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North Korea’s Internet restored after 9-hour outage

The outage had led to speculation that the United States had retaliated in the wake of the hack of Sony Pictures

Forget commodity hardware — now the cloud wants custom chips

It used to be that computing hardware was kept general-purpose to support any workload, but that may not work well in the cloud

Judge nixes HP’s settlement of shareholder suit over Autonomy

HP's proposed settlement to shareholders could let the company of the hook for far too much, a judge ruled

Bringing DevOps Together with SDN For Better Networking Configuration

16Gb Fibre Channel Eases Data Center Traffic Jams

Exploits for dangerous network time protocol vulnerabilities can compromise systems

Systems administrators are urged to install critical patches that address remote code execution flaws in NTP

Google Android One phones to sell in three more Asian countries

The Android One low-cost phone was first introduced in India

How-to: Get started with Nginx

Follow these steps to install Nginx on Linux and configure PHP support, virtual hosts, HTTP authentication, SSL support, URL rewrites, and load balancing

You should be running a pfSense firewall

Fast and feature-rich pfSense may be the best firewall bar none -- and it's free and open source

Microsoft turned the ship in 2014

With new leadership and aggressive moves in cloud and open source, Microsoft is on a much better course than it was a year ago