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Naturally we’d encourage you to represent the amazing PC games that we’ve enjoyed this year, but the choice is all yours. Let us know your picks across 20 categories ranging from best storytelling to ultimate game of the year. Some votes last year came down to just 80 or so votes, so your contribution could very well break a tie. The winners will be revealed in November!

Every day we have the opportunity to honk gaming opinions into the ether on PCGamer.com. It’s time to turn the tables. Now it’s time to tell us what you think about the greatest games of 2020. The Golden Joystick awards are back, and every vote counts.

Not only do you get to have a say in the biggest public-voted game awards ceremony on the planet, you also get free stuff for joining in. Everyone who votes can claim a free ebook worth up to $22.99/£12.99. Enter your email address and select the ‘register my votes’ button at the end of the process. We’ll be in touch shortly afterwards to offer you a free ebook from the following list:

Naturally we’d encourage you to represent the amazing PC games that we’ve enjoyed this year, but the choice is all yours. Let us know your picks across 20 categories ranging from best storytelling to ultimate game of the year. Some votes last year came down to just 80 or so votes, so your contribution could very well break a tie. The winners will be revealed in November!

Many organizations become hybrid cloud shops unintentionally. You add this environment for one particular initiative project, or integrate those two systems because of a merger, or any number of other possibilities.

Next thing you know, you’re operating a hybrid cloud by most definitions of the term.

“Many organizations fall into hybrid cloud through some combination of acquisitions, lack of coordination among lines of business, or just a lot of ad hoc actions.”

“Many organizations fall into hybrid cloud through some combination of acquisitions, lack of coordination among lines of business, or just a lot of ad hoc actions taken on a project-by-project basis,” says Gordon Haff, technology evangelist at Red Hat.

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Hybrid cloud strategy: 5 keys to success

This leads us to a raison d’etre for this article: Whether you go hybrid cloud in an “accidental” manner or by intentional design, you need a strategy to measure and boost the odds of its success. In the unintentional category, that strategy may have to be put in place after the fact, and that’s fine. What’s important is that you do have an adaptable plan. And that’s first on the list of must-haves.

1. The most essential part: Develop a strategy

“Perhaps the most essential element of a good hybrid cloud strategy is actually having a strategy in the first place,” Haff says.

The accidental path to hybrid cloud is relatively common, especially as IT leaders and teams
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Linux is one of the most widely used operating systems among system administrators, and even modern application and server development is heavily reliant on the Linux platform.

The Linux Administration Cookbook is your go-to guide to get started on your Linux journey. It will help you understand what that strange little server is doing in the corner of your office, what the mysterious virtual machine languishing in Azure is crunching through, what that circuit-board-like thing is doing under your office TV, and why the LEDs on it are blinking rapidly.

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EWTN Global Catholic Network is holding a special novena for the nation in advance of the 2020 U.S. election. The special “Novena to the Mother of God for the Nation” was composed by Father Frederick Miller, S.T.D, an adjunct professor of Systematic Theology in Immaculate Conception Seminary who serves as Spiritual Director of The College Seminary of the Immaculate Conception at St. Andrew’s Hall.

The novena will begin Sept. 29 and be prayed through Oct. 7, the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary.

EWTN Global Catholic Network is the largest religious media network in the world. Its 11 global TV channels are broadcast in multiple languages 24 hours a day, seven days a week to over 300 million television households in more than 145 countries and territories.

According to the Catholic News Agency, “The EWTN network has invited Catholics to join a novena to the Mother of God that will begin Tuesday, and be offered for unity and truth amid challenges facing the United States.”

News of the novena was published by Catholic news organizations throughout the United States. The Catholic Miscellany notes that

EWTN collaborated with one of the pre-eminent Marian theologians in the U.S. on the creation of this beautiful novena. Father Frederick Miller, a frequent EWTN guest and the spiritual director of the College Seminary of the Immaculate Conception at Seton Hall University, composed the meditations and prayers which invoke Mary’s intercession for our nation.

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Ebooks and Audiobooks have become a new way of enjoying a good story. Instead of holding a book in your hands, you can use almost any device to read, such as your smartphone or a kindle. However, you are too tired to read; you can listen to your favorite story. Therefore, if you are searching for free books, you came to the right place. 

Today, I’m going to share with you the best websites where you can find free ebooks and audiobooks. We have to admit that buying books can be costly, and as much as we enjoy real books, we can’t always afford them. Maybe you need a book to help you with an exam, or simply want to enjoy a book you used to read as a child. Did you ever wish to read the original copy of a book? 

Finding ebooks and audiobooks on Flipkart or Amazon can be expensive when you don’t have money to spend on tiny hobbies. Plus, there is a space problem that most of us have, which brings us back to our topic. In this article, I have listed the eight best torrent websites where you can download your “treasure.” The books are almost all
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As your organization progresses through its DevOps journey, what are the best practices that successful teams use that you should follow?

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