Doing what I do for a living, which these days mostly involves creating technology books and courseware, I’m constantly learning new technologies. In a way, my new tech adventures are not much different than the ones most IT pros face,… Continue Reading
Smart and experienced admins are worth their weight in gold, but how many of them had that kind of value when they started out? Building up a solid and reliable IT team to serve your operation can be like planning… Continue Reading
Tied up in a recent AWS announcement about a new EC2 high-end instance type (the C5) is a strong suggestion that Amazon’s cloud computing giant has begun to shift its hundreds of thousands of physical servers away from the open source Xen… Continue Reading
Got IT infrastructure? Do you know how secure it is? The answer will probably hurt, but this is the kind of bad news you’re better off getting sooner rather than later. The only reasonably sure way to find out what’s… Continue Reading
This article is excerpted from my Manning book, Linux in Action. Nextcloud is an open source software suite that, when installed on a Linux server, can leverage storage capacity for saving, editing, and consuming a wide range of document types — including services… Continue Reading