Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

Ivan Pepelnjak dives deep on DHCP relaying on a Linux host. Servers/Hardware Menno Finlay-Smits shares information on reducing fan noise on Intel NUCs. Rob McBryde shares his story of reviving a 2012 MacBook Pro with Linux. Security In early February a vulnerability was uncovered in a key component of the Linux boot process.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Apple on Intel. Macintosh iPhone Linux' It’s a shame…but such is life. The only constant is change. Why I Might Leave OS X. Similar Posts: The Future of the OS. Apple and VMware…or Xen?

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Chief Technologist, Intel Federal LLC, Intel Corporation. Dr. Daniel Duffy is head of the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS, Code 606.2), which provides high performance computing, storage, networking, and data systems designed to meet the specialized needs of the Earth science modeling communities. 2:05 – 2:20 PM.

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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). So how does this open attestation service that Intel has created work?

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

This is session COMS002, titled “The Future of Software-Defined Networking with the Intel Open Network Platform Switch Reference Design.” ” The speakers are Recep Ozdag, a PME with Intel, and Gershon Schatzberg, a PLM with Wind River Systems. First, though, Recep takes a few minutes to review some SDN concepts.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

The servers (right now, at least) are running Intel Atom S1260 CPUs, which are x86-based and do offer features like Intel VT-x. Via Forbes Guthrie on Twitter, I saw this post on how to setup a CA on Linux and use it in a Windows environment. Thanks to all who pointed this out, and my apologies for the error!

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 113

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

This is session COMS003, titled “Enabling Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networking with the Intel Open Network Platform Server Reference Architecture Design.” The speakers are Frank Schapfel, Senior Product Line Manager with Intel, and Brian Skerry, Open Networks System Architect with Intel.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

These articles are a bit long in the tooth, but CSS Corp has a useful series of articles on bundling various Linux distributions for use with OpenStack: bundling CentOS , bundling CentOS with VNC , bundling Debian , and bundling OpenSUSE. by Qlogic called “Mt. ” (Stu Miniman of Wikibon has more information here as well.)

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

Alex Galbraith recently posted a two-part series on what he calls the “NanoLab,” a home lab built on the Intel NUC (“Next Unit of Computing”). Cormac Hogan has a series going titled “Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA) Deep Dive” ( part 1 here , part 2 here , part 3 here ). Servers/Hardware.

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Virtualization Storage Vmware Network 108

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2022

DNS, BGP, hardware-based security, Kubernetes, Linux—they’re all in here. A “highly evasive” Linux malware named OrBit has emerged; see here for more details. For your fix of storage-related links, J Metz has relatively recently published Storage Short Take #47. Networking. Programming.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 21, 2024

Since I am not a Windows person—I don’t think I’ve used Windows as a daily driver since before the turn of the century—I’m running Linux on the X1C Gen11. The onboard Intel wireless and integrated Intel graphics are more than capable, but won’t win any performance competitions.

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The Verge

APRIL 13, 2022

But ever since the company revealed that the Steam Deck’s storage plugs into a (relatively) easily accessible M.2 Thunderbolt is pricey and exclusive to Intel systems, but AMD’s Ryzen 6000 processors support USB 4 , which incorporates the Thunderbolt 3 spec.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

The main difference is the jump from the old Intel Atom x5-Z8350 processor to a new Intel Celeron N4000 — jumping from a 2W chip to a dramatically more powerful 6W processor. inch touchscreen, 64GB of eMMC storage, and 4GB of RAM. There are physical volume buttons on the side, Bluetooth 5.0,

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Here’s a handy list of deprecated Linux network commands and their replacements. Intel NUC or SuperMicro E200-8D? Konstantin Ryabitsev has a series going on securing a SysAdmin Linux workstation. Normally you’d see this sort of thing talking about Linux, but this one uses Windows throughout.). Servers/Hardware.

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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. Networking. So useful.).

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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. Day 1 Keynote. Here’s a liveblog of the IDF 2014 day 1 keynote. Technical Sessions.

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

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 19, 2020

The collection seems a tad heavier than normal in the hardware and security sections, probably due to new exploits discovered in Intel’s speculative execution functionality. This article describes a new attack that “breaches the security guarantees” of Intel SGX. Want to run Linux on your Surface Pro 4?

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Mirantis joins a number of other vendors also offering OpenStack distributions, though Mirantis claims to be different on the basis that its OpenStack distribution is not tied to a particular Linux distribution. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2014

I’m going to go out on a limb and make a prediction: In a few years time (let’s say 3–5 years), Intel SGX (Software Guard Extensions) will be regarded as important if not more important than the virtualization extensions. What is Intel SGX, you ask? Well…read this post for all the gory details.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Intel has finally started shipping silicon photonics gear, according to this report from El Reg (news coming out of IDF16). I predicted a couple of years ago that Intel SGX (Software Guard Extensions) was going to be HUGE (see here ). Pradipta Kumar Banerjee has an article on using local storage for instances in OpenStack.

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Vmware Linux Intel Storage 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2024

Sean Hollister discusses Intel’s responses to questions asked about instabilities in their 13th and 14th Gen Intel Core desktop processors. Operating Systems/Applications Bhushan Shah shares some “lessons learned” using git bisect to do some Linux kernel troubleshooting. Run macOS software on Linux?

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 20, 2020

This blending of “traditional” network engineering with containers, Linux, and DevOps tooling is how Matt is setting new trends and directions for the networking industry. Mark Ermolov discusses a vulnerability in the ROM (read-only memory) of the Intel Converged Security and Management Engine (CSME). Good stuff here!

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

The servers (right now, at least) are running Intel Atom S1260 CPUs, which are x86-based and do offer features like Intel VT-x. Via Forbes Guthrie on Twitter, I saw this post on how to setup a CA on Linux and use it in a Windows environment. Thanks to all who pointed this out, and my apologies for the error!

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Galido

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Here are some of our favorite full Windows 10 machines (compatible with Linux) for 2016-2017. The laptop has a Intel Celeron N3050 processor, full-sized SD memory card slot and two USB ports (one is even USB 3.0). Turn one screw to remove the bottom panel and upgrade your memory and storage to SSD quite easily. Asus E402SA.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

I’m back home in Denver after spending a few days in San Francisco at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013, so I thought I’d take a few minutes to sit down and share a summary of the event and my thoughts. Enhancing OpenStack with Intel Technologies for Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud: [link].

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Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Moreover, the Pocket AI GPU is compatible with both Windows and Linux systems, ensuring widespread usability. In a head-to-head showdown, it faces off against the Intel Xe GPU, an integrated solution, and the NVIDIA A5000 Laptop GPU, a high-end GA104 mobile processor with 6144 CUDA cores and 16GB of memory. PCI Express 3.0

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

In case you’re interested, here’s more details on CVE-2016-5195 , aka “Dirty Cow,” and how it might be used to allow a user to escape from a Linux container (like a Docker container). Intel has a tutorial series on Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX). Thomas Maurer has a write-up looking at Windows Nano Server.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

For example, in October, Big Blue grew its Power Virtual Server infrastructure-as-a-service, which offers Power “pods” of compute, storage, and network infrastructure for private on-premises or IBM Cloud-managed environments. Intel, AMD, Xilinx and others currently build chiplet systems.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Is Intel having second thoughts about software-defined infrastructure? That’s the core question in this blog post , which explores the future of Intel in a software-defined world and the increasing interest in non-x86 platforms like ARM. Running Hyper-V with Linux VMs? Servers/Hardware. Virtualization. LTS server.

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Linux Vmware Network Disaster Recovery 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

BPFDoor, as it is known, is a passive backdoor that allows threat actors to remotely connect to a Linux shell. Although it isn’t technically specific to storage, there are significant storage themes in this article on what might happen if you lock yourself out of your digital life. Check out this write-up. Think again.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This is a liveblog of the day 2 keynote at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 in San Francisco. Eul takes the stage; he’s the VP and General Manager of the Mobile and Communications Group at Intel. Now taking the stage is Tami Reller from Microsoft, whose software powered all the 2-in–1 demonstrations that Intel just showed.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Dmitri Kalintsev examines some options for addressing storage-related connectivity in NSX environments. 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). Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Jointly authored by VMware, Microsoft, Red Hat, and Intel, this new protocol proposal attempts to bring together the strengths of the various network virtualization encapsulation protocols out there today (VXLAN, STT, NVGRE). Via Kevin Houston, you can get more details on the Intel E7 v2 and new blade servers based on the new CPU.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

The article specifically calls out SR-IOV as well as Intel Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) support within Open vSwitch (OVS). This article is an interesting read on some work being done by Microsoft Research to leverage Intel SGX to address some security concerns with today’s cloud-heavy architectures/usage models.

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Vmware Linux Intel Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 5, 2014

New platforms with Open vSwitch: Docker, Hyper-V, and Intel DPDK (this is also listed on the VMware sessions above, but as you can tell it’s really not a “VMware” talk). Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Orchestrating Docker with OpenStack.

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