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  Hiring Kit: Help Desk Support

  Recruiting a Help Desk Support candidate with the right combination of technical experience and communication skills will require a comprehensive screening process. This Hiring Kit from TechRepublic Premium provides an adjustable framework your business can use to find, recruit, and ultimately hire the right person for the job. It also comes with potential interview questions ...

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  How to manage user passwords on Linux

  If you’re a Linux admin, you probably take care of any number of servers, all of which contain numerous users. Those users log in via various means or protocols, such as SSH, FTP, HTTP. In order to successfully log in, those users have to have—passwords. A single word that sends shivers through the spine of ...

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  Research: Managing multicloud in the enterprise; benefits, barriers, and most popular cloud platforms

  Many organizations are deploying a multicloud strategy, citing reasons such as avoiding vendor lock-in and competitive pricing, among others. However, while cloud platforms are becoming central to many businesses’ broader digital transformation strategies, some companies have no plans to take a multicloud approach. TechRepublic Premium conducted an online survey to find out why some companies ...

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  Onboarding/Offboarding Checklist

  Without a proper process, the hiring of new employees and onboarding of new contractors can introduce errors and inefficiencies that result in lost production, negative customer experiences and a variety of opportunities lost. Worse, when onboarding processes are bungled, the organization’s data, customers, and finances are at risk. It’s important to prevent mistakes and oversight ...

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  Hiring Kit: Back-End Developer

  Finding a Back-End Developer with programming and technical expertise as well as superior collaboration and communication skills will require a comprehensive recruitment strategy. This Hiring Kit from TechRepublic Premium provides an adjustable framework your business can use to find, recruit, and ultimately hire the right person for the job. From the Hiring Kit: Introduction In ...

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  How to manage file and folder permissions in Linux

  From the beginning, Linux has made it possible for admins and users to get fairly granular with file and folder permissions. From the user perspective, it’s simple: If you created a file, you own it and have permission to read or write to the file. But that doesn’t always apply to the ability to execute ...

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  Ubuntu Server 18.04: Easy-to-learn expert tips

  Ubuntu is a GNU/Linux distribution managed by Canonical. It offers economic and technical scalability for your data center—be it public or private. Plus, the Ubuntu Server platform makes it easy to deploy an OpenStack cloud, a Hadoop cluster, or even a 50,000-node render farm. This open source Debian-based Linux distribution, sponsored by Canonical Ltd., is ...

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  Research: Quantum computing in the enterprise; key vendors, anticipated benefits, and impact

  Quantum computing promises to take on problems that were previously unsolvable. This whole new level of compute power will make it possible to crunch incredible volumes of data that traditional computers can’t manage. It will allow researchers to develop new antibiotics, polymers, electrolytes, and so much more. While the options for quantum computing uses may ...

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  Linux user and group management tips

  As a system administrator, one of your jobs is managing users and groups. Without the proper care and feeding of this particular task, your company would have a hard time functioning properly and securely. Why? Because left to their own devices, users wouldn’t have the necessary permissions needed to function. They wouldn’t belong to the ...

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  Point of sale (POS) deployment checklist

  Point-of-sale (POS) systems present a wholly different challenge compared to just deploying a new PC. While managed service providers (MSPs) must remember all the same and myriad details as with a PC when deploying a new POS workstation, there are a host of additional and often complex and sometimes sensitive elements that must be properly ...