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2012. The new laptops in the IdeaPad U Series, Y Series, S Series, and Z Series provide a range of styles, colors, and performance.
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mandatory. If a major service provider were to install a bare metal system on every machine it bought, this wouldn't initially contradict the idea of accessing virtual services as the need arises over ... The OpenNebula toolkit can provide powerful management and provisioning capabilities for virtualized data center operation.
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this kind of hardware monitoring. But much hardware information can also be retrieved using SNMP. An SNMP monitor called OpenNMS relies on users to provide vendor-independent hardware monitoring. Popular ... The OpenNMS monitoring tool is a kind of all-purpose weapon that can provide administrators with a versatile range of information.
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A couple of years ago, I was teaching Linux at a large-scale IT service provider's office. Their administrators had plenty of experience with commercial Unix variants, such as HP-UX, and they asked ... The new cgroups feature provides an administrative approach to restricting resource use. This application is particularly interesting for virtualized systems.
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Routine updates to a Linux distribution can cause trouble; we provide some practical tips to help you recover.
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Over the past few years, companies have changed the way they look at IT. Companies now view IT as a service provided from one department to another, or perhaps provided to customers. This has led ... Providing the necessary IT services to your employees or customers is more than simply logging tickets and keeping track of hardware. We compare several ITIL-compliant help desk packages.
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Java EE provides a development platform based on various software components and services that has become pretty much the standard for developing enterprise applications. Clearly defined APIs allow ... Web-based, enterprise-capable applications often rely on the vendor-independent Java Platform, Enterprise Edition. We provide an introduction to Java EE based on the JBoss application server.
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a shell script evaluates immediately after launching the sensor.
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To save users the trouble of configuring a STUN server and then discovering that it doesn't work, SIP providers have extended their proxies to support what is known as Symmetric Response Routing. The IP ... Conventional VoIP telephony doesn't provide for the complications of a firewall. The STUN protocol is the standard fix, but sometimes STUN just isn't enough.