Don't get me wrong: The command line will always be important to sysadmins. But in many ways, it's being superseded by DevOps tools such as Ansible, Chef, and Puppet.

What happens when you can’t reach a website you rely on? These online resources help you find out if a site you are trying to browse is down.

No, containers are not small virtual machines. So, what are they? Well, let me tell you.

Is that service still running? What application is using that TCP port? These questions and more can be answered easily by sysadmins who know simple Linux commands. @Enterprisenxt

Who doesn't want to save money, development, and deployment time?

Learn which DevOps events are must-attend and which might be worth considering.

It's hard to predict how different sysadmins jobs will be in the coming years. But here are some guidelines gathered during a sysadmin career spanning more than three decades.

IT Ops teams that create a new deployment model based on containers can point the way to new efficiencies.

Rob Hiltbrand, director of IT at The Liberty Group, shared valuable lessons he learned during his company's transition to cloud services. Simply put: Things didn't always go as planned.

As we mentioned in the previous article, web browsers present the largest and the most exposed attack surface on your Linux workstation.

What are tech workers' heart's desires? Consider how many of them you could implement in your shop, and make the staff's dreams come true.

Mastering the cloud is a lot easier with the DevOps program Chef in your kitchen.

It’ll make you think twice about hitting the delete key

I’ve been consulting on cloud migrations and deployments for a while now. Along the way, I’ve seen lots of mistakes made. Mea culpa: I’ve made some of them myself. Don’t be like me, or a lot of companies. Avoid these five blunders and you’ll be much better off.

The latest Windows 10 insider build brings a change that puts the Windows PowerShell in the spotlight, as it replaces the super-popular Command Prompt in some essential parts of the operating system.

MariaDB is a database growing in popularity. Its lead developer is Michael “Monty” Widenius, who was part of the team that created MySQL. When MySQL was acquired by Oracle, Widenius and some of the other original MySQL developers decided to launch MariaDB as a fork of MySQL and keep it as open source to mitigate …

Ingenious IT staff banish hapless callers to on-hold Hades with Extension 666

A call for a radical new protocol for updating software, before I have to hurt somebody.

Rasky is a low cost open source (hardware and software) KVM over IP built on top of the well known RaspberryPI model 2B featuring VGA video capture, USB keyboard and mouse emulation, remote control both by web (ajax VNC) and VNC, remote relay switches and digital inputs.