The Verge

JUNE 9, 2021

That’s a tiny sliver of the overall smartwatch market — Apple sold 34 million watches last year by comparison, according to Counterpoint Research. The watch will come in white, black, and gold, and Facebook hopes to initially sell volume in the low six figures. Facebook’s interest in building a smartwatch dates back at least a few years.

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Apple Hardware Video Google 126

Scott Lowe

APRIL 7, 2023

Networking Jeff McLaughlin discusses what he calls the “war on expertise.” Operating Systems/Applications In Technology Short Take 166 , I mentioned Nick Schmidt’s article on D2. This article provides a comparison of Apache APISIX 3.0 Unfortunately, I have yet to have any time to try using D2 myself.

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Applications Comparison Cloud Intel 97

Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

This Technology Short Take is a bit heavy on the networking side, but I suppose that’s understandable given my recent job change. Networking. Ben Cherian, Chief Strategy Officer for Midokura, helps make a case for network virtualization. Note: Midokura makes a network virtualization solution.) Am I wrong?

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Virtualization Storage Vmware Network 108

The Verge

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Whatever your preferred brand or operating system, 5G is coming your way soon if you don’t have it already. A SIM card that was activated in a 4G device will still work with a 5G device, but you may have trouble connecting to the 5G network. If you got a phone recently, there’s a good chance it supports 5G.

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Mobile Network Data Comparison 123

Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 14, 2013

This means that basically, just like Hyper-V the hypervisor is native to the operating system. A better comparison would be with XenClient which I wrote about here. The foundation of the traditional VDI solutions has been based on screen streaming technology which requires an always on network connection.

Vmware 68

Vmware Virtualization Windows Operating Systems 68

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

For example, did you know about the secret macOS network quality tool? Networking. What I’d like to find—but haven’t yet—is a good, in-depth comparison of fundamental concepts between AWS, Azure, and GCP. Operating Systems/Applications. You didn’t? Read on to get all the details!

Cloud 87

Cloud Tools Policies Devops 87

The Verge

JUNE 4, 2021

While we aren’t expecting any announcements on the level of Apple’s shift to custom silicon in its computers, which was WWDC 2020’s big news, Apple presumably has some notable changes in the works for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and its other operating systems. Read on to learn everything we expect from the big show.

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Apple Operating Systems System Energy 87

Galido

MAY 26, 2016

Despite the Millennials great exposure to computers and mobile gadgets, their areas of expertise—if you can actually call it that—are largely limited to social networking and Internet apps, which are not exactly vital to business productivity. This is particularly true of Windows and Mac operating systems.

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Education Course Survey Artificial Intelligence 72

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Networking. 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. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. Check this out.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

Networking. Ali Al Idrees has a post on using NSX ALB (formerly Avi Networks) with Kubernetes clusters in a vSphere with Tanzu environment. This post provides some examples of shared control planes (and thus shared failure domains) within networking. Operating Systems/Applications. ” Get ready to get nerdy!

Vmware 60

Vmware Firewall Storage Comparison 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Networking. Via Kirk Byers (who is himself a fantastic resource), I read a couple of articles on network automation that I think readers may find helpful. First up is a treatise from Mircea Ulinic on whether network automation is needed. I first ran into Forward Networks a few years ago at Fall ONUG in New York.

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Resources Network Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Networking. I enjoyed Dave McCrory’s series on the future of the network (see part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , and part 4 —part 5 hadn’t gone live yet when I published this). Michael Kashin has a handy little tool that functions like ssh-copy-id on servers, but for network devices (leveraging Netmiko). Operating Systems/Applications.

Linux 60

Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Networking. I enjoyed Dave McCrory’s series on the future of the network (see part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , and part 4 —part 5 hadn’t gone live yet when I published this). Michael Kashin has a handy little tool that functions like ssh-copy-id on servers, but for network devices (leveraging Netmiko). Operating Systems/Applications.

Linux 60

Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 12, 2021

Networking. Isovalent, the folks behind Cilium, recently unveiled the Network Policy Editor, a graphical way of editing Kubernetes Network Policies. Ivan Pepelnjak, the font of all networking knowledge, has been discussing cloud networking in some detail for a good while now. Operating Systems/Applications.

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IPv6 Network Storage Policies 60

Galido

JULY 20, 2018

Apple has shown great skill in designing an easy-to-use mobile operating system, while Android has been increasingly developing their product to be more intuitive and give you more control over it’s OS and applications. For more about this comparison, check out our article: Best Personal Assistant for Mobile in 2016-2018.

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Study Apple Google Operating Systems 66

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Networking. Arthur Chiao cracks open kube-proxy , a key part of Kubernetes networking, to expose the internals, and along the way exposes readers to a few different technologies. This is a good read if you’re trying to better understand some aspects of Kubernetes networking. Operating Systems/Applications.

Linux 60

Linux Network Tools Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Networking. The engineering team at Lyft recently discussed a new overlay-free networking approach they’ve been working on for Kubernetes: IPVLAN-based CNI stack for running within VPCs on AWS. (For VPCs, or Virtual Private Clouds, are Amazon’s software-defined networking mechanism for workloads running on AWS.).

Vmware 60

Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Networking. I enjoyed Dave McCrory’s series on the future of the network (see part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , and part 4 —part 5 hadn’t gone live yet when I published this). Michael Kashin has a handy little tool that functions like ssh-copy-id on servers, but for network devices (leveraging Netmiko).

Open Source 60

Open Source Network Linux Engineering 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

Networking. Cue the round of folks claiming that this is why proprietary network operating systems [NOSes] are the route the networking industry should be taking.). (Cue Operating Systems/Applications. Check out Anthony Burke’s introductory post on PowerNSX for more details. Seen this ?

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Intel Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Networking. At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. Here’s another topic that came up at the recent DevOps Networking Forum: Spotify’s SDN Internet Router (SIR). Here’s some information on Nuage Networks’ experimental Docker Network plugin.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2018

Networking. Lindsay Hill walks through using Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana to monitor network statistics. Via Ivan Pepelnjak, I found this article by Diane Patton at Cumulus Networks talking about container network designs. Operating Systems/Applications. This is an awesome collection of patched fonts.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Comparison Network 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Networking. NAPALM (Network Automation and Programmability Layer with Multivendor support) looks like a really cool tool. Gabriele (the author of that post) also has a nice article on some resources to get you started with network automation. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Networking. Via BlueCat Networks, John Capobianco shares his network automation journey. Via BlueCat Networks, John Capobianco shares his network automation journey. Diógenes Rettori has a comparison of Istio and Linkerd as solutions for service mesh. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 13, 2018

Networking. Ajay Chenampara has a post on using the Ansible network-engine command parser to parse the output of commands on network devices. Ajay Chenampara has a post on using the Ansible network-engine command parser to parse the output of commands on network devices. Operating Systems/Applications.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Virtualization Authentication Tools 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Networking. Biruk Mekonnen has an introductory article on using Netmiko for network automation. Gabriele Gerbino has a nice write-up about Cisco’s efforts with APIs ; his article includes a brief description of YANG data models and a comparison of working with network devices via SSH or via API.

Open Source 60

Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

Networking. Bob McCouch has a post over at Network Computing (where I’ve recently started blogging as well—see my first post ) discussing his view on how software-defined networking (SDN) will trickle down to small and mid-sized businesses. Want or need to use multiple external networks in your OpenStack deployment?

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Virtualization Network 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Networking. NAPALM (Network Automation and Programmability Layer with Multivendor support) looks like a really cool tool. Gabriele (the author of that post) also has a nice article on some resources to get you started with network automation. Operating Systems/Applications.

Devops 60

Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Networking. I share this not to encourage illegal activities, but instead to point out that no operating system is secure, so be alert at all times and use good computing practices regardless of your OS. Steven Acreman shares a brief, high-level comparison of the major Kubernetes ingress solutions. Good stuff!

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Intel Operating Systems Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Here’s hoping I’ve managed to find something of value and interest to you in this latest collection of links and articles from around the web on networking, storage, virtualization, security, and other data center-related technologies. Networking. The article shows you how to build a Cumulus VX lab on Ravello Systems.

Vmware 60

Vmware Virtualization Guidelines Network 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 2, 2020

This time around the content is a tad heavy on the security side, but I’ve still managed to pull in articles on networking, cloud computing, applications, and some programming-related content. Networking. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s hoping you find something useful here! —isn’t perfect.

Linux 60

Linux Programming Cloud Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2017

Networking. I found the articles at step 5, the benefits of Git for network engineers , but the previous four articles also look helpful. Do I need to talk about how understanding a service mesh is a good thing for networking professionals? Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. Security.

Hardware 60

Hardware Devops Vmware Network 60

Galido

DECEMBER 4, 2019

A recent report revealing that around 77% of users who have internet access read blogs while 23% of users spent their time on the internet by browsing social networks or reading some content on websites. And how can we create tech awareness is simply by exploring various tech blogs and websites.

Trends 94

Trends Media Mobile Apple 94

Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

Networking. Speaking of Pulumi, Kyle Galbraith wrote up a comparison of Pulumi and Terraform for infrastructure as code. Operating Systems/Applications. Courtesy of Tigera, Alex Pollitt shares some guidelines on when Linux conntrack is no longer your friend. Servers/Hardware.

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Linux Dell Licensing Open Source 60

SecureWorld News

APRIL 30, 2023

Huge arrays of unstructured data utilized and modified by many users as well as the ever-growing complexity of attacks, lead to the fact that the usual means of protecting the perimeter of a corporate network no longer meet current information security requirements. What attacks can DCAP systems prevent?

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System Data Information Security Security 98

Scott Lowe

MARCH 30, 2018

Networking. Matt Oswalt tackles the topic of unit testing (specifically with regard to network automation) with a post on unit testing JunOS with JSNAPy. Jérôme Petazzoni test drives AppSwitch , the “network stack from the future.” Tirumarai Selvan has a comparison. Operating Systems/Applications.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Windows Applications 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

Networking. I love this post from Matt Oswalt on five next-gen skills for networking pros. Not everyone agrees, though—here’s Steven Noble’s take on the introduction of 6-pack and why this is pushing the networking industry forward. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s hoping you find something useful.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate and Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert certifications cover a wide range of topics related to Microsoft’s technology suite, including Windows operating systems, Azure cloud computing, Office productivity software, Visual Studio programming tools, and SQL Server databases.

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Microsoft Security Database Administration Software Development 45