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Why You Should Use Windows Subsystem for Linux

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) allows you to run Linux distributions on recent versions of Windows 10 and Windows 2016 systems.

How Best To Protect and Access Your Company's Data

As much as preserving our data matters, access to that data is equally important.

Microsoft Offers Tool to Simplify Kubernetes with Visual Studio

Kubernetes is increasingly becoming the tool of choice for container orchestration, to the point where Microsoft has announced a Kubernetes tool for use in its flagship IDE, Visual Studio.

BT Taps Cisco Tech for Managed SD-WAN Service

Communications firm BT has tapped Cisco technology to power a new global SD-WAN managed service designed to optimize network traffic with a software-defined overlay.

More Firms Join Open Source Networking Group

More communications firms are coming onboard with the open source networking organization launched earlier this year by The Linux Foundation.

SaaS Platform for Multi-Cloud Ops Adds AI Features

OpsRamp on Thursday announced the release of OpsRamp 5.0, its flagship software as a service (SaaS) platform for multi-cloud environments.

Scalr Hybrid Cloud Management Platform To Provide '360-Degree Visibility' for Multi-Cloud Environments

Scalr announced it will be expanding its Hybrid Cloud Management Platform (CMP) with advanced capabilities.

How To Create Amazon Elastic File Systems in AWS

AWS has made it relatively easy to create an Amazon EFS file system -- here's how to get started.

Q&A: What's New (and Coming!) in Windows Server 2019

From improved failover clustering and Storage Spaces to changes in containers and storage replica, Microsoft MVP Dave Kawula shares what's most useful (and what to watch for) in Windows Server 2019.

Data Storage 101: How To Determine Business-Critical App Performance Requirements

Measuring IOPS, latency and throughput are important for determining the characteristics of physical storage that’s added to a modern data fabric.

Hands-On with WSL: Background Jobs in Windows Subsystem for Linux 1803

Having processes that continue to run after all the WSL terminals are closed is a powerful feature that opens WSL to a wider range of workflows.

No-Cost Linux Foundation Course Explores Open Source SDN, NFV, More

The Linux Foundation will offer a free course serving as an introduction to modern, open source networking technologies including software-defined networking, network functions virtualization, disaggregation, orchestration, network automation and more.

SoftNAS Cloud 4 Aims To Deliver 'Cloud Storage Cost Savings'

General availability of SoftNAS Cloud version 4 was announced by Houston-based SoftNAS Inc. today.

How RPO and RTO Impact Business Continuity

All backups are not created equal. While having any backup is better than having no backup, the different approaches to backups can have dramatic effects on business continuity, should disaster strike.

What's New in the GA Release of Microsoft Windows Admin Center

Extension and Storage Spaces Direct support, plus some security changes are among some of the new features in the GA release of "Project Honolulu."

VMware and Okta Enter into New Partnership

The two companies announced their plans to integrate VMware Workspace ONE with Okta Identity Cloud.

How Do Amazon Speech Recognition Capabilities Stack Up?

Amazon Transcribe is used to create a written transcript of audio or video files that you upload.

Containerd Now Available as Runtime Option for Kubernetes

Enterprise users of the Kubernetes container orchestration system now have a new option for a container runtime: conatinerd.

Pivot3 Adds Disaster Recovery and Workload Mobility Support for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud

Pivot3 Intelligent Hybrid Cloud gets expanded disaster recovery and workload mobility capabilities.