Buffer Overflow 18: Look it up! (Don’t look it up.)

Show Notes
Buffer Overflow: Look it up! (Don’t look it up.)
Episode 18: 7/19/2017
Windows Server Preview, OSX High Sierra to include APFS, Interop ITX State of the Cloud Report, Tesla’s 100-day 100-Megawatt Battery project in Australia is a GO
 
Hosts:
Ned Bellavance, Enterprise Architect for Infrastructure Solutions
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ned-bellavance-ba68a52
@Ned1313
 
Chris Hayner, Architect for Infrastructure Solutions
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismhayner
 
Main Stories
 
Windows Server Preview Build now available

• • Official Microsoft announcement of Windows Server preview build 16237
  • Nano Server focus on containers
  • Linux Shielded VMs
  • ReFS breakdown and comparison with other filesystems
  • Storage Spaces Direct

Flagship Apple OSX release set for fall; many big release

• • APFS non-introduced at the Apple Developers Conference
  • Official Apple Developers guide to APFS
  • Public Beta Release 2 of High Sierra announced
  • Native support for external Thunderbolt 3 GPUs on roadmap
  • Ars Technica breakdown of HFS limitations
  • Benefits to you as a user of APFS
  • Upgrade to APFS after the install of High Sierra

Interop ITX State of the Cloud Report Available

• • Cloud Computing 2017: Special Report – InformationWeek landing page
  • Statistics fail: P-Value is NOT Margin of Error
  • Differences between PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS
  • Azure Pack landing page and Technical Overview

Elon Musk’s Tesla Battery project Australia is a go

• • Official announcement of the deal announced
  • Current largest 30MW Li storage facility in Escondido, CA
  • Zen Energy 100MW plant proposal on hold
  • Approval of the plan is not cut and dried
  • Solar Panel density to power the entire US is 10,000 square miles
  • Potential cost breakdowns of the Tesla plan

Lightning Round

• • Jawbone shutting down
  • Azure Stack is GA
  •  Verizon Sort-of leak
  • China’s Micius experiments continue with photon teleportation
  • NIST finalized new guidelines for digital ID management
  • Microsoft Announces nested virtualization for Azure; Dv3 and Ev3 sizes
  • Amazon EC2 G3 offering for rendering Video on GPU
  • Budgie 11 desktop pre-release announcement and new features
  • John McAfee will DESTROYYYYYYY google
  • UNIX epoch time hits 15 billion seconds