Mission Critical IT - can you afford it?
by Mark Burgess - August 22, 2011
CFEngine is an inexpensive life-support system for complex and mission critical IT infrastructure...
Every year the world spends billions on risk avoidance -- safety and backup equipment, security systems and even insurance policies against loss and liability. For many of us, the risk of serious loss is quite small (though still sufficient to keep insurance companies in business) but in some industries the consequences of loss are so serious that even a small risk is unacceptable.Test Driven System Administration
by the editor - February 03, 2011
CFEngine has been at the forefront of innovation in Configuration Management since the start of the 1990s, and Cfengine's CTO and Founder Mark Burgess has been writing a lot about the history of those ideas as well as the vision of configuration management going forward
Loosening Orion's Belt -- Cfengine's Orion Cloud Pack
by the editor - December 21, 2010
Cfengine's Orion Cloud Pack was originally conceived to make the use of the EC2 Cloud simple for users of CFEngine (see the demo), but the techniques that make Cloud Computing simple are not at all limited to that. With powerful configuration management, it really doesn't matter where you do your computing.
Facebook 'likes' Cfengine!
by the editor - June 24, 2010
CFEngine has played a major role in allowing Facebook to scale from
one dormroom server to the largest datacenters of the world. Tom Cook
explained it all with high velocity.
CFEngine in your phone
by the editor - June 21, 2010
GNU/Linux is taking over the embedded device market, bringing Open
Source flexibility and superior Unix management techniques to
distributed, partially connected, and nomadic environments. Associate
Professor Erik Hjelmås of Gjøvik University College in Norway has been
experimenting with the latest CFEngine on a Nokia N900 mobile
phone.