A quick update on Libre Office

As you might be knowing by now, Libre Office has evolved into a key player in Office Productivity Suites with Canonical deciding to ship Ubuntu with a pre-installed version of...

Server Adapter Teaming & Link Aggregation

It is possible to group multiple server adapters (NIC) / server adapter ports to achieve a combined throughput capacity of multiple adapter ports/ links. In the process, we can also...

What is a Converged Network Adapter (CNA)?

In large enterprise companies, main servers have (at least) two adapters – FC HBA (FIber Channel Host Bus Adapter) & Ethernet NIC (Ethernet Network Interface Card) to connect to the...

Why are Subnets required & Subnet vs VLAN

The first thing that network administrators learn is the concept of IP address and creating IP Subnets (short form for sub-networks). But why are Subnets required at all? Especially, when...

Can we manage without a Computer Network?

This is just a light (perhaps humorous) article to explore the possibilities of managing a company without a computer network. Actually, this is the result of a discussion we had...

What is a Reverse Proxy server?

A Reverse Proxy server is a web-server-alias that sits in-between the Client/ Internet (from where the web-page requests arrive) and the actual web server (origin server, which holds the web...