Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

VMware is patching a set of severe “sandbox escape” bugs. out of 10, and even VMware’s flagship ESXi hypervisor is affected. A new Bifrost remote access trojan (RAT) for Linux employs a number of techniques to remain hidden, including using a “VMware-esque” domain name for command and control servers.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Intel, VMware, Arista, others join HP in push for open, disaggregated networking Read More.

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Tech Republic Data Center

AUGUST 30, 2016

VMware recently enhanced its vSphere Integrated Containers with two new open source projects, Admiral and Harbor, that could boost management capabilities for production containerized applications.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

VentureBeat and GigaOm are both reporting that Pivotal will be announcing some big shifts in their Hadoop and other related offerings (recall that Pivotal is the firm spun off from EMC and VMware and has GE as a major investor). GigaOm reported that Pivotal will be open sourcing much of its proprietary offering.

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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 emerged from stealth mode Wednesday, announcing $17.5

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Data Center Knowledge

MAY 13, 2015

IT organizations want to be able to embrace an open SDN platform that supports both NSX and emerging open source. Big Switch Networks is trying to introduce a level of network agility that is currently missing from most data center environments, according to Big Switch's Prashant Ghandi.

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Virtualized Greek

DECEMBER 16, 2013

In my opinion, VMware is much too dependent on their vSphere product suite. This isn’t an analysis of VMware’s sales or market share. Earlier, I wrote a post on VMware’s path to ruling the datacenter. I also wrote a post on how VMware maybe on the path of previous tech giants such as Novell.

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Network World

JANUARY 23, 2017

The RISELab (Real-time Intelligence with Secure Execution) is backed by a slew of big name tech and financial firms: Amazon Web Services, Ant Financial, Capital One, Ericsson, GE Digital, Google, Huawei, Intel, IBM, Microsoft and VMWare.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

ZDNet was the first to break the story behind the announcement by Pivotal today with a post titled " Pivotal unveils Hadoop Open Data Platform, deepens Hortonworks links and open-sources code.". Big Data CTO Apache Hadoop Hortonworks vmware' This is an extremely important announcement for us.

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Virtualized Greek

MARCH 26, 2013

I was a little unclear on what this meant since OpenStack is Cloud management software and isn’t exactly a one for one replacement or even a direct competitor to VMware vSphere. Cloud Computing Virtualization OpenStack VMWare' In the mean time I will be asking for access to FUEL and doing a post on it at a later date.

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Data Center Knowledge

MAY 14, 2015

In addition to VMware and Hyper-V, enterprises also want to be able to monitor open source XenServer and Xen Project hypervisors that have been embraced by many cloud service providers Read More.

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Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 25, 2013

Trying to kill time on the plane on my way to VMworld 2013; my mind got to wondering what VMware needs to show at VMworld 2013 in order to maintain their position within the enterprise. VMware has some great technology. Microsoft, Citrix and open source hypervisors have quickly become good enough for basic virtualization use cases.

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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. Phillips is the co-founder and former CEO of Couchbase and Akimbi Systems, which was acquired by VMware. James Philips.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The open source ko project has applied to become a CNCF Sandbox project. William Lam writes about the beta for VMware Cloud Consumption Interface (CCI). Mike McQuaid talks about entitlement in open source. You may find this article by Juan Cruz Martinez on using Pulumi to provision Auth0 resources to be helpful.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Open-source AI Open source has long been a driver of innovation in the AI space. Many data science tools and base models are open source, or are based heavily on open-source projects. And VMware made it one of the cornerstones of its gen AI stack. So did Amazon on AWS.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 1, 2023

However, as organizations rush to adopt cloud computing, Kubernetes, and open source software, they are faced with a sprawling landscape of tools and services that can be overwhelming and costly. Strong knowledge of open source technologies.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 29, 2016

Today, VMware is expected to talk more about containers, end-user computing, and other topics not covered in yesterday’s general session (which focused heavily on Cross-Cloud Services, VMware’s new set of SaaS-based offerings for multi-cloud management). Poonen “passes the baton” to Ray O’Farrell, EVP and CTO of VMware.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Via the Kubernetes blog , Box announced it has open sourced a project called kube-iptables-tailer , which turns packet drops from iptables into Kubernetes events that can be logged for easier troubleshooting. This article on building DevOps pipelines with open source tools was exactly what a beginner (to CI/CD) needed.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

This is pretty cool: a WYSIWYG topology designer for VMware NSX. The VMware Cloud-Native Apps group has a breakdown of some of the new features/functionality found in the 1.9 Via Maish Saidel-Keesing, I saw this post about 10 open source Kubernetes tools for highly effective SRE and Ops teams. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2018

Last week I announced my departure from VMware , and my intention to step away from VMware’s products and platforms to focus on a new technology area moving forward. I mentioned last week that I’d miss the VMware community, but I am encouraged by the opportunity to build relationships in the Kubernetes community.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Founded in 2004, the company makes software to help enterprises use Postgres, an open-source database. She also held vice president roles at Yahoo, VMWare, and Oracle. The Boston-based private equity firm acquired EDB in 2019. EDB has more than 1,500 customers and over 750 employees.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 8, 2016

The project can finally shed itself of the (unfair) claims that the governance under Nicira (and later VMware) wasn’t “open enough.” These accusations persisted despite numerous indications otherwise. Moving to the Linux Foundation allows OVS to continue to grow and flourish without continued accusations of unfair governance.

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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. The project itself is open source and hosted on GitHub. Per the README.md GitHub would be a good way.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It was, therefore, very satisfying to see not one but two Velero-related posts emerge recently from the VMware blogging community. And, while we are talking about “another take,” here’s another take on OpenTF (the proposed “truly open source” Terraform fork).

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Teammate Alex Brand has a look at VMware’s new OVS-based CNI plugin, Antrea. Cole Atkinson discusses the fact that osxfuse is no longer open source , and the ramifications of this development on open source in general. No, I mean I really am kidding—don’t read stuff over the holidays. Networking.

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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. Mirantis OpenStack.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 22, 2014

The vendors may vary in their approach to providing this automation and orchestration—some may prefer to do it in software (VMware would be one of these, along with other software companies like Microsoft and Red Hat), while others want to do it in hardware. Thinking About Open Source. Similar Posts: Xen Trademark Policy.

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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. The project itself is open source and hosted on GitHub. Per the README.md GitHub would be a good way.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Michael Preston shares his thoughts on containers in a post titled “A VMware guy’s perspective on containers.” I know that a lot of my readers are VMware-centric in their jobs and careers, so I think Michael’s post may be helpful to a lot of folks. could make RDP connections to modern Windows systems. Way to go, Daniel!

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Open source has become so critical to so many aspects of our computing infrastructure. I recently stumbled across Ricardo Sueiras’ “AWS open source news and updates” posts. VMware finally splits VMware Tools out from vSphere. Congrats, Isovalent team! I’m glad to see this.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

I recently came across a couple useful troubleshooting guides, one for Open vSwitch (OVS) and OpenStack Neutron and one for VMware NSX. Matt Oswalt recently unveiled (and open sourced) a framework called ToDD, which stands for “Testing on Demand: Distributed”. VMware recently GA’d version 6.2 Servers/Hardware.

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Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 27, 2014

Recently, I wrote a post on about VMware and Cisco jockeying for the position as the dominate player in network virtualization. VMware believes their software first initiative called NSX is the way to go. No, they have embraced an open source software first approach called OpenContrail. So, what about Juniper?

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Chart Museum, an open source Helm chart repository server, also recently released an update. OpenTracing and Jaeger (Jaeger is an open source implementation of the specifications created by OpenTracing) are next up for Rice to review, and she shares that deploying Jaeger has gotten easier via the Jaeger Operator.

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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? Here’s a good source. Andre Leibovici provides a round-up of VMware Horizon View 5.3

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 30, 2015

Naturally, it’s worth pointing out that I work for VMware, although I do work in a business unit that makes a multi-hypervisor product (NSX). Nigel makes a few key points in his article: Open source is “where it’s at today”. VMware “ditched” Linux in the transition to ESXi. Everyone “is crazy with container fever”.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

Tetragon is Isovalent’s newly open-sourced security framework. Here’s Chris Evans’ take on the Broadcom acquisition of VMware. Colin shares a critical learning item on using Terraform with VMware ESXi. Check out this write-up. Think PDF files are safe? Think again. Scary stuff! Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Today at DockerCon EU, Docker announced that the next version of Docker (and its upstream open source project, the Moby Project) will feature integration with Kubernetes (see my liveblog of the day 1 general session ). Customers will be able to choose whether they leverage Swarm or Kubernetes for container orchestration.

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