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X marks the spot for digital transformation

Getting customer experience right is becoming a make-or-break for many businesses. And best-in-class digital transformation must be underpinned by enterprise, business, and IT roadmaps -- that is, by enterprise architecture

Aug 20, 2015 4 mins

Business Intelligence Careers Data Architecture

Are Chromebooks a danger to open source software?

In today's open source roundup: Chromebooks could be trouble for open source software. Plus: Chromebooks outsell Windows laptops. And the five best affordable to premium Chromebooks

Aug 20, 2015 3 mins

Open Source Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

SharePoint 2016: The future is hybrid

The on-premises collaboration server will increasingly rely on, or encourage the use of, cloud services

Aug 20, 2015 3 mins

Cloud Computing Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

How Apache Ranger and Chuck Norris help secure Hadoop

The Hadoop ecosystem has always been a bag of parts, each of which needs to be secured separately -- at least they did need that, until Apache Ranger came to town

Aug 20, 2015 4 mins

Data Management Security Software Development

Upgrading an old PC to Windows 10? You’re on your own

Microsoft's free upgrade strategy places the burden of support on PC makers -- and for 'unsupported' systems, they're punting to you

Aug 20, 2015 4 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry

Windows Server Containers arrive, with Docker support

The latest preview of Windows Server shows a new level of support for Docker and hints at Microsoft's overall ambitions with containers

Aug 20, 2015 3 mins

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Netflix builds JavaScript library to fetch data

The Falcor project, still at the preview stage, retrieves data via simple JavaScript operations

Aug 19, 2015 2 mins

JavaScript

ASP.Net SignalR library builds apps that can communicate in real-time

Take advantage of the open source SignalR asynchronous library to build applications that can send push notifications from the server to the client seamlessly

Aug 19, 2015 4 mins

Web Development

CoreOS’s Rocket aims for greater container isolation

The next generation of CoreOS's container runtime uses Intel hardware-based isolation for added security. Will other container systems follow that example?

Aug 19, 2015 2 mins

Application Security Software Development

Google Go goes faster with 1.5 upgrade

The latest version of the language features improved garbage collection, mobile accomodations, and a runtime rewritten in Go

Aug 19, 2015 3 mins

Development Tools Software Development