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Defense Against the Dark Arts  

Despite the growing exploitation of PowerShell's scripting language by hackers, the tool's security features also offer a line of defense.

Robot Admin  

Chef, one of the oldest automation solutions, seeks to become a universal administration robot for cloud environments with new version 2.0.

Mature  

What lacked maturity in MariaDB 10.2 has now been sorted out in version 10.3. We look at the benefits you can reap now.

Sealed Off  

Kata Containers adds an additional layer of isolation, and Docker users don't even need to learn new commands.

Unequal Pair  

Data protection and data security are similar-sounding aspects of information security: one legal and one technical.

Gimme the Key  

Cryptographic keys, usually available locally but not on remote computers, can be accessed for use in cloud environments.

Container Inspection  

A new test tool by Google lets you peek inside Docker containers, so you can make sure they hold exactly what you expect.

Custom Sales  

SuiteCRM 7 is a powerful open source enterprise customer relationship management solution.

Cloud Creator  

Today's OpenStack has become a mature product with automated asset configuration tools, including cloud-init, a powerful script that saves time by automatically configuring a large number of virtual servers in the cloud.

Preparing to Move  

Move a workload to the cloud without trouble, and leverage cloud benefits for a conventional setup.