Category: Information Technology

The FireOak team keeps an eye out for and shares the most interesting audio based resources, like podcasts, related to managing, sharing, and securing information, data, and knowledge.

Over the past few years, responsible data has become a hot topic within the world of international development and humanitarian aid. As funding agencies push for open data and data-driven decision mak...

In January 2019, a massive database of email addresses and passwords was released on the internet. The collection included over 773 million unique email addresses and 21 million unique passwords, cred...

We are heavy users of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) and regularly work with clients to help them transition their on-premises systems to the cloud, build a brand-new infrastr...

In this post, I’ll demonstrate a technique using standard Linux tools to export an AWS volume to another cloud provider or on-prem storage.

In this post, I’ll demonstrate a technique using standard Linux tools to create a bootable AWS EC2 instance from an imported AWS volume image.

In Part One, I reviewed the steps required to create and export an image of an AWS EC2 volume.  This process works well, but it is somewhat cumbersome and time-consuming for sysadmins, especially whe...

There’s no question, VMs are fantastic. But like anything that is cheap and easy, they have a tendency to persist long past their usefulness. Why invest the time and energy to retire a VM? And yet, ...