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News for system administrators around the world.

Statistics Suppliers  

Many companies that use Google Analytics to learn more about visitors to their websites worry about privacy issues. We looked at some useful alternatives.

Dividing by Zero  

I love automation. Almost every day I write scripts to automate some task, and then I schedule that task to take place at a specific time. Sometimes I automate so many things that I forget they're automated. I'm not sure if that's good or bad, but it does happen.

Overcharged  

In the early days of hacking, phreaking was used to make free long distance calls. Today, phreaking continues with more professional and better organized attacks. Here's how to protect yourself.

Clockwork  

When it comes to merging the cloud with local resources, Azure offers some useful automation tools.

Land Ho!  

Java 9 tempts programmers with innovations intended to facilitate the development and operation of Java applications.

Serial Production  

Optimization, rationalization, and cost reduction are just as much a part of the IT administrator's everyday life as reliability and security issues. Opsi simplifies automated software installation in large computer networks.

The view from SUSECon 2016  

SUSECon 2016 took place in Washington, DC, in the same week as the US presidential election. An interesting piece of trivia: the openSUSE conference was held in the UK during the vote on Brexit, and they voted to leave.

Put to the Test  

Software-defined storage promises centrally managed, heterogeneous storage with built-in redundancy. We examine how complicated it is to set up the necessary distributed filesystems. A benchmark shows which operations each system is best at tackling.

Logically Tunneled  

Network virtualization takes very different approaches at the software and hardware levels to divide or group network resources into logical units independent of the physical layer. It is typically a matter of implementing secure strategies. We show the technical underpinnings of VLANs.
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