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Topics that concern LISA are fairly stable from year to year. Configuration management, storage options, security, cloud computing (particularly with Xen), IPv6, customer relations, and a bit of NoSQL formed the pillars of the program.

Andy Oram http://www.praxagora.com/andyo/ Topics that concern LISA are fairly stable from year to year. Configuration management, storage options, security, cloud computing (particularly with Xen), IPv6, customer relations, and a bit of NoSQL formed the pillars of the program. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/sysadmin/~4/UcTTJq6S2_U" height="1" width="1"/> http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/12/usenixs-lisa-still-for-system.html tag:radar.oreilly.com,2011://57.47418 2011-10-28T19:54:02Z 2011-10-28T19:54:02Z

CFEngine is a surprisingly flexible and fast tool for distributed configuration management. A new version was released this week.

Andy Oram http://www.praxagora.com/andyo/ CFEngine is a surprisingly flexible and fast tool for distributed configuration management. A new version was released this week. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/sysadmin/~4/ubpjNsd4b-A" height="1" width="1"/> http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/10/whats-new-in-cfengine-3-making.html tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2010://53.40258 2010-07-14T23:32:48Z 2010-07-14T23:32:48Z

Help define the most useful reports from log data.

Anton Chuvakin http://www.chuvakin.org Help define the most useful reports from log data. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/sysadmin/~4/grkwvbbPjOA" height="1" width="1"/> http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2010/07/most-useful-reports-based-on-l.html tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2010://53.39775 2010-04-29T22:22:24Z 2010-04-29T22:22:24Z

Making sense out of all of the components of cloud computing confuses even many of the major analysts. It's easy to understand how Google, Amazon, or SalesForce.com fit into the picture. But who is Eucalyptus and what do they do? Does CohesiveFT compete with enStratus or does it complement enStratus? And what is this vCloud thing anyway?

George Reese Making sense out of all of the components of cloud computing confuses even many of the major analysts. It's easy to understand how Google, Amazon, or SalesForce.com fit into the picture. But who is Eucalyptus and what do they do? Does CohesiveFT compete with enStratus or does it complement enStratus? And what is this vCloud thing anyway? <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/sysadmin/~4/KK40xt-fLrE" height="1" width="1"/> http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2010/04/understanding-the-cloud-landscape.html tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2010://53.39203 2010-02-24T13:07:52Z 2010-02-24T13:07:52Z

About 2 weeks ago, I put in my notice at Internet Broadcasting, setting out for things bigger and better. In the meantime I've been reviewing projects, contacting vendors, and updating documentation. While I've been doing that other administrators are secretly...

Chris Josephes About 2 weeks ago, I put in my notice at Internet Broadcasting, setting out for things bigger and better. In the meantime I've been reviewing projects, contacting vendors, and updating documentation. While I've been doing that other administrators are secretly... <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/sysadmin/~4/74L6_F1lHaM" height="1" width="1"/> http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2010/02/the-final-brain-dump.html tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.38338 2009-10-29T11:55:54Z 2009-10-29T11:55:54Z

A recent Wal-Mart intrusion story inspired me to summarize the most egregious, reckless, painful, negligent, sad, idiotic examples of failures with logs and logging - "Top Log FAIL." I am pretty sure that esteemed readers of SysAdmin Blog would never, ever do anything of that sort.

Anton Chuvakin http://www.chuvakin.org A recent <a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/walmart-hack/">Wal-Mart intrusion story</a> inspired me to summarize the most egregious, reckless, painful, negligent, sad, idiotic examples of failures with logs and logging - "Top Log FAIL." I am pretty sure that esteemed readers of SysAdmin Blog would never, ever do anything of that sort. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/sysadmin/~4/TdQBx03xVnM" height="1" width="1"/> http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/10/top-log-fail.html tag:news.oreilly.com,2008://44.26392 2008-08-13T03:20:49Z 2008-08-13T03:20:49Z

Last month I went camping with a couple of tech buddies that also share a love of horses and riding. One of the more interesting campfire discussions that came up was the parallels between deploying a server, and starting...

Chris Josephes Last month I went camping with a couple of tech buddies that also share a love of horses and riding. One of the more interesting campfire discussions that came up was the parallels between deploying a server, and starting... <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/sysadmin/~4/Km7EcK9GLSA" height="1" width="1"/> http://news.oreilly.com/2008/08/your-new-server-the-first-30-d.html tag:news.oreilly.com,2008://44.25318 2008-08-11T13:00:01Z 2008-08-11T13:00:01Z

Luke Kanies, author of the Puppet configuration management tool, discusses how to fix what's wrong with system administration and why shell scripts and ssh are the wrong tools to keep your systems up to date.

chromatic Luke Kanies, author of the Puppet configuration management tool, discusses how to fix what's wrong with system administration and why shell scripts and ssh are the wrong tools to keep your systems up to date. <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/sysadmin/~4/d40A8_a1XIo" height="1" width="1"/> http://news.oreilly.com/2008/08/luke-kanies-wants-to-modernize.html