IT General
Cisco -- that's right, Cisco -- soars in server sales
The biggest surprise found in IDC Worldwide's Quarterly Server Tracker numbers, released yesterday, isn't that big names like IBM and Dell are hurting.
Windows rumor roundup: Cloud hypervisors, Threshold RT, and Metro
A consensus of leaked details -- hardly infallible -- now places a technical preview of the next version of Windows in late September or early October.
How to expedite continuous testing
The prescription for continuous testing is deceptively simple: Automated unit tests, version control and a continuous integration server.
How Red Hat can catch the developer train
Developers love open source. So why don't they love the open source leader?
Manage infrastructure convergence without losing your grip
Michael Heil remembers when network convergence began to make sense to him. A few years ago, the manager of infrastructure engineering for Cone Health, a regional health care provider in central North Carolina, was asked to stand up a large virtualized SQL environment running Microsoft Amalga in 90 days with no additional resources. About the same time, he was also asked to implement a new document management system — again, with no extra hands on deck.
Review: RHEL 7 lands with a jolt
One of the hallmarks of Red Hat Enterprise Linux is that it overwhelmingly favors stability over currency. As such, RHEL generally ships with packages and frameworks that are years behind the current releases.
The top iOS 8 features for business users
When it shows up in the coming weeks, Apple's iOS 8 is set to bring several new features, including its HealthKit and HomeKit platforms, to the iPhone and iPad.
Support letdowns tarnish Apple's sterling quality
A petition has been circulating for nine months demanding that Apple fix what seems to be a defect in its 2011 Mac
Container convergence: Docker, VMware, and Google team up
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Famo.us talks big, but jQuery Foundation isn't worried
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Free beer! Now Amazon has cloud developers' attention
You know the hunt for developers is getting tough when free beer enters the equation. Amazon.com will reopen a "pop-up loft" in downtown San Francisco this fall to give developers a place to learn more about Amazon Web Services.
Docker founder Solomon Hykes explains Docker
Solomon Hykes is pretty sure you only know two things about Docker: First, it uses Linux containers, and second, the Internet won't shut up about it. In the video below, Hykes gives a talk at LinuxCon to explain exactly what Docker is and the philosophy behind it.
Review: RHEL 7 anchors enterprise-focused ecosystem
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is more proof that operating systems aren't dead, they're becoming vessels for containerized applications. RHEL 7 performed well in our testing, but it's worth noting that this no longer just a simple OS it's an increasingly abstracted component in the larger Red Hat ecosystem.
Although Red Hat took a long time between the RHEL 6 and 7 releases, during that period they've been sending numerous updates poised towards stable infrastructure.
New Windows coming in late September -- but which one?
It looks like we're due for a preview of Windows sometime in late September.
The worst cloud outages of 2014 (so far)
Choose your side on the Linux divide
Last week I posted about the schism brewing over systemd and the curiously fast adoption of this massive change to many Linux distributions.
