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DevOps makes IT departments more efficient and makes their employees happier – but what is it? We describe some basic ingredients of the DevOps recipe.

The Windows PowerShell web-based console lets you run PowerShell commands and scripts in your browser.

Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle states that you can know either the velocity or the direction of an electron, but not both at the same time – at least not in a precise way, you can't. The Hess Uncertainty Principle states that you can't know (precisely) both the speed and the direction of computing. I thought of this during my recent trip to Austin, Texas, where I attended Dell World 2014. Dell turned 30 years old this year, and I never would have predicted, with any accuracy, the new direction that Dell has taken. Nor would I have predicted its current velocity. How could I have known both simultaneously? The short answer is that I couldn't. I'm not even sure that Michael Dell could have predicted, as little as five years ago, the speed and the direction of his company today.

The OpenStack cloud platform plays a major role in the increasingly important cloud industry, so a new release is big news for cloud integrators and admins. The new version 2014.2 "Juno" release mostly cleans up and maintains the working model but adds a few innovations.

Dropbox was the first of a number of cloud service providers. However, only services that promise full control over your own data can give users a feeling of security. We provide an overview of nine cloud projects and two BitTorrent tools.

Integrating the Windows Intune management tool and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager for centralized management of mobile devices.

The latest new version of SUSE Linux Enterprise offers some promising new features for admins.

Several versions of the venerable Spanning Tree protocol have appeared through the years. We'll help you sort through the acronyms and show you which version is right for your network.

Standard hardware plus LizardFS equals a resilient, flexible, and configurable POSIX-compliant storage pool.