There's a fundamental problem in software documentation, how do you present all the relevant materials while including all of the potential scenarios? We've all experienced installation guides that give us no actual workflow for installing the product. We started on one path, followed a tangent to another end, came back around to a third point before delving into some other special case. Then we move on to the next button, option or widget. At the end, we still have to cobble together the right sections to build the workflow, hoping we understood the key concepts. Read More »

In this week's Technically News: Students Face Cyber War Game with NSA Hackers; Red Hat’s “PaaS Queen” on OpenStack; 6 Steps to Secure Systems for Sequester; SolarWinds’ Firewall Security Manager Reviewed; DLT Solutions Finds Promise in State & Local Work. Read More »

tl;dr: DB and RPM storage are the big system design concerns, not memory or OS install. Average channel size is up to 15K packages at 250KB per, meaning 3.5GB of DB table space per channel. Actual RPM storage is about 30GB per channel. Make sure you can grow each partition easily. Read More »

I'll be posting a series of articles on tips, tricks and considerations on Red Hat's RHN Satellite system life-cycle management tool. Each new post will get a link here, so they'll be easy to find. I'll be putting things I've learned from my own mis-steps, inside track from friends inside Red Hat, and perspectives gained from talking with others who work with RHN Satellite on a daily basis. Read More »

Red Hat released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 last Thursday. I want to make you aware of an upstream behavioral change that could cause authentication and other issues. The credit for this goes to a customer and friend who called me after updating to RHEL 6.4 to fix a kernel problem they were hitting. Read More »

In this edition: Red Hat’s Big Data Strategy; NetApp’s FlashRay to Disrupt Enterprise Storage; Federal IT at “High Risk”; Open Data Success Requires Streamlining and Standardization; The Case for Paying for Open Source. Read More »

In this edition: Cloud Superstars Have Their Heads in the Cloud; Why You Should Pay for Open Source Software; Identity Management Is Complicated; Converged Infrastructure is the Future of Data Centers; Red Hat’s Jim Whitehurst Looks 20 Years Into the Future; 12 IT Predictions from the Federal Government. Read More »

In this edition: DLT Solutions Adds AWS GovCloud To Its Cloud Services; NIST Wants Your Advice on Cybersecurity Document; Red Hat Embraces BYOD; Steps for Protecting Your Data Center After Virtualization; State of the Union to Discuss Cybersecurity. Read More »

In this edition: Symantec Statement Regarding New York Times Cyber Attack; Red Hat's Top 10 IT Predictions for 2013; State & Local Turn to a New CIO: Chief Innovation Officer; Pentagon Expanding Cybersecurity Force to Protect Networks Against Attacks Read More »

In this edition: Symantec to Rely on Partners After Restructuring; Touchdown! NetApp & The Super Bowl Partner; Autodesk and NASA Developing New Technology; Red Hat Uses ManageIQ Acquisition to Further Cloud Offerings Read More »