Microsoft's Azure blog has posted an announcement (Transforming your VMware environment with Microsoft Azure) about how they are managing VMware elements with Azure tools, as well as a full VMware…
New secure Quad9 DNS service supports IPv6
Quad9 is a new DNS service that prevents against malware. Previously I would have recommended OpenDNS to provide this service. But OpenDNS doesn't support IPv6 with the malware protection. It…
Dropbox deploys IPv6 at the edge
Dropbox's blog has a post from Haowei Yuan and colleagues, about engineering the Dropbox network to support IPv6 at the edge. Dropbox is serving about 15% of their requests via…
Qualcomm ships Centriq 2400 ARM server processor
Qualcomm has announced that its new ARM-based server chip is available for commercial shipment. The Centriq 2400 is an ARMv8 64 bit CPU, with 48 cores running at upto 2.6Ghz.…
Azure Data Box is Microsoft’s Snowball and Azure’s sneakernet
Microsoft's Azure platform is gaining a portable hard disk import capability. The shippable disk transfer device will bring them into line with Google's Transfer Appliance and Amazon's AWS Snowball (but…
IBM’s new z/14 encrypting mainframe
IBM launches the z/14 mainframe, which encrypts data at rest and in flight using Pervasive Encryption.
Adding client hosts to a FreeIPA Server for Identity Management
Our look at the FreeIPA server as an Identity management server continues with this installment. We look today at adding other systems to the FreeIPA platform to take advantage of…
Creating an Identity Management Server with Free-IPA
So it's time to upgrade some of the devices within the network here. But it would be really good to do it in the right order. Identity and access management…