15 essential open source tools for Windows admins

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	15 essential open source tools for Windows admins You might imagine that the best place to go for improving your Microsoft server-side experience is to the mothership itself. In many cases, you would be right. But the truth is there are a meaningful number of open source tools that go above and beyond what Microsoft has to offer in support of Windows Server, Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint. Read More WHITE PAPER: Xsigo Systems Virtual I/O Completes the Private Cloud This note looks at how virtualized I/O complements virtual servers with fabric architectures that virtualize connectivity to accelerate management. Benefits discussed include: increased VMs per server, infrastructure tasks completed in minutes not days, and 50% less capital expense. Read now. In this Issue MapR Makes Hadoop better, faster, easier Want to Build Your Community? Take Notes from the Django Project. 10Gen, Makers of MongoDB Raises Another 20m History lesson on cross-platform identity management WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Sainsbury's Safeguards Supply Chain for over 800 Stores Sainsbury operates the second largest online food retailer in the U.K. See their approach to gain better visibility to 1,800 devices and ensure high-availability of its network to safeguard the supply chain for over 800 stores and 100,000 online shoppers per week. Read now MapR Makes Hadoop better, faster, easier Continuing a look at the very hot Hadoop space, today I wanted to spotlight a new company that has made a big bang since coming out of stealth back in June of this year. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Service Assurance Defined This Forrester paper explains the concept of service assurance and highlights how it can address fundamental issues around managing application performance and business services. Learn More Want to Build Your Community? Take Notes from the Django Project. I first heard about the Django project a few years ago when I talked to a fellow attendee at an industry event in San Francisco. When I told him that I'm from Lawrence, Kansas, he replied, "That's where the Django project started." Read More WEBCAST: CA Technologies Business Service Assurance Define and manage IT service quality & delivery based on business impact and priority. View Now 10Gen, Makers of MongoDB Raises Another 20m There is probably no hotter space in the tech world today then the Big Data market. Read More History lesson on cross-platform identity management Tom Kemp is the CEO of Centrify, a company which -- at its core -- is about tying other platforms (Unix, Linux Macintosh, etc.) into Active Directory to centralize administration, which Tom refers to as "Active Directory Bridging." He's been practicing this bridging since founding Centrify in 2004 and has been working with AD since founding his previous company, NetIQ. He knows what he's talking about in regard to Active Directory. Read More
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