Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2013

I try to keep the information linked to data center technologies like networking, storage, virtualization, and the like, but occasionally other items slip through. Ranga Maddipudi ( @vCloudNetSec on Twitter) has put together two blog posts on vCloud Networking and Security’s App Firewall ( part 1 and part 2 ). Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Storage Virtualization HP 123

Network World

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Aimed at high-performance environments, cPacket’s Packet Capture cStor 200S appliance combines compute, storage, and networking in a single, compact device and delivers metrics for network throughput, capacity, latency, and errors.

Network 139

Network Data Center Firewall Analysis 139

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. Next, Jason dives a bit deeper on the relationship between network overlays and hardware , and shares his thoughts on where it does—and doesn’t—make sense to have hardware terminating overlay tunnels.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 113

CTOvision

JANUARY 11, 2016

Simplifies infrastructure, enabling IT to avoiding having to create new silos, which often consist of new technologies and firewalls. Today’s enterprise infrastructure is a complex web of hardware, programs, applications, and flash storage. Silos increase complexity and cost.

Cloud 150

Cloud Open Source Firewall Applications 150

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Verplanke believes that DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) and virtualization are key to virtualizing workloads that move around lots and lots of packets, such as firewalls, routers, and other similar functions. Devices first started as tightly-coupled hardware and software solutions. First, DPDK provides optimized pass-through support.

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Virtualization Intel Cloud Data 131

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Greg Ferro examines a potential SDN use case (an OpenFlow use case) in the form of enterprise firewall migrations. Servers/Hardware. If you’re a real storage geek (or if you’re not but are having trouble sleeping), check out this USENIX presentation on erasure coding in Windows Azure storage. Virtualization.

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Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 125

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The process starts with identifying compromised hardware, software, and human assets – both internal and external – by way of scanning and reconnaissance methods. Implement a Web Application Firewall (WAF) on your web server and Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance (DMARC) for emails.

Network 140

Network Authentication Firewall Malware 140

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Servers/Hardware. While all the attention is “up the stack,” there are still some occasions when you need to worry about the details in the hardware. I’m not sure if this falls into storage or virtualization, but we’ll place it here in the Storage section. “Junk-box infrastructure,” eh?

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 87

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

As a provider, Expedient has to balance five core resources: compute, storage (capacity), storage (performance), network I/O, and memory. VM-to-VM (on the same host) via a hardware-based virtual switch in an SR-IOV network interface card (NIC). In this case, the switching is done in hardware in the SR-IOV NIC.

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Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 115

Sean Daniel

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Introducing a new line of Network Storage Servers for SMB. Only yesterday, a third product that I worked on over the past little while called Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials was announced, on hardware provided by Western Digital. The WD Sentinel DX4000 looks pretty awesome from a hardware perspective as well.

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Storage Network SMB Windows 48

Network World

MAY 16, 2024

So we’ll do a lot of work around how to create the operating environments, the compute or the storage or the GPU as-a-service models to really start to test and play with the operating capability, or help them define how to move their operating workloads into those environments effectively,” Shagoury said.

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Fractional CTO Cloud Applications Load Balancer 135

Linux Academy

DECEMBER 3, 2019

This is actual AWS hardware and once installed, AWS will take care of monitoring, maintaining, and upgrading your Outposts. All of the hardware is modular and can be replaced in the field without downtime. Andy also announced Amazon S3 Access Points , a new service that helps firewall your S3 buckets within private networks.

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Linux Course Web Services Storage 17

SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The measures to ensure product and solution security cover the hardware, software, and services involved in production. You might also want to apply specific access limitations to mission-critical workloads and storage, in general, to enhance product security throughout the environment.

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Tools Security Firewall Backup 93

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

Public cloud providers such as AWS, Google, and Microsoft Azure publish shared responsibility models that push security of the data, platform, applications, operating system, network and firewall configuration, and server-side encryption, to the customer. Have you set up ransomware protection? 2 – Governance & Compliance.

Cloud 137

Cloud Open Source Applications Storage 137

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. Next, Jason dives a bit deeper on the relationship between network overlays and hardware , and shares his thoughts on where it does—and doesn’t—make sense to have hardware terminating overlay tunnels.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 68

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Ivan Pepelnjak shares some links and thoughts on configuring the NSX-T firewall with a CI/CD pipeline built on GitHub Actions and Terraform Cloud. Servers/Hardware. Networking. Adam Kotwasinski walks readers through deploying Envoy and Kafka to collect broker-level metrics. See their announcement for details. Virtualization.

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Open Source Cloud Network Storage 107

Network World

DECEMBER 9, 2024

As data centers evolve from traditional compute and storage facilities into AI powerhouses, the demand for qualified professionals continues to grow exponentially and salaries are high. Ive had employees who were network people but wanted to shift into, say, firewalls, for example. But its not all smooth sailing.

Data Center 145

Data Center Data Energy Programming 145

Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2013

According to Martin, the term SDN originally referred to a change in the network architecture to include a) decoupling the distribution model of the control plane from the data plane; and b) generalized rather than fixed function forwarding hardware. Or virtualized firewalls? What about NX-OS, JUNOS, or EOS? Are these SDN too?

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Virtualization Network Vmware Load Balancer 151

Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2014

You might also consider enabling the built-in firewall (see this write-up for enabling pf on OS X Mountain Lion ; haven’t tried on Mavericks yet) for an added layer of network protection. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Macintosh Security Hardware'

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Travel Firewall Backup Hardware 68

Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 27, 2013

The ability to virtualize the network devices such as firewalls, IPS and load balancers also means that these once physical devices that have discrete interfaces can be controlled by software. The second major area is storage automation. The key to a successful cloud management strategy is provisioning and controlling storage.

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Vmware Load Balancer Data Center Virtualization 58

SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Choose secure hosting providers and plugins Your web hosting provider controls physical hardware, sensitive data storage, and network configurations. Be sure to verify that they are using approved Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) and secure FTP capabilities.

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How To Backup Firewall Open Source 88

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2014

beta announced yesterday), storage (via VSAN), networking (via NSX—go VCDX-NV!), The hardware specification for EVO:RAIL is a 2U, four-node enclosure (think Dell C6100 or similar hardware form factor). Policy can (and should) be applied not only to networking, but also to storage, compute, and other areas.

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Vmware Architecture Applications Storage 79

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. Michael Kashin explains how he built a DIY (Do It Yourself) SD-WAN using Envoy and Wireguard. Greg Ferro shares a useful CLI tip for increasing mouse tracking speed on macOS.

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 31, 2023

APIs enable organizations to bring innovative applications and functionality to customers at an increasingly fast pace and also serve as applications for provisioning cloud platforms, hardware, and software, acting as service gateways to enable indirect and direct cloud services. Web Application Firewalls (WAF): Protect APIs from attacks.

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Security Authentication Applications Firewall 91

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

They are intently aware that they no longer have an IT staff that is large enough to manage an increasingly complex compute, networking, and storage environment that includes on-premises, private, and public clouds. “They also know that the attack surface is increasing and that they need help protecting core systems.

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System Enterprise Enterprise Vmware 98

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Servers/Hardware I thought this write-up of Andy Bechtolsheim’s keynote at Hot Interconnects 2024 was an interesting summary of where we could see hardware development go in the next 4 years. Gabriella Gonzalez shares some tricks for jailbreaking hosts behind “secure” enterprise firewalls. Well worth a read.

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Linux Storage Network Hardware 60

Galido

OCTOBER 10, 2019

This activity is known as Vulnerability Assessment, and it aims to find weaknesses in software or hardware platforms to solve failures, before they can generate a negative impact. Once the critical processes are targeted, inventory the hardware to get an overview of your network. Detect Vulnerabilities.

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Development How To Analysis Hardware 72

Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

In this post , Jakub Sitnicki digs way deep into the Linux kernel to uncover the answer to the question, “Why are there no entries in the conntrack table for SYN packets dropped by the firewall?” Servers/Hardware. ” Get ready to get nerdy! I’m not sure about that. Linux malware is getting more sophisticated.

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Vmware Firewall Storage Comparison 60

Galido

MAY 30, 2019

The environment consists of any systems and processes used in the transmission, storage, and retrieval of personally identifiable data. Hardware and software components that make up the CDE include network devices, applications, and computing devices. What Scope of Your Network Should Be PCI DSS-Compliant? Out-of-Scope Systems.

Network 60

Network Firewall Storage LAN 60

Network World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Cisco taps former Microsoft, Broadcom exec March 25, 2024 : Martin Lund will lead the group responsible for delivering the silicon, optics, and hardware for Cisco’s core switching, routing, and wireless offerings. Cisco, Nvidia target secure AI with expanded partnership Feb. Cisco looks to ease management of software agents Jan.

Network 120

Network Data Center Security Applications 120

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Servers/Hardware. specifically, the new container network firewall functionality. When I was using Fedora, I needed some useful information on firewall-cmd , and found this article to be helpful. Tom Scanlan shares how to use VIC volumes as a way of helping address persistent storage challenges with containers.

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Firewall Virtualization Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 2, 2019

I’ve got a little bit of something for most everyone, except for the storage nerds (I’m leaving that to my friend J Metz this time around). Servers/Hardware. Nothing from me this time around, but if you’re really hurting for some storage news and views, check out Storage Short Take #12 from J Metz.

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Storage Applications Programming Firewall 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Dmitri Kalintsev is back with another article in a series of articles on using hardware VXLAN tunnel endpoints (VTEPs) with VMware NSX. Servers/Hardware. The use of VMware NSX for microsegmentation is a really popular use case, and so the topic of scripting distributed firewall (DFW) rules often comes up. Networking.

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Vmware Linux Intel Storage 60

Galido

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

How much storage for backups do they provide? Ensure that your host specializes in custom firewalls for your CMS if you are using one, and updates web server scripts and systems regularly. You are able to put in custom firewalls and set them according to your requirements. Do you plan on doing your own backups?

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Backup Resources Security Virtualization 103

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful. I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. RegEx tester.

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful. I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. RegEx tester.

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

A discussion of “statefulness” brought me again to Ivan’s post on the spectrum of firewall statefulness. Servers/Hardware. Chris Evans takes a took at ScaleIO , recently acquired by EMC, and speculates on where ScaleIO fits into the EMC family of products relative to the evolution of storage in the data center.

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Vmware Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 60