Posts tagged with "Infrastructure"

The Internet has changed greatly over 40 years but kept the same address system—learn how to prepare for IPv6 with practical guidance on addressing, applications, and security.

Kubernetes is a buzzword, but what does it actually do? Learn the good, the bad, and the complex—and whether your organization needs it.

Explore the high performance computing center network for a leadership class facility—learn about design challenges, performance limits, and monitoring in supercomputing networks.

The cloud is a game changer, but when is it better to keep systems in your office? Explore when on-prem makes sense and whether hybrid cloud is permanent or transitional.

What happens when cloud services become unreliable? Learn from Atlassian's incident that permanently deleted customer data and how to strengthen your infrastructure management.

We all know how to setup a website with GoDaddy, but how much do you really know? Learn how to over-engineer it with traditional IT concepts.

A high-level tour of blockchains from a sysadmin perspective—explore the tradeoffs, goals, and how these systems compare to traditional storage and execution systems.

Peek behind the curtain of containers—understand the fictions needed to create these stages and how different operating systems combine them into compelling reality.

Buying a domain is easy, but there's so much more—explore the intricacies of Domain Names and DNS, from ccTLDs to fun with TXT records.

What does HPC really mean? Explore the history, reasoning, and technical considerations of High Performance Computing—how it differs from enterprise IT and its future direction.

Discover phpIPAM, an open-source web-based IP management application—learn about installation, configuration, and benefits for Enterprise IT from a real-world internship project.

Explore ORNL's application that consolidates data from multiple management and security systems into a high-confidence repository—building a holistic view of devices in a dynamically changing landscape.

As Serverless and NoOps gain traction, this talk explores what these trends mean for careers built on server administration—and whether ops roles still have a future.

Dive into the evolving world of DevOps, cloud computing, and the shifting role of system administrators in an industry moving from pets to cattle.

Dive into the evolving world of DevOps, cloud computing, and the shifting role of system administrators in an industry moving from pets to cattle.

Software Defined Networking (SDN) is becoming a common buzzword alongside Agile Methodologies and Cloud Computing. We will discuss at a high level what SDN is and how it differs from traditional networking.

How we chose VMware over competing hypervisors, network and storage design, and growth issues to look out for.