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Breathe New Life into Your Devices: Prepare for Windows 7 End of Life

Datavail

Microsoft can’t afford to continue to maintain an outdated version of their operating system. It wouldn’t be economically feasible for Microsoft to maintain two versions of their operating system. As of January 14, 2020 Windows 7 will become the Frankenstein of operating systems. Cybersecurity Risks.

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16 best entry-level IT certifications to launch your career

CIO

Popular entry-level certification options from CompTIA include: CompTIA A +: Designed for support specialists, field technicians, desktop support analysts, and help desk support; validates your ability to troubleshoot and solve problems with networking, operating systems, mobile devices, and security.

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Bastion Host: What Is It and Do You Really Need It?

Mentormate

That takes significant effort from a system administration perspective. Before using Session Manager, we need to ensure that the Operating System is supported. As of today Amazon Linux, Amazon Linux 2, CentOS 6.0+, Oracle Linux 7.5+, RHEL 6.0+, SLES 12+/15+, Ubuntu 12.04 Observe the prerequisites.

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Change Management Is Here To Stay

taos

Senior Technical Consultant From a systems administrator perspective, change management can be challenging. You are ready to resolve an issue, patch a system, or otherwise improve the state of a server, but you must first submit a change record for approval. The auditors must be appeased and the systems must be compliant.

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Technology Trends for 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

It’s now used in operating systems (Linux kernel components), tool development, and even enterprise software. We’ve said in the past that Linux is table stakes for a job in IT. Hardening, a much smaller topic that addresses making systems less vulnerable to attack, grew 110%. Finally, compliance is down 27%.

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DevOps: Principles, Practices, and DevOps Engineer Role

Altexsoft

For a long time, development and operations were isolated modules. Developers wrote code; the system administrators were responsible for its deployment and integration. but they don’t include whole operating systems, only the minimum required resources. That was fine when Waterfall development dominated.

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