A key worry about using remote data centers is security -- who's handling (and viewing) the data? Brian Proffitt talks about the relative benefits of an in-house...
Linux expert Brian Proffitt provides an overview of vnStat, the popular Linux networking tool.
Getting network stats on a Linux machine is not particularly difficult. With tools like...
Systems management solutions tend to be complex and pricey. Linux expert Brian Profitt overviews the leading open source vendors and their solutions.
You could call them the "Little...
For some time, the big commercial Linux vendors have been happily wandering orchard of low-hanging enterprise fruit, almost completely eschewing markets such as consumers or small- to...
Last week, Jim Lynch wrote what seemed to be a tongue-in-cheek admonition on how the Linux Mint distribution is so darned good, the venerable pastime of distribution...
Ed Note: This is Brian Proffitt's final contribution to Enterprise Unix Roundup. Farewell, Brian, it's been a great three years. We will all miss your candor and...
Last week, Simon Phipps, Chief Open Source Officer at Sun Microsystems, stated in an interview that much of the current animosity from the open source community toward...
First thing out of the gate on Monday's news cycle was the announcement from HP that it is committing its Tru64 Unix Advanced File System (AdvFS) code...
An interesting news item popped up this week, which got me wondering about a new way for Unix to stand out in the marketplace.
Network World released...
Since much of my job involves wandering around the Internet looking for news, I often find off-the-wall things that one might not expect.
I won't share all of...
Perhaps you've been unsettled by the singular message of change espoused by every U.S. Presidential candidate this election season; or maybe you were disturbed when Dick York...