HP makes its case that it will be a major software defined networking player and lead the charge in automation.

A majority of businesses will invest in health IT this year, but nearly as many are worried that they still won't be able to keep up.

One of the most important responsibilities of any administrator is to make regular backups. But unlike backing up regular data, backing up databases isn't a straightforward affair. Designing an effective strategy for taking backups of production MySQL servers depends on a lot of factors. 

Rock the Vote needed a way to manage the fast growth of the data handled by its Web-based voter registration application. The organization turned to GlusterFS replicated volumes to allow for filesystem size upgrades on its virtualized hosting infrastructure without incurring downtime. read more...