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Know your options for infrastructure monitoring
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
Windows 8 usage declined in June while XP usage increased
Net Applications hardly rates as divine truth, but this month's operating system usage numbers proved surprising.
Prepare yourself for high-stakes cyber ransom
Credit: Ireneusz Skorupa
Criminals who hold your data hostage have been around for a while. But the threat is about to get a whole lot worse.
IT salaries are up this year, but not by much
If you work in IT, odds are you enjoy a salary that's above average for this economy.
Your device, your data: Don't let IT screw up your iPhone or iPad
Credit: iStockphoto
Prepare yourself for high-stakes cyber ransom
Credit: Ireneusz Skorupa
Criminals who hold your data hostage have been around for a while. But the threat is about to get a whole lot worse.
Your device, your data: Don't let IT screw up your iPhone or iPad
Credit: iStockphoto
Fantastic failures: 9 startups that sank in 2014
IT salaries are up this year, but not by much
If you work in IT, odds are you enjoy a salary that's above average for this economy.
You're paying too much for the cloud
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.
Prepare yourself for high-stakes cyber ransom
Credit: Ireneusz Skorupa
Criminals who hold your data hostage have been around for a while. But the threat is about to get a whole lot worse.
Your device, your data: Don't let IT screw up your iPhone or iPad
Credit: iStockphoto
Fantastic failures: 9 startups that sank in 2014
IT salaries are up this year, but not by much
If you work in IT, odds are you enjoy a salary that's above average for this economy.
You're paying too much for the cloud
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.
Facebook's big problem: Ethical blindness
When you agreed to Facebook's terms and conditions, did you know you were agreeing to become a subject in a psychology experiment?
Facebook's big problem: Ethical blindness
When you agreed to Facebook's terms and conditions, did you know you were agreeing to become a subject in a psychology experiment?
