Network World

OCTOBER 10, 2024

That means that using one single hyperscaler’s AI stack can limit enterprise IT options when it comes to deploying AI applications. So, there’s a race on right now for what company will be the default platform for generative AI, the operating system for the next evolution of the enterprise, the middleware that will tie it all together.

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Open Source Enterprise Enterprise Cloud 469

GeekWire

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Matt Garman, AWS CEO, announces the new AI tool for migrating.NET applications to Linux at AWS re:Invent on Tuesday morning. The move could boost Amazon’s cloud business by reducing a major hurdle for customers to move away from data centers and servers running on Microsoft’s operating system.

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Linux Windows Microsoft Data Center 135

Network World

JULY 17, 2024

Interest in the open-source network operating system SONiC is rising as major networking vendors and start-ups look to offer resources to help enterprises give SONiC a try. SONiC is seen as a significant alternative to more traditional, less flexible network operating systems. What is SONiC?

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Network World

JUNE 6, 2024

Gartner had put its finger on a new set of challenges that enterprise IT faced as employees shifted to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic and applications migrated to the cloud. Broadcom’s VMware unit: VMware SASE was developed in-house and includes SD-WAN, ZTNA, CASB, FWaaS, and SWG. As previously noted, SASE adds SD-WAN.

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Security WAN Vmware Network 419

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2022

SGB-SMIT’s multi-cloud ambitions have been made possible using VMware Cloud on AWS and Google Cloud VMware Engine. Together, these enable SGB-SMIT to lift, shift, and scale its VMware applications to the cloud of its choice, anywhere in the world. . Within six months, Schibsted was able to shut down over 350 servers.

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Cloud Vmware Disaster Recovery Groups 246

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 11, 2022

Many developers faced difficulties porting applications developed for a particular computing environment decades ago. Each container leverages a shared operating system kernel and encapsulates everything needed to run an application (application code, dependencies, environment variables, application runtimes, libraries, system tools etc.)

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Operating Systems Applications Enterprise Enterprise 246

Network World

MAY 16, 2024

The system can be centrally managed via Cisco’s cloud-based Intersight management platform, and it supports Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) and VMware vSphere hypervisors. Customers now can create application policies through ACI that push the network subnet configuration directly into Prism Central to be assigned to workloads.

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Data Center Network Enterprise Enterprise 483

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. Meeting the infrastructure needs of next-gen data-centric applications. Second, enterprise apps run across multiple geographically diverse cloud environments.

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Fountainhead

MARCH 18, 2013

Two recent announcements lead me to making an interesting business strategy observation about two opposing approaches to dominating these markets: VMwares recent announcement that it intends to venture into the public cloud ( assessment courtesy of James Staten ). VMware: A Strategy Expanding from Enterprise to Public.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 28, 2022

Resilient data protection is key to always-on availability for data and applications in today’s changing hybrid cloud environments. This fragmented approach inhibits innovation, because so much time and energy are diverted into configuring, initializing, and managing separate operating systems, and establishing best practices for each.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

I adopted OS X as my operating system of choice in 2003 because I wanted a stable, powerful, UNIX-based operating system. Don’t be surprised, then, to see me start talking more about switching away from OS X, and exploring applications and tools that work on other platforms. Apple and VMware…or Xen?

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Apple Operating Systems Applications Linux 149

Virtualized Greek

MARCH 26, 2013

Mirantis, a large OpenStack consulting organization, announced that PayPal will be rolling 10,000 nodes running some variant of OpenStack “Cloud Operating System” They look to have a total of 80,000 nodes managed by OpenStack at the end of the Cloud deployment. Cloud Computing Virtualization OpenStack VMWare'

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Virtualized Greek

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

I’m a huge fan of VMware products. VMware has long been the thought leader in x86 virtualization products both on the desktop and in the data center. But no matter how much I and my peer like the solution, VMware impresses the wrong crowd and may be headed down the path of other great infrastructure technologies like Novell Netware.

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Vmware Development Cloud Data Center 65

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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Linux Vmware Load Balancer Malware 113

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2013

Some good advice here on scaling/sizing VXLAN in VMware deployments (as well as some useful background information to help explain the advice). VMware addressed this potential issue with a feature called BPDU Filter. Operating Systems/Applications. Need Visio stencils for VMware? Good post, Nick.

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Vmware Storage Virtualization HP 123

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2023

Your IT estate has the potential to afford developer teams more flexibility and agility to place workloads across on-premises systems, public and private clouds, colocation facilities and edge networks. Not to mention the systems supporting workloads deployed as a result of fulfilling ad-hoc requests from various business lines.

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Cloud Agile Dell Applications 130

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Bruce Davie and Martin Casado (with Nicira, now part of VMware) have written a post comparing the VXLAN and STT tunneling protocols. Operating Systems/Applications. I found this article on imperative vs. declarative system configuration is quite helpful in understanding Puppet’s declarative model.

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 115

Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2024

In this Technology Short Take, I have links on things ranging from physical network designs to running retro operating systems as virtual machines. Operating Systems/Applications Julia Evans digs into what “current branch” means in Git. Surely there will be something useful in here for you!

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Linux Operating Systems Windows Virtualization 110

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Networking The networking section this time around is focused on application level protocols…but hey, they’re still networking protocols, right? Operating Systems/Applications Decisions, decisions— which immutable Linux to use ? Let the linking begin! That’s all for this time!

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Linux Vmware Resources Network 110

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Operating Systems/Applications. Greg Schulz (aka StorageIO) has a couple of VMware storage tips posts you might find useful reading. Winston Bumpus of VMware’s Office of the CTO has more information in this post. The tool has recently been updated to help fix issues as well. Read here for more information.

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Network 134

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Jimmy Mankowitz talks in some detail about using NSX-T in vSphere with Tanzu to secure applications. Operating Systems/Applications. Eric Sloof has a link to a white paper from VMware on host power management in vSphere 7.0. ” Who will be correct? I guess we will just have to wait and see. Virtualization.

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IPv6 Storage Vmware Hardware 97

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

I really appreciate Jay’s focus on what’s beneficial to the users of OpenStack: the cloud operators, the end users/consumers, and the developers building applications on top of OpenStack. Nice use of VMware Fusion in part 2, by the way.). Operating Systems/Applications. Technology Short Take #38.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 87

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Operating Systems/Applications. I hadn’t really considered how one might use BOSH for deploying (and managing) multi-VM applications on vSphere, but Brian provides some practical examples. Macintosh Networking Security Storage Virtualization Automation iSCSI OpenFlow OpenStack Puppet SDN VMware' Interesting.

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Storage Vmware Virtualization WAN 125

Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Server virtualization can do the trick for you if you also struggle to scale your applications to meet growing demands without breaking the bank. With traditional physical servers, adding new applications or services often requires purchasing and installing additional hardware.

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Virtualization Storage Disaster Recovery Hardware 78

Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 28, 2014

When collecting requirements for an application, we compile a list of functional requirements to determine the best OS platform. Normally, the touch points between managing the two environments are at a very high level such as hardware and application management. Virtualization Citrix Hyper-V KVM VMWare'

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Vmware Linux Comparison Windows 68

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Operating Systems/Applications Minderbinder is a tool that injects failures into running processes via eBPF. Virtualization Gina Minks mourns the loss of the vCommunity after attending VMware Explore (formerly VMworld) in Las Vegas. Eric Sloof recently shared a link to a set of performance best practices for vSphere 8.0

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Vmware Network Security Linux 74

GeekWire

OCTOBER 28, 2020

” Pulumi lets its customers apply modern software development practices to what has traditionally been a cumbersome or manual process of provisioning, configuring and updating the underlying hardware and software for running applications. It sells multi-user and enterprise plans in a software-as-a-service model.

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Cloud CTO Hire Open Source Software Development 131

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Some folks from Nicira (now part of VMware) recently published a blog post discussing the OVSDB IETF draft (see here ). Operating Systems/Applications. If storage is your thing—especially in VMware environments—I’d recommend having a look at Cormac Hogan’s blog for his series on vSphere 5.1

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Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Anthony Burke has written a script that uses VMware NSX to protect VMware Log Insight instances. The first article provides a blueprint for migrating applications to VMware NSX ; the second article supplies some tips for creating filtering policies in VMware NSX. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Humair Ahmed of VMware shares some details on a new control plane resiliency feature recently added to VMware NSX: Controller Disconnected Operation (CDO) mode. Operating Systems/Applications. JJ Asghar takes a look at using VMware Photon OS as the backend Docker host OS for use with test-kitchen.

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Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

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? Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a good source. Any thoughts?

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Vmware Storage Linux Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Keybase discusses some challenges with encrypted chat applications and how their architecture avoids some of those challenges. This past week Microsoft and VMware announced Azure VMware Solutions, which allows customers to run the VMware software stack on Azure (an arrangement similar in nature to VMware Cloud on AWS, as I understand it).

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Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Operating Systems/Applications. Eric Sloof drew my attention to a VMware white paper on paravirtual RDMA devices on vSphere. In the event you missed this in the barrage of AWS re:Invent announcements, I thought it was worth pointing out that you can now use Amazon ECR Public to get Docker Official images. Virtualization.

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Load Balancer Vmware Operating Systems Security 94

Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2015

Welcome to Technology Short Take #51, another collection of posts and links about key data center technologies like networking, virtualization, cloud management, and applications/operating systems. Along with Docker, VMware worked with the Center for Internet Security (CIS) to prepare a security benchmark for Docker 1.6

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Vmware Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 3, 2016

The examples Phil uses include StackWise, Virtual Switching System, and Virtual Port Channels. Alban Crequy has a post on using Linux queueing disciplines (qdiscs, for short) to help with testing application behavior under degraded network conditions. VMware recently released version 0.8 Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Network Linux Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

Operating Systems/Applications. Well worth reading for VMware admins and architects. General KVM Linux Networking OpenFlow OpenStack Puppet RedHat SDN Security Storage Virtualization VMware vSphere' If you want more PSA information, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better source. Technology Short Take #29.

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Virtualization Storage Vmware Network 108

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 8, 2014

Another series on VMware NSX has popped up, this time from Jon Langemak. Only two posts so far (but very thorough posts), one on setting up VMware NSX and another on logical networking with VMware NSX. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. Hang on tight, this will be an interesting ride!

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Vmware Linux Virtualization Network 60