The future of Solaris is in question. Oracle certainly wants to keep is alive, as many of its database customers run on Solaris, but what about everything...
Recently, Cisco started saying that virtualization doesn't actually save money due to increased management costs involved with running a virtual infrastructure. Sure, in the same glossy Cisco...
An interesting assignment was recently proposed: write about the Interop conference, and more specifically, evaluate whether or not it's focused on the right things. I reluctantly accepted,...
What happened to the old "sysadmin" of just a few years ago? We've split what used to be the sysadmin into application teams, server teams, storage teams,...
The thought of switching a large (or even small) business's e-mail to hosted providers like Google or Microsoft often meets with a lot of resistance. You might...
Standalone wireless access points are a burden to manage. Cisco has a wide suite of centralized wireless controllers available to centralize and manage your thousands of access...
Pain-free networking is the promise that the NetworkManager project makes.
NetworkManager ships with most major Linux distributions now and is, by default, enabled
at boot time. For mobile laptop...
WANs often need Quality of Service (QoS) configured to ensure that certain traffic is classified as "more important" than other traffic. Until now, it took a serious...