TechSpot

AUGUST 10, 2024

A mention in this week's Steam Deck firmware patch notes has some observers speculating that Valve is preparing to release its well-regarded Linux build for third-party hardware. Read Entire Article The move could significantly impact the emerging PC handheld space.

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Linux Hardware 138

Network World

JULY 17, 2024

The Linux-based NOS was created by Microsoft for its Azure data centers and then open-sourced by Microsoft in 2017. In April 2022, Microsoft turned the project over to the Linux Foundation and its 450,000 developers. What is SONiC? Who created SONiC? We will see two approaches to SONiC,” Weckel said.

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TechSpot

APRIL 23, 2024

HighPoint says the card is compatible with Windows and Linux, and supports hardware secure boot. Read Entire Article They also come equipped with rear-mounted early warning LED indicators to help instantly assess operational status and the condition of each drive as well as your array.

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Linux Hardware Windows Security 110

TechSpot

JANUARY 11, 2024

The Linux-based operating system has so far been used to power the Steam Deck and the now-defunct Steam Machine hardware platform, but Ayaneo wants to provide a novel solution to gamers looking for a portable. Read Entire Article

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Linux Operating Systems Hardware System 106

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Even Facebook, which has open sourced much of its designs for its data center hardware but remains vague about its server count, saying only that it operates “hundreds of thousands” of machines. If they ran Linux, maybe they wouldn’t have to run so many servers. Featured Cloud Articles. ARCHIVED ARTICLES.

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Network World

JUNE 2, 2016

The OpenSwitch Project took a significant development step this week when it became the first full feature network operating system project of the Linux Foundation. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here More on Network World: Feeling jammed?

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Linux Operating Systems Hardware Network 60

TechSpot

MAY 19, 2023

There's no doubt that Valve's Steam Deck has revitalized the handheld console market and pushed hardware manufacturers like AMD to develop more capable low-power APUs and improve driver support for Linux systems. Read Entire Article

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Linux Hardware System Development 94

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Devices first started as tightly-coupled hardware and software solutions. In recent years, we’ve seen more devices running off-the-shelf software (like Linux). Is the Linux bridge efficient enough? Next, he discusses the evolution of network devices so far. The DPDK is BSD licensed and source code is available from Intel.

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Virtualization Intel Cloud Data 131

Network World

OCTOBER 21, 2016

The maintainers of Linux distributions are rushing to patch a privilege escalation vulnerability that's already being exploited in the wild and poses a serious risk to servers, desktops and other devices that run the OS. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2016-5195, has existed in the Linux kernel for the past nine years.

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Linux Hardware Security System 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

Ivan Pepelnjak dives deep on DHCP relaying on a Linux host. Servers/Hardware Menno Finlay-Smits shares information on reducing fan noise on Intel NUCs. Rob McBryde shares his story of reviving a 2012 MacBook Pro with Linux. Security In early February a vulnerability was uncovered in a key component of the Linux boot process.

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Linux Vmware Load Balancer Malware 113

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

CSL’s CSL-WAVE software enables companies to monitor and manage thei z/VM and Linux on System z environments using a powerful and easy-to-use interface. The response by clients to the advantages of Linux on System z have been tremendous, with the shipped capacity nearly doubling in 1Q13 year to year. Featured Cloud Articles.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 11, 2017

In December 2016, I kicked off a migration to Linux (from OS X) as my primary laptop OS. Let me start by saying that I am actively using a Linux-powered laptop as my primary laptop right now, and I have been doing so since early February. Linux Distribution. I’m using Enpass on my OS X, Linux, and iOS devices.

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Linux Report Vmware Travel 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. Not unsurprisingly, one of the key advantages of STT that’s highlighted is its improved performance due to TSO support in NIC hardware. Servers/Hardware. I needed to fill in some other knowledge gaps first.)

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 115

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #33, the latest in my irregularly-published series of articles discussing various data center technology-related links, articles, rants, thoughts, and questions. Servers/Hardware. Via Forbes Guthrie on Twitter, I saw this post on how to setup a CA on Linux and use it in a Windows environment.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 113

Computerworld Vertical IT

APRIL 11, 2023

As enterprise spending pivots from hardware purchases into service subscriptions , the fast-growing , ever-busy Apple enterprise space now has a new name to play with: Fleet. The company today introduced its own open-source take on mobile device management (MDM) with a cross-platform solution for macOS, Windows, Linux, and ChromeOS.

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Open Source Linux Device Management Hardware 85

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Fusion-io is contributing its NVMKV (nonvolatile memory key-value) interface to flash and is also posting the first flash-aware Linux kernel virtual memory Demand Paging Extension to GitHub for community testing. Featured Cloud Articles. Featured Modular Articles. ARCHIVED ARTICLES. and Percona Server 5.5.31.

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Open Source Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 177

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

I know that the company Linux Hosts Ltd. Featured Cloud Articles. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Featured Modular Articles. ARCHIVED ARTICLES. Connect via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn & RSS.

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Data Center Data Disaster Recovery Storage 188

Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2024

The year seems to be flying by—much in the same way that all these technical articles keep flying by my Inbox, occasionally getting caught and included here! More details are available in this Zero Day article. A colleague shared this article on CPU limits and throttling in Kubernetes. Wow, is it the middle of May already?

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Linux Operating Systems Windows Virtualization 110

Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Customers will act on market shifts that makes the purchase and resale of hardware and software no longer viable opting instead for the integration of cloud-based services. Linux Containers take center stage - Linux Containers of all forms, will mature and become interoperability building blocks of the cloud computing world.

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Social Mobile Cloud Data Center 169

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org. Macintosh iPhone Linux' Further, I need to ensure that the applications I need to get my job done will be present on my next platform. Why I Might Leave OS X. Why I Might Leave OS X. Apple on Intel.

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Apple Operating Systems Applications Linux 149

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

That’s right, it’s time for yet another collection of links and articles from around the Internet on various data center-related technologies, products, projects, and efforts. It was good to read this post on Cumulus Linux first impressions by Jeremy Stretch. ” I highly encourage reading this article.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 87

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

I still have a lot to learn about OpenFlow and networking, but this article from June of last year (it appears to have been written by Ivan Pepelnjak) discusses some of the potential scalability concerns around early versions of the OpenFlow protocol. Servers/Hardware. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org.

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Vmware Storage Virtualization Network 134

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. As Alec shares in the article, it turns out that adding Tor to a “standard” DoH configuration doesn’t significantly impact performance (as measured by latency). Servers/Hardware. Networking.

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IPv6 Storage Vmware Hardware 97

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. Michael Kashin shares the journey of containerizing NVIDIA Cumulus Linux. Servers/Hardware.

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2022

Well, you’ll have to read the whole article to find out for sure, but I have links to articles on…well, lots of different topics! DNS, BGP, hardware-based security, Kubernetes, Linux—they’re all in here. Servers/Hardware. Welcome to Technology Short Take #158! Interested in hardening macOS?

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Linux Storage Virtualization Hardware 90

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

“IBM will incorporate Cloud Foundry into its open cloud architecture, and put its full support behind Cloud Foundry as an open and collaborative platform for cloud application development, as it has done historically for key technologies such as Linux and OpenStack.”. “We Featured Cloud Articles. Featured Modular Articles.

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Data Center IBM Data Cloud 197

Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

He starts out by discussing proactive vs. reactive flows , in which Brent explains that OpenFlow performance is less about OpenFlow and more about how flows are inserted into the hardware. I love this quote from that article: “The second misnomer is, flow based forwarding does not scale. Servers/Hardware.

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Virtualization Storage Vmware Network 108

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2013

Servers/Hardware. Linux distributions that offer ARM support, though—like Ubuntu, RHEL, and SuSE—are supported, however. It will be interesting to see how the support of a “Tier 1″ hardware vendor like HP affects the adoption of ARM in the enterprise. In vSphere 5.1, Is it just me? Virtualization.

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Vmware Storage HP Virtualization 123

Linux Academy

APRIL 18, 2019

In the previous article in this series, I discussed how you can have a more productive workforce by leveraging the cloud. In this article, I’ll discuss both cost avoidance, and the impact of the cloud computing model on operational costs. Questions about the concepts presented in this article? Cost Avoidance.

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Linux Budget Cloud Resources 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Welcome to Technology Short Take #25, my irregularly-published collection of links, articles, thoughts, and rants. Servers/Hardware. According to this article by Rick Vanover, this feature allows you to protect your network against rogue/unauthorized DHCP servers. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org.

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Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 18, 2017

Craig Matsumoto has an informative article on why machine learning is hard to apply to networking. I’ve heard David Meyer—who is quoted extensively in the article—speak several times, and most of the time his stuff is way beyond my understanding. This article by Alin Serdean from Cloudbase Solutions describes how it’s done.

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Linux Network Hardware Dell 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

I have a slightly bulkier list of links for you today, bolstered by some recent additions to my RSS feeds and supplemented by some articles I found through social media. This is an older article from 2020, but still useful: Nathan Taber “demystifies” cluster networking for Amazon EKS worker nodes. Great ideas here!

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Linux Storage Network Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 21, 2022

I have a few more links than normal this time around, although I didn’t find articles in a couple categories. Don’t worry—I’ll keep my eyes peeled and my RSS reader ready to pull in new articles in those categories for next time. Servers/Hardware. This article may provide some useful information.

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Load Balancer Linux Intel Cloud 90

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2024

From networking to security and from hardware to the cloud, there’s something in here for just about everyone. Servers/Hardware Permanent damage? Security I enjoy Ben Bornholm’s article showing how to use Cilium and Tetragon to secure a vulnerable web application. Run macOS software on Linux?

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Linux Intel Engineering Network 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

This article contains some good information on IPv6 for those who are just starting to get more familiar with it, although toward the end it turns into a bit of an advertisement. Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? Fatima Silveira has a good article on using the Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler. Networking.

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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Here’s another collection of links and articles from around the Internet discussing various data center-focused technologies. The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based.

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Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #33, the latest in my irregularly-published series of articles discussing various data center technology-related links, articles, rants, thoughts, and questions. Servers/Hardware. Via Forbes Guthrie on Twitter, I saw this post on how to setup a CA on Linux and use it in a Windows environment.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 68