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Project Bluefin and the future of operating systems

InfoWorld

Not physically—it’s easy to add more boxes, more storage, and more “stuff” in that respect. The challenge with scale is getting your operations to work as intended at that level, and it starts with making sure you can build, deploy, and maintain applications effectively and efficiently as you grow.

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Solving the Speed Paradox With Open Source PaaS

DevOps.com

The number of DevOps tools keeps growing, as does the number of cloud resources and options to manage those resources. On EC2 alone, AWS offers nearly 400 instance types across storage, networking and operating systems. This proliferation […].

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MetalSoft aims to help manage server infrastructure through automation

TechCrunch

It’s tough in the current economic climate to hire and retain engineers focused on system admin, DevOps and network architecture. MetalSoft allows companies to automate the orchestration of hardware, including switches, servers and storage, making them available to users that can be consumed on-demand.

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SQL Server MDF to NDF Distribution

DevOps.com

Have you noticed that your SQL Server disk stall metrics for these data files are higher than the storage latency metrics exhibited on the underlying operating system? Do you have massive MDF files on your database? It could be that your SQL Server data files are being hammered too hard and you don’t have enough […].

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5 Principles of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)

Dzone - DevOps

Imagine a large-scale IT infrastructure made up of networks, databases, servers, storage, operating systems, and other elements. Traditionally, system administrators, often a dedicated team of specialists, manually performed these tasks as and when the need arose.

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Why Does Infrastructure as Code Matters for Your Business?

Dzone - DevOps

Thereby eliminating the dependency on developers to manually provision and manage servers, database connections, operating systems, storage, and other infrastructure elements every time new software or code is created.

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Free Courses at Linux Academy – November 2019

Linux Academy

DevOps Essentials. Students will learn by doing through installing and configuring containers and thoughtfully selecting a persistent storage strategy. DevOps Essentials. Looking for a basic introduction to the concept of DevOps? Here we go over what DevOps is and how it impacts IT in the real world. AWS Concepts.

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