Fountainhead

MARCH 31, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Intel Nehalem + Dell + Repurposing. With all of the Intel/Nehalem (Xeon 5500 series) processor announcements this week , one stands out. Citrix, Microsoft, VMware, Linux, Unix. Virtualization. (31). Intel Nehalem + Dell + Repurposing.

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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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Linux Vmware Load Balancer Malware 113

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. The first concept that Recep discusses is network virtualization.

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The Verge

JUNE 22, 2020

Calling it a “historic day for the Mac,” Apple CEO Tim Cook detailed the transitions to PowerPC, OS X 10, and a move to Intel chips before unveiling its plans to use Apple’s own ARM-powered silicon in Macs in the future. New Intel-powered Macs are still in the pipeline, so Apple isn’t moving exclusively to ARM-based Macs just yet.

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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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Cloud Intel Open Source Data Center 109

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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Intel Architecture Virtualization Network 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

Tom Nolle asks the question , “Is virtualization reality even more elusive than virtual reality?” I talked before about the difference between network virtualization and SDN, so no need to mention that again. I missed this on the #vBrownBag series: designing HP Virtual Connect for vSphere 5.x. Virtualization.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 113

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

This is a liveblog of Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 session EDCS003, titled “Enhancing OpenStack with Intel Technologies for Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud.” ” The presenters are Girish Gopal and Malini Bhandaru, both with Intel. Intel has also done work on TCP plus Geo-Tagging.

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Intel Storage Open Source Hardware 60

Linux Academy

JUNE 3, 2019

This week, we’re talking all about serverless computing, what it is, why it’s relevant, and the release of a free course that can be enjoyed by everyone on the Linux Academy platform, including Community Edition account members. You have to launch the virtual servers, which means you need to: Choose an operating system. Now h old up.

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Linux Course Open Source Load Balancer 92

GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Announced on the eve of the AWS re:invent conference Monday night, Amazon EC2 Mac Instances represent an unexpected expansion beyond Linux and Windows for AWS. AWS re:Invent, normally held in Las Vegas for one week each year, is taking place virtually this year, live-streamed from the Amazon campus in Seattle and spanning three weeks.

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Web Services Apple Development Cloud 144

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Apple on Intel. Apple and Virtualization. Macintosh iPhone Linux' This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org. Why I Might Leave OS X. Similar Posts: The Future of the OS. Apple and VMware…or Xen?

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Apple Operating Systems Applications Linux 149

CTOvision

JANUARY 18, 2015

Chief Technologist, Intel Federal LLC, Intel Corporation. Before entering the land of Big Data, Alex spent the better part of ten years wrangling Linux server farms and writing Perl as a contractor to the Department of Defense and Department of Justice. Steve Orrin Chief Technologist, Intel Federal LLC, Intel Corporation.

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Program Management Fractional CTO CTO Programming 150

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. Virtualization. Both KVM and QEMU are needed for a full virtualization solution.

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 115

CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Chief Technologist, Intel Federal LLC, Intel Corporation. Before entering the land of Big Data, Alex spent the better part of ten years wrangling Linux server farms and writing Perl as a contractor to the Department of Defense and Department of Justice. Steve Orrin Chief Technologist, Intel Federal LLC, Intel Corporation.

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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. Bare Metal, Containers, and Virtualization: The Growing Choices for Cloud Applications.

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Intel Hardware Linux Virtualization 60

The Verge

APRIL 14, 2021

Parallels is releasing an update to its Desktop virtual machine software that allows M1 Mac owners to install Windows 10 on Arm. Parallels Desktop maker Corel says its latest update also results in some impressive performance and battery improvements over running the software on Intel-based Macs. Apple’s M1 MacBook Pro. Debian 10.7,

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Windows Intel Linux Virtualization 62

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.

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

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. Virtualization. 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. Ivan Velichko takes readers on a journey of how Kubernetes reinvented virtual machines (in a good sense). Virtualization. Networking.

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Linux Virtualization Storage Hardware 90

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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Load Balancer Intel Network Hardware 68

SPF13

MARCH 20, 2015

The Internet Era: 00s • Internet changes everything • Open source movement gains traction (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) • Tech selling ads, bits, hardware & services • Google Dominates. Open Source Companies • Redhat $13B • Cloudera $3B • MongoDB $1.6B • Docker $.5B 5B • Hortonworks $1B • Wordpress $1B. Open Source is taking over the world.

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Open Source Linux Software Software 100

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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Intel Network Architecture Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

Tom Nolle asks the question , “Is virtualization reality even more elusive than virtual reality?” I talked before about the difference between network virtualization and SDN, so no need to mention that again. I missed this on the #vBrownBag series: designing HP Virtual Connect for vSphere 5.x. Virtualization.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 68

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.). Virtualization. Networking.

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Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

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.). Virtualization.

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Vmware Linux Storage 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. Virtualization Congress 2009 Sessions.

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Vmware Virtualization Linux Policies 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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Linux Intel Engineering Network 60

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. Molina takes us through a quasi-live demo about virtual shopping software that leverages 3-D avatars and your personal measurements.

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Intel Hardware Mobile Dell 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

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). Intel clearly has its sights set on expanding beyond just “servers” into many more platforms, including network hardware platforms. Virtualization.

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Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Craig Matsumoto of SDN Central helps highlight a recent (and fairly significant) development in networking protocols—the submission of the Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation (Geneve) proposal to the IETF. 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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Virtualization Hardware Vmware Intel 60

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? ” Virtualization. Technology Short Take #45.

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Storage Intel Disaster Recovery Virtualization 60

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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Linux Intel Hardware Storage 60

GeekWire

AUGUST 29, 2020

Mac, Windows or Linux? First computer: PC with Intel i386. Most important technology of 2022: Learning efficiency with virtual education and training. I’m a morning person, so I wake up at 4 a.m., Kirk, Picard, or Janeway? Dr. Who (I like “Star Trek,” but it’s No. 2 on the list). Time Machine, no question.

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Apparel Education Windows Web Services 130

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

This is an interesting project to watch, I think—it’s porting OVN (Open Virtual Network) from a “traditional” OvS back-end to an IOVisor-based back-end (IOVisor implements the data plane in eBPF). Intel has a tutorial series on Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX). Virtualization. on Ubuntu 16.04.

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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 ). Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host (how’s that for a mouthful?) Virtualization.

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Vmware Linux Intel Storage 60

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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Open Source Linux Vmware Storage 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 26, 2024

Servers/Hardware This article is a cool story recapping the history of Intel’s Itanium processors. Suraj Remanan takes readers through a journey of automating Talos Linux on Proxmox using Packer and Terraform , integrating Cilium and Longhorn along the way. Networking Read this article to better understand why native VLANs exist.

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