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Infrastructure as Code with Terraform

Blueprint

Application releases can take place several times a day. Terraform helps you roll out virtual machines automatically in your data center or in the cloud, and you adapt the manual only when it changes.
cloud , Community , data center , language
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Connecting Windows Server 2016 with Azure

Into the Blue

Microsoft continues to integrate Windows Server with the Azure cloud. With Cloud Witness and the RDS Connection Broker, you can operate distributed environments more reliably and efficiently, and SQL databases migrate sensibly into the cloud.
cloud , Community , Server , Windows Server
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Identity Management from the cloud

Under a Dark Cloud

Offers for identity management as a service (IDaaS) are entering the market and promising simplicity. However, many lack functionality, adaptability, and in-depth integration with existing systems. We look at how IT managers should consider IDaaS in their strategy.
cloud , Identity Manage... , management
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Make Your IT Automation Systems Play Together Like a Symphony

Cloud Orchestration with Chef

Discover the difference between automation and orchestration, and learn to quickly deploy and orchestrate well-defined, scalable business solutions for your organization.
automation , automation , cloud , cloud , DevOps , orchestration
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Professional virtualization with RHV4

Polished

New and updated features in Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) 4, along with seamless provisioning of services between traditional and cloud workloads, could help RHV make up ground on VMware and Hyper-V.
cloud , Red Hat , virtualization
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Time-series-based monitoring with Prometheus

Lighting Up the Dark

As Prometheus gave fire to mankind, the distributed monitoring software with the same name illuminates the admin's mind in native cloud environments, offering metrics for monitored systems and applications.
cloud , metrics , monitoring
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End-to-end monitoring – Measuring what the user perceives

Test Robot

Continuously monitoring the performance of applications helps ensure the service quality in multilayered cloud services.
cloud , monitoring , Performance , tools
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Harden your OpenStack configuration

Fortress in the Clouds

Any OpenStack installation that hosts services and VMs for several customers poses a challenge for the security-conscious admin. Hardening the overall system can turn the porous walls into a fortress – but you'll need more than a little mortar.
cloud , OpenStack , security , security
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What's new in SQL Server 2016

Faster, Safer, Mobile

The focus in SQL Server 2016 is on mobility, cloud usage, and speed, with improvements to in-memory processing and security.
cloud , Security , security , SQL
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Cloud Orchestration with Cloudify

Cloud computing is forcing admins to rethink automation because classic tools like Puppet do not provide a sufficient range of configuration options. Cloudify offers a new direction for orchestration in the cloud.

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