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The human nervous system is one of the most complex systems in the human body. Though the nerves and brain are small in comparison with the mass of bones and muscles, without the work performed by the ...

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 ...

The concept of a configuration management system (CMS) is an idea whose time has come - particularly since the release of IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Version 3, known as V3. ITIL V3 devotes ...

Version control woes are still a real issue. Of course, control system integrators try to manage all the content associated with your projects, but sooner or later things can get out of hand and they ...

(1) In a network, a system for gathering current configuration information from all nodes in a LAN. (2) In software development, a system for keeping track of large projects. Although version control, ...

Every once in a while a product comes along that fundamentally alters your perception of what is possible with IT. For me, it was the first time I saw Microsoft’s IntelliMirror technology. The ...

A back-end configuration management computer server may retrieve one of the secure configuration benchmarks and provision, by an orchestration engine, an initial operating system build in accordance ...