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Essential virtualization certifications for IT professionals

As companies move beyond virtualization, the need for IT pros with fine-tuned expertise in cloud administration, ethical hacking, legacy infrastructure migration and automation rises.

By Paul Korzeniowski • July 18, 2019

Get creative with feature flags in IT operations

Feature flags give IT operations a range of possibility as broad as the imagination -- once you learn this dev-centric technique.

By Emily Mell • July 18, 2019

When you create a DevOps workflow, avoid these missteps

How can DevOps help? And how can you apply it correctly? These are important questions to consider before you attempt to create a DevOps pipeline.

By Adam Bertram • July 17, 2019

Explore the Citrix guest UEFI boot feature for modern systems

A guest boot feature offered by Citrix provides admins with improved system performance, but they should be wary of its continued experimental status.

By Robert Sheldon • July 17, 2019

Container security improves overall enterprise IT posture

Enterprise IT pros worried about security when containers were first introduced, but as containers are put into production, they can actually present ways to tighten security practices.

By Beth Pariseau • July 17, 2019

AWS OpsCenter and Moogsoft AIOps integrate for IT productivity

By integrating AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter and Moogsoft AIOps platforms, the vendors hope to reduce alert noise, automate remediation and solve incidents faster.

By Sabrina Polin • July 17, 2019

What are Ansible roles and when and how should I use them?

Roles are one of several functions in Ansible that simplify and streamline IT automation processes. Dig into this quick overview to learn the basics of roles and potential use cases.

By Stuart Burns • July 17, 2019

Avoid chaos with an IT crisis management playbook

A minor IT issue can quickly snowball into a major catastrophe without a carefully constructed crisis management plan, but just what details should an organization include?

By Brian Kirsch • July 15, 2019

Snow Software launches new tech management suite

The new intelligence suite has six main tools that help manage the challenges due to growing IT operations, from spending and productivity to monitoring risk.

By Tanner Harding • July 15, 2019

Microsoft Azure partners get new tool, migration program

Microsoft has uncorked a series of announcements on the eve of Microsoft Inspire, many of them focused on Microsoft Azure management and migration; more news from the week.

By John Moore and Spencer Smith • July 12, 2019

Look inside the Mesosphere DC/OS distributed operating system

IT organizations that run large, distributed workloads on clusters should examine the Mesosphere DC/OS approach, but be forewarned: It takes a lot of components to simplify ops.

By Walker Rowe • July 11, 2019

Microsoft patches two Windows zero-days in July Patch Tuesday

Microsoft fixed two Windows zero-day flaws as part of the July 2019 Patch Tuesday release, which also saw the remediation of 75 other vulnerabilities across Microsoft products.

By Michael Heller • July 10, 2019

Support Hyper-V security with these important protocols

A virtual environment's security can make the difference when it comes to malicious attacks, preventing unauthorized OS or firmware codes from running at boot time.

By Stefani Muñoz • July 10, 2019

VM automation strategies and benefits for sizable workloads

Before automating VMs, admins must consider several factors, such as workload size and cost efficiency. Otherwise, automated VMs can cause issues rather than yield benefits.

By Stefani Muñoz • July 10, 2019

Don’t neglect your IT architect skills in public cloud projects

Public cloud infrastructure is beyond the veil for IT admins: unknown and untouchable. But depending on the deployment -- and the cloud -- admins still have architecture to manage.

By Alastair Cooke • July 9, 2019

How to deal with the on-premises vs. cloud challenge

Some tools and applications aren't a good fit outside of the data center. Try these tactics to cope as more tools and application vendors start to migrate to the cloud.

By Brian Kirsch • July 9, 2019

How to manage Windows with Puppet

Administrators can modernize their organization's management model for both Linux and Windows operating systems with Puppet, a code-based tool, and available community support.

By Dan Franciscus • July 3, 2019

Try these PowerShell networking commands to stay connected

Ping has its place, but PowerShell gives you a way to dive deeper into a networking issue when a server drops its connection or starts to drop packets.

By Adam Bertram • July 3, 2019

Use Puppet Bolt to simplify configuration management

Bolt, Puppet's cross-platform automation tool, is designed to minimize the learning curve for ops teams, but users still need to grasp its primary commands and elements.

By Dan Franciscus • July 3, 2019

Kubernetes security tool gives IT a leg up on DevSecOps

An emerging real estate firm tasked with DevSecOps sought an assist from startup Alcide, which bakes Kubernetes security best practices into its software.

By Beth Pariseau • July 2, 2019

Elastic SIEM woos enterprises with cost savings

Elastic SIEM gains interest from former Splunk users, with the promise of cost savings and the prospect of centralized security analytics and IT monitoring data repositories.

By Beth Pariseau • July 1, 2019

5 DevSecOps interview questions employers are likely to ask

To land that DevSecOps dream job, prepare to answer questions not only about specific IT and security tools, but about DevOps team culture as a whole.

By Stephen Bigelow • July 1, 2019

An ITSM tool comparison for enterprises with an eye on AI

All AI-enabled ITSM tools aim to streamline and automate IT operations, but buyers must make the right selection to get the most out of these products.

By Doug Tedder • June 28, 2019

Exchange Online vs. Office 365: Which plan is a better fit?

A switch from Exchange Server to Exchange Online might make financial sense, but it might not fit the needs of your organization. Here are some common migration mistakes to avoid.

By Reda Chouffani • June 28, 2019

How to copy files to Windows containers

Once you've deployed Windows containers in your production environment, you can start copying data and files to them using one of three methods, depending on file type and location.

By Nirmal Sharma • June 28, 2019