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Goldman Sachs – considered by many to be the gold standard in the financial services world – has been on a six-year journey to embrace cloud computing, which has culminated in about 85% of the company’s workloads now operating in a cloud framework, says J Ram, managing director at the bank who heads up its cloud platform business unit.

Recently, I responded to a technology-industry acquisition with a tweet of congratulations to the founders for a job well done. Seemingly a fairly innocent missive, the tweet received a quick response from Puppet Labs CEO Luke Kanies. For those unaware of the company, Puppet Labs is all about creating solutions that help organizations manage their infrastructure. It, and other companies like it, have a notion of "recipes," through which infrastructure provision and management can be automated and made far more efficient. Читать дальше...

Fear not holiday gift shoppers: The best deals on the Apple Watch apparently didn't all take place on Black Friday or Cyber Monday.

A look back

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As we wind down 2015, we thought it would be interesting to take a look at what some of the hot topics were 20 years ago. Remember Lou Gerstner of IBM trying to grab up Lotus? Do you even remember Lotus? Microsoft loved Apple too. It was an interesting time. Take a look at 1995.

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The U.S. Marshals Service today warned of a telephone scam that has some scamster calling random victims and alleging they or their family members have an active federal arrest warrant and demanding payment of fines.

In a partnership that would have seemed most unlikely back when Microsoft railed against open source, the software company has teamed with the Linux Foundation to offer a certification for managing Linux systems in the Azure cloud.

Yahoo announced today that it has abandoned a plan to spin off its $31 billion stake in Alibaba, a popular Chinese e-commerce company, and would instead spin off all of its other assets into a new company. The move is called a reverse spinoff.

As millennials move into business decision-making roles over the next three years, they will push for faster deployments of real-time, sensor-driven applications, according to IDC’s FutureScape report, “Worldwide Internet of Things 2016 Predictions.”

Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), a vocal critic of the use of H-1B workers at Disney, introduced legislation on Tuesday to reduce the H-1B cap by nearly 25%.

When it comes to doom and gloom, Facebook users have a lot to say.

That’s one takeaway, at least, from Facebook’s 2015 Year in Review. To create a list of the most popular conversation topics, the social network looked at aggregate, anonymized data from all of this year’s Facebook posts, and measured how frequently those topics came up. Here’s the global list of most talked-about topics:

1. US Presidential Election
2. November 13 Attacks in Paris
3. Syrian Civil War... Читать дальше...

The end-of-the-year best-of lists are trickling out, ranking everything from books and movies to tweets and trends. But 2015 wouldn’t be complete without Apple’s picks for the year’s best apps, and for the first time the company also selected the top Apple Watch and Apple TV apps.

CSO Contributing Writer Ira Winkler (The Irari Report) recently sat down for an interview with Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the deputy secretary of Homeland Security.

Google on Wednesday released a new tool for companies that want to make sure their sensitive information isn't shared via email.

Mozilla has ended its ambitious entry into the smartphone race, saying Tuesday it will stop offering Firefox OS phones through operators.

IBM is launching a program where customers can share apps they write to augment IBM’s QRadar platform that analyzes security data, detects behavior anomalies and sorts out high-priority risks from the mass of incidents it examines.

2015 was such a hopeful year for Linux on smartphones. At the beginning of the year, there was so much hope for what could be.

Since 2008, a group of attackers has used off-the-shelf remote access Trojans (RATs) to target political figures, journalists and public figures in several South American countries. 

Mozilla confirmed Tuesday that it was halting development on Firefox OS in its current incarnation, putting an end to more than four years of work building a browser-based, smartphone operating system.

When shopping for a smart device, are you most influenced by the device’s capabilities, by its coolness factor, or by holiday sales that dropped the price? Do you first review the company’s policies, terms and conditions, the potentially excessive permissions a mobile app will require to control the connected device, or with whom the manufacturer will share or sell your collected data? If you receive a smart gadget as a gift, do you think the giver was wise enough to consider the small print before purchasing... Читать дальше...

Remembering

The networking and computing world, as well as the worlds of science and inventions, lost well-known pioneers as well as younger movers and shakers during 2015. Here’s a brief look back at these people and their contributions.

It’s not that the biggest names in enterprise IT and networking aren’t good places to work, according to employees submitting reviews to jobs and career marketplace Glassdoor. It’s just that they aren’t “Amazing!” or “Great!” places to be employed, according to Glassdoor’s list of the 50 Best Places to Work in 2016.

For those procrastinators

The smoke has cleared from Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Tech Tuesday and Whatever Wednesday, and you’re probably still thinking, “Oh, gosh, I still have no idea what to get people for the holidays.”

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach.

Microsoft’s newfound embrace of open-source software continues with the news today that the company will now offer a Linux on Azure certificate through its Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate program.

In an effort to better enable its cloud users to access video from any device at any time, IBM today said it is buying Clearleap, a 7-year-old Georgia-based company.