DZone

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Virtualization has emerged as a crucial tool for businesses looking to manage their IT infrastructure with greater efficiency, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness in today’s rapidly changing digital environment. Microsoft’s Hyper-V is a top virtualization platform that enables companies to maximize the use of their hardware resources.

Virtualization 152

Virtualization Hardware Innovation Infrastructure 152

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

After years of optimizing traditional virtualization systems to the limit, we knew we had to make a dramatic change in the architecture if we were going to continue to increase performance and security for our customers.

Virtualization 88

Virtualization AWS Systems Innovation 88

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Additional benefits of Dynatrace SaaS on Azure include: No infrastructure investment : Dynatrace manages the infrastructure for you, including automatic visibility, problem detection, and smart alerting across virtual networks, virtual infrastructure, and container orchestration.

Azure 321

Azure Availability Hardware Innovation 321

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This transition to public, private, and hybrid cloud is driving organizations to automate and virtualize IT operations to lower costs and optimize cloud processes and systems. Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure.

Artificial Intelligence 203

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 203

DZone

AUGUST 13, 2020

With the constant growth and expansion of the gaming industry worldwide, top leaders in this industry like AltSpaceVR and BigScreenVR, are accelerating a virtual future probably faster than many wait for. However, it is vital for the gaming companies to not only focus on future trends but also to identify the user’s needs.

Games 306

Games Testing Hardware Virtualization 306

All Things Distributed

JULY 20, 2012

Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Virtualizing Operating Systems. This weekends back-to-basics reading is on operating system virtualization. There are two papers that deserve the "classic" tag as they both form the basis for operating system virtualization that is in production today. By Werner Vogels on 20 July 2012 12:00 PM.

Operating System 97

Operating System Virtualization Systems Hardware 97

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Accordingly, the remaining 27% of clusters are self-managed by the customer on cloud virtual machines. On-premises data centers invest in higher capacity servers since they provide more flexibility in the long run, while the procurement price of hardware is only one of many cost factors.

Open Source 343

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 343

DZone

JANUARY 3, 2024

Through the use of virtualization technology, multiple operating systems can now run on a single physical machine, revolutionizing the way we use computer hardware.

Virtualization 313

Virtualization Education Media Hardware 313

Testlodge

APRIL 14, 2021

These systems are a combination of different hardware and software which have been configured to perform the desired task. Configuration testing is performed to discover the optimum combinations of software and hardware specifications that allow the system to work without flaws. Types of Configuration Testing.

Testing 89

Testing Hardware Virtualization Operating System 89

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

This is why our BYOC pricing is less than our Dedicated Hosting pricing, as the costs listed for BYOC are only what you pay for ScaleGrid and don’t include your hardware costs. A vast majority of the features are the same, outside of these advanced features available through the BYOC model: Virtual Private Clouds / Virtual Networks.

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

While we understand it’s virtually impossible to achieve a linear increase in throughput as the number of vCPUs grow, a near-linear increase is attainable. to a larger AWS instance size, from m5.4xl (16 vCPUs) to m5.12xl (48 vCPUs). The workload of GS2 is computationally heavy where CPU is the limiting resource.

Hardware 363

Hardware Cache Performance Latency 363

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

When it comes to hardware support to mitigate software security issues, there is a significant gap between what is available in products today and known solutions. Acceleration—Adding hardware support to reduce the runtime overheads of security features. hardware support for malware detection/prevention).

Hardware 98

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Games 98

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

In this scenario, message queues coordinate large numbers of microservices, which operate autonomously without the need to provision virtual machines or allocate hardware resources. Message queue software options to consider.

Monitoring 200

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 200

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

In this scenario, message queues coordinate large numbers of microservices, which operate autonomously without the need to provision virtual machines or allocate hardware resources. Message queue software options to consider.

Monitoring 199

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 199

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability. primarily virtual?—?and These are personal thoughts across a wide range of topics, I’m not speaking for my current or past employers in this post. and develop the ideas in this deck further.

Serverless 98

Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

DZone

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Virtualization has become a crucial element for companies and individuals looking to optimize their computing resources in today’s rapidly changing technological landscape. Mini PCs have become effective virtualization tools in this setting, providing a portable yet effective solution for a variety of applications.

Virtualization 161

Virtualization Efficiency Hardware Games 161

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The purpose of infrastructure as code is to enable developers or operations teams to automatically manage, monitor, and provision resources, rather than manually configure discrete hardware devices and operating systems. Infrastructure as code is sometimes referred to as programmable or software-defined infrastructure. Register now!

Infrastructure 173

Infrastructure Code Cloud DevOps 173

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. The video is on [youtube]: The slides are on [slideshare] or as a [PDF]: I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2022

Organizations hit this cloud operations wall when replacing static virtual machines with dynamic container orchestration and expanding to multicloud environments. While modern cloud systems simplify tasks — such as deploying apps and provisioning new hardware and servers — cloud environments can be surprisingly complex.

Cloud 177

Cloud Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring 177

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

There are three common mechanisms to access remote memory: modifying applications, modifying virtual memory, and hardware-level cache coherence support. About CXL hardware availability with academia. Also, besides the hardware, we see the software ecosystem starts to appear (e.g., Using emulation (e.g.

Latency 52

Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

Last week we saw the benefits of rethinking memory and pointer models at the hardware level when it came to object storage and compression ( Zippads ). The protections are hardware implemented and cannot be forged in software. At hardware reset the boot code is granted maximally permissive architectural capabilities.

C++ 61

C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Make sure your system can handle next-generation DRAM,” [link] Nov 2011 - [Hruska 12] Joel Hruska, “The future of CPU scaling: Exploring options on the cutting edge,” [link] Feb 2012 - [Gregg 13] Brendan Gregg, “Blazing Performance with Flame Graphs,” [link] 2013 - [Shimpi 13] Anand Lal Shimpi, “Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic (..)

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

EPU: Emotion Processing Unit is designed by Emoshape , as the MCU microchip design to enable a true emotional response in AI, robots and consumer electronic devices as a result of a virtually unlimited cognitive process. HPU: Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) is the specific hardware of Microsoft’s Hololens.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

This meant that nearly all of the C++23 release cycle, and the entire “development” phase of the cycle, was done virtually via Zoom with many hundreds of telecons from 2020 through 2022. The first pandemic-cancelled in-person meeting would have been the first meeting of the three-year C++23 cycle.

C++ 122

C++ Hardware Virtualization Design 122

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use. The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The answer to this challenge is service virtualization, which allows simulating real services during testing without actual access. Cloud and virtualization triggered appearance dynamic, auto-scaling architectures, which significantly impact getting and analyzing feedback. Traditionally monitoring was on the system level.

Performance Testing 100

Performance Testing Architecture Testing Performance 100

DZone

JULY 19, 2023

To address this need, the integration of cloud computing and virtualization has emerged as a groundbreaking solution as these technologies boast scalability and flexibility, entirely transforming the operational landscape. Alongside the transition to the cloud, Enel embraced virtualization to maximize the utilization of its IT resources.

Virtualization 130

Virtualization Scalability Energy Cloud 130

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

It was – like the hypothetical movie I describe above – more than a little bit odd, as you could leave a session discussing ever more abstract layers of virtualization and walk into one where they emphasized the critical importance of pinning a network interface to a specific VM for optimal performance.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The data shows a scripted automated workload running a number of back to back tests each time with an increasing number of virtual users. Using MariaDB and analysing performance at a workload of 80 Virtual Users the first place we can look at is the information schema user_statistics to quantify the difference in the database traffic.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Database Network C++ 62

O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Before booting a compiled Linux kernel image on actual hardware, it can save us time and potential headache to do a quick boot in a virtual machine like QEMU as a sanity check. Typically, when we modify a program, we’d like to run it to verify our changes.

Hardware 44

Hardware Virtualization Programming 44

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. I'd expect between 0.1%

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

Percona

JUNE 20, 2023

In order to overcome these issues, the concept of paging and segmentation was introduced, where physical address space and virtual address space were designed. Here, virtual(logical) to physical address translation is much easier as segment tables store adequate information. A detailed description of these concepts is below.

Programming 83

Programming C++ Database Virtualization 83

The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

This paper presents Snowflake design and implementation along with a discussion on how recent changes in cloud infrastructure (emerging hardware, fine-grained billing, etc.) Tenant isolation is achieved by provisioning a separate virtual warehouse (VW) for each tenant. From shared-nothing to disaggregation. Workload characteristics.

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Regardless of whether the computing platform to be evaluated is on-prem, containerized, virtualized, or in the cloud, it is crucial to consider several essential factors. Each HammerDB virtual user is assigned a “home warehouse” at the start of the workload and which remains fixed. and 8.0.32 HammerDB 4.5 to 8.0.32.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

It was – like the hypothetical movie I describe above – more than a little bit odd, as you could leave a session discussing ever more abstract layers of virtualization and walk into one where they emphasized the critical importance of pinning a network interface to a specific VM for optimal performance.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Make sure your system can handle next-generation DRAM,” [link] , Nov 2011 [Hruska 12] Joel Hruska, “The future of CPU scaling: Exploring options on the cutting edge,” [link] , Feb 2012 [Gregg 13] Brendan Gregg, “Blazing Performance with Flame Graphs,” [link] , 2013 [Shimpi 13] Anand Lal Shimpi, “Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic (..)

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Nick Desaulniers

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Before booting a compiled Linux kernel image on actual hardware, it can save us time and potential headache to do a quick boot in a virtual machine like QEMU. 1.144949 ] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC ( i440FX + PIIX, 1996 ) , BIOS 1.10.2-1ubuntu1 Typically, when we modify a program, we’d like to run it to verify our changes.

C++ 56

C++ Hardware Virtualization Systems 56