CTOvision

AUGUST 16, 2016

From an enterprise IT standpoint, their championing of the Android operating system has earned them a place in the mobility domain, and their Google Apps offering helped show many businesses that the cloud can work for office automation. Its technical infrastructure and Virtual Reality are also included in Google segment.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Facebook is building a smartwatch as part of its ongoing hardware efforts, according to a new report from The Information. It also says Facebook is working on building its own operating system for hardware devices and that future iterations of the wearable may run that software instead.

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Hardware Virtualization Research Operating Systems 140

CTOvision

AUGUST 16, 2013

Anthony spelled out how much money can be saved in hardware, software and people by modernization. It was great learning that early in his career he was a technologist supporting the US Navy, supporting R&D and operations and making advances in capabilities from drones to helicopters. Find his presentation here.

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Network World

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Network slicing Network slicing can make efficient use of carriers’ wireless capacity to enable 5G virtual networks that exactly fit customer needs. Open RAN (O-RAN) O-RAN is a wireless-industry initiative for designing and building 5G radio access networks using software-defined technology and general-purpose, vendor-neutral hardware.

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CTOvision

MAY 9, 2017

Delivers 1000s Virtual NICs for Ultimate Scalability with the Lowest Possible Latency. Other capabilities include: Hardware Based Packet Telemetry. Hardware Based Security (ServerLock). Unique hardware filter tables for each adapter hosted IP address. Marty Meehan. The SFN8722 has 8 lanes of PCle 3.1

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Galido

APRIL 11, 2017

Virtualization is popular these days for businesses for several reasons, but primarily to reduce hardware and infrastructure costs, performance, backups and redundancy, while being able to scale infrastructure and provide resources on demand. . What is Virtualization? There are two methods of running virtualized software.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2024

The landscape of data center infrastructure is shifting dramatically, influenced by recent licensing changes from Broadcom that are driving up costs and prompting enterprises to reevaluate their virtualization strategies. Clients are seeing increased costs with on-premises virtualization with Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware.

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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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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well. Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well. I adopted OS X as my operating system of choice in 2003 because I wanted a stable, powerful, UNIX-based operating system. Apple and Virtualization. Why I Might Leave OS X.

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Network World

JUNE 20, 2024

The updated Network+ certification program also now includes large-scale network deployments and scalability via the use of virtual extensible local-area network, or VxLAN, intermediate distribution frames (IDF), and main distribution frames (MDF). CompTIA Network+ is compliant with ISO 17024 standards and approved by the U.S.

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Network World

APRIL 5, 2017

A critical vulnerability in the widely used Xen hypervisor allows attackers to break out of a guest operating system running inside a virtual machine and access the host system's entire memory. The new vulnerability affects Xen 4.8.x, x, and 4.4.x x and has existed in the Xen code base for over four years.

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2021

Corellium, a security firm that offers a virtualized version of iOS for security testing, has successfully ported Ubuntu over to M1 Macs and released a tutorial for others to follow. Virtualization seems to be Apple’s preferred method, but that hasn’t stopped people from making their own ports. Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge.

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Linux Operating Systems Apple Virtualization 131

Computerworld Vertical IT

JULY 19, 2021

Microsoft last week introduced Windows 365 , a new service that lets the company cut partners out of the money-making loop by providing virtual PCs to customers. Dubbed "desktop as a service" (DaaS, in keeping with other, similar acronyms) by some, Microsoft's tagged its offering as "Cloud PC" as in "Windows 365 is your PC in the cloud."

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Network World

JULY 17, 2024

Interest in the open-source network operating system SONiC is rising as major networking vendors and start-ups look to offer resources to help enterprises give SONiC a try. SONiC is seen as a significant alternative to more traditional, less flexible network operating systems. What is SONiC?

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Gizmodo

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

5, but what would a new operating system be without new hardware to showcase it? Microsoft is having what many have pegged as a Surface hardware event on Sept. It’s all virtual, of course, and there’s a link available if you want to… Read more. We already know Microsoft is launching Windows 11 on Oct. 22 at 8 a.m.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Amazon WorkSpaces , the company’s virtual desktop service, just unveiled its first device for end users, a $195 product created by directly repurposing the hardware design for Amazon’s Fire TV Cube. Customers can choose to pay either fixed monthly subscription fees or usage-based costs based on hourly metering.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2021

He adds, “The upgrade will then roll out over time to in-market devices based on intelligence models that consider hardware eligibility, reliability metrics, age of device and other factors that impact the upgrade experience. Visual changes: The new operating system comes with a softer, translucent appearance.

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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. Not unsurprisingly, one of the key advantages of STT that’s highlighted is its improved performance due to TSO support in NIC hardware. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Even Facebook, which has open sourced much of its designs for its data center hardware but remains vague about its server count, saying only that it operates “hundreds of thousands” of machines. Microsoft’s ‘Cloud Operating System’ 218,000 Servers in Microsoft Data Centers? Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

Tom Nolle asks the question , “Is virtualization reality even more elusive than virtual reality?” 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

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Brad Hedlund (who will be my co-worker starting on 2/11) created a great explanation of network virtualization that clearly breaks down the components and explains their purpose and function. Servers/Hardware. Cisco UCS is pretty cool in that it makes automation of compute hardware easier through such abstractions as server profiles.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

You may have heard of Intel Rack-Scale Architecture (RSA), a new approach to designing data center hardware. What I came away with from that discussion is that Intel RSA is really about three related but not interdependent initiatives: Disaggregating server hardware. Establishing hardware-level APIs.

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Network World

OCTOBER 15, 2024

“So this allows the telco operators to use whatever scripting tool that they have already today that speaks CAPI to manage all of the machines at the edge for standard of telco workloads.” Tb/s of switching capacity with support for open-source network operating systems including SONiC. In SUSE Edge 3.1, SUSE Edge 3.1

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Linux Load Balancer Open Source Network 190

The Accidental Successful CIO

MARCH 9, 2016

With virtualization technology, the package that can be passed around is a virtual machine and it includes an entire operating system as well as the application. By contrast each container shares the operating system kernel with the other containers. a way to access the container) for writing.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

, and as a returning speaker I recently had the opportunity to do a podcast with Technology Advice about SDN, virtualization, containers, and Interop. You can listen to a copy of the podcast here on SoundCloud. Here are a few takeaways from my conversation on the podcast: The term “SDN” is too much of a buzzword. That being said….

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Virtualization Linux Operating Systems Hardware 60

GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Stratvert has been focusing on Windows 11 in many of his recent videos: Windows 11 Requirements: Can your PC run it?

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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. Servers/Hardware. It will be interesting to see how the support of a “Tier 1″ hardware vendor like HP affects the adoption of ARM in the enterprise.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2024

In this Technology Short Take, I have links on things ranging from physical network designs to running retro operating systems as virtual machines. Operating Systems/Applications Julia Evans digs into what “current branch” means in Git. Virtualization Talk about a blast from the past!

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Linux Operating Systems Windows Virtualization 110

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 6, 2024

What now defines the office is much more of a virtual perimeter, which aspects like network access and endpoint devices conveniently define. When comparing longitudinal data, it is striking that concerns about managing multiple devices and operating systems more than doubled between 2021 and 2023, from 15% to 33%.

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Security Artificial Intelligence Survey Virtualization 98

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

Agency must have sufficient information to calculate a cost of operating system per hour (COSH) score. Virtualization must be at least 40% – Virtualization is defined as a technology that allows multiple, software-based machines, with different operating systems, to run in isolation, side-by-side, on the same physical machine.

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Network World

MAY 16, 2024

Customers can now integrate ACI and Nutanix AHV, the vendor’s hypervisor that lets customers to run multiple virtual machines on a single physical server. AHV is a core component of the Nutanix Acropolis Operating System (AOS), which provides the full software stack for Nutanix’s hyperconverged infrastructure platform, according to Shah.

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CTOvision

JULY 26, 2013

I was a little disappointed to see the Snapdragon S4 Pro 600 series chip used, instead of Qualcomm’s 800 series which will be “ coming to virtually every…premium tier smartphone.” Google also updated their mobile operating system Android. But alas, alack! Android 4.3.

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Google Apple Mobile Wireless 242

Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

Servers/Hardware Menno Finlay-Smits shares information on reducing fan noise on Intel NUCs. The vulnerability affects virtually all Linux distributions and allows attackers to bypass the secure boot protections and insert a low-level bootkit. Operating Systems/Applications Here’s one person’s take on sudo for Windows.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 24, 2022

After all, entry-level pricing for mainframes in the z15 family running IBM Z operating systems is $250,000. IBM LinuxONE III systems run only Linux at prices starting at $135,000. The program enables customers to pay only for what they use of Z system hardware and software. Z upgrades and open source.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 20, 2021

He noted that Google’s acquisition of Fitbit is still “pretty early in the integration” since the purchase only went through a few months ago — it takes time to develop a product, after all, especially one with a new operating system that Fitbit has never used before. But years later, Google’s list of hardware partners is wearing thin.

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Hardware Google Apple Examples 124

Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

Ben Cherian, Chief Strategy Officer for Midokura, helps make a case for network virtualization. Note: Midokura makes a network virtualization solution.) If you’re wondering about network virtualization and why there is a focus on it, this post might help shed some light. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

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Virtualization Storage Vmware Network 108

The Verge

JUNE 22, 2020

Apple is officially moving to its own silicon chips for some of its Mac hardware. Apple is also using virtualization for running versions of Linux on these new Macs. Microsoft started this work ahead of the Windows 8 release in 2012 , and even released the Windows RT operating system that was designed for ARM-based hardware.

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