flaw is found in some piece of heavily-used open source software; the prompt this time, as far as I can tell, is the Log4j vulnerability.

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Open Source Virtualization Applications Security 94

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.

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Budget Virtualization Open Source Comparison 77

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.

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Linux Open Source Groups Applications 143

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Ricardo Sueiras captured some great links on open source at AWS in this newsletter. It would seem that macOS 13 “Ventura” has introduced some problems with USB storage; these problems crop up when working with Raspberry Pi systems. Virtualization. But is it really a virtual machine ? Programming.

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Devops Virtualization Engineering Storage 87

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. Servers/Hardware. Jeremy Cowan shows how to use Cluster API to provision an AWS EKS cluster.

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Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

Tetragon is Isovalent’s newly open-sourced security framework. Although it isn’t technically specific to storage, there are significant storage themes in this article on what might happen if you lock yourself out of your digital life. Virtualization. Check out this write-up. Think PDF files are safe?

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 74

Storage IO Blog

APRIL 12, 2015

It’s springtime in Kentucky and recently I had the opportunity to have a conversation with Kendrick Coleman to talk about S3motion, Buckets, Containers, Objects, AWS S3, Cloud and Object Storage, node.js, EMCcode and open source among other related topics which are available in a podcast here, or video here and available at StorageIO.tv.

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Cloud Storage Backup Open Source 40

GeekWire

JANUARY 19, 2022

Founded in 2011, the Seattle-based nonprofit has 10 partner networks across Washington state, provides communities with investments and open-sourced tools, as well as advocating at the state and federal level. Conversica provides virtual assistants for revenue teams using conversational artificial intelligence. James Philips.

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Nonprofit Vmware Education Artificial Intelligence 129

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. Michael Gasch shares his tmux setup.

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Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Kitaboo

MARCH 30, 2024

With KITABOO, you can create a virtual environment to store and share all your eBooks and digital files. Readium DRM Readium, an open-source DRM, offers a comprehensive solution for digital rights management in the context of e-books and digital publications.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 19, 2024

You need to be skilled in deploying and managing resources, managing identities and governance, implementing and managing storage, and configuring and managing virtual networks. Candidates for the exam are tested on ML, AI solutions, NLP, computer vision, and predictive analytics.

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Data Big Data Programming IBM 122

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.

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Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

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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Open Source Linux Vmware Enterprise 60

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.

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Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

CTOvision

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Hadoop offers petabytes of data storage and can handle multiple workloads. Data security segregates data from privileged user accounts including system administrators and protects storage from theft or improper disposal. The Navigator Key Trustee is a “virtual safe-deposit box” with built-in audit capabilities.

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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

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. Servers/Hardware. Jeremy Cowan shows how to use Cluster API to provision an AWS EKS cluster.

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Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

This is a liveblog of IDF 2014 session DATS009, titled “Ceph: Open Source Storage Software Optimizations on Intel Architecture for Cloud Workloads.” Chagam does admit that not all workloads are suited for distributed storage solutions. Chagam turns to discussing Ceph block storage.

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Open Source Storage Intel Architecture 61

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 ).

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Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Gopal now takes over and moves the discussion into storage in OpenStack. With regard to block storage via Cinder, Intel has incorporated support to filter volumes based on availability zone, capabilities, capacity, and other features so that volumes are allocated more intelligently based on workload and type of service required.

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Intel Storage Open Source Hardware 60

Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 25, 2013

They also have some great competition within their main space – Server Virtualization. Microsoft, Citrix and open source hypervisors have quickly become good enough for basic virtualization use cases. Server virtualization is just the beginning of their plan to virtualize the data center.

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Vmware CTO Virtualization VOIP 64

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Components involved include the open source Kuma service mesh (in turn leveraging Envoy), anycast BGP, and mutual TLS (mTLS). Jim Jones has an article on getting started with S3-compatible object storage. Virtualization. Oh, and the article shares a handy Python script to help implement bogon filtering in NSX-T.

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Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

Rory McCune shares some information on configuring Caddy , a Go-based open source web server. Storage Stephen Wagner discusses a situation in which all VMs are inaccessible after graceful cluster shutdown and restart. Virtualization Steven Bright shows readers how to back up their VMware ESXi TPM encryption recovery keys.

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Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

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. I guess I can’t fully escape my time spent in the world of storage; I’d also been asked to stop by the booth for StorageOS , a new “software-defined storage” startup.

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Galido

APRIL 27, 2020

However, even though the project was promising, in 2015, Google released this tool as an open-source project. This tool automates deploying, scaling, and managing containerized applications on a cluster of servers (virtual or bare metal). Is deploying Kubernetes a good idea for you? Great industry support and community.

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Load Balancer Tools Applications Open Source 94

Linux Academy

MARCH 28, 2019

This means if storage is cheaper within one cloud datacenter, or user proximity warrants placement in foreign shore locations, that new clusters may be strategically placed in these chosen locales. Once federated storage solutions other than the Prometheus time series database may be used to record metrics over longer periods of time.

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Open Source Devops Linux Cloud 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

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.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

If you’ve been reading my site for any length of time, you know that I’ve been working with libvirt , the open source virtualization API, for a while. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. A Quick Warning About Compiling libvirt.

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Virtualization Linux Open Source System 94

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

He describes cloud as the synthesis of many different forms of innovation within IT , pulling together things like open source, virtualization, distributed programming, NoSQL, DevOps/NoOps, distributed teams, dynamic languages, and Big Data (among others). Virtualization. Does a dedicated iSCSI infrastructure make sense?

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Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 111

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.

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Cloud IBM Applications Architecture 107

Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

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. These look interesting, but be aware that they are not licensed with an open source license. Virtualization.

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