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Nebula - A turnkey private cloud brought to you by NASA

Posted April 12, 2013 - 8:00 am

What began as a NASA cloud computing project, and in partnership with Rackspace resulted in the OpenStack project, has now become a turnkey private cloud system for the enterprise. What this means is you can now buy an all-in-one solution to your organization's server needs and be up and running in no time.
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The Weekly Hash - March 22, 2013

Posted March 22, 2013 - 9:22 am

Searching from the top of the world to the bottom of the Atlantic ocean to bring you - and make fun of - this week’s top tech stories
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DARPA looking for way to spot attackers on wireless networks

Posted March 19, 2013 - 11:44 am

The U.S. military relies heavily on distributed, wireless networks to communicate in combat zones. Now DARPA is looking for ideas on how to keep enemies off these networks.
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PC cleanup scammer calls Microsoft Malware Protection Center expert. Hilarity ensues.

Posted March 11, 2013 - 2:28 pm

What's a bad day for a scammer selling bogus Windows PC clean up services? How about accidentally dialing a guy who works in Microsoft's Malware Protection Center!
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6 good things about being a programmer

Posted February 21, 2013 - 12:46 pm

Even this jaded former coder can find some things he liked about the job
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The Weekly Hash - February 15, 2013

Posted February 15, 2013 - 12:22 pm

From the College of Cardinals’ new high tech method for choosing a pope to Google’s new private airport to the president’s geeky Fireside Chat we make fun of some of the this week’s top tech stories
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Security stories to watch: Security firm Bit9 hacked. Also: Microsoft megapatch and identity management

Posted February 11, 2013 - 4:20 pm

The hack of security firm Bit9 reminds us that application whitelists work great at stopping malware ... until they don't. And: Microsoft prepares a mystery 'double patch' of the Internet Explorer web browser, fueling speculation.
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The security week ahead: Hacking the media, Plus: more encryption woes

Posted February 4, 2013 - 1:25 pm

Last week's revelations about hacks of prominent media outlets continues. Plus: new questions about the security of encrypted communications will dominate the news this week.
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The Weekly Hash - February 1, 2013

Posted February 1, 2013 - 12:32 pm

From Apple’s latest trademark coup to the secrets Anonymous hacked from the U.S. government to using Google Maps to find the best breakfast food in North Korea, we bring you the silliest stories in the tech world this past week
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The Weekly Hash - January 18, 2013

Posted January 18, 2013 - 11:48 am

A semi-serious look back at some of the top tech stories of the week, today featuring Lance Armstrong’s surprising confession to Oprah, a guy outsourcing his own job to China and the Mexican Army getting hacked
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Should programmers be unionized?

Posted January 16, 2013 - 12:51 pm

Software programmers are generally a well compensated bunch. But could they still benefit from organizing and bargaining collectively?
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The Weekly Hash - January 4, 2013

Posted January 4, 2013 - 11:47 am

A tongue-in-cheek review of tech stories from this first week of 2013, today featuring Mark Zuckerberg getting back to his roots, Google and the FTC making nice and the reason YouTube’s return in Pakistan was so brief
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Ubuntu for phones: A Q&A explainer

Posted January 3, 2013 - 7:30 pm

Ubuntu for phones raises a lot of questions about what, exactly, the Linux distribution is trying to do. Let's answer some of them.
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Wilson! I've finished the Y2K fixes!

Posted January 1, 2013 - 11:02 am

One coder finally emerges from the Y2K weeds
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Does math help with programming?

Posted December 18, 2012 - 12:25 pm

Can a math background make it easier to learn programming?
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In a crowded market, cloud monitoring services expand

Posted December 12, 2012 - 9:00 am

Straight cloud monitoring services, like those from Cloudyn, Cloudability and Newvem might be a thing of the past as some service providers team up or add functionality as a way to stand out in a crowded market.
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Spend pennies in the cloud for big data analytics

Posted December 11, 2012 - 9:00 am

Through Amazon Web Services, companies can test drive SAP HANA on big slices of their data for less than a dollar per hour.
The Weekly Hash - December 7, 2012

Posted December 7, 2012 - 12:16 pm

A silly review of recent tech stories, this week featuring the Gambino crime family, Yoko Ono and the pope
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Rackspace CTO: Gartner is missing the point about OpenStack

Posted December 5, 2012 - 11:55 am

Rackspace's CTO says Gartner, which put out a scathing report about OpenStack this summer, is out of touch.
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DevOps Troubleshooting: Linux server best practices

Posted December 2, 2012 - 8:26 pm

Do you get calls at odd hours because some critical service that you support on your Linux server has stopped working? Here's some late night reading that might help you get the rest you deserve.
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Five Friday links that explain our weird tech world

Posted November 30, 2012 - 5:12 pm

You deserve a chance to step back from the grindstone (which is what guilt-ridden "knowledge workers" like myself call a keyboard). You deserve a chance to see some of the pieces from an elevated height.
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Location, location, location: A big data opportunity for retailers

Posted November 29, 2012 - 9:00 am

Retailers slowly edge their way to a deeper understanding of the value of "where" using location-based data.
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HANA: The core of an integrated data strategy

Posted November 27, 2012 - 9:00 am

SAP HANA delivers core SQL access to relational data, and includes a native text search engine for unstructured and semi-structured data.
Google, Facebook - and now Twitter - go to Washington

Posted November 26, 2012 - 12:50 pm

Tech companies spend millions each year to lobbying for (and against) issues that can affect their business; how much do they spend and what issues do they spend it on?
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Some AWS partnerships -- like with Oracle and Microsoft -- are just about to get awkward

Posted November 20, 2012 - 8:26 pm

Enterprise software vendors like Oracle and Microsoft have made sure their apps can run on AWS, but they're likely to become less friendly with Amazon once their own competitive IaaS services come into their own.
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