An operating system that is designed for a server. Normally, it is a complete operating system with file, task and job management; however, with some earlier products, it was a separate component that ...

Today’s operating systems are more sophisticated and feature-rich than ever before, which makes them substantially more useful to the enterprise but also adds to security vulnerability—unless the ...

Networks may not be the most expensive thing in the datacenter – they typically comprise about 10 percent to 15 percent of the cost of a distributed system, including cables, transceivers, switches, ...

Diversity isn’t an issue just for human resources departments. These days, it’s a fact of life in most IT departments. Just ask Curt Allen, senior server architect at Central Maine Power Co. in ...

If the world doesn’t need another thing, one of those things that it doesn’t need is probably another switch operating system. Cisco Systems, Arista Networks, Juniper Networks, Big Switch Networks, ...

In this quick Linux tip, Sandra Henry-Stocker (author of the “Unix as a Second Language” blog on NetworkWorld) shows you how to use the rev command — a simple but fun tool that reverses text in your ...

Developers talk a lot about “immutability.” Outside the technical world, it usually means something negative: unmoving, inflexible, and entrenched. However, in the technical field, these features ...