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OS X Yosemite and iOS 8's enticements could also entrap
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The cloud and big data are no threat to data warehouses
I'm often told that the use of big data systems will kill the now very old world of data warehousing. Why? It's hugely expensive to build data warehouses. Consider the cost of the technology, including very pricey hardware and software. The minimum buy-in is well over $1 million -- and I'm being kind with that number.
Micro Python's tiny circuits: Python variant targets microcontrollers
The Python programming language's flexibility and ease-of-use have made it popular in many realms where speed of development is more important than raw performance.
10 great new features in Microsoft Azure
10 great new features in Microsoft Azure
Straight talk on Apache Spark -- and why you should care
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Devops adopters: Your trust is rewarded
Devops, the art and science of merging IT's development and operations cultures, has been widely touted as a way to boost a company's agility.
Too big, too small, or just right? Balancing your social connections
Social estrangement is a strange concept. It pivots on the notion that individuals can be totally surrounded by, enmeshed in, and dependent on society, but still not feel like they belong to it. This relates to the concept of the "lonely crowd," which many people consider the defining condition of modernism.
10 hot cloud computing skills
Joe Roberts has had his pick of jobs. And with his experience in cloud computing, he still does.
Roberts had several job offers when he moved in November from his former position as a senior IT lead/systems engineer working on a SaaS product to his current job as a senior DevOps engineer at Bit9 in Waltham, Mass.
Microsoft gives SQL Server tech to Hadoop -- and helps itself
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9 things we hate about Objective-C
9 things we hate about Objective-C
How multifactor authentication works in Office 365
Last week, my blog focused on Microsoft's push to make everything as a service a reality.
Spurned by smartphones, Tizen seeks role in Internet of things
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AMD's 'Kaveri' processor packs lots of muscle -- but for whom?
AMD has whipped the drapes off a new mobile processor, code-named Kaveri, that powers thin and light notebooks
Avoid file sync and share security slipups
Free file sync and share (FSS) services such as Dropbox typically come with security and privacy settings set to "public" by default. When a user shares a share link to corporate data, anyone who comes across that link can get to the potentially sensitive information. Some free FSS apps don't offer privacy settings. Even if a user wanted to, they could not change the public settings to private in order to protect the data.
