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Posts tagged "Cfengine"

Open Source Toolchains for Sysadmins

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Mark in Linux, LinuxToday, LinuxWorld, Open Source

In celebration of System Administrator Appreciation Day I published a story at Linux.com called Open Source Toolchains for Systems Administrators, here is an excerpt: “Software developers are very familiar with toolchains, series of programs where the output of one program forms the input for the next. A free software example would be using the GNU [...]

automation, Cfengine, Chef, Linux, Monitoring, opensource, Opscode, provisioning, Puppet, Systems Management, Zabbix, Zenoss No Comments Read More

Opscode, Turning Sysadmins into Superheroes

Posted on June 21, 2010 by Mark in Featured Articles, Linux.com, LinuxToday, LinuxWorld, Open Source, Systems Management

For the last few years I have had an interest in configuration management of IT infrastructure. While by no means an expert I have a considerable amount of experience with the problems associated with mass server configuration and have come to believe it also one of the most under-served disciplines in systems management. In a previous [...]

Cfengine, Chef, Configuration Management, Iaas, Open Source, Opscode, PaaS, Puppet, Systems Management 5 Comments Read More

VMware,”Hey what ya’ building over there?”

Posted on January 5, 2010 by Mark in Cloud Computing, LinuxToday, LinuxWorld, Open Source, Technology, Virtualization

Today I caught a tweet from Kara Swisher referencing some exclusive news she posted on Boomtown about VMware’s upcoming deal to buy Zimbra from Yahoo! This is would be VMware’s second acquisition of an open source ISV in under a year. In August 2009 VMware acquired open source java vendor SpringSource that not only developed [...]

Cfengine, Cloudera, Covalent, Hyperic, MapReduce, MariaDB, Open Source, Opscode, Puppet, Reductive Labs, Spring Source, VMware, Zimbra No Comments Read More
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