Articles from ADMIN Issue 18
A quick and easy way to deploy and manage apps in an AWS cloud.
Admins can select from a cornucopia of options to make HTTP-based RESTful services highly available.
Modern drives use S.M.A.R.T. (self-monitoring, analysis, and reporting technology) to gather information and run self-tests. Smartmontools is a Linux tool for interacting with the S.M.A.R.T. features of drives. But is S.M.A.R.T. the best way to predict impending drive doom?
Criminals often focus on browsers for various attacks because they are a worthwhile, attractive, and often easy target. However, admins can investigate such attacks with forensic tools that provide the ability to reconstruct browser sessions.
Since Microsoft announced the discontinuation of its Threat Management Gateway (TMG) – successor to the Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server – companies have been looking for an adequate replacement. Citrix jumps into the breach with its various NetScaler products.
Applications such as web browsers can open up vulnerabilities and threaten an entire system. As a remedy, Capsicum provides the option of finely granulated allocation of privileges on top of sandboxing.
The new PostgreSQL 9.3 release introduces several speed and usability improvements, as well as SQL standards compliance.
