August 26, 2013
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Everyone uses virtualization, but almost no one talks about benchmarking it. It’s easy to understand why. It’s hard to do. Fortunately, the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), recently released a new benchmark for datacenter-level virtualization, SPECvirt_sc2013. New virtualization benchmark for … Continue reading
August 25, 2013
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Anyone who pays any attention to Web servers knows that Apache is the most popular Web server. What only professional Web developers and administrators know is that Nginix, a high-performance, open-source Web server, is battling with Microsoft’s Internet Information Services … Continue reading
August 25, 2013
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Chef and Puppet are great Development/Operations (DevOps) cloud programs. But say you want something even easier, at an even higher level, to set up and manage your cloud. Is there such a program? Well, yes, yes there is: Canonical, best … Continue reading
August 22, 2013
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On a regular basis I use five different Linux different distributions. Over the decades, I’ve used pretty every much every major Linux distribution out there… and I haven’t even touched more than 10% of all available Linux distributions. If I, … Continue reading
August 22, 2013
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Not that there was ever much doubt in the last few days about Canonical failing to make its crowd-sourcing goal for the Ubuntu Edge, but now it’s official. There will be no Ubuntu Edge. While Canonical raised $12.8-million on Indiegogo … Continue reading
August 20, 2013
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Sauce Labs, an Internet software testing and development company, specializes in automated testing for mobile and Web applications by delivering a test environment that accommodates over 150 browsers, operating systems, and device platforms. In the course of all that testing … Continue reading