Opinion

Celebrities get phished, but the cloud gets blamed

No system is perfectly secure, but the fact is the cloud is more secure than on-premises systems

Nude photos, phone records, NSA data offer essential lessons for admins

Whether via Apple's iCloud, the DEA, or the NSA, data is leaking everywhere — can anyone avoid exposure?

FCC chairman steps up for citizens, competition, and a better Internet

Amid debate over Comcast-Time Warner and Net neutrality, Tom Wheeler speaks of the need for more choice in broadband

Scala founder: Language due for ‘fundamental rethink’

The Scala road map has three upgrades planned, with a simpler, more modular language set as the end goal

Video: What’s next for JavaScript?

The upcoming ECMAscript 6 will provide the basis for modernizing the wildly popular JavaScript language

Box faces tough campaign for health, retail, and entertainment clouds

Box's move to add services for vertical markets smartly avoids the race to the bottom in cloud storage, but the road isn't easy

How to screw tech workers and get away with it

Tech giants get off with slap on the wrist for conspiring to keep employees from competing for better jobs

Rejected by the App Store? Apple finally reveals why

Apple's posted a handy guide on the App Store review process, but developer beware — the rules can change at any time

JavaScript adds Node.js validation library

Tcomb validation library emphasizes models as 'single source of truth' and focuses on early bug detection

When big data is truly better

Take advantage of scale when past experience indicates greater analytic value will result. But big data is not a hammer — nor is every problem a nail

Rethinking the data center network

In stark contrast to traditional three-tier architecture, core and pod network design paves the way to flexibility and innovation

4 Benefits of Moving Traditional Enterprise Apps to the Cloud

4 no-bull things Google for Work needs to do to win the enterprise

Here are four steps Google must take if Google for Work is going to edge out Microsoft Office and Exchange in the workplace

Microsoft re-releases botched Windows 8.1 Update 2 patch KB 2975719

New Windows 8.1 Update 2 version 2 may come with an unpleasant requirement that you uninstall old versions

As the data center shifts to the cloud, VMware struggles to stay relevant

Virtualization powerhouse belatedly ramps up its cloud offerings, but lags behind both Microsoft and AWS

PHP 5.6 features built-in debugger, better namespace support

PHP 7 will follow in a year or so to significantly improve performance for PHP apps

Slackers in the office? Must be the boss’s kids

Nepotism rears its ugly head when a new timekeeping system reveals two workers' lazy, cheating ways

Canonical partners with IBM on a pain-free OpenStack

Ubuntu Linux maker's BootStack offering can be on-premise or hosted via a partnership with IBM Softlayer

Suffering from cloud contention? It’s not the cloud’s fault

Is your cloud too crowded to meet your required workload responsiveness? Actually, you may have a bad cloud provider

You have your Windows in my Linux

Ultimately, the schism over systemd could lead to a separation of desktop and server distros, or Linux server admins moving to FreeBSD

GitHub’s new CEO: We’re serious about the enterprise

In a few short years, GitHub has become the world's largest code repository. CEO Chris Wanstrath explains how GitHub is also helping enterprises revitalize their app dev efforts

CoreOS’s Rudder steers software-defined networking for Docker

Creator of a Docker-based Linux distribution rolls out its answer to the networking headaches common to Docker containers

4 Smart Ways to Architect Your Apps in the Cloud

Good news for Microsoft: China wants to dump Windows

If China makes good on its threat to break up with Windows, Microsoft could lose the battle — yet win the war

After Xen and KVM, meet a new Linux hypervisor: Jailhouse

Devised for real-time use, open source Jailhouse hypervisor is lean and small, a complement to Xen and LVM rather than a replacement

Comcast, Marxism, and Net neutrality: Twisted words, shameless hypocrisy

A conservative lobbying group and Comcast turn up the rhetoric in the already heated Net neutrality wars

How Microsoft could beat Google and even AWS to lead the cloud

Of the three main public cloud contenders, Microsoft has the most baggage, the most to lose, and the most to gain

Mozilla tackles the browser memory conundrum

In Mozilla's Servo browser engine, a JavaScript garbage collector will take over DOM memory management

Microsoft Azure makes nice with Google to get a piece of Docker

Microsoft Azure digs deeper into Docker, with visual tool and Kubernetes support for containers

Linux Foundation’s certification sets new benchmark for admins

Do open source projects need formal certification? Two notable open source foundations think they do

Google completes its office suite for iOS, to no one’s benefit

Google Slides is a limited, awkward tool that shows — for mobile productivity — the real battle is between Apple and Microsoft

Zocalo consolidates document management under Amazon cloud

Document-management service won't steal customers from Box, Dropbox, or Google, but complements Amazon WorkSpaces well

Microsoft ships replacement patch KB 2993651 with two known bugs

Microsoft re-releases botched MS14-045/KB 2982791 'Blue Screen 0x50' patch, buries tip to manually uninstall first patch, and introduces more problems

Get a job: The top 10 hottest IT skills today

The IT job market hasn't been this strong in many years. Here are the skills that will keep you ahead of the pack

Big data: There’s signal in that noise

When the data you capture and crunch is large and disorderly, interesting bits may come along for the ride. Don't squeeze the life out of it — explore it

The star of JavaOne is … JavaScript?

Fearing developers could defect, Oracle makes accommodations for JavaScript at its upcoming Java conference

Cisco — that’s right, Cisco — soars in server sales

Cisco's success in blade server market may be as much about savvy marketing and good customer outreach as it is about technology

Windows rumor roundup: Cloud hypervisors, Threshold RT, and Metro

Speculation abounds about the next iteration of Windows, and here are some of the nuggets in the dreck

Back to basics: 5 baffling tech support tales

Kill this key! Use your bionic vision! Play family counselor! These requests are all in a day's work at the help desk

How Red Hat can catch the developer train

Developers are embracing a range of open source technologies, virtually none supported or sold by Red Hat. Can the open source giant recover?

Friend or foe? Microsoft partners wary of Office 365 migration plans

Microsoft's self-interest may leave solutions providers in the lurch, but for now there's still a need for third-party help

Famo.us talks big, but jQuery Foundation isn’t worried

The cool Web and mobile library has high expectations but may be biting off more than it can chew

Support letdowns tarnish Apple’s sterling quality

By building better products, Apple creates higher user expectations for addressing issues when they arise

Free beer! Now Amazon has cloud developers’ attention

The AWS pop-up loft in San Francisco is the latest indication that cloud developers are a hot commodity — and have choices

Docker founder Solomon Hykes explains Docker

You've no doubt heard of Docker, but if you don't get what it is or why it was created, its founder lays it all out

Container convergence: Docker, VMware, and Google team up

Docker-VMware partnership lets Docker containers run on VMware infrastructure, with help from Google and Pivotal

VMware stamps its imprint on OpenStack, with eye toward VM management

Virtualization giant preps OpenStack distribution, perhaps as part of broader move to decouple its management tools and VM offerings

New Windows coming in late September — but which one?

Nobody seems to know whether 'Threshold' and 'Windows 9' will be one and the same or separate operating systems

Big databases jump on the JSON bandwagon

Database titans like Oracle and IBM can no longer ignore the NoSQL insurgents. Are their efforts to accommodate JSON serious, or superficial?

Choose your side on the Linux divide

The battle over systemd exposes a fundamental gap between the old Unix guard and a new guard of Linux developers and admins