Beside providing a “surgical strike” response to an attack, network configuration management systems enable easy evaluation of collateral impact. For example, if the primary option is to block a ...

I was proudly wearing one of my Salt Stack shirts the other day when my daughter asked me, "What is Salt Stack?" I began by explaining the problem it solved. If you have multiple servers and want to ...

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The frenzy of activity triggered by a network attack requires a new approach to threat management, one that makes the network and its resources a partner in its own defense and allows security and ...

High-performance computing (HPC) for the past ten years has been dominated by thousands of Linux servers connected by a uniform networking infrastructure. The defining theme for an HPC cluster lies in ...

As state and local agencies accelerate cloud adoption, security and compliance issues increasingly stem not from missing ...