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Verizon brings cloud offering into self-service era

Posted Oct 03, 2013 - 10:30 am by Nancy Gohring

Verizon is launching compute and storage cloud offerings that will let users sign up online

Cloud Computing, cloud, Verizon
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Big data, metadata, and traffic analysis: What the NSA is really doing

Posted July 26, 2013

The NSA doesn't have to intercept and read all your messages to know what you're doing -- and neither do many Internet businesses.
IT on the fly: The art of quickly building, then dismantling, IT operations

Posted June 25, 2013

These CIOs know how to set up IT operations quickly and take them down just as fast. Here's what you can learn from people who work on the fly.
IT on the edge: CIOs who (literally) keep the lights on

Posted June 25, 2013

First-world tech leaders can learn a thing or two from the way CIOs in developing countries keep connectivity up and services flowing.
Get new IT pros up to speed fast with this onboarding checklist

Posted June 17, 2013

IT hiring managers, executives and career coaches weigh in on this onboarding checklist that will help you get your new hires up to speed in no time.
Why your users hate Agile development (and what you can do about it)

Posted June 4, 2013

What developers see as iterative and flexible, users see as disorganized and never-ending. Here's how some experienced developers have changed that perception.

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How to prepare for the CISSP

Posted October 6, 2013 - 4:12 pm

The CISSP is a valuable certification, but it takes a lot more than just your many years of experience to prepare for it. You will likely have to learn about a lot of technology and processes that you’ve never worked with, some of it not especially current and all of it a lot less vendor-specific than you’ve ever imagined.
Overseas, Twitter cites access, privacy and Kakao among its biggest challenges

Posted October 4, 2013 - 4:58 pm

Twitter doesn't seem to have a problem attracting users in international markets, but it definitely has problems making money off them.
Facebook networking chief: No more secret ASIC commands

Posted October 4, 2013 - 4:53 pm

Facebook's head of network operations has great expectations for software defined networking (SDN), though he may not be relying on commercial hardware vendors to bring SDN to the social networking giant's own infrastructure.
Wall Street Beat: Business as usual for tech, but gov't crisis casts shadows

Posted October 4, 2013 - 4:41 pm

The tech sector appears to be going about business as usual in the face of the U.S. federal government shutdown, but some industry insiders are nervous about a long-term stoppage or, even worse, the possibility of a debt default if a political compromise on the budget is not reached.
Apple's Schiller, Forstall set to testify in retrial over Samsung damages

Posted October 4, 2013 - 3:29 pm

Apple and Samsung Electronics will return to a Silicon Valley federal court on Nov. 12 for a retrial of their billion-dollar 2012 patent battle, and Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller may come back to testify.
Microsoft's Security Essentials isn't the best antivirus program, according to Microsoft

Posted October 4, 2013 - 3:16 pm

Microsoft advises Windows users to use something else
6 must-have free downloads for your network

Posted October 4, 2013 - 2:51 pm

If you've got a small or medium-sized network and you need to manage it yourself, you're not alone. I've rounded up size great free network tools that make it much easier to handle and troubleshoot your network.
Report: NSA has little success cracking Tor

Posted October 4, 2013 - 2:23 pm

The U.S. National Security Agency has repeatedly tried to compromise Tor, the government-funded online anonymity tool, but has had little success, according to a new report in the U.K.'s Guardian.
9 free personal clouds

Posted October 4, 2013 - 2:17 pm
Should Microsoft fire Bill Gates too?

Posted October 4, 2013 - 1:10 pm

Steve Ballmer is out as CEO, should Microsoft remove Bill Gates from its board? Plus: Android beats Apple in tablet sales. And check out five fun Linux racing games.

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