Managing mobile devices is quickly becoming part of the administrator's daily grind. System Center Configuration Manager and Intune can help with this in Microsoft environments.
Red Hat introduces a management system for KVM-based virtualization based on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and open source project oVirt. Now, solutions for desktop virtualization can be implemented without using proprietary software.
Anyone who has tried to to run graphics-intensive applications using an application-sharing protocol like RDP knows how miserably these technologies fail. But the PCoIP protocol and special hardware means that even heavy-duty workstations can operate remotely.
We look into some everyday questions that administrators with Ceph clusters tend to ask: What do I do if a fire breaks out or I run out of space in the cluster?
Traditional administration command-line tools such as ifconfig, route, and arp are almost as old as TCP/IP itself. We provide an overview of how the IPRoute2 toolkit now unifies the management of kernel network components.
A private repository is useful if you want to distribute your own software packages to Debian and Ubuntu machines in a controlled manner. The reprepro tool makes it easy.
VMware's recent announcement about vCloud Hybrid Service involves expansion of the vCloud suite toward a public/hybrid cloud. In this article, we attempt to shed some light on the huge number of VMware products.
Anyone in the market for an alternative to commercial virtual desktop infrastructure solutions should take a look at Ulteo Open Virtual Desktop. It's free of charge, open source, and combines Windows and Linux applications on the virtual desktop.
For years, the replacement of physical PCs with virtual PCs has been touted as a mass movement, but so far, the revolution has not taken place. We explore the background.
PowerDNS is a secure, scalable, and reliable DNS server solution licensed under the GPL. We show you how to use BIND master zone configuration files to configure your PowerDNS server and how to create a primary server with a MySQL back end managed by a Poweradmin web GUI.
Once you have decided to go for a thin client, you still have to choose which one. We look at five different devices from the wide variety of thin clients on offer.
For Linux admins, SSH is one the most important tools of remote administration. SSH also works in Windows, with tools such as PuTTY or WinSSH, MobaXterm, WinSCP, or Swish.
With a number of new firewalls, Barracuda seeks to expand its portfolio to include small and medium-sized companies. We take a closer look at the Barracuda firewall X201.
Writing custom SELinux policy modules is not hard with some basic knowledge of SELinux. We show you how to distribute those modules to all the machines in your own system landscape.
