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Set Theory  

Database administrators at the Swiss foundation Switch were increasingly encountering corrupt data, which prompted a painstaking bug hunt. The solution they found increased performance by a factor of six.

Mixing Allowed  

Designing your own hybrid IT structure as a digital mix of your servers and public or private clouds might be technically elegant and cost effective, but setup is time consuming. Thanks to Ansible, it might take less work than you think.

Premium Blend  

Azure Stack is an Azure extension that implements an on-premises data center for consistent hybrid cloud deployments.

Jump!  

Because the cloud is ubiquitous, some companies think that outsourcing their business applications to Amazon, Google, and the like is a breeze. In fact, on the way, treacherous winds blow just off the beaten track.

Preprogrammed  

Incorporating scripts into Group Policy can make a sys admin's job much easier.

Torque Booster  

With Windows Server 2016, tweaking the settings and taking advantage of performance monitoring tools can help boost your system's performance.

My Five Favorite Sys Admin Tools  

I've written hundreds of articles over the past two decades, and I always seem to come back to a single theme: sys admin tools. I have five favorite tools that have not only stood the test of time but have also served me well in every job I've held, including when I ran my own computer consulting company.

A Schedule to Keep  

The Linux kernel has several I/O schedulers that can greatly influence performance. We take a quick look at I/O scheduler concepts and the options that exist within Linux.

Tech News  

AMD Confirms CTS Labs vulnerability reports, Windows Remote Assistance vulnerability, Arduino adds Rasp Pi and BeagleBone to the Arduino Create platform, and Linux Foundation announces an embedded hypervisor.
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