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DreamWorks Animation knows the magic of the cloud. Since 2003, the famed studio has held its product development, design and manufacturing functions in a hybrid cloud environment, long before the storage option was even called "cloud."

The cloud gives the Los Angeles-based company "massive flexibility in both human and digital capital," says DreamWorks CTO Lincoln Wallen, adding that it gives "any artist access to any movie from any site, anywhere, on any project... instantly." It also allowed DreamWorks to move from producing one movie every 18 months to three movies a year.

The latest cyber security information sharing bill being considered in the Senate strikes many as overly broad and in need of revision.

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Reviving a franchise is a big deal. They've done it with "Star Trek" and "Spider-Man." They're hoping to do it with "Star Wars." But can Microsoft do it with Windows? As Yoda might say, cloudy the future is.

Reviving a franchise is a big deal. They've done it with "Star Trek" and "Spider-Man." They're hoping to do it with "Star Wars." But can Microsoft do it with Windows? As Yoda might say, cloudy the future is.

It's easy to hate PHP despite the culture of software built on top of it.

Docker is an open source framework that provides a lighter-weight type of virtualization, using Linux containers rather than virtual machines. Built on traditional Linux distributions such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu, Docker lets you package applications and services as images that run in their own portable containers and can move between physical, virtual, and cloud foundations without requiring any modification. If you build a Docker image on an Ubuntu laptop or physical server, you can run it on any compatible Linux, anywhere.

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Network monitoring is the nervous system of any infrastructure. Keeping tabs on your services -- whether they're local or in the cloud -- is vitally important to maintaining a stable and functional service infrastructure.

In this week's New Tech Forum, Ernest Mueller, product manager at infrastructure-monitoring provider CopperEgg, walks us through the growing field of network and service monitoring, and what we can now leverage to keep tabs on our ever more complex infrastructures. -- Paul Venezia

Net Applications hardly rates as divine truth, but this month's operating system usage numbers proved surprising.

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Criminals who hold your data hostage have been around for a while. But the threat is about to get a whole lot worse.

If you work in IT, odds are you enjoy a salary that's above average for this economy.

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Criminals who hold your data hostage have been around for a while. But the threat is about to get a whole lot worse.

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If you work in IT, odds are you enjoy a salary that's above average for this economy.

You can't go a month without hearing about some price drop by a major cloud computing provider, with others quickly following suit. Though it seems like a race to the bottom, in fact the cloud providers are starting to make real money.

Public clouds function much like utilities. How much businesses pay for these utilities depends directly on how they consume cloud-based resources such as storage, compute, and applications. Companies that consume cloud services efficiently pay less, and the inefficient ones pay more.

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Criminals who hold your data hostage have been around for a while. But the threat is about to get a whole lot worse.

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