Articles from ADMIN Issue 02
Thin clients save electricity and administrative overhead. The lean desktop computers by Igel are easy to manage with the use of Igel's proprietary management tools.
Special monitoring tools for the virtual environment help you keep on top of things.
KVM continues to gain popularity in the world of Linux – so much so, that it has become Red Hat and Ubuntu's preferred virtualization solution. In contrast to Xen, setting up KVM involves just a couple of steps, and the guest operating systems can run without special patches.
In the face of competition from VMware, Microsoft has polished its own Hyper-V virtualization solution and firmly integrated it into Server 2008.
Version 5.6 of Citrix XenServer is a feature-stripped version of the virtualization product and is available free, in addition to the commercial Advanced, Enterprise, and Platinum editions.
Virtualization doesn't necessarily provide protection against system failure if the network is a single point of failure. We explain how to set up redundant network connections for virtual machines running VMware ESX.
Many commercial and free solutions exist to centralize the management of Windows clients. Desktop Authority by ScriptLogic has a number of features that set it apart from the crowd.
In any business you are going to find hundreds, if not thousands, of different kinds of data. Collecting and presenting it is a snap with the right tools.
Overcome the Global Interpreter Lock in Python and take advantage of run-time parallelism on multicore machines.
Mobile users need a connection to the LDAP and Kerberos servers to authenticate over insecure IP networks. The System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) helps plug this gap.
