Not all systems administration (sys-admin) is done by people. Some applications need administrator access to communicate and make changes. Furthermore, remote management tasks are often carried out ...

What’s one of the biggest insider threats to the corporate network? The high-tech folks that put it together, make changes to it, and know more about what’s on it and how it works than anybody else.

I've written about and trained folks on various DevOps tools through the years, and although they're awesome, it's obvious that most of them are designed from the mind of a developer. There's nothing ...

Phil Cox, analyst at consultancy SystemExperts, says he recently learned about a sys admin who moved from group to group in IT operations over a decade, in networking, telecom and desktop support.