IT General

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Inbox wants to kill email and replace it with something better.

According to a four-month investigation by the Washington Post based on information provided by Edward Snowden, ordinary Internet users far outnumber legally targeted foreigners in the communications intercepted by the National Security Agency from U.S. digital networks.

Talk about big data and it won't take long for Hadoop to appear in the conversation. The Apache open source software is used to orchestrate clusters of commodity computers to crunch information from mountains of data.

A virtually unlimited variety of cloud-based storage and backup solutions offers to streamline backup processes and at the same time lower costs, while new DRaaS (disaster recovery as a service) options promise to slash recovery times by spinning up a secondary site in the cloud. Is there a cloud-based backup and DR solution that's right for you? The answer will depend on the size and frequency of your backups, your recovery time objectives, the speed and reliability of your Internet links, and considerations such as the regulatory and compliance requirements related to your data.

The latest update of CentOS, the free community edition of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, is about to be released, according to posts on the official CentOS blog.

My favorite Russian prognosticator, Wzor, just posted a lengthy discourse on the Russian-language Ru-Board that cov

With Windows 8.1 Update 2 Version 1.0 apparently poised for release in next month's batch of Black Tuesday patches, it's time for Microsoft to reflect on the needlessly confusing state of Windows patching and set a simple, coh

By most accounts, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has inherited a mess in the form of Microsoft's mobile strategy.

Data migration is one of those aspects of life that makes us shudder with dread.

When I visited Chicago a couple of weeks ago, I met the founder of a small analytics startup. Showing my San Francisco bias, I asked him if it was difficult to find the talent he needed in the Chicago area.

Open source has gone from a curiosity in the enterprise to a welcome and valuable addition.

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Most of us are trying get ahead in this world, but occasionally we find ourselves in the unenviable career rut. Maybe you realize your current position doesn't align with your long-term goals. Perhaps you received a poor performance review, or were passed over for promotion, and feel like your career has gone off the road.

Now what? You've got to get your career back on track -- and fast.

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From smartphones that know you’re near to tattoos and even pills, high-tech companies are busy replacing pesky strings of text with easier ways to authenticate. Check out the future here Dek:  From smartphones that know you’re near to tattoos and even pills, high-tech companies are busy replacing pesky strings of text with easier ways to authenticate. Check out the future here External Source:  pcworld.com Redirect Unpublished Slideshow to:  http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/158302

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