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Port of Entry  

If you've ever had to test the security of your servers, you've almost certainly come across the ever-flexible Nmap – used by sys admins to help protect their servers and diagnose problems.

King of Computers  

Just as subjects must obey their king, all the computers and servers in an organization should follow the administrator's commands. With Rex, you don't even need to leave your admin throne to organize this.

JugglingProjects  

Torn between the challenges of daily IT operations and ambitious projects, admins must allocate their resources wisely. One unspectacular but effective instrument that can help is the Kanban method.

Defending the Baseline  

Microsoft operating systems are not necessarily regarded as the epitome of computer security, but the free Security Compliance Manager helps enforce some basic hardening measures.

In Harmony  

Many admins are responsible for heterogeneous IT environments. Those who want use the popular Bash and GNU tools under Windows can either install the Cygwin compatibility layer or try Gow, the more slender alternative.

Out of the Box  

Admins of small businesses who want to cover all their infrastructure requirements with a single server are the target group of small-business servers. In this article, we introduce three Linux distributions that meet this requirement.

Cloud Basics  

Central network storage with clients for any platform are convenient, although the popular designation "cloud" is debatable. Yet, what is the best implementation? We compare three storage cloud solutions.

Law of Averages  

The load averaging can be a source of confusion for admins. This month, we provide a look at some basic considerations.

New Host  

Version 3.1 of the oVirt management platform for virtual infrastructures has recently become available. On Fedora 17, the new release is easy to install and deploy.

Turf War  

In the old Hyper-V hypervisor from Microsoft, many features for professional use were missing. The new version 3.0 has been significantly improved and is slowly catching up to VMware.
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