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Lead Image © Lucy Baldwin, 123RF.com

Thrashing the data cache for fun and profit

To reduce the possibility of disk thrashing, optimize your data cache through spatial locality and cache-friendly algorithms and utilize fully the data loaded from slower storage media before moving on.
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Lead Image © Galyna Andrushko, 123RF

Credential harvesting at the network interstice

To thwart credential harvesters at the network interstice, you must understand how attackers exploit browser transactions.
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Lead Image © lightwise, 123RF.com

Google Cloud Storage for backups

We compare Google Cloud Storage for Internet-based backups with Amazon S3.
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Photo by Jani Brumat on Unsplash

Enlarging the TCP initial window

Linux on-board resources let admins open the floodgates for high-volume TCP packages.
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Lead Image © Orlando Rosu, 123rf.com

Manage OpenVPN keys with Easy-RSA

The Easy-RSA tool that comes with OpenVPN provides trouble-free open source PKI management.
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Lead Image © Artem Egorov, 123RF.com

The new OpenShift version 4

Red Hat launched the brand new OpenShift 4 with a number of changes that might suggest upgrading or even getting your feet wet if you've stayed out of the pool so far.
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Photo by Ray Aucott on Unsplash

OCI containers with Podman

The Podman alternative to Docker is a daemonless container engine with a run time that executes on request in root or user mode.

Protect Azure resources with Network Security Groups

Security segmentation into zones has long been the norm in data centers. Microsoft Azure Network Security Groups offers this kind of granular defense-in-depth security, including multilevel configuration of access rules.
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Lead Image © Ioannis Kounadeas, Fotolia.com

Troubleshooting and analyzing VoIP networks

A special VoIP analyzer lets you control the available bandwidth and quality of voice transmission by monitoring relevant network parameters.
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Photo by Almos Bechtold on Unsplash

Getting started with the Apache Cassandra database

The open source Apache Cassandra database claims to be fail-safe, economical, highly scalable, and easy to manage. A few exercises show whether it lives up to its advertising.
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