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What IT Leaders Need to Know About Education Technology

How IT Professionals Can Champion EdTech to Impact Student Success Technology in education is rising, and the possibilities to enhance student learning with digital tools are endless. How can IT professionals get the budget and buy-in you need to implement new EdTech initiatives, all while maintaining a healthy network that can grow and scale to support whatever new technology you introduce? In...
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Self-Audit: Checking Assumptions at the Door

Sysadmins, devops engineers, and cybersecurity personnel are often kept awake by a number of questions. How should I monitor my monitoring to be sure it will alert me when there is a security issue that needs my intervention? How can I be sure that the servers and processes in the environment haven’t been rooted already? In the quest to get better sleep, it is a good idea to self-audit your...
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Which Network Monitoring Tool is Right for You?

Use this interactive checklist to conduct a network monitoring tools comparison with Intermapper and other solutions. Comparing network monitoring tools can be tricky. Network managers at organizations of all sizes trust Intermapper to provide the real-time knowledge they need to maintain a healthy network. What’s more, Intermapper is a vendor-agnostic solution that works across multiple platforms...
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UNIX Load Average Part 1: How It Works

In this online article Dr. Gunther digs down into the UNIX kernel to find out how load averages (the “LA Triplets”) are calculated and how appropriate they are as capacity planning metrics.
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UNIX Load Average: Reweighed

This is an unexpected Part 3 to the discussion about the UNIX load average metric answering the question of where the weight factor comes from.
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The “LA Triplets” Quiz

This is a little quiz to test your understanding of the triplet of numbers that appear in the UNIX® load average (LA) performance metric.