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Life on the Network

Article from ADMIN 02/2010

By ADMIN Magazine

We're back with another issue of ADMIN – and we hope you find this one as engaging and informative as the last. If this is your first visit, you'll see that we at ADMIN strive to write for IT experts who are looking for real solutions and straight talk about emerging technologies.

We lead off this issue with a comparison of several enterprise-grade backup alternatives. We size up the best features of popular solutions such as Acronis Backup & Recovery, Arkeia Network Backup, EMC NetWorker, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, SEP sesam, Symantec NetBackup, and the open source Bacula. Elsewhere up ahead, we tell you what's coming with the latest updates of Microsoft's SQL Server and Small Business Server, and we help you sort out the differences among popular cloud platforms, such as Amazon EC2, Rackspace, Kamp Virtual Core, Strato MultiServer, and Microsoft Azure.

This issue also pays special attention to virtualization. We show you the Proxmox specialty Linux, which is designed to support both KVM and OpenVZ virtualization. You'll also find a study of how to monitor virtual environments with Nagios and Icinga, and we include separate articles on top virtualization tools like KVM, Hyper-V, XenServer, and VMware ESX. Other highlights include a roundup of tools for organizing and formatting network management information, as well as a story on tuning Python for multicore environments.

At ADMIN, our goal is to deliver real-world technical content to system administrators and other IT decision makers who are building the enterprise networks the rest of us live and work in. If you are part of that world – or if you think you might want to be part of it – read on for more snapshots from life on the network.

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