Making changes to your existing infrastructure is fraught with decisions. What's the best way to consolidate servers? How can we better manage the resources we have? How will the changes we're planning impact service and performance?

"The Cloud Computing Revolution will be regulated, according to former Federal Communications Chairman (FCC) Reed Hundt. [...] Hundt closes by claiming that Carr's book - wrong or right - will trigger a much needed public debate about how much regulation the "Internet’s next phase of evolution" needs..."

Many researchers who are doing performance evaluation and benchmarking need to capture the values of the CPU and the RAM. Others might need to capture the throughput as well. In this short tutorial I will show how I capture the CPU and RAM values from “top” and then extract them in one line command.

Drupal is a modular content management system. It allows a user or group of users to construct Web sites, blogs, or forums by providing the framework for users with little or no PHP or database experience. It grows more popular with each new release because it becomes easier to use each new release. Drupal 6.0 (and 6.1) were recently released after a year of development.

Every two years, Canonical prepares an LTS (Long Term Support) release of one of the best desktop Linux distributions available today... This article is here to inform Ubuntu veterans, people that have discovered Ubuntu recently and future Ubuntu users, about the things that they should expect from Hardy Heron, in April 2008!

When it comes to IT, a lot more people talk about system audits than actually do them (of course, this could also be said for backups and many other things). In the spirit of building a solid foundation, this month we'll look at five steps that you can take on any Linux distribution -- but using Fedora as the example -- to perform a quick security check.

The new version 4.0 of the document "Standards and Architectures for eGovernment Applications" (SAGA) by the German Ministry of the Interior now recommends ODF for text documents. In SAGA 3.0 ODF was listed as "under observation". Nice to see ODF being upgraded by the SAGA expert group!