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Password Security Myths If you haven't already heard, you should be writing down your passwords. Good password security practices don't dictate that you must remember everything. Why would you want to, and what is the best way to do this securely? These, and other important questions will be answered in this article. People have a tendency to pick horrible passwords. After all, it's something they know, and if they don't tell anyone, it's secure. Long, long ago passwords based on names or dictionary words were ousted as trivial to guess. Automated password guessing attempts run all the time. |
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Virtualize, and Streamline Disaster Recovery Like the fashion industry with its cyclical styles, the IT industry reinvigorates buzzwords, albeit in at a quicker pace. Ever since the latest round of hurricanes, Disaster Recovery is at the forefront of everyone’s mind again. With the widespread acceptance of virtualization, people are finally doing disaster recovery differently. In times past, true high-availability and disaster recovery meant purchasing two of everything. Not to mention a separate facility to house the carbon copies. Many companies became quite profitable selling their server cloning services, and most businesses decided that 100 percent immediate failover just wasn’t important. |
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Configuration Management for Linux and Unix What is configuration management, you ask? While some people would say that it is solely the act of “managing configuration files,” others believe it encompasses much more. Configuration management is necessary these days; there should be no question about that. We’ll talk about “why” and “what” in this article, and next week cover “how” with an introduction to a fairly new open source configuration management system, Puppet. |
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Does The Vendor Matter? The big hardware vendors all seem to be selling very similar low-end server hardware nowadays, but with varying features, prices, and capabilities. After experiencing a number of different Opteron and Xeon servers from various vendors, I started wondering what motivates customers to choose one over the other. Almost without exception, IT organizations feel most comfortable buying from a vendor they are used to dealing with. They understand how the technical support works, they are familiar with the different hardware warranties available, and most important, are familiar with the hardware itself. |
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Is a SAN Right For You? SAN (Storage Area Network) solutions were historically targeted at enterprise-grade consumers. With prices continually dropping, SAN storage is looking more and more attractive to budget-constrained operations. The technology is also changing, and there's some new and exciting terminology to learn. This article's goal is to provide a very light introduction to SAN technologies and bring to light some new options for medium-sized IT shops' storage needs. |
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