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The making of a Microsoft CEO: Layoffs and lip service
If you assign colors to Microsoft CEOs, I suppose Bill Gates would be green, which I'm hoping has something to do with confidence and competence.
Don't believe false alarms about Docker containers
As Docker picks up steam, a few people are suggesting that this approach to cloud workload portability and management may have an Achilles' heel.
Docker containers sit on a shared Linux implementation, which creates the potential for significantly more vulnerabilities that can affect the operation of every container on a server, especially if the underlying OS goes down. In such an event, all containerized workloads could go down as well.
Whatever happened to green IT?
Remember when "green computing" was all the rage? Companies competed for green awards, virtualized their data centers, set up e-waste committees, launched double-sided printing initiatives and activated power management features on PCs.
iOS devices are still safe -- from everybody except Apple and the NSA
Forensic researcher Jonathan Zdziarski has outlined details of how undocument
VMware dangles dollars for mobile, apps, and virtualization migration
VMware's newest offering isn't a product so much as an escape hatch.
Two glimmers of hope for enterprise security
Enterprise security has become the breach-of-the month club.
13 ways to optimize your Android smartphone
GitHub takes center stage at OSCON
Credit: GitHub
GitHub will once again get the spotlight at OSCON (O'Reilly Open Source Convention) in Portland, Ore., this week.
Oracle, Mirantis team up to grab Red Hat's OpenStack crown
The OpenStack world has been watching Red Hat with unease as the Linux vendor has transformed itself into a Linux-and-OpenStack vendor<
10 tools for more productive telecommuting
10 tools for more productive telecommuting
Quick guide: 25 tips and tricks for Google Drive power users
Odds are you're already using Google Drive, the combination cloud-based storage service, online office suite, and overall connective tissue tying together numerous Google services. But are you making the most of its full potential?
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5 no-bull takeaways about Microsoft's restructuring
It was only a matter of time before Satya Nadella started making major changes to Microsoft, and now they're here: 18,000 layoffs, mostly in Nokia but touching other departments as well.