Tech

  • The No. 1 midsize place to work in IT: Credit Acceptance

    Ambitious IT pros at this auto financing company are rewarded with frequent pay raises, substantial bonuses and generous tuition reimbursement. Six months after arriving at Credit Acceptance Corp. as a contract tech support analyst, Chris Thomas hired on as a full-time employee. He hasn’t looked back. “I started at the […]

  • Next-generation endpoint protection not as easy as it sounds

    Endpoint protection technology is making strides and may soon be touted as anti-virus Rather than looking for signatures of known malware as traditional anti-virus software does, next-generation endpoint protection platforms analyze processes, changes and connections in order to spot activity that indicates foul play and while that approach is better […]

  • EBay to sell its enterprise unit four years after buying it

    EBay has reached a deal to sell its enterprise unit, a division focused on building and running online shopping sites for brick-and-mortar retailers, for less than half of what it paid four years ago. The $925 million deal, announced Thursday, will give control of eBay Enterprise to a group of […]

  • Closing the security loop with automated incident response

    A firmware flaw in older Apple computers could allow an attacker to slip a rootkit onto the machine, a security researcher says. Credit: IDGNS Organizations need to automate low-complexity, high-volume tasks that are eating up their experts’ time This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate […]

  • 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 […]