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. “Velocity 2010 Conference” It’s June, at the Velocity 2010 conference in Santa Clara, California, and …
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 …
University of Oslo transforms desktops with CFEngine on Ubuntu CFEngine and Ubuntu go back to College Users at Oslo University will soon be offered the Ubuntu operating system on their laptops and desktop machines, and it will come with fully automated CFEngine management. The University of Oslo …
Zenoss is fast becoming a recognized leader for commercial open source monitoring. It offers a single model-based product to seamlessly manage physical, virtual and cloud based infrastructure. Its power lies in its flexible combination of network discovery and data presentation, and it makes an …
p>When Ubuntu LTS Server Edition made the radical decision to offer Long Term (five year) support for its server edition software, it sparked the potential to make a significant impact on data center management. Upgrading servers is one of the most disruptive operations in a data center because …
Cloud woes? CFEngine made its Orion Cloud Pack available last week, as a 1-2-3 quick-start for users of its CFEngine 3.0.x family of products. Continuing the astronomical theme of the company, the page sports the slogan “Get the cloud under Orion’s belt” – a reference to the …
Psyching yourself up for an upgrade to CFEngine 3? You’ve probably convinced yourself that it is harder than it is. CFEngine allows you to decide between high and low level approaches. High level often means simplistic or inefficient, but low level can be overwhelming – there is a …
The Netherlands are well known for pushing the boundaries of IT to support scientific initiatives. The Dutch Supercomputing Centre SARA (Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum) is one of the top 500 supercomputing sites in the world and has been an ardent CFEngine user for many years. In keeping with …
More players are beginning to realize the benefits of the kind of model-driven configuration thinking that CFEngine introduced in the 1990s. Today, this kind of pre-programmed, policy-based configuration and repair are becoming essential partners for the commoditization of computing services in the …
The Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre’s Earthquake Monitoring component at Geoscience Australia recently adopted CFEngine’s newest worldwide software release to radically simplify the management of their test and production real-time monitoring systems. With so many earthquake …
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