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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.

Click to the Future  

HTML5 offers a range of new features, such as audio and video support, without needing plugins like Flash or Java. This opens up completely new options in terms of content delivery via the web – and also for mobile access to applications on the LAN.

Movers  

The new version of Hyper-V sees Microsoft improve and simplify live migration and high-availability options.

Share the Load  

One way several users can share a high-performance system is through a software tool called a resource manager. Openlava is an open source version of a commercial scheduler that is robust while being freely available, very scalable, and easy to install and customize.

Following a Plan  

Understanding database execution plans is the key to assessing the optimum potential of an SQL query effectively or estimating your future resource requirements.
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