9 tools to help you manage your pet servers

Be realistic about DevOps and automationContainers, orchestration, automation, full remote management, cloud-style distributed app development, continuous developer-continuous deployment and devops are the wave of future IT, and what sophisticated IT departments should be aiming for in the future. But there’s almost certainly at least one server your business relies on that is a unique and special snowflake -- a pet you’ve named, rather than just another head of cattle in your data c