CTOvision

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

By Bob Gourley New Release of ViSX Performance Storage Appliance OS Boosts Tier 1 Applications and VDI Performance by up to 10X While Supporting Existing NAS and SAN Infrastructure Investments. We consider ViSX OS v5 a quantum leap from a niche playing flash array to a major contender in the storage business. SAN DIEGO, Calif.

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Network Virtualization Storage Architecture 267

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

This is a liveblog of IDF 2014 session DATS009, titled “Ceph: Open Source Storage Software Optimizations on Intel Architecture for Cloud Workloads.” Chagam does admit that not all workloads are suited for distributed storage solutions. Chagam turns to discussing Ceph block storage.

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Open Source Storage Intel Architecture 68

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2022

Gartner reports, “86% of organizations identified at least one of the following areas as a weak link in their AI infrastructure stack: GPU processing, CPU processing, data storage, networking, resource sharing, or integrated development environments.”. And PowerScale F600 or H600 provides highly scalable storage. IDC agrees.

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Dell Intel Artificial Intelligence Enterprise 336

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2022

In an earlier article , I discussed three proven ingredients for a holistic data platform approach to managing and harnessing data – cloud-native technologies, real-time data, and open source software(OSS) – to drive business value. Let’s look at how to do this. A unified real-time data platform.

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Data Open Source Architecture Applications 298

Virtualized Greek

JUNE 9, 2013

The more I think about it the strategy of VMware joining OpenStack is starting to make more and more sense. Similar I don’t believe VMware and OpenStack compete at even the datacenter layer or Cloud layer for that matter. I wrote an earlier piece on how vCloud Director vs. OpenStack wasn’t the debate.

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Vmware Virtualization Open Source Cloud 72

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

IBM said today that it will make CloudFoundry a component of its open cloud architecture and work with Pivotal on further development of the CloudFoundry open source project and establishing an open governance model for the community. Storage Failures Hamper Cloud Foundry. Google, IBM Team on Data Center Research.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

He has more than 20 years of experience in assisting cloud, storage and data management technology companies as well as cloud service providers to address rapidly expanding Infrastructure-as-a-Service and big data sectors. Many companies have now transitioned to using clouds for access to IT resources such as servers and storage.

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Data Center Cloud Data Applications 203

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Mirantis, a company that “delivers OpenStack cloud and open source application infrastructure” (taken from their About page ), recently posted a blog entry about how accepting VMware as an OpenStack Foundation gold member was a mistake. VMware is not alone in being driven by financial reasons.

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Vmware Dell Financial Intel 115

Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 25, 2013

Trying to kill time on the plane on my way to VMworld 2013; my mind got to wondering what VMware needs to show at VMworld 2013 in order to maintain their position within the enterprise. VMware has some great technology. Microsoft, Citrix and open source hypervisors have quickly become good enough for basic virtualization use cases.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 19, 2022

Founded in 2011, the Seattle-based nonprofit has 10 partner networks across Washington state, provides communities with investments and open-sourced tools, as well as advocating at the state and federal level. Phillips is the co-founder and former CEO of Couchbase and Akimbi Systems, which was acquired by VMware. James Philips.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Bruce Davie and Martin Casado (with Nicira, now part of VMware) have written a post comparing the VXLAN and STT tunneling protocols. This VMware blog post helps explain the link between Puppet and vFabric Application Director, and why organizations may want to use both. by Qlogic called “Mt. Apparently, “Mt. Until the 1.3

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 115

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). Cormac Hogan has more information in this blog post. Virtualization.

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Storage Vmware Virtualization WAN 125

Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

VMware is patching a set of severe “sandbox escape” bugs. out of 10, and even VMware’s flagship ESXi hypervisor is affected. A new Bifrost remote access trojan (RAT) for Linux employs a number of techniques to remain hidden, including using a “VMware-esque” domain name for command and control servers.

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Linux Vmware Load Balancer Malware 113

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Some folks from Nicira (now part of VMware) recently published a blog post discussing the OVSDB IETF draft (see here ). 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. storage enhancements. Networking.

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Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Nice use of VMware Fusion in part 2, by the way.). VMware, Vagrant, and Docker together is the subject of this blog post by Fabio Rapposelli. 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.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 87

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Of course, I am a fan of network virtualization, since I work with/on VMware NSX.). Martijn Smit has launched a series of articles on VMware NSX. Want some additional information on layer 2 and layer 3 services in VMware NSX? Here’s a good source. Andre Leibovici provides a round-up of VMware Horizon View 5.3

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Recently a couple of open source software (OSS)-related announcements have passed through my Inbox, so I thought I’d make brief mention of them here on the site. Ceph , the open source distributed software system, is now coming in a fully-supported version aimed at enterprise markets. Linux Storage OpenStack OSS'

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Open Source Linux Vmware Storage 60

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? Welcome to Technology Short Take #145! What will you find in this Tech Short Take? I hope that you find something useful here. are affected).

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Open Source Cloud Network Storage 107

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 29, 2016

Today, VMware is expected to talk more about containers, end-user computing, and other topics not covered in yesterday’s general session (which focused heavily on Cross-Cloud Services, VMware’s new set of SaaS-based offerings for multi-cloud management). Poonen “passes the baton” to Ray O’Farrell, EVP and CTO of VMware.

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Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Knowing this, the Openstack Interop Challenge looks toward cultivating success by leveraging the open source cloud technology as a common integration layer. Participants include AT&T, Canonical, Cisco, DreamHost, Deutsche Telekom, Fujitsu, HPE, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Linaro, Mirantis, OSIC, OVH, Rackspace, Red Hat, SUSE and VMware.

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Cloud IBM Applications Architecture 107

Scott Lowe

APRIL 22, 2014

The vendors may vary in their approach to providing this automation and orchestration—some may prefer to do it in software (VMware would be one of these, along with other software companies like Microsoft and Red Hat), while others want to do it in hardware. Thinking About Open Source. Similar Posts: Xen Trademark Policy.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 21, 2013

The architecture I’m describing here will also be applicable to NSX, which VMware announced in early March. A programmable virtual switch: NVP leverages Open vSwitch (OVS), an independent open source project with contributors from across the industry, to fill this role. Make sense? Let’s start with a figure.

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Architecture Network Virtualization Transportation 148

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.

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Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

And while we are on the topic of Linux and open source in the networking industry…read this entertaining and informative article on the importance of (truly) open source libraries in networking. The project itself is open source and hosted on GitHub. Per the README.md GitHub would be a good way.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Michael Preston shares his thoughts on containers in a post titled “A VMware guy’s perspective on containers.” I know that a lot of my readers are VMware-centric in their jobs and careers, so I think Michael’s post may be helpful to a lot of folks. could make RDP connections to modern Windows systems. Way to go, Daniel! Virtualization.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Founded in 2004, the company makes software to help enterprises use Postgres, an open-source database. She also held vice president roles at Yahoo, VMWare, and Oracle. based GridStor , a Goldman Sachs-backed startup developing renewable energy battery storage systems. billion after raising $103 million in funding.

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CTO Hire Microsoft Fractional CTO Biotechnology 98

Scott Lowe

APRIL 3, 2016

VMware recently released version 0.8 Photon Controller is open source and available from GitHub , so feel free to give it a spin. Hassan Hamade from VMware has an in-depth post on vRA network profiles that might be helpful if you’re working with vRA and NSX. Good stuff. Operating Systems/Applications. What is Platypus?

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

This is pretty cool: a WYSIWYG topology designer for VMware NSX. The VMware Cloud-Native Apps group has a breakdown of some of the new features/functionality found in the 1.9 Via Maish Saidel-Keesing, I saw this post about 10 open source Kubernetes tools for highly effective SRE and Ops teams. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Open Source Linux Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

Anthony Burke’s series on VMware NSX continues with part 5. Tom has since moved on to CSC (via the vCHS team at VMware) and has launched a “next-generation” version of Razor called Hanlon. Someone recently brought the open source Open vStorage project to my attention. Networking. Virtualization.

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Vmware Storage Virtualization Network 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Sirish Raghuram has some thoughts on the VMware-AWS announcement (about VMware Cloud on AWS) compared to the “Omni” announcement at the OpenStack Summit in Barcelona. I noted that a Vagrant provider for vRealize Automation was recently released as an open source project. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Good times.

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Vmware Storage Intel Virtualization 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). Dwayne Sinclair (an NSX SE at VMware) has a write-up on what micro-segmentation is not. In case you’re interested, here’s a collection of storage trends and predictions for 2016.

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Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

I recently came across a couple useful troubleshooting guides, one for Open vSwitch (OVS) and OpenStack Neutron and one for VMware NSX. Matt Oswalt recently unveiled (and open sourced) a framework called ToDD, which stands for “Testing on Demand: Distributed”. VMware recently GA’d version 6.2 Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

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! I didn’t think that OpenFlow itself was actually open source (even though there are multiple open source implementations of various OpenFlow products).

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Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 8, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #43, another episode in my irregularly-published series of articles, links, and thoughts from around the web, focusing on data center technologies like networking, virtualization, storage, and cloud computing. Another series on VMware NSX has popped up, this time from Jon Langemak. Networking.

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Vmware Linux Virtualization Network 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Via the Kubernetes blog , Box announced it has open sourced a project called kube-iptables-tailer , which turns packet drops from iptables into Kubernetes events that can be logged for easier troubleshooting. This article on building DevOps pipelines with open source tools was exactly what a beginner (to CI/CD) needed.

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Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

And while we are on the topic of Linux and open source in the networking industry…read this entertaining and informative article on the importance of (truly) open source libraries in networking. The project itself is open source and hosted on GitHub. Per the README.md GitHub would be a good way.

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Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2013

I’m also exploring new posts on Puppet, Open vSwitch (OVS), OpenFlow, and—who knows—maybe VMware will have some snazzy announcements at VMworld that will give me new fodder for posts. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. We’ll see.

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