ADMIN #19 - Digital Issue

Windows Clustering: Create a highly available cluster at the click of a button with Windows Server 2012 R2.

Understanding ATA Security: Modern ATA hard drives and SSDs offer security options to control access and reliably destroy data.

Azure Backup: The Microsoft Windows Azure Backup service lets you back up data from servers in the cloud using continuous encryption.

Burp Suite: Strengthen your web security by testing for common vulnerabilities using the Burp Suite attack proxy.

Save time and simplify your workday with these useful tools for real-world systems administration.

Jelastic: The Jelastic cloud service runs Java and PHP applications with no intervention.

Python Pandas: Data analysis for large volumes of data with Pandas and NumPy.

OpenResty: OpenResty and Lua make Nginx a fast application server.

Lua: We provide insight into the Lua scripting language cosmos.

FreeRADIUS: User passwords for wireless users with WPA Enterprise and a FreeRADIUS server.

RHSS 2.1: The facts about Red Hat’s Storage Server.

Virtual environments are becoming faster, more secure, and easier to set up and use. Check out these tools.

Kickstack: Kickstack and Puppet modules automate the installation of OpenStack and facilitate maintenance.

Virt-builder: The virt-builder tool lets you create new virtual machines in just a few seconds.

SmartOS: SmartOS brings together the best of Linux and Solaris to implement a virtualization platform with ZFS and KVM.

Cloudify: Cloudify offers a new direction for orchestration in the cloud, with a range of configuration options that go beyond the classic tools.

Use these practical apps to extend, simplify, and automate routine admin tasks.

Office 365: Microsoft offers its Office programs as a service in the cloud, so turn to the natural choice when integrating the Office 365 service into your own infrastructure: PowerShell.

Sar: Several utilities offer a snapshot of system performance – from Top or Uptime to Iostat, Netstat, and Mpstat – but what if you learn of a bottleneck after the fact? Sar to the rescue.

Timely tutorials on fundamental techniques for systems administrators.

FreeBSD 10: The Unix-like FreeBSD forms the underpinnings of Mac OS X and the Sony PlayStation 4. Version 10 introduces new features and performance gains.

Admin Story – systemd Journal: The systemd journal logging system in Fedora.

Performance Tuning Dojo: Proper partition alignment for maximum performance.