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Posted: May 8, 2013
by Curtis Collicutt, Cloud Developer, Edmonton

Curtis Collicutt tests various kernel settings on the performance of solid state drives.... Read the full post...

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Posted: April 17, 2013
by Curtis Collicutt, Cloud Developer, Edmonton

Curtis Collicutt describes doing two "boot storm" tests with 30 Windows 7 virtual machines, booting at 240 then 20 seconds apart, and watching the resulting IOPS use...... Read the full post...

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Posted: April 9, 2013
by Joe Topjian, Systems Administrator

Server virtualization is full of recursion. Joe Topjian looks at the components to explain how this works...... Read the full post...

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Posted: April 4, 2013
by Curtis Collicutt, Cloud Developer, Edmonton

"The more I work with cutting edge technology," writes Curtis Collicutt, "the more I find Internet Relay Chat to be helpful...."... Read the full post...

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Posted: April 2, 2013
by Joe Topjian, Systems Administrator

What happens when a complex system becomes so stable that the intricate inner workings can safely be ignored by the operator? Usually, the system is then marketed as a package....... Read the full post...

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Posted: March 28, 2013
by Meagan Hampel, Communications Manager

Meagan Hampel navigates the world of web management, learning to avoid sales tricks and online hoaxes...... Read the full post...

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Posted: March 18, 2013
by Luke Tymowski, Systems Administrator

Luke Tymowski outlines the many monitoring tools now available for network operators...... Read the full post...

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Posted: March 12, 2013
by Alvaro Pereira, Network Analyst

Think you know everything about domain name systems? There's still some important facts to learn, as Alvaro Pereira discovered at last month's NANOG...... Read the full post...

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Posted: March 7, 2013
by Joe Topjian, Systems Administrator

Joe Topjian describes the Book Sprint to create the first official OpenStack Operators Guide...... Read the full post...

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Posted: February 26, 2013
by Curtis Collicutt, Cloud Developer, Edmonton

Getting to know Chocolatey, an apt-get or yum-like software package manager --- for Windows!... Read the full post...