What I'd suggest is a slight change in the order you plan to do things.  I'm presuming you've got the new hardware already, so what I would do is prior...

I'm positive this incident will convince Jeff to move to the could, really and for sure: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/01/aws_s3_outage/
Also rather shows the vulnerability of IoT devices when you see that...

I've not played with containers yet, but the concept sounds interesting.

The use cases for development / QA types systems is fairly easy to see, but for a production...

So, it's packzi day, fat Tuesday...

Amazing that a lump of fried dough the size of your fist and filled with jelly or crème can be so bad for...

I feel that the biggest problems with the type of data referenced in the article is that data professionals / programmers / etc can only protect it so far.  The...

Another reason to keep old versions would be if you have to work with SSIS packages, such as migrating them between servers.  You can't connect to a previous SQL versions...

In general (and in specific, really) the best place to go for licensing questions like this is going to be Microsoft.  Either by way of a licensing specialist at your...

Well, this could have some interesting implications for sysadmins: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/23/michael_thomas_appeals_conviction/
"I was authorized to trash my employer's network, sysadmin tells court"

Regardless of whether the guy wins or...