Articles from ADMIN Issue 84
Wherever Microsoft SQL Server runs on local networks, individual or all databases can be migrated to Azure SQL by transactional replication. Various opportunities unfold, including analytics in the Azure cloud and global access routes for mobile users and home and branch offices.
Massive, performance-hungry VMs require proper handling to meet their dynamic requirements. We give you some rules to help size these monsters properly.
If an attacker gains access to systems by working around your defenses, you need to discover the attacker's tracks in good time, at least to mitigate the further risk of damage. We show you how to monitor changes to files with the Linux AIDE tool.
The sum total of all possible points of attack can be defined as the attack surface, and you need to take every opportunity to minimize it to the extent possible. Windows has built-in rules that minimize the attack surface; they simply need to be enabled.
The Ansible automation tool makes it really easy to implement IT scenarios as code. We use structured YAML code to roll out Ansible in the form of AWX.
Nothing is forever, not even a Git server. After the purchase of GitHub by Microsoft, I found a new home in Gitea for version control.
Relational databases have been long-lived, but a completely different type of database, the key-value store, has established itself in the cloud market.
We test microSD, USB, and (especially) PCIe storage to push Raspberry Pi storage to the max.
