The server space is changing, bringing new opportunities for the agile admin. If you plan on taking up residence in the new data center, you'd better get your toolkit ready. This month we explore tools and techniques for data center and server room environments.

We show you some techniques for harnessing the benefits of cloud technology.

At a release party in Stuttgart, Germany, manufacturer Grau Data officially announced the release of its archiving software, ArchiveManager, as open source software.

Sun Microsystems has now come out with a series of Flash-powered servers and storage devices.

Configure and manage a network attached storage solution

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Michael "Monty" Widenius, long associated with MySQL, has decided to leave Sun Microsystems. His plan is to pursue open source software development again as an independent agent, and he also sees a future in gastronomy that should benefit all database developers.

Hardware manufacturer HP has released the source code for its Advanced File System (AdvFS), which it uses for the Tru64 Unix OS under the GPL, along with a Linux reference implementation.

Intel's 10GBit Ethernet adapters for servers can now run the Fibre Channel protocol over Ethernet connections.