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Windows 9: The empire's last hope
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.
Windows 9: The empire's last hope
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.
4 ways PHP coding is getting less painful
It's easy to hate PHP despite the culture of software built on top of it.
How-to: Get started with Docker
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.
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
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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.
