Fountainhead

MARCH 31, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Intel Nehalem + Dell + Repurposing. With all of the Intel/Nehalem (Xeon 5500 series) processor announcements this week , one stands out. Citrix, Microsoft, VMware, Linux, Unix. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Intel will hold a launch event for its next-generation Xeon data center CPUs on January 10. Around the same time as Intel's confirmation this week, a Linux kernel update has shed some light on a planned system for à la carte processor hardware features.

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Intel Linux Data Center Software 74

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 14, 2017

Intel has contributed its Open Security Controller to the Linux Foundation. Read More.

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Security Intel Development Linux 116

CTOvision

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Supercomputing applications are evolving to include more deep learning algorithms, and with this evolution, the uses for GPUs in our systems are increasing, enabling our customers to use new analytics techniques to gain insight from increasingly large and complex data,” said Ryan Waite, Cray’s senior vice president of products.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The speaker for the session is Vin Sharma, who helps lead open source software strategies at Intel. The focus of this session, as you can tell from the title, is on security and trust (presumably talking about how to leverage Intel TXT with OpenStack). That’s a lot of “open” ). RSA, are you listening?).

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Cloud Intel Open Source Data Center 109

Tech Republic

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The attestation service is designed to allow data in confidential computing environments to interact with AI safely, as well as provide policy enforcements and audits.

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Network World

OCTOBER 10, 2024

You can use that to accelerate the deployment of foundation models on any cloud or data center with the highest levels of security and governance,” Ricky says. And that includes all the auditing, access, and compliance functionality necessary to keep enterprise data safe, he adds.

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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. The servers (right now, at least) are running Intel Atom S1260 CPUs, which are x86-based and do offer features like Intel VT-x.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 113

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

In case you hadn’t noticed, I’m at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014 this week in San Francisco. Intel has a very large consumer presence: PCs, ultrabooks, tablets, phones, 2-in–1/convertibles, all-in–1 devices. I don’t track or get involved in the consumer space; my focus is on the data center.

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Intel Hardware Linux Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

This is my usual collection of links, thoughts, rants, and ideas about data center-related technologies. Is this the beginning of the data center fractal edge ? Linux Networking Security Virtualization Automation CentOS Debian KVM OpenStack Puppet RedHat Storage VMware VXLAN Xen' Networking. Virtualization.

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 115

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

The first speaker starts out with a review of exactly what a microserver is; Intel sees microservers as a natural evolution from rack-mounted servers to blades to microservers. Key microserver technologies include: Intel Atom C2000 family of processors; Intel Xeon E5 v2 processor family; and Intel Ethernet Switch FM6000 series.

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Load Balancer Intel Network Hardware 68

Network World

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

IBM in May filled out the low end of its Power server portfolio with a 2U rack-mounted server designed for running AI inferencing workloads in remote office or edge locations outside of corporate data centers. Intel, AMD, Xilinx and others currently build chiplet systems.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 29, 2020

Sharma, our latest Geek of the Week, spent eight years at Amazon and Amazon Web Services, most recently leading a product management team at AWS for a new service, AWS Outposts , which extends AWS infrastructure and services outside of AWS owned data centers to customer locations or colocation spaces. Mac, Windows or Linux?

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Apparel Education Windows Oracle 132

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

I have another collection of links, articles, and thoughts about key data center technologies, and hopefully I’ve managed to include something here that will prove useful or thought-provoking. Here’s a handy list of deprecated Linux network commands and their replacements. Intel NUC or SuperMicro E200-8D? Networking.

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Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

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. The servers (right now, at least) are running Intel Atom S1260 CPUs, which are x86-based and do offer features like Intel VT-x.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 68

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

As always, I have a list of links related to various data center technologies found below; hopefully something here proves useful. In particular, Dmitri points out that you need connectivity both on the management plane as well as on the data plane. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host (how’s that for a mouthful?)

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Vmware Linux Intel Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 20, 2020

Welcome to Technology Short Take #125, where I have a collection of articles about various data center and cloud technologies collected from around the Internet. Mark Ermolov discusses a vulnerability in the ROM (read-only memory) of the Intel Converged Security and Management Engine (CSME). Networking. Good stuff here!

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Linux Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Drew Conry-Murray shines a light on Intel’s network ambitions. This is something I’ve been watching for a couple of years, since attending my first Intel Developer Forum (IDF). Intel clearly has its sights set on expanding beyond just “servers” into many more platforms, including network hardware platforms. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2014

As usual, I’ve gathered a collection of links to various articles pertaining to data center-related technologies for your enjoyment. What is Intel SGX, you ask? Linux Networking Security Storage Virtualization Docker Hardware HyperV Intel NSX OpenStack SSL vSphere VXLAN' Welcome to Technology Short Take #45.

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Storage Intel Disaster Recovery Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #44, the latest in my irregularly-published series of articles, links, ideas, and thoughts about various data center-related technologies. Is Intel having second thoughts about software-defined infrastructure? Running Hyper-V with Linux VMs? Networking. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

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Linux Vmware Network Disaster Recovery 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 17, 2020

This collection is (mostly) data center- and cloud-focused, and hopefully I’ve managed to curate a list that has some useful information for readers. Jon Langemak is blogging again, and he jumps back into the “blogging saddle” with a post on working with tc on Linux systems. ” Great quote!

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Linux Apple Operating Systems Policies 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #39, in which I share a random assortment of links, articles, and thoughts from around the world of data center-related technologies. Via Kevin Houston, you can get more details on the Intel E7 v2 and new blade servers based on the new CPU. Networking. x86 marches on! Technology Short Take #37.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2015

This session is titled “The Post-Cloud,” and the speaker is Nick Weaver, Director of SDI-X at Intel. Then we wanted captured and immutable images of our web services (Docker), being able to turn them up extremely quickly (Linux containers and Docker) and easily integrated into our Continuous Development lifecycle.

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Cloud Web Services Devops Linux 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2014

Intel recently announced a refresh of the E5 CPU line; Kevin Houston has more details here. Here’s a quick article on how to assess if your Linux-based server is affected. This isn’t as straightforward as building a Linux image (no surprises there), but I did find a few good articles that helped along the way.

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Vmware Windows Virtualization Storage 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

I try to keep things related to the key technology areas you’ll see in today’s data centers, though I do stray from time to time. Intel announced the E5 2600 v2 series of CPUs back at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 (you can follow my IDF 2013 coverage by looking at posts with the IDF2013 tag ). Networking.

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Vmware Network Virtualization Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

News in the OpenStack space hasn’t been so good recently (Intel pulling out of OSIC, various companies laying off folks, other “pure play” companies shifting focus away from OpenStack), but here’s one architect’s perspective on what you may still want to attend the OpenStack Summit. memory pressure but not CPU utilization, or vice versa).

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Vmware Storage Network Examples 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

What effect might that have on modern data centers? For example, their product runs natively as an agent/daemon/service on various UNIX platforms, various Linux distributions, and all recent versions of Windows Server. This gives them very fine-grained control over data access.

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Meeting Storage Hardware Network 74

The Verge

JUNE 25, 2021

And if cloud computing is about computers far away from you in data centers, the edge is about the computers closest to you — like Windows PCs. WSL, which is the part of Windows that lets you run Linux. Pat, who is Pat Gelsinger, CEO of Intel. Linux is now first class on Windows, and Android is just another subsystem.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #34, my latest collection of links, articles, thoughts, and ideas from around the web, centered on key data center technologies. In this post, William Lam explores the potential benefits of Intel’s VMCS Shadowing functionality on nested virtualization. Networking.

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Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 106

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

This is my irregularly-published collection of links and articles from around the Internet related to the major data center technologies: networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications/OSes, storage, and virtualization. Welcome to Technology Short Take #85!

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Vmware Storage Network Windows 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #34, my latest collection of links, articles, thoughts, and ideas from around the web, centered on key data center technologies. In this post, William Lam explores the potential benefits of Intel’s VMCS Shadowing functionality on nested virtualization. Networking.

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