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• SAGE-AU goes into bat for sysadmins

  Not-for-profit organisation SAGE-AU said it wants to shine a spotlight on the sometimes unsung heroes of IT, system administrators.

• Devops Down Under 2011 draws in big Cloud names

  The second annual Devops Down Under conference will be held in Melbourne next month with attendees representing Australia’s largest online businesses and a few international speakers thrown in for good measure.
  

• Devops cloud conference heads down under

  The inaugural Australian Devops Down Under cloud computing conference is scheduled for Sydney next month and as its tag line goes, is open to developers who administer systems and administrators who write code.
  

• Redundancy versus Capacity

  A truly reliable network has to be able to handle the volume of traffic and failure of equipment. The unfortunate truth is that you can have redundancy or load balanced capacity but rarely both at once.

• Smarter Linux file structure aims to ease software management

  The Unix file system hierarchy has been used for decades and remains the model for most of today’s modern Linux systems, but one distribution, GoboLinux, is making software management easier with an innovative directory structure.

• Happy SysAdmin day!

  The last Friday in July marks the day when the unsung heroes of the IT community – systems administrators – finally (and hopefully) receive the thanks they deserve.

• Pricing the cloud an ongoing challenge

  Cloud computing is taking off in large part because the delivery of IT services and infrastructure over the Web offers better pricing and more flexible pricing options. That, at least, is the theory. But what if cloud pricing models are so confusing that IT shops end up paying more than they expect?