ADMIN Update – Hottest Links

• KVM Security
• Sys Admins Will Love Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4
• Now Everyone Can Run Linux Tools on Windows 10
• Online LaTeX Editors
• vRealize Automation

Virtualization solutions isolate their VM systems far more effectively than a container host isolates its guests. However, implementation weaknesses in the hypervisor and configuration errors can lead to residual risk, as we show, using KVM as an example. (more)

The new release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux comes with a lot of security and automation features. (more)

Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta. (more)

We look at VMware's tool for managing and provisioning cloud infrastructures. (more)

If you spend very much of your time pushing containerized services from server to server, you might be asking yourself: Why not databases, as well? We describe the status quo for RDBMS containers. (more)

Finally, enterprise customers running Linux can now also run Microsoft’s SQL Server. (more)

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Further Reading

• 10 Terrific Tools for Admins
• Microsoft Identity Manager
• OCI v1.0 Released
• Critical systemd Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Run Malicious Code on Systems
• New Petya Was Created to Destroy

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