Petros Koutoupis

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Petros Koutoupis, LJ Editor at Large, is currently a senior platform architect at IBM for its Cloud Object Storage division (formerly Cleversafe). He is also the creator and maintainer of the RapidDisk Project. Petros has worked in the data storage industry for well over a decade and has helped pioneer the many technologies unleashed in the wild today.

Articles by Petros Koutoupis
Book Review: Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom) by Adam Fisher
September 7, 2018
Everything You Need to Know about Linux Containers, Part II: Working with Linux Containers (LXC)
August 27, 2018
Haiku Release R1/beta1, Flatpack v. 1.0.0, SUSE Updates Their Kernel to Boost Performance on Azure, Debian Receives Mitigation Updates to Vulnerability
August 21, 2018
Everything You Need to Know about Linux Containers, Part I: Linux Control Groups and Process Isolation
August 21, 2018
Trinity Desktop Environment New Release, New Read-Only File System Designed for Android Devices, CloudNative Conference Coming Up, Retro Arcade Games Coming to Polycade
August 20, 2018
Endless OS and Asus, Update on L1TF Exploit, Free Red Hat DevConf.US in Boston, Linux 4.19 Kernel Update
August 17, 2018
Valve Working to Make Windows Games Run in Linux, Intel Vulnerability Being Patched, CentOS 7.5 Available, GNOME 3.29.91 Released
August 16, 2018
VCs Are Investing Big into a New Cryptocurrency: Introducing Handshake
August 2, 2018
Pulseway: Systems Management at Your Fingertips
July 30, 2018
An Interview with Heptio, the Kubernetes Pioneers
July 30, 2018
UserLAnd, a Turnkey Linux in Your Pocket
July 9, 2018
DIY: Build a Custom Minimal Linux Distribution from Source
July 3, 2018
Embracing Snaps: an Interview with Canonical and Slack
June 27, 2018
The Lustre Filesystem Dropped from the Linux 4.18 Kernel
June 11, 2018
Kubernetes, Four Years Later, and Amazon Redefining Container Orchestration
June 6, 2018
Data Privacy: Why It Matters and How to Protect Yourself
June 5, 2018
Thunderbird and the Recent #EFAIL Vulnerability, Fedora Urges Users to Update DHCP Packages, Kernel Updates and More
May 16, 2018
GSConnect, Mozilla Firefox 61, Scientific Linux 7.5, GNOME and Nautilus
May 15, 2018
Everything You Need to Know about the Cloud and Cloud Computing, Part II: Using the Cloud
May 15, 2018
WineHQ, Malware in Ubuntu Snap Store, Linux Kernel 4.17, Hardware Security Updates to Android, PGP and S/MIME Vulnerabilities
May 14, 2018
Gnome Login Screen Redesign, CentOS Update, VirtualBox, Mender Team and IoT
May 11, 2018
Firefox Quantum, Bcachefs, Ubuntu, Devuan 2.0
May 10, 2018
OpenShift, IBM Cloud, Azure, Linux apps on Chrome OS, Twitter, Serious Flaw on AMD and Intel x86 CPUs
May 9, 2018
Everything You Need to Know about the Cloud and Cloud Computing, Part I
May 9, 2018
Blockchain, Part II: Configuring a Blockchain Network and Leveraging the Technology
April 24, 2018
Blockchain, Part I: Introduction and Cryptocurrency
April 9, 2018
Product Review: GitStorage
March 27, 2018
5 Minute FOSS: Spinning a custom Linux distribution
March 23, 2018
Why Do We Do It?
March 4, 2018
Kernel patch releases, WineHQ, OpenIndiana project, FreeBSD Unix distribution, Xubuntu community contest
February 19, 2018
HiFive, LibreOffice, Meltdown and Spectre and more
February 16, 2018
New Kernel Releases, Net Neutrality, Thunderbird Survey and More
January 17, 2018
Firefox Release, Xen, KDE's Plasma and More
January 16, 2018
Linux kernel mailing list back online; Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities; Mobile OS eelo; Barcelona now using Linux
January 15, 2018
Why the Largest Companies in the World Count on Linux Servers
June 13, 2017
Mastering ATA over Ethernet
May 24, 2017
Understanding OpenStack's Success
February 21, 2017
Installing and Running a Headless Virtualization Server
October 25, 2016
NVMe over Fabrics Support Coming to the Linux 4.8 Kernel
August 22, 2016
Understanding Ceph and Its Place in the Market
June 21, 2016
ZFS: Finding Its Way to a Linux Near You?
June 1, 2016
High-Availability Storage with HA-LVM
February 26, 2015
Advanced Hard Drive Caching Techniques
November 25, 2013
The Lustre Distributed Filesystem
November 28, 2011
Announcement: RapidDisk (rxdsk) 1.2b Stable release, a new kind of Linux RAM Disk
August 30, 2011
Data Deduplication with Linux
August 25, 2011
Archiving Data with Snapshots in LVM2
February 28, 2011