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Netapp Availability of SnapCenter Plug-In 1.0 for Microsoft SQL Server Netapp SnapCenter is the new application consistent backup, verification, cloning and recovery too that unlike previous SnapManagers, allows you to perform all backup and recovery operations from a single graphical interface. Within a SnapCenter implementation you would find the SnapCenter Server and various SnapCenter plug-ins…
Today, I’ve got a great new theme for you called Sapor. Sapor is a minimal theme that lets you showcase your passion, whether it’s cooking or gardening or healthy living. Whatever you enjoy, Sapor allows you to easily share that passion. This theme lets your content shine and adapts effortlessly to any device you view it…
How to Disable Netapp Flash Pool Caching Per Volume [ad name=”sysadmintutorialsSquare250″] The default caching action for volumes on a flash pool aggregate is to cache reads and writes, however you may have a use case to disable caching on a per volume basis. To determine the caching policy of a volume, we have to jump…
Netapp Clustered Data Ontap 8.3.1 (GA) On September 3rd, 2015, Netapp announced the General Availability of Clustered Data Ontap 8.3.1 It is a minor release in the 8.3 family and brings with it a list of new and changed features. A complete list of these features can be found in the Release Notes: Read moreDeleting…
In the vast, seemingly limitless space known as the internet, you can find almost anything your heart desires. A recipe for the perfect quiche, instructions on creating survival knots, and of course — endless hours of kitty videos. However, while there are tons of amazing things on the web, there are also lots of dangerous…
Andrew Youderian • September 15, 2015 Paula lives, breathes and knows everything there is to know about antique dolls, so she decides to start selling them online. Randy wants to start an eCommerce business, so he does his keyword research, analyzes the data, susses out the competition and decides to sell accessories for mobile homes….
Netapp Synergy 6.2.1 Last Friday 11th of September, Netapp has announced the availability of Synergy version 6.2.1 General Availability. Top features and additions: Data Ontap 8.3.1 GA Release Supported Single Chassis AFF8080 HA Configuration Supported Enhancements to Aggregate View UI Netapp Synergy can be access via the following URL https://synergy.netapp.com Read moreDeleting that annoying Netapp Snapmirror…
Karen Arnold and Erica Varlese work on the Happiness Hiring team at Automattic, where they hire new Happiness Engineers who support users on WordPress.com and Automattic products. They met with the Brazilian WordPress community last week and wanted to share their experiences. On August 29th, 2015, we traveled to Brazil to attend WordCamp Rio de…
Available right now in the form of the WordPress REST API Plugin, the goal of the project is to enable predictable, resource-oriented URLs, standardized return structures and to use HTTP response codes to indicate API errors. In this article I’ll take a look at the basics of the REST API (WordPress RESTful API) and how you…
From secret shoppers to website evaluators, user experience (UX) research exists to solve problems. When you’re preparing to roll out a new product or you’re trying to pinpoint where users may be dissatisfied with an experience, there’s a lot to consider. Visual design, content and usability, information architecture, interaction design, user research, and more play…
Sidebars are an integral part of the WordPress experience but understanding how they work on a database-level is not at the forefront of tutorials. You can find any number of posts about creating widgets, customizing them, extending them and so on, but how they are actually put together at the end and come together in…
Andrew Youderian • September 8, 2015 The eCommerce pricing strategy I’m about to share has been a massive game-changer for my store. In my second year in business, it produced enough extra income to hire my first full-time employee so I could work on higher-level tasks and freely travel for months at a time. More recently,…
People all over the world were horrified last week when they saw the picture of a dead Syrian child, Aylan Kurdi, being picked up from the beach in Turkey. His family’s attempt to escape the brutal civil war in their country had ended in tragedy. From Calais to Kos to Lampedusa, the blogging community has been following the…
In this article, I’ll show you a great way to share a single instance of a plugin or theme with multiple installations of WordPress – symlinks. What Is a Symlink A symlink – or symbolic link – is a special file that is actually a reference to another file or folder. If you’re a Windows…
The blogging community is huge and diverse, with thousands of smaller clusters of sites built around shared interests, causes, and passions. It might seem daunting at first — like walking into a party where everyone already seems to know each other — but there are a number of ways to ease your entry into the community, from participating in…
First, why would you want to be picked up by Google News? What are the benefits? The aim of Google News is to filter through the world’s news and make timely news accessible to readers in a way that’s easy for them to read, understand, and put to use. What does this mean for your…
On this Theme Thursday, we have two new free themes for you: Colinear and Franklin. Colinear Colinear — our update to the older Coraline — is a squeaky-clean theme featuring a custom menu, header, background, and layout. Colinear supports featured images and six widget areas — up to three in the sidebar and three in…
We strive to make all aspects of using WordPress.com streamlined and intuitive, from following a great new blog to editing a post on the go. Today, we’re happy to present the new action bar, which allows you to do all this (and more) no matter what device you’re on. Following and more When you visit a site you’re…
If you just started a spandy new WordPress blog or site and want to work on setup and configuration in your spare time, we’ve recently refreshed a resource that might be just the thing for you: learn.wordpress.com. Have you just created a blog or website to: Showcase a personal project? Maybe you’re working on a…
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, is committed to diversity: providing a platform for everyone to publish on the web and building a diverse, distributed workforce around the world. A collaborative effort between Accelerate with Google and Automattic, the Accelerate.LGBT conference series is designed to help diverse businesses and nonprofits optimize their web presence, empowering professionals through focused…