According to InformationWeek, open source use is on the rise but management policies are not keeping pace. According to the survey, 44% said they were using more open source software than they were a year ago, with 32% saying they were using about the same, and 12% saying they were using less. So open source [...]
10 tips for sensible systems administration Benjamin Franklin: scientist, scholar, statesman, and . . . systems administrator? Yes, 200 years or so before the birth of UNIX®, Franklin scribed sage advice to keep systems humming.
Lots of people want to know, how does Google do it? I certainly don’t have the answers but here are some neat videos. * An enlightening look at the Google data center. * The Google server; an individual, battery supported uncovered tray, probably built to map and reduce.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt describes Twitter as a poor man’s email system. “In other words, they have aspects of an email system, but they don’t have a full offering. To me, the question about companies like Twitter is: Do they fundamentally evolve as sort of a note phenomenon, or do they fundamentally evolve to have [...]
Some software I wish I had time to play with: – EUCALYPTUS – Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems — is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing Elastic/Utility/Cloud computing using computing clusters and/or workstation farms. – oVirt is a small host image that provides libvirt service and hosts virtual machines [...]