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Kratos Launches Tool For Network Management
[2010-08-26] Kratos Networks has released its new IT management gadget called LaunchPAD.
Integrating Enterprise 2.0 Into Product Development
[2010-08-12] As enterprise 2.0 matures, its uses are getting more focused. I have been hearing more about it use in product development. Here is a timely Forrester report on the topic, Use Social Computing To Build Differentiated Product Development Processes by Roy C. Wildeman.
System Administrator Appreciation Day Almost Here
[2010-07-29] It's been said that there's a time for everything, and system administrators should be pleased that tomorrow is officially the time to recognize their work. That's because the last Friday of July is, in case you didn't know, System Administrator Appreciation Day.
Utilizing Google Mail in Your Organization
[2010-07-16] Google Apps offers a free version of their Gmail service, which they call their Standard Edition. What makes this "App" different from the free email service you can obtain at www.gmail.com is the ability to host your own domain's email on Google, i.e. yourname@yourdomain.com. For small businesses and organization, you can take advantage of the reliability, spam filtering, and webmail client of Google for free!
SysAdmin Documents Encounter With Conficker
[2010-06-24] Monty Python fans may remember a certain sketch in which characters promise to show an audience how to cure all diseases. Then the advice doesn't go much beyond "become a great doctor, cure something, and make sure your colleagues do their jobs right." Too many security articles follow this route, as well, but a new one provides a more useful look at how an IT administrator was hit by (and overcame) a virus.
System Admins Get Random Password Manager Tool
[2010-06-10] Privileged identity management firm Lieberman Software has introduced its Enterprise Random Password Manager (ERPM), which discovers and secures privileged account credentials present in ASP.NET web applications.
How to install OpenBSD
[2010-05-27] Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel, once said of OpenBSD, "Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't stand, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them." Ironically, Torvalds suggestion that they should concentrate more on the average everyday software bug before big security protocol's is exactly what they say themselves. Marc Espie said, "He was saying the same things we say. Hell, reading him in that discussion without the From: lines could make me think I'm reading someone @openbsd.org."
Make Unix/Linux System Administration Easier With Fish
[2010-05-13] Everyday, System Administrators on Unix/Linux based systems work with the console to accomplish the tasks at hand. The underlying system interpreting their commands to the system is a shell, usually bash, or tcsh, or even ksh or zsh for the very passionate shell user. I just found out about a new shell that is better than all of them.
Rogue San Fran Sysadmin Found Guilty
[2010-04-29] The system administrator who made national headlines after locking the city of San Francisco out of its own network has been found guilty of computer tampering. Terry Childs now faces the possibility of a five-year prison sentence, with sentencing scheduled to occur on June 14th.
iPad Apps Prove Useful To System Administrators
[2010-04-15] Apple didn't really hold back when promoting the iPad; the company went so far as to call the device "magical and revolutionary" in a press release - twice. It would make sense, then, if the iPad could meet all sorts of needs, and it can indeed help system administrators in more than a single way.
The Cloud Will Test The Survivability Of Hardware And Software Firms
[2010-04-01] Randy Bias wrote a good post today discussing which vendors are leading the cloud race. I totally agree with his assessment that pure play cloud service providers are leading the way with more innovation and speed to market for new features.
Paragon Launches Virtualization Manager For Windows
[2010-03-18] Data security management firm Paragon Software Group has introduced its Virtualization Manager 2010 Corporate aimed at providing high-end migration for corporate Windows environments.
Viewfinity Launches Cloud Management System
[2010-03-04] In move aimed at reducing the cost and time companies spend on IT, Viewfinity has released version 2.5 of its cloud computing systems and privilege management solutions for laptops, desktops and servers.
WSO2 Launches Cloud Identity Service
[2010-02-18] Lean enterprise middleware firm WSO2 has launched WSO2 Cloud Identity aimed at helping companies eliminate the complexity of deploying identity management and authentication across multiple SaaS (software as a service) applications as well as internal and traditional systems.
Blogger.com Ends Their Long Running FTP Service
[2010-02-04] One of the biggest features that Blogger.com had over other free blogging sites is the ability to publish files to a website via FTP. This allowed site owners to have a blog in a directory on their site without having to install and maintain software on their web server.
Building A Reliable And Scalable Cloud Architecture
[2010-01-21] My team and I have been architecting an enterprise platform for over a year now. Our platform is an aggregation model that connects multiple channel partners to multiple retail partners and is 100% cloud based. I wish I could share some of our architectural drawings with you, but since I can't I have created some very generalized diagrams that allow me to discuss architecting for the cloud without giving away our secret sauce.
System Administration And Social Media Trends
[2010-01-07] It seems like just about every online thing is becoming "social" these days; Google Reader tries to recommend users' lists to each other, blogs utilize Facebook Connect, and CNN.com even quotes Twitter users. Which sort of raises the question of whether social networking features could make system administrators' lives easier.
SysAdmins Weigh In With New Survey
[2009-12-15] Information regarding who's doing what is very popular; you can look at the abundance of news outlets, the existence of Twitter, or any number of other things as proof. And now, for system administrators (and system administrators' bosses), the results of a new survey should provide insight into the norm.
Addressing The Majority Of Concerns With Cloud Computing
[2009-12-10] Every day I read numerous articles that are negative towards cloud computing . I can sum them up with the following bullets:
What To Look For In the SharePoint 2010 Upgrade
[2009-11-24] ComputerWorld has just dropped a ton of information concerning the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 beta. For those who have been on the fence as to whether or not SharePoint 2010 would be worth the upgrade, your answer can be found here. Let's go through the changes found in SharePoint 2010.
Compiling Scala With Ant For Ralio Access
[2009-11-12] I'm working on a Railo project that is using some Scala code for part of the system and I'm using Ant to drive the build process. The Scala website has a lot of tools and documentation and you can read about compiling Scala with Ant for the basics of how to get started.
How To Correctly Fix And Patch Site Architecture
[2009-10-29] In the past few months all of the search engines, but especially Google have released or started supporting new ways of fixing site architecture issues. However IMHO these are band-aid solutions for bad site architecture, and not something you should rely on … at all.
How To Display Exceptions Through Propagation
[2009-10-01] There are many important things to remember to catch an exception. For instance one must use catch or finally to catch the thrown exceptions in try block.Also remember that try will never work without either a catch or finally.This is a must follow condition.
Helpful Java Q&A
[2009-09-17] If You are appearing for any technical job's interview specially for software and system development you must know the language Java it is considered as the strongest language present in recent times.To make you aware of Java Util class and Thread class there are few frequently asked questions just go through.
New Sony Computers Now Come With Chrome Installed
[2009-09-02] Sony and Google would like to confirm that, "it's not what you know, but who you know" is alive and well.
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