October 7, 2013
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While the countdown to Windows XP’s death is entering its last months, the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend is continuing to take off. One result of these trends is that companies are now offering cloud-based virtual desktops to their business customers. One such is Toshiba’s Cloud Services and Solutions‘ new Virtual Desktop Service (VDS).
October 7, 2013
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comScore‘s latest quarterly surveys for the U.S. mobile phone wars are out for the summer months. While Google’s Android operating system still leads the pack with 51.6 percent of the platform market share, Apple moved up to 40.7 percent, even before the sensational September sales of its iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s.
October 7, 2013
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You could treat your cloud like a data center full of servers with system administrators cracking the whip over them. But that would be wrong.
It would also technically and financially foolish. To get the most from your cloud, you need to get not just your administrators, a.k.a. operators, thinking in different ways, but your developers as well. With clouds, they must learn to — oh, the horror!
Hence, DevOps, the portmanteau of development and operations.
October 4, 2013
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If you agree with me that little is as miserable as having your Android smartphone or tablet die of premature battery exhaustion, then you’ll want to check these applications out.
8 Apps to improve your Android smartphone or tablet’s battery life (Slideshow). More>
October 2, 2013
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There are many reasons to switch to a Linux desktop from Windows. Better security; not having to worry over possible built-in privacy leaks; and, last but never least, Linux is cheaper… a lot cheaper.
October 2, 2013
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Everyone needs cloud-savvy administrators, but there aren’t enough to go around. Worse still, if someone does come to you and they say they know OpenStack like the back of their hand, how do you know they do? Or, flipping it around, if you’re a smart system administrator who wants to pick up mad OpenStack cloud skills, how do you do that?