The Sheepdog distributed storage tool exhibits pronounced doggedness and deserves appropriate attention, benefiting projects such as QEMU and OpenStack.
Anyone who manages many clusters should be meticulous in ensuring that organized processes prevail in the distributed server zoo. We describe how Apache ZooKeeper fulfills this task.
The Heartbleed bug shocked the security community and seriously damaged the reputation of OpenSSL. Luckily, alternatives such as LibreSSL, PolarSSL, and GnuTLS are waiting in the wings.
Why spam yourself with useless notifications every time a script completes successfully? You can use Nagios to screen the notices and just send the ones that need action.
Need to fix a Windows server? We'll discuss some techniques for getting your system back. You'll also learn some tricks for Active Directory and Exchange.
Around since the 1960s, passwords are still the mainstay for authentication. The good news is you have alternatives in hardware multifactor authentication.
People still use hard disks even when SSDs are much faster and more robust. One reason is the price; another is the lower capacity of flash storage. Hybrid drives promise to be as fast as SSDs while offering as much capacity as hard drives. But can they keep that promise?
Redo Backup backs up complete hard drives locally or over a network. The focus is on simple operation and high reliability in a variety of deployment scenarios.
Two projects by Red Hat and SUSE – Kpatch and kGraft – attempt to patch the kernel with security updates on the fly. We look at features in these two tools and their suitability for production use.
