Network World

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

So much so that chipmakers, such as Nvidia, AMD, and Intel, have started increasing production capacity and have been unveiling plans for introducing new processors. He compared Microsoft’s Azure Boost DPU with Google’s E2000 IPU, which it co-developed with Intel. AWS, similarly, offers its Nitro system for DPU-oriented tasks.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Apple first detailed its transition from Intel to its own processors earlier this year — but this event was all about diving deep into what that reality now looks like and when you’ll be able to get your hands on a computer featuring the just-announced M1 chip. The MacBook Air is available for preorder today and will release next week.

Hardware 116

Hardware Apple Storage Adobe 116

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Operating Systems/Applications. I found this article on imperative vs. declarative system configuration is quite helpful in understanding Puppet’s declarative model. QEMU, on the other hand, is needed to emulate everything else that a VM needs: networking, storage, USB, keyboard, mouse, etc. Apparently, “Mt.

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 115

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. I was wrong. Technology Short Take #33.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 113

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”). Operating Systems/Applications. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Virtualization.

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Virtualization Storage Vmware Network 108

Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

Servers/Hardware Menno Finlay-Smits shares information on reducing fan noise on Intel NUCs. Operating Systems/Applications Here’s one person’s take on sudo for Windows. Storage Gergely Imreh discusses ZFS on a Raspberry Pi. TL;DR: It’s not as easy as it might seem.) Falco has graduated within the CNCF.

Vmware 113

Vmware Linux Load Balancer Malware 113

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

” The speaker is Mohan Kumar, a Sr Principal Engineer with Intel. The motivation for developing RSA is really rooted in the vision of the “Internet of Things,” which Intel estimates will reach approximately 30 billion devices by 2020. To address these concerns, Intel believes that a rack-level architecture is needed.

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Architecture Cloud Intel Storage 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? Operating Systems/Applications. announcement post.

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Storage Intel Disaster Recovery Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2022

Operating Systems/Applications. For your fix of storage-related links, J Metz has relatively recently published Storage Short Take #47. Edwin Weijdema shares how he uses VMware Fusion 12 on his MacBook Pro (Intel-based, I’m assuming) to run a mobile lab with nested ESXi hypervisors. Programming.

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Linux Storage Virtualization Hardware 90

The Verge

JUNE 29, 2021

Windows 11 will officially support Intel 8th Gen Coffee Lake or Zen 2 CPUs and up, leaving behind millions of PCs that were sold during the launch of Windows 10. Windows 11 will require Intel 8th Gen Coffee Lake or Zen 2 CPUs and up, TPM 2.0 Trusted Platform Module) support, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage.

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CTOvision

MARCH 27, 2017

An end-to-end encryption application available for every enterprise operation system. Takes advantage of IBM and Intel hardware encryption accelerators. Data compressed up to 95% before encryption, resulting in significant storage/transit savings. Key Storage and Retrieval. Embedded Key Management (Smartkeys).

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Data Policies Security Applications 150

Scott Lowe

APRIL 7, 2023

Operating Systems/Applications In Technology Short Take 166 , I mentioned Nick Schmidt’s article on D2. Storage Al Rasheed takes readers on a quick journey through setting up Synology Cloud Sync. Virtualization William Lam takes a look at ESXi on the latest Intel NUC. That’s all for now!

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Applications Comparison Cloud Operating Systems 97

Storage IO Blog

MARCH 21, 2016

Keep an eye on among others including Cisco (Servers), Dell (Servers), EMC (DSSD), HPE, Intel (Servers, Drives and Cards), Lenovo, Micron, Microsoft (Drivers, Operating Systems, Storage Spaces), NetApp, OCZ, Oracle, PMC, Samsung, Seagate, Supermicro, VMware and Western Digital (acquisition of SANdisk and HGST).

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Vmware Dell Oracle Operating Systems 40

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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Intel Hardware Linux Virtualization 60

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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This is a liveblog for the day 1 keynote at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014. Among the accomplishments Krzanich lists, he mentions that Intel was the #2 shipper of tablets last year. At this point Krzanich hands it off to Diane Bryant, SVP and GM of the Data Center Group at Intel. One would assume that Apple is #1.)

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Intel Dell Data Center Fashion 60

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Cormac Hogan has a brief update on storage options for containers on VMware.

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Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

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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Virtualization Hardware Vmware Intel 60

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. Developing RPG The chief application development system widely used by Power servers and its ecosystem is RPG. “We

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IBM Energy Architecture System 97

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Travis Downs explores a recent Intel microcode update that may have negatively impacted performance. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. Or, one could just use something like this.

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Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

Galido

APRIL 11, 2017

The result allows administrators or users to run multiple operating systems and allocate shared resources on one computer, laptop or server simultaneously. There is hosted virtualization , where the virtualization software is installed on top of and sits on an operating system. Source: Intel.

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Virtualization Backup Vmware Operating Systems 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. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Linux Intel Hardware Storage 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Intel has a tutorial series on Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX). Operating Systems/Applications. J Metz recently published an article that helps understand when to use NAS (Network Attached Storage) versus SAN (Storage Area Network). JJ Asghar announces two Chef vRA 7.0+

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Vmware Storage Intel Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Intel NUC or SuperMicro E200-8D? Operating Systems/Applications. Brian Ragazzi shares a lesson learned the hard way regarding VVols: place the VSM/VASA on a non-VVol storage location. The new storage startup Excelero—as described in this post by Chanaka Ekanayake (“Chan”)—certainly looks interesting. (As

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Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Jeda Networks describes themselves as a “software-defined storage networking” company. Given my previous role at EMC (involved in storage) and my current role at VMware focused on network virtualization (which encompasses SDN), I was quite curious. If there is a better definition, please let me know.)

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Meeting Storage Hardware Network 74

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). Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

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

MARCH 8, 2016

Cue the round of folks claiming that this is why proprietary network operating systems [NOSes] are the route the networking industry should be taking.). The article specifically calls out SR-IOV as well as Intel Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) support within Open vSwitch (OVS). Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Linux Intel Network 60

Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

x 4) Dimensions (without rubber case) 106mm x 72mm x 25mm (with rubber case) 110mm x 76mm x 32mm Weight 250g NVENC | NVDEC 1x | 2x Operating System Windows 10 Windows 11 Linux** Operating Temperature 0~40°C ADLINK Pocket AI design When it comes to design, simplicity is the name of the game for Pocket AI. PCI Express 3.0

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Linux Intel Windows Fashion 78

The Verge

APRIL 20, 2021

In addition to that processor, the 15-inch Surface Laptop 4 I reviewed comes with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. If you’re not looking to spend that much, you can get the 15-inch Laptop 4 for as low as $1,299 for 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, which puts it neck-in-neck with the entry-level MacBook Pro , but with a bigger screen.

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Microsoft Intel Dell Storage 65

Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

AWS adds local NVMe storage to the M5 instance family; more details here. What I found interesting is that the local NVMe storage is also hardware encrypted. Operating Systems/Applications. On the Ansible web site, Sean Cavanaugh provides a deep dive into the command modules for network devices. Servers/Hardware.

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Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. I was wrong. Technology Short Take #33.

HP 68

HP Virtualization Hardware Network 68

Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

Operating Systems/Applications. 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. I recently learned that you can modify macOS’ PAM configuration to use Touch ID for sudo. Scary stuff!

Vmware 74

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 74

Scott Lowe

APRIL 3, 2016

Carlos Cardenas has a great post that does a great job of explaining SAI (Switch Abstraction Interface) and switchdev , two key abstraction layers involved in building Linux-based network operating systems (NOSes). Kevin Houston has a write-up on the recent Intel “Broadwell” announcement that provides details on the latest CPU family.

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Vmware Network Linux Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

News in the OpenStack space hasn’t been so good recently (Intel pulling out of OSIC, various companies laying off folks, other “pure play” companies shifting focus away from OpenStack), but here’s one architect’s perspective on what you may still want to attend the OpenStack Summit. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Storage Network Examples 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 20, 2020

Mark Ermolov discusses a vulnerability in the ROM (read-only memory) of the Intel Converged Security and Management Engine (CSME). Operating Systems/Applications. Kornelis Sietsma looks at the options for working with multiple git identities on a single system. Aaron Parecki discusses the first draft of OAuth 2.1.

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Linux Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

As opposed to just encrypting data at the transport level (although Acra does that between components of its architecture) or just encrypting data at the storage level (using an encrypted file system or similar), Acra targets encrypting data at the table/row/column level within a database. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60