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An SDN start-up has emerged from stealth to propose a new way to architect WANs and branch networks.

There are many ways to gauge satisfaction with a new computer system, but when the people who have to use it show up for work wearing red and declare it "Code Red" day, you probably don't need to bother with a survey.

Harvard University last week launched a website for The Colonial North American Project, which for years has been digitizing thousands of documents and letters from the 17th and 18th centuries with the design of making them publicly available online.  While many of the documents hold great historical significance, others merely reflect life in the times, such as a letter from James Otis Jr. – he of “Taxation without representation is tyranny” fame – to his father, James Otis Sr., also a prominent colonial attorney. Читать дальше...

Windows XP will be getting even less secure next year, when Google stops updating Chrome for users of Microsoft's nearly geriatric operating system. 

If you think the Internet's busy now, just wait until next year. Gartner estimates there will be 6.4 billion connected devices in 2016, up 30 percent from this year.

For Patch Tuesday November 2015, Microsoft released 12 security bulletins, four rated as critical and the remaining 8 rated as important.

Ubuntu 15.10. Fedora 23. openSUSE Leap 42.1.

Major releases of three of the biggest, most prominent, Linux distributions. And they were all released within days of each other (a time now known as the holiday of Distrovus).

So, instead of writing a review of each of these new releases, I am simply writing one article comparing all three of them as desktop workstations (I won't be reviewing them as servers in this article). A battle royale. A no-holds-barred cage match. A Linux Distro Thunderdome. Читать дальше...

Venkat Srivinisan is a data analytics expert with Ph.D. in computer science. He exudes personality, goodwill, energy and humor. His resume, although impressive, didn't match up with his colorful, energetic and entrepreneurial personality. Though filled with impressive accomplishments (he founded T-Cube, a software company that grew to $25 million within eight years; then in 2011 he sold T-Cube and founded a consulting company, which grew to $8 million and 10 employees) his professionally written... Читать дальше...

Collaboration is the key to Microsoft’s still-ubiquitous productivity suite.

To the casual user, the applications that make upOffice 2016 – Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook are the anchor tenants, of course, rounded out by OneNote, Access and Publisher – will be indistinguishable from their predecessors. But make no mistake about it; Microsoft’s reboot of its flagship software suite is a major update, offering a wealth of collaboration capabilities that integrate more tightly with SharePoint and OneDrive than before. Читать дальше...

An offhand remark about hating spreadsheets led Laredo Petroleum CIO Lars Crotwell to deploy analytics software to help the company curb production costs. Crotwell, during a phone call with a friend in 2013, complained that business managers were cross-referencing data from dozens of Excel files to understand why operating costs for some wells were higher than those producing twice as much oil.

On Tuesday, Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara's office unsealed an indictment against three individuals charged with hacking several financial institutions, financial news publishers, and other companies.

If you believe what the tech industry tells us, everything is coming online. From pacemakers to washing machines to street lights, all will be networked together and feeding data into the cloud. If this Internet of Things comes to pass, we're going to need a lot more security than we have today.

ARM released a new chip design Tuesday that should bring a burst of performance to low-cost smartphones aimed at fast-growing markets like China, India and Brazil.

The Apple environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has grown from a handful of unsupported Macs to more than 1,000 managed Apple devices over the last couple of years. Shifting to more automated provisioning of Apple devices has allowed the British university to try new things – including offering loaner laptops to students through a MacBook “vending machine” in the library.

Hitachi is an interesting company. Headquartered in Tokyo, it isn't really one company but rather an umbrella name under which a massive range of subsidiary businesses operate. Infrastructure systems, information and telecommunication systems, power systems, construction machinery, high functional materials and components, automotive systems, and healthcare all fall under the Hitachi banner. In recent years, however, there has been a strong attempt to build the collaboration between different... Читать дальше...

One of the problems with traditional magnetic storage has always been that, because it's written with magnetic fields, it can be wiped by those fields too.

In the first of this series of blogs, I discussed the history and future of videoconferencing cameras. This – part two – comes out of a conversation I had with my friend and industry colleague Simon Dudley on the eternal hardware-vs-software debate. I advocated that apps and software had their place, but nothing will beat the reliability and quality of a dedicated device to complete mission-critical calls. Simon, on the other hand, believes that software codecs and cloud services coupled with... Читать дальше...

Easy or tough?

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Linux has a bad rap as a daily driver – the programs aren’t written to run on Linux, it’s tricky to install stuff, and so on. But it might surprise people who think along those lines to learn that plenty of the distributions out there are actually quite simple to use. Here’s our latest appreciation of the desktop Linux landscape.

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A majority of enterprise organizations are embracing cloud computing in one form or another. According to ESG research, 67% of enterprises use public or private cloud infrastructure today, while 66% use one or several SaaS applications (note: I am an ESG employee).

Microsoft will deliver Azure and Office 365 cloud services from data centers in the U.K. by late next year, CEO Satya Nadella told customers in London on Tuesday.

Mention the word "database," and most people think of the venerable RDBMS that has dominated the landscape for more than 30 years. That, however, may soon change.

Best Buy overnight revealed its Black Friday deals, which include a slew of tech products from vendors such as Apple, Microsoft, Dell and Samsung. A handful of deals are already live, too.

Google announced TensorFlow yesterday, releasing its research and successful internal scaling of machine learning as an open source project under an Apache 2.0 license. TensorFlow will accelerate the adoption of machine learning by the thousands of creative product development teams that don't have Google's large-scale machine learning research resources.

Tagging online videos with information about colors, surroundings and even emotions in order to enhance search could soon become easier with Nvidia's new machine-learning graphics processors.

You've undoubtedly read, or at least seen the articles talking about "comatose" servers, servers in data centers that don't do any work and just sit idle. A study from Stanford University professor Jonathan Koomey and Jon Taylor, a partner at the consulting firm Athensis Group found that up to 30% of all physical servers in data centers do nothing all day long and no one notices.