A comprehensive server deployment checklist involves a lot more than buying adequate computing resources at an attractive price. It takes talented IT administrators and other personnel to source, ...

Read "Windows Nano Server Deployment 101, Part 2: The Execution," here. Earlier this week, I heard someone say that once Windows Server 2016 is released, Nano Server will become the new preferred ...

Jack Wallen walks you through the process of deploying a Discourse server to your LAN to help keep the lines of communication open for your project teams. Project management would struggle mightily ...

Read "Windows Nano Server Deployment 101, Part 1: The Setup," here. In the first part of this series, I explained that I had created a proof of concept, graphical installer for Nano Server. If you ...

Windows Server 2016 includes features for implementing hyper-converged infrastructure with the Hyper-V hypervisor at center stage. While these features are welcome by organizations looking to ...

It’s well-known in the software industry that DevOps is critical to the success of modernization efforts. However, while the headlines play DevOps criticality over and over again, it’s evident ...

One of the popular buzzwords in development circles in recent years has been 'deployment at scale'. Now, while it's nice to have a universally recognized term, opinions about what deployment at scale ...

“Train as you fight, fight as you train” is an old Army truism. It is similarly true for the deployment process: “Plan your deployment, deploy your plan.” Deployment planning itself is a form of ...