The Verge

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

percent of computer users still are on Windows 7 — even though Microsoft no longer supports it for free. If you have an older system but are worried that it won’t support Windows 10 — or if you simply don’t want to deal with Windows anymore — I have a suggestion: Switch to desktop Linux. No harm, no foul. Try Mint out.

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Linux Windows How To Operating Systems 106

Dataconomy

APRIL 13, 2023

Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a technology that has revolutionized the way we access and control remote computers. In this article, we will delve deeper into the world of Virtual Network Computing, exploring its history, technology, and various applications. What is Virtual Network Computing (VNC)?

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Virtualization Network Linux Windows 36

Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

The vulnerability affects virtually all Linux distributions and allows attackers to bypass the secure boot protections and insert a low-level bootkit. And here’s another example of malware that is targeting Linux (along with Windows). Operating Systems/Applications Here’s one person’s take on sudo for Windows.

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Linux Vmware Load Balancer Malware 107

Kitaboo

DECEMBER 22, 2022

You may enjoy your favorite books virtually on your computer, laptop, or smartphone. If the ton of options across ePUB reading software intimidate you, and you are struggling to find the best ePUB reader, here’s a list of the most sought-after ePUB readers for iOS, Android, and Windows in 2023. How do you do that, you ask?

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Windows eBook Adobe Cloud 78

Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

benchmark) tool that runs on various Windows systems as an alternative to Iometer, vdbench, iozone, iorate, fio, sqlio among other tools. Microsoft Diskspd is a synthetic workload generation (e.g.

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Storage Tools Microsoft Big Data 40

Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

There are different reasons for benchmarking, such as, you might be asked or want to know how many IOPs per disk, Solid State Device (SSD), device or storage system such as for a 15K RPM (revolutions per minute) 146GB SAS Hard Disk Drive (HDD).

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Storage Vmware Devops Backup 40

GeekWire

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Amazon WorkSpaces , the company’s virtual desktop service, just unveiled its first device for end users, a $195 product created by directly repurposing the hardware design for Amazon’s Fire TV Cube. “We wanted to take all the savings that we could get from manufacturing and turn that into lower prices for customers overall.”

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Hardware Linux Web Services HP 114

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Feed in your entire Slack or Teams history and you may end up with responses like, “I’ll work on that tomorrow,” which would be perfectly appropriate from human employees but aren’t what you expect from a gen AI system. But in other areas, IT teams will look to increase budgets and spending.

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Hardware Budget Data Security 141

Dataconomy

JUNE 22, 2023

This software suite is compatible with both Windows and macOS operating systems, and offers a spectrum of six different editions to cater to diverse user needs. Intriguingly, it also extends its capabilities to the retrieval of files from a system that has previously undergone formatting.

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Data Software Software Windows 68

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This is a live blog of session DATS004, titled “Bare-Metal, Docker Containers, and Virtualization: The Growing Choices for Cloud Applications.” Weaver includes a discussion of the drivers behind virtualization as well as the pros and cons of virtualization. IDF 2014: Bare Metal, Docker Containers, and Virtualization.

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Virtualization Linux Intel Construction 89

SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Until such time as CISA directs affected entities to rebuild the Windows operating system and reinstall the SolarWinds software package, agencies are prohibited from (re)joining the Windows host OS to the enterprise domain. through 2020.2.1 HF1, from their network. And we now have more acknowledgement from the U.S.

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Government VOIP Network Security 145

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

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Licensing Software Software Microsoft 85

Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 3, 2017

Microsoft ReFS (Resilient File System) is part of Windows Servers 2012, 2012 R2, 2016 as well as Windows 8.1 and 10 platforms as an alternative to NTFS file system. The post Overview Review of Microsoft ReFS (Reliable File System) and resource links appeared first on StorageIOblog. Zettabytes (ZB).

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Resources System Microsoft Windows 60

Storage IO Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Note that in Information Technology (IT) conversations there are multiple meanings for SMB including Server Message Block aka Microsoft Windows CIFS (Common Internet File System) along with its SAMBA implementation, however for this piece the context is Small Medium Business. A […].

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SMB Storage Backup Big Data 83

CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Using the SAMOS principle, a system must be simple. Like, “we’ve got more customers, we need more storage.” When things get complicated, bottlenecks develop, and systems get more difficult to maintain. Like many solutions, Nutanix converges “storage,” “compute” & virtualization. CI is SIMPLE = core + compact.

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How To System SOA Storage 150

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 5, 2023

Latest cybersecurity threats expose flaws in traditional security methods Let’s consider two methods of security for customer data: firewalls and cloud storage. However, when companies only use this security method it’s like leaving the doors and windows of your home open, without motion detectors, alarms, or other safeguards.

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Security Firewall Storage Data 83

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

Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Recently I needed to upgrade one of my systems to Microsoft Windows 10 1709 (e.g. the September 2017) release that post upgrade resulted in Windows Explorer, desktop, and taskbar going into an endless loop. The post Fixing the Microsoft Windows 10 1709 post upgrade restart loop appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Windows Microsoft System Backup 40

Linux Academy

JULY 18, 2019

You can practice without compromising your system, test without risk, and destroy without fear, as you learn from your mistakes. Intro to Using Azure Blob Storage. Securing Storage with Acces Keys and Shared Access Signatures in Microsoft Azure. Modifying a Storage Account and Setting Blog Container to Immutable.

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Linux Course Storage Cloud 126

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. I hope you find something useful!

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful. Enough said.

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful. Enough said.

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 29, 2022

My link of links and articles from around the Internet is a bit light on networking and virtualization this time around, but heftier in the security, cloud, and OS/application sections. Operating Systems/Applications. Poorna Gaddehosur has an update on getting Linux-based eBPF programs to run with eBPF on Windows. Networking.

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Linux Storage Programming Applications 74

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 21, 2020

” Want to use a Yubikey to automatically lock and unlock your Linux system? Operating Systems/Applications. According to The Verge , Windows 10 users aren’t very happy about Microsoft’s forced roll-out of its Chromium-based Edge browser. ” Storage. Virtualization. Programming.

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Handbook Linux Storage Windows 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Operating Systems/Applications. Ben Armstrong shows you how to use PowerShell to give your Windows server a proper fully-qualified domain name. Here’s a Windows-centric walkthrough to using Nginx to load balance across a Docker Swarm cluster. Virtualization. A command-line client for Twitter ? Yes, please! (I

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Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Jason Messer has an article describing how networking works with Windows containers. Dmitri Kalintsev examines some options for addressing storage-related connectivity in NSX environments. Operating Systems/Applications. John Nicholson talks about the Virtual SAN (VSAN) performance service , available in VSAN 6.2.

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Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

Chip Zoller makes the argument in favor of running Kubernetes in/on virtual machines. Operating Systems/Applications. Berk Ulsoy discusses WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), providing a “Linux veteran’s” perspective. I need to move it back to Windows from Linux. Virtualization. Good for the EFF.

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Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

Sean Daniel

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 and Interaction with Small Business Server 2011 Essentials. I know I have talked before about Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 , and how it can help your Small Business with thin clients, old clients, seasonal employees and even reducing the number of machines in the office by getting one nice one.

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Windows Small Business Backup SMB 80

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq along the way. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Networking. Good stuff.

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Galido

AUGUST 27, 2019

As we all know, at the moment safe data exchange with large amount of information between different devices with various operative systems is not easy for every user. Sure, some of you asked yourself what may be the easiest way to move big files from Windows to iPad or from Android to Mac.

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How To Data Storage Operating Systems 77

Sean Daniel

APRIL 26, 2010

Windows Home Server Codename “Vail” Public Beta Available Today! As you know, one of the products I work on is Windows Home Server. Today we’re excited to announce that the next version of Windows Home Server (codename “Vail”) is available for you to try. Storage Server Essentials. (17).

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Windows Backup SMB Small Business 72

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful.

Windows 60

Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 60

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Doubly challenging when you consider the different topologies of virtual servers, licensing servers, provisioning servers and more, all scaling at different rates to maintain service levels. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Yes, its true.

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Cloud Data Center Mobile Virtualization 189

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Craig Matsumoto of SDN Central helps highlight a recent (and fairly significant) development in networking protocols—the submission of the Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation (Geneve) proposal to the IETF. This next round of hardware offloads seems targeted at network virtualization and related technologies.

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Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

As the website describes it, it’s designed to “reverse engineer” servers so that you can migrate them into a configuration management system like Chef or Puppet. Operating Systems/Applications. Dmitry Ukov of Mirantis has a write-up on Swift and Ceph as object storage in OpenStack environments. Virtualization.

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Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 108

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Kevin Houston discusses workload acceleration options—specifically, storage acceleration via NVMe or PCIe SSDs—for blade servers. He also has a good article outlining some storage options for various blade server platforms that might be helpful as well. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

The networking “old guard” likes to talk about how x86 servers and virtualization create network bottlenecks due to performance concerns, but as Ivan points out in this post , it’s rapidly becoming—or has already become—a non-issue. (By Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Seriously.).

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Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 106