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  • Microsoft tries to rain on Amazon’s cloud parade

    As Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels was on stage at the AWS Summit in New York, Microsoft released a new tool for migrating workloads from AWS’s cloud into Azure. Credit: Brandon Butler On the day of AWS’s New York Summit, Microsoft launches tool for migrating AWS workloads into Azure This week […]

  • Chrome tools every Web developer will love

    Chrome tools every Web developer will love Chrome DevTools and powerful add-ons lend keen insights into your code Chrome tools every Web developer will love Google Chrome has fast become the most popular Web browser, eclipsing Firefox and Internet Explorer with over half of the browser market share worldwide, according […]

  • Proposal to limit anonymized domain registration ignites furor

    Privacy advocates are sounding the alarm over a potential policy change that would prevent some people from registering website addresses without revealing their personal information. ICANN, the regulatory body that oversees domain names, has asked for public comment on whether it should prohibit the private registration of domains which are […]

  • Google opens up on its SDN

    For first time, hyperwebscale company details its data center network, offers it to developers At this week’s Open Network Summit, Google spoke for the first time publicly about its custom data center network. For nearly a decade, we’ve been hearing, reading and writing about how Google was building its own […]

  • How green is Amazon’s cloud?

    Report gives Amazon a ‘D’ for energy efficiency; Google gets a ‘B’ Amazon Web Services has been under fire in recent weeks from a group of activist customers who are calling for the company to be more transparent in its usage of renewable energy. In response, rather than divulge additional […]

  • Containers vs. virtual machines: How to tell which is the right choice for your enterprise

    There’s a lot more to it than just how many apps you can put in a box Name a tech company, any tech company, and they’re investing in containers. Google, of course. IBM, yes. Microsoft, check. But, just because containers are extremely popular, doesn’t mean virtual machines are out of […]

  • The state of mobile payments in 2015

    CurrentC coming summer 2015 CurrentC is expected to be available in mid 2015, and it will combine mobile payments and loyalty benefits. Merchant Content Exchange (MCX), a company owned by a consortium of U.S. retailers including CVS, Best Buy, Lowe’s, Sears, Target, and Walmart, backs the CurrentC platform. Small-scale trials […]

  • Will containers kill the virtual machine?

    As container hype sweeps across technology, what does it mean for VMs? Two years ago when Frank Macreery started Aptible to help companies host sensitive healthcare data in the cloud, as CTO he decided that containers would play a pivotal role in the company’s operations. “Running our service just on […]

  • Microsoft and Yahoo shake up their search deal

    Tweaked agreement gives Yahoo more flexibility, possibly in images or mobile Nearly six years after Microsoft and Yahoo inked a search partnership, the companies are extending their agreement while changing it up a bit, as well. The companies announced today that they have amended their search partnership. However, the deal […]

  • How data breaches break down by state and sector

    The number of data breaches since 2005 are sliced and diced by state and sector, but nobody should be really surprised by the results. Leaking breaches everywhere Morgan & Morgan, a personal injury law firm, has compiled data that shows 930 million records have been breached since 2005. In 2010, […]