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Evolving Strategies in Platform Operations: Harnessing Automation and DevOps for Enhanced Efficiency and Reliability

KineticData

Containerization allows us to abstract the operating system that our application runs on into the “container” that the application is running in, as well as any related dependencies. With myriad options available, select what best fits your team’s needs and budget.

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CIOs Need To Realize That Virtualization Isn't All That It's Cracked Up To Be (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

The ability to mash together a bunch of different expensive individual servers and shrink the company’s IT footprint down by a factor of 5x while reducing power and cooling costs at the same time sure seems to be a miracle cure for IT budget problems. Guess what: this isn’t Hogwarts and you’re not Harry Potter.

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Technology Short Take #27

Scott Lowe

If you’re interested in learning more about OpenFlow and software-defined networking but need to do this on a shoestring budget in your home lab, a number of guides have been written to help out. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s hoping you find something useful! Networking. Ben Armstrong shows how here.

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