The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

Microsoft only licenses Windows 10 on ARM to PC makers to preinstall on new hardware, and the company hasn’t made copies of the operating system available for anyone to license or freely install. Apple did demonstrate Parallels Desktop running Linux in a virtual machine, but there was no mention of Windows support.

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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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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. Privacy policy | EU Privacy Policy.' and Percona Server 5.5.31. Featured Cloud Articles. Data Center Videos.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

I know that the company Linux Hosts Ltd. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. Privacy policy | EU Privacy Policy.' Connect via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn & RSS. Barbara Johnson. Posted July 25th, 2013.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2024

Servers/Hardware While in many respects Apple’s M series CPUs are amazing, all is not perfect: security researchers have discovered a flaw that would allow attackers to steal cryptographic keys. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management Open Policy Agent (OPA) is approaching their 1.0 as smooth and seamless as possible.

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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 Privacy policy | EU Privacy Policy.' Data Center Videos.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. Servers/Hardware. Kurt Roekle takes a second look at combining Open Policy Agent with Kong Mesh , looking at the potential benefits offered by including Styra Declarative Authorization Service (DAS). Networking. I love this post.

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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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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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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? Jim Bugwadia shares some techniques for applying the DRY principle to Kyverno policies. Here’s a write-up on enhancing OKE security with Cilium Network Policy.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 21, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Sander Rodenhuis wrote an article on security policies in Kubernetes. The post focuses on Otomi, which in turn leverages Open Policy Agent and Gatekeeper. Dennis Felsing shares some thoughts on switching to macOS after 15 years on Linux. BIOS updates without a reboot , and under Linux first?

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2015

Michael Webster isn’t a name that normally pops up here in the Networking section of my Technology Short Takes, but he recently wrote an article on installing Cumulus Linux from a MacBook Pro that I thought might be handy. Open Network Linux (main website here ; GitHub repo here ) was recently brought to my attention. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Servers/Hardware. The big news in the hardware space recently was the article regarding the purported Chinese hardware supply chain attack. Of the (innumerable) articles commenting on the hardware hack, this article by Joe FitzPatrick and this ErrataSec article caught my eye. This has generated a lot of discussion.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

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. Servers/Hardware. I use OTR with Adium on OS X, and OTR with Pidgin on my Fedora Linux laptop.). Networking.

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Linux Academy

JUNE 10, 2019

To summarize, WPA3 improved security and the process of forklift-upgrading existing hardware — software updates are available as long as the vendor supports the hardware. This means you’ll be using SSL certificates to authenticate hosts and can tie it all together using RADIUS and group policies in a Windows environment.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 7, 2021

In this Technology Short Take, I’ve gathered some links for you covering topics like Azure and AWS networking, moving from macOS to Linux (and back again), and more. Servers/Hardware. Stefan Büringer talks about optimizing Open Policy Agent (OPA)-based Kubernetes authorization. maximizing revenue per hardware instance).

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Servers/Hardware. Kay Singh collects some user comments on the new M1-powered Apple hardware. Jonathan Bowman writes about the new crypto policies in Fedora 33 and whether you’ll need to adjust your SSH keys. Here’s a post on using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to run Linux containers on Windows.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

I highly recommend you read the entire post, but in short the five skills Matt recommends are software skills (which includes configuration management and software development tools like Git ), Linux, deep protocol knowledge, hypervisor and container networking, and IPv6. Servers/Hardware. What does this mean?

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2020

” Ivan Pepelnjak attempts to answer the question, “How much do I need to know about Linux networking?” ” Speaking of Linux networking…Marek Majkowski of Cloudflare digs deep into conntrack , used for stateful firewalling functionality. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

As described in this Metacloud blog post , vxfld is designed to “handle VXLAN traffic from any operationg system or hardware platform that adheres to the IETF Internet-Draft for VXLAN” Nir Yechiel recently posted part 1 of a discussion on the need for network overlays. Servers/Hardware. Running Hyper-V with Linux VMs?

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. Servers/Hardware. Kurt Roekle takes a second look at combining Open Policy Agent with Kong Mesh , looking at the potential benefits offered by including Styra Declarative Authorization Service (DAS). Networking. I love this post.

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Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 27, 2013

Scott: Responded by basically saying the political issues will not disappear and the network team has to be involved in the creation of policy for the virtual network. You still need enterprise hardware. NSX is just decoupling the management functionality from the hardware. Is it simple or complex? Question: vSphere 5.5

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Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

Courtesy of Tigera, Alex Pollitt shares some guidelines on when Linux conntrack is no longer your friend. Servers/Hardware. Apparently Dell’s new docking stations support firmware updates via Linux. I’m thankful that Bill Demirkapi followed a responsible disclosure policy. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Servers/Hardware. William Lam takes a look at some potentially interesting homelab hardware. Rory McCune writes about a CVE in the Linux kernel that could allow for container escape in Kubernetes. (Seriously.). The Eclectic Light Company is back with an article on how the M1’s efficiency (E) cores win.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

The collection of links shared below covers a fairly wide range of topics, from old Sun hardware to working with serverless frameworks in the public cloud. Via Ivan Pepelnjak, I was pointed to Jon Langemak’s in-depth discussion of working with Linux VRFs. Servers/Hardware. I hope that you find something useful here.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Intel clearly has its sights set on expanding beyond just “servers” into many more platforms, including network hardware platforms. The first article provides a blueprint for migrating applications to VMware NSX ; the second article supplies some tips for creating filtering policies in VMware NSX.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 29, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Liam Galvin shows a couple of ways that Rego (the language behind Open Policy Agent) can be used maliciously. Jorge Castro encourages folks to just kill the silly myths (regarding desktop Linux). Poorna Gaddehosur has an update on getting Linux-based eBPF programs to run with eBPF on Windows.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

This builds on TCP to enforce policies about where instances are allowed to run. Next, Intel talks about how they have worked to expose hardware features into OpenStack. General Linux Networking Storage Virtualization Hardware IDF2013 OpenStack' Users can then request that their instances are scheduled onto trusted nodes.

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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 along the way. Michael Kashin shares the journey of containerizing NVIDIA Cumulus Linux.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 17, 2020

Jon Langemak is blogging again, and he jumps back into the “blogging saddle” with a post on working with tc on Linux systems. Servers/Hardware. I have two posts related to policies in Kubernetes this time around. Bruno Hildenbrand shares 20 tips for managing Linux VMs on Azure. ” Great quote!

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The one caveat to his approach that may be worth mentioning is that some policies (a PodSecurityPolicy or the use of Open Policy Agent) may prevent the user from launching a Pod connected to the host’s network namespace. Servers/Hardware. Here’s an article from Marko Saric on his switch from macOS to Linux.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Andrey Khomyakov shares some information on automating the setup of whitebox switches running Cumulus Linux in part 2 of this series on learning network automation. Servers/Hardware. Alpine Linux 3.5 This is notable (for me, at least) primarily because a growing number of Docker images are based on Alpine Linux.

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Linux Academy

MAY 5, 2019

In the past few weeks, we’ve discussed patch management and using vulnerability scanning to see what vulnerabilities are in your infrastructure, and then we dove into the importance of data backups , as well as passwords and policies such as using MFA and proactively identifying compromised passwords to help secure your infrastructure.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2023

Servers/Hardware Kevin Houston provides some instructions on backing up the Dell PowerEdge MX7000 settings and configurations. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management This article on using Open Policy Agent (OPA) as a custom Lambda authorizer for the AWS API Gateway was informative and helpful. Both are great reads.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

MARCH 9, 2016

The network topology might be different, or the security policies and storage might be different. Containers cannot generally provide the same level of isolation as hardware virtualization. The problem might be bigger than just incompatible versions of software. The software that your team has created has to run on it.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Christian Kellner talks about work done on Thunderbolt 3 security levels for GNU/Linux. Tim Hinrichs provides some details on Rego , the policy language behind the Open Policy Agent project. Tony Bourke has a two-part series on ZFS and Linux and encryption ( part 1 , part 2 ). Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

Servers/Hardware. If you’re trying to wrap your head around AWS IAM policies, I have yet to find a resource I can recommend more strongly than this article on AWS IAM policies in a nutshell. I strongly recommend using this article to help further your understanding of AWS IAM policies. Nothing this time around.

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