Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has been writing about technology and the business of technology since CP/M-80 was the cutting-edge PC operating system, 300bps was a fast Internet connection, WordStar was the state-of-the-art word processor, and we liked it!
Steven is a regular contributor to Computerworld, ZDNET, The Register and The New Stack. He has written for technical publications (IEEE Computer, ACM NetWorker); tech business publications (eWEEK, InformationWeek, & InfoWorld); popular technology (PC Magazine, & PC World); and the mainstream press (CBS News, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle & The New York Times).
He won back-to-back Tabbie Awards in 2022 and 2023 for his Computerworld Business Critical Newsletter and too many AZBEE Awards to count.
The surprise announcement that Jeff Bezos will leave later this year and hand over the reins to AWS leader Andy Jassy marks a remarkable rise for Jassy. He began as a marketing manager in 1997 and started AWS in 2003.
Oracle's CSO has some wrongheaded notions about her area of expertise. What is the company doing about that?
Docker's getting all the container headlines, but, as we're going to see this year, there's a lot more to containers than just one company
Power-line networking makes use of your electrical lines to give you a de facto wired network. It gives you the range of a wired network without any of the mess or the need to run cable behind the walls.
In one hour, you can set up your own Linux server on Amazon's cloud. No kidding. It really is that easy. Here's how
The four top Linux distributions differ widely in their approach to the desktop. Here's how to figure out which is right for you
Operating systems will remain important for as long as we use computers, but mostly they will matter only to the people behind the scenes
Nothing about enterprise-level network access control is particularly easy, from the multiple levels of protocols to figuring out whether to use appliances or switches