Dan Franciscus | | IT Insights
Vagrant is an excellent tool used for testing out application deployments and scripts. It is lightweight, fast, and allows you to bring up environments quickly. Vagrant supplies several “provisioners” that allow boxes to be configured via shell script or using various...
Before sharing code with the external world, there are a few essential questions to consider.
Creating your own tools through PowerShell makes transferring content locally exponentially simpler. Here's how to do it yourself.
Containers are all the rage these days ever since Docker came on the scene and made containers available to us mere mortals. But how do you deploy, manage, and monitor all these containers? Meet Kubernetes, an open-source, container management service!
Don't let your entire workflow be hung up because one of the scripts is stuck on some task. There's a way around that!
In my previous article, I talked about the true costs of building an in-house IT Monitoring tool. Many organizations, of course, will consider several solutions before making an investment decision. The usual options are:
There are many different types of objects that we can work with in Python. Dates are one of those objects that are infamous in nearly every language. Date types are notoriously hard to wrangle but Python has quite a few ways to manipulate dates and time.
Dan Franciscus | | IT Insights
If your organization is serious about using Chocolatey as a means for Windows package management, then setting up your own internal package repository is a must.
Michael O'Dwyer | | IT Insights
Online privacy is a mythical creature not unlike the unicorn or Cyclops—we’ve all heard the tall tales, but we’ve never seen it in the wild. And we have only ourselves to blame. If we take governmental monitoring as a given and add the fact that U.S. ISPs can now...
Michael O'Dwyer | | IT Insights
If some comedians speculate that women only tolerate men only because replacement devices can’t buy them dinner, perhaps employers of the future will be as logical when allocating robotic resources to their workforce?
With so many available languages, knowing which one to choose for automation can be overwhelming. In our interview with Eric Chou from A10 Networks, we learn advantages of using Python Networking to automate tasks as engineers.
Michael O'Dwyer | | IT Insights
The prospect of spending more than $1,000 in cold hard cash on a smartphone seems ridiculous to many of us, but after the much-publicized release of the iPhone X, the prospect became a very real one.
Jeff Edwards | | Cloud | IT Insights
In 2018, it’s pretty obvious that Larry Ellison was wrong. The cloud is here to stay, so you'd better understand it, if you don't already.
Missy Januszko | | IT Insights
You turn on your computer. You navigate to your favorite IT blog, Defrag This, to read about what’s new in the world of technology. Select one of the articles to read:
Adam Bertram | | File Transfer | IT Insights
It's easy to copy files with PowerShell Copy-Item via the command line. Once you specify the source and destination location, it just happens. Unfortunately, many administrators don't think about how this process occurs until it doesn't work.
Adam Bertram | | IT Insights | Security
Large organizations typically have lots of devices that require IP addresses. Client desktops, tablets, mobile and desk phones, servers and more all consume IPs. The only way to manage IPs at this level is to use Microsoft Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP),...
Whenever you're building and maintaining infrastructure for your company or an open-source project, you're probably using Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Dan Franciscus | | IT Insights
Vagrant provides a solution for creating disposable and consistent environments, all within a single configuration file.
Cyber risk leads to financial risk, but cybersecurity is still often thought of as a technical rather than a business problem.
Increased use of cloud applications and other developments are transforming WAN implementations, improving security in the process.
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