IT Administration

Zoho Offers Free SaaS Apps to Combat Coronavirus Spread

Mike Vizard | March 6, 2020 | collaboration, coronavirus, productivity applications, project management, remote workers, SaaS, software as a service

Zoho today announced it is making available for free a bundle of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications dubbed Remotely through July 1. Raju Vegesna, chief evangelist for Zoho, said Remotely is a humanitarian gesture ...

Quest Software Expands MDM Cloud Reach

Mike Vizard | March 3, 2020 | IT management, KACE Cloud, MDM, mobile device management

Quest Software today extended the reach of its mobile device management (MDM) service to provide more granular control over mobile devices and applications in addition to being able to track their location ...

OpsRamp Adds Recommendation Engine to AIOps Platform

Mike Vizard | March 2, 2020 | AIOps, artificial intelligence, IT operations, Predictive Analytics

OpsRamp added a recommendation engine to its artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) platform that makes use of predictive analytics to suggest potential actions to either improve performance or avert downtime. The ...

Rackn Extends Reach of IT-as-Code Framework

Mike Vizard | February 27, 2020 | automation, bare-metal infrastructre, infrastructure as code, IT management, virtualization

Rackn announced the Digital Rebar platform it created to automate the provisioning of bare-metal infrastructure now can be applied simultaneously across multiple physical sites. Company CEO Rob Hirschfeld said Digital Rebar 4.3 ...

Dell Pushes Computing to the Edge

Mike Vizard | February 18, 2020 | analytics, data streaming, edge computing, hardware, software

Dell Technologies today set its sights on becoming a major edge computing player with the launch of a Dell EMC PowerEdge XE2420 server optimized for space-constrained environments and a smaller version of ...

Veeam Updates Backup and Recovery Platform

Mike Vizard | February 18, 2020 | backup, backup and recovery, data backup, data protection

Veeam today announced the general availability of version 10 of the Veeam Availability Suite, which, among more than 150 enhancements, adds support for network-attached storage (NAS) systems, additional ransomware protection via an ...

SaltStack Updates Enterprise IT Automation Framework

Mike Vizard | February 13, 2020 | devops, devsecops, framework, it automation, IT operations, third-party code

SaltStack has partnered with Tenable.io to make it possible to pull vulnerability data into the enterprise edition of its namesake IT automation framework. In addition, version 6.2 of SaltStack Enterprise now integrates ...

Teradici Brings Virtual Desktops to Azure Stack

Mike Vizard | February 11, 2020 | Azure cloud, Hybrid IT, remote desktop protocol, virtual desktops

Teradici announced today it has made its Cloud Access Software (CAS) available on Microsoft Azure Stack, the version of the cloud operating system that Microsoft makes available for on-premises servers. Ziad Lammam, ...

Tips for Modern IT Admins’ Career to the Cloud

Rajat Bhargava | February 4, 2020 | IT administration, IT administrators, IT careers, IT professionals

Fifteen years ago IT professionals experienced a drastically different day-to-day on the job. While the main mission has always remained constant—to take charge of all internal infrastructure—the infrastructure itself has moved off-premises ...

HashiCorp Tools Bridge DevOps, Legacy IT Environments

Mike Vizard | July 10, 2019 | application development, automation, devops, IT administration, IT infrastructure management, IT operations, legacy IT

At its HashiConf EU 2019 conference this week, HashiCorp extended the reach of its Terraform Enterprise tools for automating the management of IT infrastructure beyond the realm of DevOps into legacy IT ...