Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

Speaking of Pulumi, Kyle Galbraith wrote up a comparison of Pulumi and Terraform for infrastructure as code. The CNCF blog has a great article written by an Alibaba software engineer (Xingyu Chen) on some performance optimizations for etcd that have been contributed back to the open source community. Virtualization.

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Built upon the foundational research powering Google’s impressive Gemini models , Google Gemma AI is part of the company’s ongoing commitment to open-source AI development. Google Gemma AI represents a suite of lightweight language models released for open-source use. What is Google Gemma AI?

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). VMware open-sourced an identity and access management service called Lightwave ( project web site , GitHub repo ).

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Matt Oswalt recently unveiled (and open sourced) a framework called ToDD, which stands for “Testing on Demand: Distributed”. Personally, I think it’s an apples-to-oranges comparison, since Kubernetes is more than just a scheduler (think about replication controllers and services and such), but to each his own. Virtualization.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Agile , which includes subvariants such as Lean and Scrum, is increasing in popularity and is being utilized in virtually every industry. Here is a comparison of the three key roles within the PMO or EPMO, all are in high demand due to their leadership skill sets. Project management software falls into multiple categories.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). This was the source of some confusion in the past; the move to Moby sidesteps those concerns. Virtualization. Check out the GitHub repository. This one is definitely worth a read, in my opinion.

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Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 25, 2017

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). This was the source of some confusion in the past; the move to Moby sidesteps those concerns. Virtualization. Check out the GitHub repository. This one is definitely worth a read, in my opinion.

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Linux Open Source Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). VMware open-sourced an identity and access management service called Lightwave ( project web site , GitHub repo ).

Devops 60

Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

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. Diógenes Rettori has a comparison of Istio and Linkerd as solutions for service mesh. Virtualization. Networking.

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Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

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. Acra is open source and available via GitHub. Virtualization. installation caused by duplicate NSX Manager UUIDs.

Open Source 60

Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Anthony Shaw has a good comparison of Ansible, StackStorm, and Salt (with a particular view at applicability in a networking context). This was the source of some confusion in the past; the move to Moby sidesteps those concerns. Virtualization. Check out the GitHub repository. This one is definitely worth a read, in my opinion.

Open Source 60

Open Source Network Linux Engineering 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

VPCs, or Virtual Private Clouds, are Amazon’s software-defined networking mechanism for workloads running on AWS.). Courtesy of Corey Quinn, here’s an awesome AWS versus Azure comparison , comic book style. Jesse Hu has shared a Helm chart for deploying VMware’s open source Harbor registry.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

He makes comparisons among server virtualization, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, and SDN, and feels that in order for SDN to really hit this market it needs to be “not a user-facing feature, but rather a means to an end” (his words). Someone recently brought the open source Open vStorage project to my attention.

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Hacker Earth

AUGUST 17, 2023

In comparison, Blockchain tech only arrived at the scene sometime in 2008, and is still considered comparatively ‘new’. They usually take place in a physical or virtual environment. With the rise of virtual events and online collaboration tools, many hackathons have also been conducted in fully remote or hybrid environments.

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Galido

JULY 20, 2018

Cameras vary with Android phones, however Galaxy S8 and iPhone X give each other a good challenge in comparison. Android is open source and more open to alternate applications. If you prefer open systems to closed ones, it’s an important differentiator. For more insight on this debate, visit: [link].

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 2, 2020

This recent Ars Technica article points out that a feature in Chromium—the open source project leveraged by Chrome and Edge, among others—is having a significant impact on root DNS traffic. The article doesn’t go deep on any of them, but does provide some useful information and comparison of the various mechanisms.

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Linux Programming Open Source Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Non-code contributions are, in my opinion, an important but oft-overlooked aspect of open source communities. Steven Acreman shares a brief, high-level comparison of the major Kubernetes ingress solutions. Virtualization. Maish Saidel-Keesing examines the design trade-offs for NAT gateways versus AWS PrivateLink.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

So if you’re looking at a side-by-side comparison and you see one app collects 50 categories of data and the other collects zero, that’s probably a good indication that that one is taking privacy seriously.”. And then there’s Signal, the private messaging app that says it collects virtually nothing. The labels promote the former.

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Vox

JUNE 14, 2023

A lot of definitions of artificial intelligence rely on a comparison to human reasoning: AI, these definitions go, is advanced technology designed to replicate human intelligence, and able to perform tasks that have previously required human intervention. What is AI? What’s an algorithm?

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

I mean, it was open source, right? And this is open source software, meaning that there’s some developers or some project behind it that has already built out the basics of what you need to put it into your code and start using it. You could use a Starbucks free wi-fi and virtually leave no trace behind.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

I mean, it was open source, right? And this is open source software, meaning that there’s some developers or some project behind it that has already built out the basics of what you need to put it into your code and start using it. You could use a Starbucks free wi-fi and virtually leave no trace behind.

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Open Source Tools Security Software 52

Dataconomy

JUNE 13, 2023

The company has also open-sourced it, despite Google choosing the other way. In the same way as ChatGPT or other huge language model-based AI create text, Meta has recently announced the availability of the open-source version of their AI model for generating music.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

How could open source software be vulnerable for so long? In a moment I’ll tell you about a flaw discovered only through fuzz testing in a very old open source product. This was the beginning of open source software. And it's on your Mac, and virtually any company that runs the Linux operating system.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

How could open source software be vulnerable for so long? In a moment I’ll tell you about a flaw discovered only through fuzz testing in a very old open source product. This was the beginning of open source software. And it's on your Mac, and virtually any company that runs the Linux operating system.

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Open Source Operating Systems Software Software 52

ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

I mean, it was open source, right? And this is open source software, meaning that there’s some developers or some project behind it that has already built out the basics of what you need to put it into your code and start using it. You could use a Starbucks free wi-fi and virtually leave no trace behind.

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Open Source Tools Security Software 52

Virtualized Greek

JUNE 10, 2019

I opened my big mouth and put it out there that I’d do a video series installing Kubernetes (K8s) and OpenFaaS on 3-Node Intel NUC cluster. The best comparison I have is VMware vSphere. Oh, did I forget to mention, other than installing Linux, I really shouldn’t be left to my own devices with a Linux console.

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Dataconomy

MAY 23, 2023

AI-generated images can be used in various applications such as video games, movies, and virtual reality experiences AI art has a long history that dates back to the 1950s when pioneers such as Harold Cohen, Frieder Nake, and A. Michael Noll experimented with computer-generated art. Even Coca-Cola uses it!

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Artificial Intelligence Tools Guidelines Adobe 81

Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Some examples of private blockchains that support smart contracts include: Hyperledger Fabric:  Hyperledger Fabric is an open-source framework for building enterprise-grade blockchain solutions. Avalanche also provides subnets and virtual machines that enable the creation of customized blockchain networks and applications.

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Vox

JULY 3, 2023

Take, for instance, the pervasive comparison likening AI to nuclear weapons — a trope that continues to sweep through media outlets and congressional chambers alike. This curious blend of keen interest and vague comprehension has fueled a torrent of chattering-class clickbait, teeming with muddled analogies.

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Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) has made public Molmo, an innovative set of open-source multimodal models that contest the guiding influence of proprietary AI systems. Making Molmo fully open-source is part of Ai2’s larger strategic effort to democratize AI development.

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