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• Blaze a trail to Docker containers in five basic steps

  Containers are gaining steam in the cloud market with Docker leading the pack. To steer your application to containers, follow these five steps. Continue Reading

• Time to rebuild your IT infrastructure security policy

  The one constant in IT has always been security -- or a lack thereof. Don't wait to address security policy issues before it's too late. Continue Reading

• ChatOps puts code execution into the conversation

  With ChatOps, DevOps teams are finding they can integrate project communication with its execution -- more or less seamlessly. Continue Reading

• How to integrate IT infrastructure monitoring tools

  When done successfully, performance monitoring tool integrations enhance administrative insight and productivity across a busy data center. Continue Reading

• Next-gen DCIM software holds insights for data center groups

  From its roots in power and cooling, DCIM has emerged to provide IT, facilities and business leaders with unified monitoring of an entire technology infrastructure. Continue Reading

• Definitions to Get Started

  • AIOps (artificial intelligence for IT operations)
  • continuous deployment
  • container image
  • chaos engineering

  • hands-off infrastructure management
  • Ansible
  • Chef (software)
  • SaltStack

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• Migratory apps shape future of cloud application models

  With the ability to run anywhere, migratory apps maximize the value of hybrid cloud. But management and security hurdles must first be overcome.Continue Reading

• FirewallD

  FirewallD, also known as Dynamic Firewall, replaces Fedora's old firewall tool, iptables, and allows for easier configuration and interface.Continue Reading

• distributed applications (distributed apps)

  Distributed applications (distributed apps) are applications or software that runs on multiple computers within a network at the same time and can be stored on servers or with cloud computing.Continue Reading

• An Opscode Chef tutorial for beginners

  To use Chef in the data center, you'll find your administrator mind-set gradually opening up to the developer way of thinking. These tips and resources will accelerate the process.Continue Reading

• Here and there: Blending on-premises and cloud environments

  Data center technologies and strategies are evolving toward a blend of infrastructures that reside partly on-premises and partly in the cloud. More and more, IT shops are being asked to coordinate technology resources rather than simply control them...Continue Reading

• How to pick data center infrastructure management tools

  The rash of ever-changing DCIM vendors, the IT/facilities rift and other roadblocks make implementing DCIM a challenge. These tips get DCIM working in a real data center.Continue Reading

• mission-critical computing

  Mission-critical computing is the essential systems for which downtime would result in the failure of business operations.Continue Reading

• Internet of Things coming to an infrastructure near you

  The Internet of Things is coming to a data center near you. The "Things" of the IoT are devices that are already in place, and the concept of the IoT describes the increasing connectivity of all these Things, instrumented for specific purposes. ...Continue Reading

• Get started with software-defined network security

  Old ways of securing physical networks are giving way to logical techniques. The change in traffic to an East-West, data-center-centric, software-defined-network model necessitates a new security plan.Continue Reading

• mobile cloud applications

  A mobile cloud application is a software program that is designed to be accessed over the Internet by many types of portable computing devices.Continue Reading