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Whitepapers - Video

Mission-Critical Computing with Project Odyssey

May 2, 2013 12:00am PDT

See how HP plans to bring mission-critical performance to Intel® Xeon® processor-based systems and work with kernel.org collaborators to facilitate scaling with Linux and x86 architecture....

Provided by: HP and Intel® Itanium® Processors

Webcasts

Mission-Critical Matters

May 2, 2013 12:00am PDT

Jonathan Patrizio, HP High Availability and Disaster Recovery Expert, shares how you can utilize Linux ServiceGuard running on Intel® Itanium® processor-powered HP-UX to deliver uncompromising...

Provided by: HP and Intel® Itanium® Processors

Whitepapers - Video

HP ServiceGuard Solutions for Linux Disaster Recovery

May 2, 2013 12:00am PDT

This flash video positions the HP ServiceGuard for Linux Disaster Recovery Solution as an integrated solution to a simple challenge that most businesses face: keeping Intel® Itanium®...

Provided by: HP and Intel® Itanium® Processors

Whitepapers

Cloud on Linux Operating System

May 1, 2013 12:00am PDT

The term "Cloud" is analyzed to "Internet". The term "Cloud computing" is based on cloud drawings used in the past to represent telephone networks and later to depict internet. Cloud computing is...

Provided by: Creative Commons

Discussion Threads

Linux 101: File permissions from the GUI point of view

April 23, 2013 6:54am PDT

Linux 101: File permissions from the GUI point of view article root Next subject for an article: groups ..and who's in a group, how to start one, and what they are good for, anyhow. File...

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Blog Post

Linux 101: File permissions from the GUI point of view

April 22, 2013 11:08am PDT

For new users to Linux, there might be times when you need to change the permissions of a file. Jack Wallen shows you how this is done without having to touch the command line. With just your file...

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Whitepapers

KVM Security in the Cloud: A Choice That Matters

April 22, 2013 12:00am PDT

With many IT departments moving their infrastructure to the cloud, security-related concerns due to a shared environment have become increasingly prominent. While open source virtualization has...

Provided by: Global Knowledge

Blog Post

Quick tip: Command line basics for Amazon Web Services users

April 18, 2013 6:00am PDT

If you want to take advantage of the very lowest prices on Amazon EC2, Linux/UNIX users are in luck. If you're not an expert, you'll want to brush up your command line skills.

Discussion Threads

The Linux desktop 'mess'

April 8, 2013 8:23am PDT

relative... When I first upgraded Ubuntu to Unity, I hated it. Switched to Xubuntu and XFCE... but I missed the polish of Ubuntu.. then someone came out with a ppa that simply added a "start" menu...

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Blog Post

The Linux desktop 'mess'

April 8, 2013 7:37am PDT

Is the Linux desktop really a "mess" as some pundits call it? Jack Wallen takes issue with this claim and explains why he thinks the desktop is getting a bad rap.

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Blog Post

Two questions about getting started in IT consulting

April 8, 2013 5:50am PDT

Read advice on where to find the best troubleshooting tools and how-to guides, and how to determine what to charge for IT consulting services.

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Discussion Threads

Better than BackTrack? Kali Linux offers new brand of pen-testing tools

April 1, 2013 6:28pm PDT

Better than BackTrack? Kali Linux offers new brand of pen-testing tools article root Kali Linux Finally a distro that comes bundled with all the major penetration testing tools. Kali Linux...

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Discussion Threads

Open source still has a few gaps to fill to go mainstream

April 1, 2013 7:45am PDT

Open source still has a few gaps to fill to go mainstream article root Quickbooks and DOCX Support? Why not simply use QB Online and Office 365. As more critical business apps move online there...

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Blog Post

Open source still has a few gaps to fill to go mainstream

April 1, 2013 6:12am PDT

Linux has come a long, long way. But it still has a few gaps to fill before it will be considered by small to medium-sized businesses. Jack Wallen offers his take on those gaps.

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Discussion Threads

The security implications of 420,000 vulnerable hosts

March 26, 2013 7:19am PDT

The security implications of 420,000 vulnerable hosts article root Did you notice? The 'vulnerable' servers, as part of the script which harvested them, had to be running Linux! -clearly this...

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Whitepapers

VM-MAD: A Cloud/cluster Software for Service-Oriented Academic Environments

March 26, 2013 12:00am PDT

The availability of powerful computing hardware in IaaS clouds makes cloud computing attractive also for computational workloads that were up to now almost exclusively run on HPC clusters. In this...

Provided by: ETH Zurich

Blog Post

Better than BackTrack? Kali Linux offers new brand of pen-testing tools

March 25, 2013 2:22pm PDT

BackTrack Linux no more. The popular open source package of penetration testing tools now has a new platform and a new name.

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Discussion Threads

10 of the biggest IT sand traps

March 22, 2013 5:17am PDT

10 of the biggest IT sand traps article root #4 - Really? Unix to Linux migration is the best example you could think of to illustrate how hard it is to get people to accept new stuff? Agree you...

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Dell PowerEdge C6220 Ubuntu Server: A LAMP Reference Architecture

March 21, 2013 12:00am PDT

The Dell PowerEdge C6220 server and the Linux-based Ubuntu Server operating system provide the power and features you need to deploy multiple, enterprise-class workloads in a large-scale cloud...

Provided by: Principled Technologies

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Dell PowerEdge C6220 and CentoOS 6.2: A LAMP Reference Architecture

March 20, 2013 12:00am PDT

The Dell PowerEdge C6220 server and the Linux-based CentOS operating system provide the power and features you need to deploy multiple, enterprise-class workloads in a large-scale cloud services...

Provided by: Principled Technologies