Apache Hadoop is currently the marketing favorite for Big Data; however, setting up a complete Hadoop environment is not easy. OpenStack Sahara, on the other hand, promises Hadoop at the push of a button.
Deduplicating filesystems like SDFS store redundant data, such as that created by backups, only once, thereby saving valuable disk space. Additionally, the filesystem can distribute the data to be stored across multiple computer nodes.
OpenQRM is a web-based, open source, data center management and cloud platform that offers many popular Linux tools with no major configuration overhead. We show you how to use it.
Although the MQTT protocol is usually associated with the Internet of Things, it also works in some very different situations, such as monitoring, for example.
LXC 1.0, released in early 2014, was the first stable version for managing Linux containers. We check out the lightweight container solution to see whether it is now ready for production.
Nmap does a great job with standard penetration testing tasks, but for specific security analyses, you will want to develop your own test scripts. The Nmap Scripting Engine makes this possible.