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Container auditing best practices for large-scale deployments

Container auditing and reporting are essential security and compliance measures in a production environment. Apply these practices to uncover abnormalities, control user access and choose the right tool.

By Stuart Burns • May 19, 2020

A successful CMDB deployment in five essential steps

Join the first of our three-part series on maintaining your CMDB as a trusted source and learning the essential role it plays in your organization’s modernization.

May 19, 2020

Forget monitoring alerts, turn to IT root cause analysis

Alerts get your attention, but they don't always tell you where the core of a problem is to be found. Maybe it's time to shift your IT management strategy.

By Clive Longbottom • May 19, 2020

Optimize Kubernetes cluster management with these 5 tips

Effective Kubernetes cluster management requires operations teams to balance pod and node deployments with performance and availability needs.

By Kristin Knapp • May 19, 2020

How -- and why -- to add SolarWinds modules

SolarWinds is known for its capabilities in network monitoring, but flexible modules give IT operations staff the ability to monitor systems far and wide.

By Brian Kirsch • May 18, 2020

3 options to use Kubernetes and containers for edge computing

While every deployment is unique, these general guidelines can help IT teams determine whether -- and how -- to incorporate Kubernetes and containers into an edge computing strategy.

By Tom Nolle • May 18, 2020

Windows Server 2019 RDS updates a boon for remote work needs

Enhanced security, improved end-user experience and cloud integration are just a few of the perks for organizations that move to Windows Server 2019 RDS.

By Dan Franciscus • May 18, 2020

Essential firms forge on with AIOps for incident response

AIOps systems for incident response have helped a bank and a provider of care services in the home streamline operations amid a pandemic emergency and an ongoing IT skills shortage.

By Beth Pariseau • May 15, 2020

Use a zero-trust model for container security in the cloud

Traditional firewalls just won't cut it when it comes to container security in the public cloud. Zero-trust models are a better approach, but they demand some careful upfront work.

By Kurt Marko • May 15, 2020

VMware Tanzu seeks IT attention with Kubernetes security buy

VMware buys Octarine for security cred in a crowded Kubernetes management market, but some VMware shops will shift to SaaS apps rather than deal with container infrastructure.

By Beth Pariseau • May 13, 2020

A Terraform Registry tutorial to build and share modules

Before IT teams share Terraform modules through the tool's public registry, they must familiarize themselves with these prerequisites and technical steps.

By Deepak Dhami • May 13, 2020

May Patch Tuesday brings a bevy of SharePoint fixes

Microsoft delivers corrections for 111 unique vulnerabilities with a significant number aimed at SharePoint, which may signal growing interest from attackers.

By Tom Walat • May 13, 2020

Understand the differences in VM vs. container vs. serverless

VMs, containers and serverless computing provide organizations with application development flexibility, but they add management complexity.

By Paul Korzeniowski • May 13, 2020

Lighten up and install Exchange 2019 on Windows Server Core

Organizations looking to tighten up security in every aspect of their infrastructure now have the option to deploy their on-premises messaging system on Server Core 2019.

By Nathan O'Bryan • May 11, 2020

A Kubernetes namespaces tutorial to manage cluster resources

Namespaces in Kubernetes serve several purposes -- from allowing teams to share a single cluster to enforcing resource quotas. Use this tutorial to get started with this important Kubernetes feature.

By Prateek Singh • May 11, 2020

A comprehensive guide to Open vSwitch and its capabilities

Distributed multilayer switches are essential to managing several network connections between VMs. Open vSwitch offers admins automated and dynamic network control for virtual systems.

By Robert Sheldon • May 11, 2020

Puppet Labs CTO eyes IT automation amid COVID-19

An entirely new executive leadership team is the latest of several upheavals at Puppet Labs over the last four years, but CTO Abby Kearns says there's a clearer path ahead in 2020.

By Beth Pariseau • May 8, 2020

Create an AKS cluster with this Ansible and Kubernetes tutorial

IT admins familiar with Ansible can use the configuration management tool, alongside Azure Cloud Shell, to spin up a Kubernetes cluster in AKS.

By Michael Levan • May 8, 2020

Craft a DevOps transformation roadmap around these 5 milestones

As organizations embark on a DevOps journey, they can use these five milestones to ensure team members stay on track -- and collaborate efficiently along the way.

By Will Kelly • May 7, 2020

VMware Tanzu beta project melds Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes

VMware Tanzu Application Service for Kubernetes, now in public beta, intrigues PKS users by combining Kubernetes infrastructure components behind a Cloud Foundry developer interface.

By Beth Pariseau • May 7, 2020

Optimize your VM monitoring strategy with these tools

Keeping track of hundreds of VMs and applications can be difficult. However, monitoring tools such as OpManager and vSphere can help admins ensure successful system performance.

By Stefani Muñoz • May 7, 2020

Remote work technologies to account for in 2020 IT budgets

In light of a crisis like COVID-19, IT organizations must amend their budgets to invest in technologies that can support remote access and foster employee collaboration.

By Clive Longbottom • May 5, 2020

Find and lock down lax Windows share permissions

With help from PowerShell, you can identify the shares that need adjustments across your infrastructure then use a script to fix them to protect sensitive data.

By Adam Bertram • May 4, 2020

Reduce IT burdens, costs with on-premises storage as a service

Most organizations automatically associate storage as a service with the cloud -- but emerging, on-premises STaaS offerings can benefit IT ops and the business just as much, if not more.

By Stuart Burns • April 30, 2020

How many Kubernetes nodes should be in a cluster?

There's no one-size-fits-all answer in terms of how many nodes should make up a Kubernetes cluster. Instead, that number varies based on specific workload requirements.

By Chris Tozzi • April 29, 2020