Every system administrator wants to automate the tedious and mundane tasks they must perform regularly. But there's a dark side to automation, too.

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In small and medium-sized Kubernetes setups, the choice of the proper container storage infrastructure driver is crucial for the environment's functionality and performance. We look at the most important drivers and their features.

The goal of storage management is to ensure efficient and reliable data usage, both to improve the performance of storage, server, and hybrid IT infrastructures and to ensure their integrity and availability. We look at likely developments in corporate IT as a result of proactive data management.

The Open Compute Project, Microsoft's data storage on glass, and standardized protocol structures for the IoT era are pioneering open storage technologies for future-proof hardware and software that make storage systems more durable, more manageable, and easier to repair.

Azure Files and Azure File Sync are Microsoft's classic file shares for clients on Windows, Linux, and macOS in the cloud. We introduce you to their services and guide you through their setup.

Grommunio is a completely open source and fully compatible drop-in replacement for Microsoft Exchange that uncouples your company from Microsoft's cloud strategy and its severe security and data protection issues.

In Winbind v4.17, the Samba team has addressed the complexity of and difficulty in troubleshooting the logging service that allows Linux systems to join an Active Directory domain.

The many facets of the zero trust implementation process can be a source of frustration, which is why we offer a step-by-step guide to implementing zero trust models to help you make state-of-the-art IT security become a reality.

CouchDB offers numerous interesting features for acquisition and filtering of status messages that make it a fast and convenient data storage solution.