It's not always the best tool for the job, but if you need to get a backup into the cloud quickly and easily, rsync might do the trick. Charlie Schluting steps you through how to build a script to do just that.

Opinion: Like it or not, admins in Microsoft shops have some things a lot easier than their Unix and Linux counterparts. Maybe it's time for us to borrow a page from Redmond's book and start integrating a little more tightly.

Do you feel like you're spending more time fighting Linux than using it to provide reliable network services? There are some common sense steps you can take to restore harmony to your relationship with Tux.

Chip vendor Cavium now owns MontaVista Linux. What does it mean for the embedded Linux pioneer?

NIC bonding with Linux is simple, once you understand all your choices and their limitations.

There are lots of businesses built around free and open source software. Why should you give them any money?

Scaling IT systems either breeds high levels of automation to make the infrastructure manageable, or it ends up breeding a huge mess. Here are five signs that you need to mend your ways.

Still dithering about Sun's high-performance filesystem? Here are ten reasons to give it a look today.

LinuxCon 2009 represented the Linux Foundation's first big-tent technical conference. Did it deliver on its promise to innovate, or will OSCON remain at the top of the open source conference heap?

While it can't make you an instant Asterisk expert, Digium's Asterisk Fast Start training course will give you a grounding in this popular open source PBX running on Linux.

Have your storage needs gone beyond a few lines of rsync scripting? With a combination of Amazon's cloud services, DRDB and Linux you can craft a resilient storage solution.

Likewise says its Samba competitor allows Linux and Mac clients to participate as full citizens in Active Directory environments.

What do you do when your Samba users are seeing "permission denied" more often than they see their files? For starters, go back to the drawing board ... literally. Next, get back to the basics with Unix and Linux file permissions.

Setting up your own Asterisk installation isn't for the faint of heart, but the savings you can reap from combining the powerful, open source PBX with Linux are worth the effort. Here's a quick guide to getting your own Asterisk install up and running.

Tired of being nagged about making room for Macs on your enterprise network? We have good news: You don't have to. Commodity PCs and Linux have seen to that.