Living Dangerously With Crypto In the Assimilation Project – Part 3
In this article, we talk in more detail about the Assimilation Project's reliable UDP protocol, our decision to avoid session keys, factors influencing our initial choice of crypto libraries, and touch...
View ArticleHow IT Administrators get better by contributing to Open Source Projects
I've been asked to give the keynote address at the 2015 Cascadia IT conference. For my keynote, I'd like to tell stories of their contributions - large and small - and how they helped and how they were...
View ArticleSimplicity Is King
We fill our lives with things designed to make them easier... In many cases, these things we get to make our lives easier wind up making it more complex. Nowhere is this more apparent than in IT. We...
View ArticleThe IT Zombie Apocalypse is Here!
Although this article and title are a bit tongue-in-cheek, the reality behind the title is serious. In the average data center, 30% of their servers are mainly space heaters [they had their brains...
View ArticleOhio LinuxFest Assimilation Presentations
Last weekend, I had the honor of giving the opening keynote on Friday at the 2015 Ohio LinuxFest and a session presentation on the Assimilation project the next day. Both talks were very well-received,...
View ArticleThree Simple Network Best Practices
In this article, we look at three simple network best practices that apply to every network - explain how to detect them, what the consequences are, and how to fix them. The post Three Simple Network...
View ArticleBufferbloat: A Network Best Practice You’re Probably Doing Wrong
You may have heard of bufferbloat, but even many good network admins have not. If you haven’t changed settings to avoid it, then you aren’t doing it right. But what is it, why should you care, and what...
View ArticleAssimilation Release 1.1.2 “Happy 2016” is out!
On January 2nd we put out version 1.1.2 of the Assimilation System Management Suite - the Happy 2016 release. This release adds enhancements related to best practice analyses and adds support for...
View ArticleSystem Management Survey
If you manage, secure, or plan for IT environments or DevOps, we’d love for you to take our System Management survey. Right now, we’re busy planning on how to make the Assimilation Suite better in...
View ArticleAssimilation Release 1.1.3 (“Leap Day”) is now out!
We just put out a new Assimilation release with a few bug fixes, and a few new features. The new features center around visualization, security, with even more emphasis on helping you "eat the...
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