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Nagios XI Server Monitoring: Product Overview and Insight

jneill — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 21:30:15 +0000

Bottom Line: Many Linux administrators have started out their careers using the open source Nagios platform, and with Nagios XI they can extend that experience with a full featured, commercially supported platform. A key differentiator for Nagios is the expansive community of users that have created all manner of plugins that extend the capabilities of […]

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Datadog Server Monitoring Software: Product Overview and Insight

jneill — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 21:29:26 +0000

Bottom Line: Datadog is all about providing organizations with data and insight into how their applications are working (or not). The Datadog service key differentiator is its ability to provide a layered set of data visualizations, helping organizations to correlate root cause and performance issues across multiple sets of disparate metrics. Server applications including web […]

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Keeping Your Images from Adorning Other Sites

jneill — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 21:25:31 +0000

Webmasters are ever searching for ways to make their sites look cool and attractive. One way is to dress it up with images, logos, and other graphics–sometimes referred to as ‘eye candy.’ Of course, if you happen to be in the forefront of this in any way, you run the risk of having others cadge your art […]

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Canonical Extends Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Linux Support to 10 Years

jneill — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 21:18:45 +0000

BERLIN — In a keynote at the OpenStack Summit here, Mark Shuttleworth, founder and CEO of Canonical Inc and Ubuntu, detailed the progress made by his Linux distribution in the cloud and announced new extended support. The Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Long Term Support) debuted back on April 26, providing new server and cloud capabilities. LTS releases have […]

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HPE OneView: Product Overview and Insight

jneill — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 21:03:21 +0000

While the term “software defined” appears in the product pages of many enterprise IT vendors, it doesn’t always mean the same thing. HPE adopted the phrase “composable infrastructure” to describe their Synergy platform, which is an evolution of their blade system line of products. The secret sauce of composability is also software-based and consists in […]

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8 Best Server Virtualization Software

jneill — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 20:53:52 +0000

Server virtualization software burst onto the scene in the early 2000s. The meteoric rise of VMware – the market pioneer – came about as organizations realized the benefits of consolidating multiple physical servers onto one virtual machine (VM). Gone were the days of low rates of server utilization and one physical server hosting one application. […]

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Amazon Web Services Enters On-Premises Cloud Server Market with AWS Outposts

jneill — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 20:49:00 +0000

Ever since it first invented the modern cloud market, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been primarily focused on enabling customers to benefit from its public cloud infrastructure. At AWS re:invent on Nov. 28, the cloud giant broke the mold, announcing its new AWS Outposts service, which brings the AWS cloud and AWS hardware to on-premises […]

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