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NUC NUC. Who's there? It's Intel, with a pint-sized 8-core Xeon workstation

Review Oh mother! Broken compute board? Just slot a new one in
Personal Tech06 May 2020 | 39

*Thunk* No worries, the UPS should spin up. Oh cool, it's in bypass mode

This Damn War Power outage and no Plan B – hilarity ensues
On-Prem05 Apr 2018 | 105

You can survive the migration from Windows vCenter server

The promised land of VCSA – time to start packing
Virtualization05 Mar 2018 | 13

STOP! It's dangerous to upgrade to VMware 6.5 alone. Read this

Please don't be like the admin who failed to update PSC first
Virtualization25 Jan 2018 | 39

Stick to the script, kiddies: Some dos and don'ts for the workplace

Get your filthy, fallible hands out of filthy, fallible Github
On-Prem23 Nov 2017 | 66

Pesky users! They're always compromising endpoints! Security baked into silicon helps

Sponsored Intel chippery tech mitigates the most careless of workers
Security25 Sep 2017 |

Cloud may be the future, but it ain't all sunshine and rainbows

Learning lessons the hard way so you don't have to
SaaS21 Jun 2017 | 9

Cloud eye for the sysadmin guy: Get tooled up proper, like

How to weather the storm
SaaS06 Jun 2017 | 16

You deleted the customer. What now? Human error - deal with it

Blog To err is human, to double err is career limiting
On-Prem30 May 2016 | 67

Hacked in a public space? Thanks, HTTPS

Kali Linux, laptop, coffee - hack on!
Security20 May 2016 | 96

Big, fat fail? Here's how to avoid that: Microservices and you

Time to start acting 'small'
Devops16 Feb 2016 | 30

Photon taster: Flirting with VMware's CoreOS gambit

New frontiers in containers?
Virtualization15 Jan 2016 | 3

Working with Asperger's in tech: We're in this together

Comment Practical approach to behaving, saying and doing
On-Prem09 Nov 2015 | 77

Let’s hear it for data scientists! Making our lives more and more frictionless

And helping online floggers shift tat. If you want the rainbow …
Channel24 Sep 2015 | 14

Modernise and prosper: It's time to imbibe server orchestration

Live long by transporting what you know to a virtual environment
Devops11 Sep 2015 | 3

Attention sysadmins! Here’s how to dodge bullets in a post-Ashley Madison world

You've no time to get lazy
Security07 Sep 2015 | 69

Security for those who know they can't win the security war

Because nothing beats jail time. Or a spanner
Security27 Aug 2015 | 33

Windows 10 marks the end of 'pay once, use forever' software

Comment Welcome to Microsoft's pay-pay-pay plan
Channel31 Jul 2015 | 180

Run Windows 10 on your existing PC you say, Microsoft? Hmmm.

Believe it or not, torching existing stock and starting over may work out cheaper
Software15 Jul 2015 | 150

Summer breeze makes IT fine, blowing through sysadmins in my mind

Comment Taking a break from those never-ending help tickets
On-Prem09 Jul 2015 | 9

Goodbye Vulcan: Blighty's nuclear bomber retires for the last time

Grand old warhorse finally out to grass – last chance to see
Science01 Jul 2015 | 148

The wonderful madness of metrics: Different things to different folk

Or, how I learned to stop worrying and verify
On-Prem23 Jun 2015 | 14

Data AWOL? Thank God for backup. You backed up, right?

Exposing the hidden crisis of the virtual age
On-Prem18 Jun 2015 | 15

Virty servers' independence promise has been betrayed

The rise of the fake cluster - and management indifference
Virtualization08 Jun 2015 | 13

A world of conferences beckons for the Apple sysadmin

Which is right for you?
On-Prem07 May 2015 | 6

Excessively fat virtual worlds – come on, it's your guilty secret

Does my server look big in this?
On-Prem22 Apr 2015 | 10

Are YOU The One? Become a guru of your chosen sysadmin path

Deeper than training, knowing yourself
On-Prem17 Apr 2015 | 15

Learn yourself hireable: Top tips for improving your tech appeal

No time? No budget? No problem – get yourself skilled up
On-Prem13 Apr 2015 | 22

One day all this could be yours: Be Facebook, without being Facebook

The pros and cons of Open Compute
On-Prem30 Mar 2015 | 6

Sysadmins: Step away from the Big Mac. No more Heartbleed-style 2am patch dashes

6 steps to a saner patching regime
Security04 Mar 2015 | 12

Reg man confesses: I took my wife out to choose a laptop for Xmas. NOOOO

It may be a lovely orange but a Chromebook is NOT a PC
Personal Tech25 Dec 2014 | 142

Tough Banana Pi: a Raspberry Pi for colour-blind diehards

Review Wi-Fi? Check. SATA 2 port? Check. Screen - Ow, my eyes!
OSes28 Nov 2014 | 75

Social misfits and group interviews: Yup, it's the startup interview circuit

Why it's not always you who'll do the rejecting
OSes25 Nov 2014 | 6

Bang! You're dead. Who gets your email, iTunes and Facebook?

Death and the medium
SaaS19 Nov 2014 | 84

YOU are the threat: True confessions of real-life sysadmins

Who will save the systems from the men and women who save the systems from you?
Networks19 Nov 2014 | 75

Words to put dread in a sysadmin's heart: 'We are moving our cloud from Windows to Linux'

If you must pick Windows, pick early and stick
OSes10 Nov 2014 | 62

BYOD: don't let the dream turn into a nightmare

Take back control
Networks06 Nov 2014 | 30

Inside the EYE of the TORnado: From Navy spooks to Silk Road

Comment It's hard enough to peel the onion, are you hard enough to eat the core?
Legal29 Oct 2014 | 28

Make life easy for yourself when you move to the cloud

Know what you really, really want
SaaS17 Oct 2014 | 4

Keep a beady eye on your business's cloud service shopping

Don't let staff go crazy
Systems16 Oct 2014 | 3

Got your NUDE SELFIES in the cloud? Two-factor auth's your best bet for securing them

Infosec made simple: 2FA, its good points and bad points
SaaS16 Sep 2014 | 45

Pay to play: The hidden cost of software defined everything

Enter credit card details if you want that system you bought to actually be useful
Systems28 Aug 2014 | 76

You've been arrested for computer crime: Here's what happens next

The knock on the door you REALLY don't want to hear
Legal07 Nov 2013 | 158

Techies with Asperger's? Yes, we are a little different...

Solving fiendishly intricate tech problems? Love it. Office politics and subtext? No thanks
On-Prem08 Oct 2013 | 194

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