Administration, interoperability and integration

More on Samba4 alpha1…

A Samba4 update from Andrew Bartlett hit my Inbox this morning with an overview of all the new features.

NEW FEATURES ============ Samba4 supports the server-side of the Active Directory logon environment used by Windows 2000 and later, so we can do full domain join...

Samba 4.0.0 alpha1 available for download

If I had a klaxon I'd be sounding it right now, because there's some Samba 4 news to bring to you this afternoon. No, not Samba 3 -- 4.0! It's a rare treat, and one that we haven;t had the pleaause of digesting for quite a while now. Via the

Samba 3.0.25c Available for Download

It's always a fun morning when the Samba team fires off another stable production release of their namesake open source project. Today, Samba's Jerry Carter mailed the Samba mailing list with an update on 3.0.25c -- it's available!

This is the latest production release of the Samba...

LinuxWorld 2007 decompression

So another LinuxWorld Conference and Expo has come and gone -- but what's this?! Where's the Linux?! Sure, it was there in sessions on interoperability between Linux and Windows; and in Novell...

Will new Krugle code-finding appliance be cool?

Meeting people who develop new products and start up companies is a fun thing to do at a show. AT LinuxWorld 2007 in San Francisco this week, I talked with Laura Merling of Krugle Inc. about Krugle Enterprise Appliance, which is in beta now and heading for release within weeks.  Krugle has made...

Accelerating the progress of Linux in the enterprise

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/t-ay9sEo-ZU" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] In case you missed the Novell keynote with Ron Hovsepian, here's a quick recap in video form. The theme? Accelerating the progress of Linux in the enterprise. You can catch our...

Linux backup: Seven backup dos and don’ts

Ready for some quick tips? Here are six best practices for handling backup, compliments of Anthony Johnson, president and CEO of Storix Inc.

• Do get a full-system backup, not just your data.
• Do verify your backups.
• Do encrypt your backup data.
• Do always test...

‘Big Four’ systems management vendors ripe for open source shake-up

A new research report from the New York-based 451 Group has found that the 'Big Four' systems management vendors -- BMC, HP, IBM and CA -- are "ripe for a shake-up from open source systems management players." In the past 18 months, open source options in the systems management space have grown to...

10 IT system monitoring best practices

Here are 10 best practices for system monitoring that Javier Soltero, CTO of Hyperic Inc., has seen succeed in his years in IT.

1. Define what it means for a given resource -- a...