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Articles from ADMIN Issue 20
If you haven't either used or experienced Chromebooks firsthand by now, you soon will. Chromebooks are the next frontier in IT management and support, and they're coming soon to a network near you. The primary reasons for the soon-to-be widespread adoption of the humble Chromebook are cost, flexibility, security, and portability. But most of those reasons are the "business" reasons driving adoption.
SystemRescueCd comes with a gallery of helpful system tools for diagnosing and repairing Linux and Windows computers. SystemRescueCd is based on the long-term-support Linux kernel 3.10. Boot from a CD/DVD, a USB stick, or a hard drive.
Be ready before disaster strikes. In this article we describe some tools you should have on hand to obtain a memory image of an infected system.
Optimizing non-uniform memory access (NUMA) can help you increase the performance of KVM virtual machines. We describe some pitfalls to watch out for.
Systems, network, and security professionals face a big problem managing disparate security data from a variety of sources. OSSIM gives IT security professionals the capacity to cut through the noise and gain wisdom and foresight in defending and managing their networks.
The Simple Event Correlator is a small Perl program that supports analysis of logfiles with a view to security. In this article, we provide an introduction to SEC's rules and actions.
We design a basic set of ip6tables rules for an IPv6 firewall.
Scattered documents lying on the file server are an inconvenient resource when admins need to solve problems at the help desk. Free knowledgebase components combine knowledge and structure, providing a better overview.
Hadoop 2.x and its associated tools promise to deliver big data solutions not just to the IT-heavy big players, but to anyone with unstructured data and the need for multidimensional data analysis.
The Joblib Python Library handles frequent problems – like parallelization, memorization, and saving and loading objects – in almost no time, giving programmers more freedom to push on with their core tasks.