High-Speed Internet Access For Everyone: A Call to Action

CRTC,

internet regulations,

Canada

Canadians have an opportunity to shape the future of internet access and pricing. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has initiated an open review of the regulatory status and policies covering telecommunications wholesale services.

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Contain your enthusiasm – Part Three: Docker

containers,

docker,

OpenStack

This final installment in a series of blog posts on containers by Joe Topjian will goes over the important details of Docker.

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Monitoring tools: experts weigh in

monitoring,

networks

O’Reilly Media, one of the biggest publishers of materials on leading-edge IT technologies, has posted a definitive overview of monitoring tools for systems administrators, with contributions from Cybera sysadmin Luke Tymowski.

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Contain your enthusiasm – Part Two: Jails, Zones, OpenVZ, and LXC

Containers,

virtualization,

Linux

This second installment in a series of blog posts on containers by Joe Topjian will detail some of the solutions that existed before Docker.

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Contain your enthusiasm – Part One: a history of operating system containers

Containers,

virtualization,

Linux

In part one of this blog series, Joe Topjian explains the history of operating system containers and how to get started.

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Expanded research network to benefit Alberta’s public sector

Good news for our current and future members of Cybera: the next-generation advanced 16 Port 10GE Juniper Line Cards have just arrived at our Calgary office. This will help Cybera meet the demand of our ever-growing member base in Alberta

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Modular Configuration with Chef

chef,

recipes

David Ackerman describes how to adapt Chef to allow your recipes to interact with other recipes

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Tips for getting your virtual lab off the ground

VCL,

virtual computing,

virtualization,

software licensing

Donna Gorday offers her tips on overcoming the technical and licensing issues involved with setting up a virtual computing lab.

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SDN — Where do I start?

Networking,

SDN

Alvaro Pereira describes Software Defined Networking, and the varied network control options it can provide.

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Advanced Swift Features: Part 3

OpenStack,

Swift

This is the final installment in a series of blog posts covering the advanced features of Swift. Among its many features, Swift also has the ability to support temporary URLs…

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