Network World

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

SQLite is one of the most widely used open-source database technologies and it’s almost always set up to run with local on-device storage. boosts network protocol visibility : The creator of the popular open-source network protocol analyzer talks about what’s new in Wireshark 4.4, Wireshark 4.4

Network 139

Network Security Open Source Linux 139

Linux Academy

JANUARY 1, 2020

Students will learn by doing through installing and configuring containers and thoughtfully selecting a persistent storage strategy. YAML is a popular choice for data storage, configuration files, configurations management, etc. Linux Operating System Fundamentals. Jenkins Quickstart. Then this course is for you.

Course 31

Course Linux Devops Big Data 31

Linux Academy

JANUARY 30, 2020

Students will learn by doing through installing and configuring containers and thoughtfully selecting a persistent storage strategy. YAML is a popular choice for data storage, configuration files, configurations management, etc. Linux Operating System Fundamentals. Jenkins Quickstart. Then this course is for you.

Course 29

Course Linux Devops Big Data 29

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 12, 2015

I just saw the news that Citrix has acquired Sanbolic , a storage virtualization company that I’ve written about before. KVM seems to be the open source hypervisor of choice while VMware’s vSphere continues to dominate (for now) the commercial market—leaving XenServer with leftovers. TechCrunch also has a quick write-up as well.)

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Open Source Storage Operating Systems Virtualization 60

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

Public cloud providers such as AWS, Google, and Microsoft Azure publish shared responsibility models that push security of the data, platform, applications, operating system, network and firewall configuration, and server-side encryption, to the customer. Open source applications running in the cloud need to be copyrighted.

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Cloud Open Source Applications Storage 145

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 17, 2023

Companies that have embraced the cloud need to understand the Shared Responsibility Model: a security and compliance framework that explains what shared infrastructure and systems the cloud provider is responsible for maintaining and how a customer is responsible for operating systems, data, and applications utilizing the cloud.

Cloud 98

Cloud How To Open Source Applications 98

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

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). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Storage 125

Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 125

TM Forum

JANUARY 31, 2022

In order to effectively carry out location analytics to help ensure public safety, three key elements are required: Location data sourcing. Location data treatment and storage. Location data sourcing. Mobile apps typically use GPS from the mobile phones to determine location, but other sources are utilized such as Wi-Fi nodes.

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Analysis Mobile Storage Data 130

Virtualized Greek

MAY 9, 2013

Reblogged from GigaOM: The Open Compute Project, which Facebook launched a little more than two years ago, has decided that utterly disrupting the server and storage market isn''t enough. On Wednesday, it said it would solicit input on an open source top-of-rack switch.

Open Source 40

Open Source Hardware Data Center Operating Systems 40

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.

Vmware 115

Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 115

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Well, let’s see…stuff on Envoy, network automation, network designs, M1 chips (and potential open source variants!), Are open source M1-style chips a possibility? Operating Systems/Applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take #145! What will you find in this Tech Short Take? Thank you, Ben!

Open Source 107

Open Source Cloud Network Storage 107

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

SkyScalpel is an open source tool that “obfuscates, deobfuscates, and detects obfuscated JSON documents” It makes perfect sense now, but before reading about SkyScalpel I hadn’t considered the idea of obfuscating JSON documents in policy statements (such as an AWS IAM policy) to hide the policy’s true intent.

Open Source 68

Open Source Linux Operating Systems Policies 68

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

It’s been over four months since my last post on open source Puppet , when I posted some updated multi-OS Puppet configurations. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Using Puppet with Multiple Operating Systems. Getting Hiera Working.

Virtualization 145

Virtualization Resources Linux Open Source 145

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Erik Smith, notably known for his outstanding posts on storage and FCoE, takes a stab at describing some of the differences between SDN and network virtualization in this post. I found this series of posts to be helpful when I was working on configuring LACP with Open vSwitch (I hope to have a blog post on that up soon).

Storage 92

Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

Operating Systems/Applications Here’s one person’s take on sudo for Windows. Storage Gergely Imreh discusses ZFS on a Raspberry Pi. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management Mina Abadir shares some experiences around migrating from PlanetScale to Amazon Aurora. Rory McCune explains Kubernetes authentication.

Vmware 113

Vmware Linux Load Balancer Malware 113

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. I really enjoy these AWS open source news and updates posts. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture. Servers/Hardware.

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

Linux Academy

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Students will learn by doing through installing and configuring containers and thoughtfully selecting a persistent storage strategy. YAML is a popular choice for data storage, configuration files, configurations management, etc. Linux Operating System Fundamentals. used across a variety of programs/languages.

Course 26

Course Linux Devops Big Data 26

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Operating Systems/Applications. While written for OS X, most of these tips apply to Linux or other Unix-like operating systems as well. “Captain KVM,” aka Jon Benedict, takes on the discussion of enterprise storage vs. open source storage solutions in OpenStack environments.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

The Verge

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

For all your other desktop software needs, there’s usually a free, open-source program that can do just as good a job. This is an image of the Mint operating system which you can use to run or install the operating system. You should also set it to update your system to the latest version of Mint.

Linux 106

Linux Windows How To Operating Systems 106

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Operating Systems/Applications. Filippo Valsorda speculates on how open source maintainers need to evolve into professional maintainers. Dmitri Lerko shows how to use labels to do dynamic alert routing with Prometheus and AlertManager (in other words, routing alerts to the correct team based on labels). Virtualization.

Open Source 94

Open Source Virtualization Applications Security 94

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Operating Systems/Applications. I find it enormously helpful to stay connected to various open source-related IRC channels, but staying logged while on the move is, for all intents and purposes, impossible. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

Vmware 87

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 87

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. Acra is open source and available via GitHub.

Open Source 60

Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Linux Academy

APRIL 30, 2019

LPI Linux Essentials — This course teaches the basic concepts of processes, programs, and the components of the Linux operating system. Students will get hands-on experience installing and configuring containers and thoughtfully selecting a persistent storage strategy. Courses Free in May. Then this course is for you.

Linux 113

Linux Course Big Data Devops 113

GeekWire

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

“Whether companies are pursuing space ventures of their own or maturing cutting-edge systems to one day offer a new service to NASA, the agency is dedicated to helping bring new capabilities to market for our mutual benefit.”. Northrop Grumman Space Systems) of Dulles, Va., Kent, Wash.-based million Tipping Point award from NASA.

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Research System Development Energy 122

Linux Academy

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Students will learn by doing through installing and configuring containers and thoughtfully selecting a persistent storage strategy. YAML is a popular choice for data storage, configuration files, configurations management, etc. Linux Operating System Fundamentals. used across a variety of programs/languages.

Course 104

Course Linux Devops Big Data 104

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

This time around, the content is a bit heavier on cloud management and applications/operating systems, but still lots of good content all the way around (I hope, anyway). 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!

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Engin Diri’s article on continuous cluster audit scanning with Trivy is a “two-for-one” article: you get to see some Pulumi YAML to create a Kubernetes cluster on Civo, and you get to see writing policies for the Trivy Operator. Ricardo Sueiras captured some great links on open source at AWS in this newsletter.

Devops 87

Devops Virtualization Engineering Storage 87

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Operating Systems/Applications. could make RDP connections to modern Windows systems. Jase McCarty talks about how to backup or recover storage policy-based management (SPBM) profiles. This is notable (for me, at least) primarily because a growing number of Docker images are based on Alpine Linux. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Storage 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Operating Systems/Applications. Cole Atkinson discusses the fact that osxfuse is no longer open source , and the ramifications of this development on open source in general. Continuing his focus on cloud-init , Luc Dekens has added four more articles to his site discussing this tool.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

This is a fascinating (to me, at least) paper on the implications of non-volatile storage on today’s data centers (and data center hardware). VMware open-sourced an identity and access management service called Lightwave ( project web site , GitHub repo ). Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Galido

JULY 20, 2018

Many iPhone users and Apple fanboys alike stand by their product no matter how limited Apple makes their storage capacities, while Android geeks have long time been able to freely add storage/memory cards to their devices and take advantage of more powerful hardware. Galaxy S8 base storage starts at 64GB, while Apple’s is 32GB.

Study 66

Study Apple Google Operating Systems 66

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

Operating Systems/Applications Dewan Ahmed has a great run-down on options for documentation-as-code. Rory McCune shares some information on configuring Caddy , a Go-based open source web server. Storage Stephen Wagner discusses a situation in which all VMs are inaccessible after graceful cluster shutdown and restart.

Programming 90

Programming Open Source Cloud Vmware 90

Kitaboo

MARCH 26, 2024

Determine Your Primary Goal Consider Your Operating System Evaluate Your Budget Assess Your Technical Expertise Choose Software Based On Your Desired Output Formats Check For Additional Features Test the Software Research User Reviews Plan for Future Updates and Support III.

eBook 78

eBook Software Software Adobe 78

Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

marks the first release of the open source container orchestration platform that is signed using Sigstore (more details here ). Operating Systems/Applications. For relevant storage news, I’d recommend having a look at J Metz’ Storage Short Take 42. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Kubernetes 1.24

Virtualization 79

Virtualization Storage Network Programming 79

Linux Academy

JULY 30, 2019

Students will learn by doing through installing and configuring containers and thoughtfully selecting a persistent storage strategy. Linux Operating System Fundamentals. Here we’ll explain the history of Linux, the open-source movement, and when to use Linux. Mastering Regular Expressions.

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Course Linux Devops Cloud 25

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). Photon Controller is open source and available from GitHub , so feel free to give it a spin. Good stuff.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Linux Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

Tetragon is Isovalent’s newly open-sourced security framework. 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. Check out this write-up.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 74