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OpenStack Summit Highlights Cloud's Global Influence

HONG KONG—The open-source OpenStack Foundation held its semiannual Design Summit here Nov. 5-8, discussing all manner of topics related to the cloud. As the first OpenStack Summit held outside of the United States, t...read more

Cisco: ACI Initiative Is More Than SDN

NEW YORK—Cisco Systems officials in June teased their vision of an Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI), but it wasn't until the high-profile launch Nov. 6 here that the industry got a good look at what that vision will b...read more

Apple iPad Air Teardowns: The Good, the Bad, the Unrepairable

Apple's iPad Air is 20 percent thinner and 28 percent lighter than the fourth-generation iPad. IHS iSuppli found that Apple also built its latest tablet for about $42 less than its third-generation iPad (comparing ...read more

Microsoft's CEO Short List: 10 Things It Says About the Candidates

New reports say Microsoft has a short list of candidates to replace Steve Ballmer as chief executive. The company has reportedly whittled down its list and now has five people that the news outlet sa...read more

Cloud Computing: From Its Early Years to Its Current State

The forerunners of cloud computing emerged decades ago—first as time- and compute-sharing on mainframes, then as utility computing through private network services. When the Internet became established in the l...read more

Data Breaches: 10 Common Mistakes That Put Enterprises at Risk

It's hardly uncommon anymore to see a headline in the news about a company falling victim to hackers, suffering a data breach and enduring scrutiny for the loss of customer data. Yet despite increasing awarene...read more

iPad Air as a Notebook Replacement: 10 Apps to Do the Trick

NEWS ANALYSIS: There's an ongoing debate in the technology world over whether it'd be possible to replace notebooks with tablets to handle all the day's tasks. Some have argued that making such a move isn't beyond ...read more

Google's Chromecast: 10 Things Consumers Should Know About the Dongle

NEWS ANALYSIS: Although Chromecast is by no means the most popular device in Google's growing hardware lineup, it's one of the most interesting. Unlike nearly every other product Google sells, Chromecast is...read more

Open Stack Cloud Goes Global to Draw in Developers, Technologies

HONG KONG—The open-source OpenStack cloud effort, hosting its semi-annual summit here this week, is showing off the diversity of its user base and the technologies they employ. OpenStack isn't a single te...read more

The State of Video Conferencing: 10 Key Data Points

The first-ever video conferencing device, although it remained a novelty for a long while, was demonstrated in 1960. In the 1980s, thanks to the development of the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN), the first depl...read more

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