CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 3, 2024

The stories abound about pricing increases following Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware in late 2023. A VMware licensing cost increase of 150%. For many VMware customers, the licensing model and price changes were abrupt. The same is true of what were previously a la carte VMware products. An increase of 300%.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2024

Clients are seeing increased costs with on-premises virtualization with Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware. After the acquisition of VMWare , Broadcom merged many VMware products into two main offerings: VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware vSphere Foundation. What’s driving this trend ?

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Network World

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Nvidia NIMs are packaged-up open-source generative AI applications , such as Llama and Mistral, together with APIs and the accelerators needed to run them most effectively on Nvidia’s GPUs. Nvidia is a good choice of hardware partner for generative AI, says Ari Lightman, professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

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Network World

DECEMBER 23, 2024

AliroNet Quickstart includes quantum network hardware devices along with software that handles orchestration, control, and data plane operations. Highway 9s founding team gained leadership experience at VMWare, and the startup has already landed a high-profile named customer in MIT. Aliro Quantum Year founded: 2019 Funding: $10.3

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2022

These problems are exacerbated by a lack of hardware designed for ML use cases. Cnvrg.io , which has built ready-to-use open source ML pipelines that can run on any infrastructure, explains that MLOps “reduces friction and bottlenecks between ML development teams and engineering teams in order to operationalize models.”

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Virtualized Greek

JUNE 9, 2013

The more I think about it the strategy of VMware joining OpenStack is starting to make more and more sense. Similar I don’t believe VMware and OpenStack compete at even the datacenter layer or Cloud layer for that matter. I wrote an earlier piece on how vCloud Director vs. OpenStack wasn’t the debate.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

This is a liveblog of IDF 2014 session DATS009, titled “Ceph: Open Source Storage Software Optimizations on Intel Architecture for Cloud Workloads.” This brings Chagam to discussing Ceph, which he describes as the “only” (quotes his) open source virtual block storage option. Management.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 14, 2023

We are focusing first on leveraging AI and generative AI capabilities within existing SaaS tools and only then explore proprietary or open-source AI accelerators or models,” the CIO says. “We As for the AI question, this CIO’s approach mirrors that of many CIOs today. “We

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

IBM said today that it will make CloudFoundry a component of its open cloud architecture and work with Pivotal on further development of the CloudFoundry open source project and establishing an open governance model for the community. Featured Cloud Articles. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

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Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 25, 2013

Trying to kill time on the plane on my way to VMworld 2013; my mind got to wondering what VMware needs to show at VMworld 2013 in order to maintain their position within the enterprise. VMware has some great technology. Microsoft, Citrix and open source hypervisors have quickly become good enough for basic virtualization use cases.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. His earlier post on getting started with OpenFlow and Open vSwitch tutorial lab is also quite good. Bruce Davie and Martin Casado (with Nicira, now part of VMware) have written a post comparing the VXLAN and STT tunneling protocols.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

Servers/Hardware Menno Finlay-Smits shares information on reducing fan noise on Intel NUCs. VMware is patching a set of severe “sandbox escape” bugs. out of 10, and even VMware’s flagship ESXi hypervisor is affected. Ivan Pepelnjak dives deep on DHCP relaying on a Linux host. Read more about it in this post.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Should the OpenStack community focus on creating an open source alternative to Amazon and Google? “For three years, elements of the OpenStack community have arbitrarily and unfairly positioned OpenStack agains the incumbents, especially Amazon Web Services and VMWare,” writes Bias. Cloud Wars.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 28, 2020

.” Pulumi lets its customers apply modern software development practices to what has traditionally been a cumbersome or manual process of provisioning, configuring and updating the underlying hardware and software for running applications. It sells multi-user and enterprise plans in a software-as-a-service model.

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Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 27, 2014

Recently, I wrote a post on about VMware and Cisco jockeying for the position as the dominate player in network virtualization. VMware believes their software first initiative called NSX is the way to go. Cisco which is a hardware company, first believes in a Hardware first approach. So, what about Juniper?

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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. Nice use of VMware Fusion in part 2, by the way.). VMware, Vagrant, and Docker together is the subject of this blog post by Fabio Rapposelli.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

The latter can be open-source software such as OpenStack, CloudStack or commercial products such as Citrix CloudPlatform or VMware Cloud Director (VCD). Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Of course, I am a fan of network virtualization, since I work with/on VMware NSX.). Martijn Smit has launched a series of articles on VMware NSX. Want some additional information on layer 2 and layer 3 services in VMware NSX? Here’s a good source. Servers/Hardware. Any thoughts? All good stuff, thanks Mike!

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 22, 2014

The vendors may vary in their approach to providing this automation and orchestration—some may prefer to do it in software (VMware would be one of these, along with other software companies like Microsoft and Red Hat), while others want to do it in hardware. Thinking About Open Source. Group Policy Resources.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Well, let’s see…stuff on Envoy, network automation, network designs, M1 chips (and potential open source variants!), Servers/Hardware. Are open source M1-style chips a possibility? Welcome to Technology Short Take #145! What will you find in this Tech Short Take? This article seems to think so.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Servers/Hardware. He describes cloud as the synthesis of many different forms of innovation within IT , pulling together things like open source, virtualization, distributed programming, NoSQL, DevOps/NoOps, distributed teams, dynamic languages, and Big Data (among others). Mounting guest disk images on the host? Interesting.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 3, 2016

Cumulus Networks has added another hardware partner to its list of supported hardware partners; this time it’s Mellanox, as outlined in this SDx Central article. Servers/Hardware. VMware recently released version 0.8 Photon Controller is open source and available from GitHub , so feel free to give it a spin.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

And while we are on the topic of Linux and open source in the networking industry…read this entertaining and informative article on the importance of (truly) open source libraries in networking. Servers/Hardware. The project itself is open source and hosted on GitHub. Per the README.md Hint, hint.).

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Servers/Hardware. The open source ko project has applied to become a CNCF Sandbox project. William Lam writes about the beta for VMware Cloud Consumption Interface (CCI). Mike McQuaid talks about entitlement in open source. Alejandro Villanueva shares 26 AWS security best practices to adopt in production.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Some folks from Nicira (now part of VMware) recently published a blog post discussing the OVSDB IETF draft (see here ). Servers/Hardware. If storage is your thing—especially in VMware environments—I’d recommend having a look at Cormac Hogan’s blog for his series on vSphere 5.1 Networking. It starts here.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

This is pretty cool: a WYSIWYG topology designer for VMware NSX. Servers/Hardware. The VMware Cloud-Native Apps group has a breakdown of some of the new features/functionality found in the 1.9 Via Maish Saidel-Keesing, I saw this post about 10 open source Kubernetes tools for highly effective SRE and Ops teams.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Jason Edelman has posted a self-compiled list of networking projects that are open source ; this is a useful list, so thanks for compiling it Jason! I didn’t think that OpenFlow itself was actually open source (even though there are multiple open source implementations of various OpenFlow products).

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2020

I think a fair number of folks may not be aware that the Nginx ingress controller for Kubernetes—both the community version and the Nginx-maintained open source version—do suffer from timeouts and errors resulting from changes in the back-end application’s list of endpoints (think pods being added or removed).

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

I recently came across a couple useful troubleshooting guides, one for Open vSwitch (OVS) and OpenStack Neutron and one for VMware NSX. Matt Oswalt recently unveiled (and open sourced) a framework called ToDD, which stands for “Testing on Demand: Distributed”. Servers/Hardware. VMware recently GA’d version 6.2

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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. Servers/Hardware. Who says you can’t please everyone all the time? Networking.

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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

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). Servers/Hardware. Dwayne Sinclair (an NSX SE at VMware) has a write-up on what micro-segmentation is not.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

And while we are on the topic of Linux and open source in the networking industry…read this entertaining and informative article on the importance of (truly) open source libraries in networking. Servers/Hardware. The project itself is open source and hosted on GitHub. Per the README.md Hint, hint.).

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Michael Preston shares his thoughts on containers in a post titled “A VMware guy’s perspective on containers.” I know that a lot of my readers are VMware-centric in their jobs and careers, so I think Michael’s post may be helpful to a lot of folks. Nothing this time around! Way to go, Daniel!

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

Anthony Burke’s series on VMware NSX continues with part 5. Servers/Hardware. Tom has since moved on to CSC (via the vCHS team at VMware) and has launched a “next-generation” version of Razor called Hanlon. Someone recently brought the open source Open vStorage project to my attention.

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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. Here’s a handy post by Dale Coghlan on how to find object IDs for just about anything in a VMware NSX environment. Servers/Hardware. Networking. It’s about time.)

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Scott Lowe

MAY 9, 2014

Rob Sherwood, CTO of Big Switch, recently published a reasonably in-depth look at “modern OpenFlow” implementations and how they can leverage multiple tables in hardware. Connecting Docker containers to Open vSwitch is one thing, but what about using Docker containers to run Open vSwitch in userspace?

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