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Kratos Launches Tool For Network Management
Kratos Networks has released its new IT management gadget called LaunchPAD. The desktop tool provides access to commonly used network management programs in a single location, allowing for access to a suite of troubleshooting programs.
Date: 2010-08-26
Integrating Enterprise 2.0 Into Product Development
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.
Date: 2010-08-12
System Administrator Appreciation Day Almost Here
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.
Date: 2010-07-29
Utilizing Google Mail In Your Organization
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.
Date: 2010-07-16
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Date: 2010-07-14
System Admins Get Random Password Manager Tool
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.
Date: 2010-06-10
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Date: 2010-06-08
How To Install OpenBSD
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."
Date: 2010-05-27
Make Unix/Linux System Administration Easier With Fish
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.
Date: 2010-05-13
Rogue San Fran Sysadmin Found Guilty
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..
Date: 2010-04-29
IPad Apps Prove Useful To System Administrators
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.
Date: 2010-04-15
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Date: 2010-04-14
The Cloud Will Test The Survivability Of Hardware And Software Firms
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.
Date: 2010-04-01
Paragon Launches Virtualization Manager For Windows
Data security management firm Paragon Software Group has introduced its Virtualization Manager 2010 Corporate aimed at providing high-end migration for corporate Windows environments..
Date: 2010-03-18
Viewfinity Launches Cloud Management System
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.
Date: 2010-03-04
WSO2 Launches Cloud Identity Service
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.
Date: 2010-02-18
Blogger.com Ends Their Long Running FTP Service
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.
Date: 2010-02-04
Building A Reliable And Scalable Cloud Architecture
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.
Date: 2010-01-21
System Administration And Social Media Trends
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.
Date: 2010-01-07
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