With Windows, you can create a highly available cluster at the click of a button. The cluster will even handle fully automated, non-disruptive software upgrades.
Microsoft offers the Windows Azure Backup service, which lets you back up data from servers in the cloud. This removes the need for your own infrastructure, and the service alleviates privacy concerns by using continuous encryption.
The Jelastic cloud service is specifically designed to run Java and PHP applications. The service impresses with its technical finesse, thanks to immediate, load-dependent scaling without admin intervention.
The Python Data Analysis Library, or Pandas, is built on top of the fast math library NumPy and makes analysis of large volumes of data an easy and efficient experience.
Event-based request processing makes Nginx an agile web server. With the OpenResty packages, it becomes a fast application server based on the Lua scripting language.
Tired of contending with shared passwords for wireless networks? Use WPA Enterprise and a FreeRADIUS server to set up a user password solution for wireless users.
If you believe Red Hat's marketing hype, the company has no less than revolutionized data storage with version 2.1 of its Storage Server. The facts tell a rather different story.
Cloud computing is forcing admins to rethink automation because classic tools like Puppet do not provide a sufficient range of configuration options. Cloudify offers a new direction for orchestration in the cloud.
Microsoft offers its Office programs as a service in the cloud. To integrate the Office 365 service into your own infrastructure, PowerShell is a natural choice.
Several utilities offer a snapshot of system performance – from Top or Uptime to Iostat, Netstat, and Mpstat – but what if you only learn of a bottleneck after it has happened? Sar to the rescue.
The Unix-like FreeBSD is viewed as highly reliable and forms the underpinnings of both Mac OS X and the Sony PlayStation 4. Version 10 introduces new features and performance gains.
In most cases, log messages are managed by a Syslog server. The Fedora project wants to take a new approach in future releases. This change is to come from systemd's journal.
Partition alignment changes as drives evolve, and proper alignment is necessary for maximum performance. We provide some tips to help you get things back in order.
