Issue highlights 1. Linus Torvalds celebrates 22 years of Linux with nostalgic message 2. China suffers major DDoS attack on .cn domain 3. Hackers may cash in when XP is retired 4. A new owner may not be able to save BlackBerry 5. IBM to license Power chip design to Google, others 6. PowerShell 4.0: The 10 best new PowerShell commands 7. Geek-themed Meme of the Week: No. 10 8. HyTrust enforces two-person approval for VMware security 9. Fear of NSA snooping could hurt U.S. cloud vendors 10. Windows 8 stains Ballmer's legacy 11. INSIDER 5 security best practices for SMBs 12. 10 scenes from Ballmer's Microsoft |
| WHITE PAPER: CDNetworks This white paper describes the challenges that Fortune 2000 companies face when delivering content into China via the Internet, the ways in which Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) can ease market entry into China, and what to look for in a CDN provider to optimize content delivery, both in China and globally. Learn more. |
| It was 22 years ago on Sunday that Linus Torvalds announced in a newsgroup posting that he was creating a free operating system, a message he echoed in his announcement Sunday of the latest Linux kernel release candidate. READ MORE |
| China's Internet on early Sunday morning suffered a major distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that briefly disrupted and slowed access to sites in the .cn domain. READ MORE |
| Hackers may bank their Windows XP zero-day exploits and cash them in after Microsoft stops patching the aged operating system next April. READ MORE |
| BlackBerry explores the possibility of putting itself up for sale as even BlackBerry 10 can't stop its phones from slipping into fourth place in the mobile market. READ MORE |
| WHITE PAPER: Code 42 Software, Inc. The growing wave of BYOD and increasing numbers of Apple hardware in the workplace holds major implications and opportunity for today's software companies. It's what has come to define the post-PC era – the period when user-defined productivity devices began reconfiguring the structure of corporate IT. Learn More. |
| IBM will license designs of the Power microprocessor architecture to other companies including Google, in an effort to expand use of the platform in servers and reverse declines in its hardware business. READ MORE |
| With the latest version of its scripting toolkit, Microsoft pushes task automation further into virtual machine management, configuration management, and network troubleshooting READ MORE |
| Memes are so popular they've become a meme. Most are lame, though, so I have started publishing what I consider to be the better ones here once a week. Here is No. 10. If you'd like more, here is the "Geek-themed Meme of the Week Archive". READ MORE |
| Following up on customer feedback from U.S. intelligence agencies, VMware security systems provider HyTrust has updated its virtual security appliance so actions taken by administrators can be delayed until external approval for that action is granted. READ MORE |
| WHITE PAPER: Condusiv Technologies In this Tech Spotlight, IDC highlights the plague of unnecessary I/O in virtual environments, the need for software intelligence to remove it, the importance of I/O optimization at the top of the stack and why Condusiv should be considered as an alternative to hardware for performance. Read now! |
| Edward Snowden's revelations about the U.S. government's data collection program could cause U.S. providers of cloud-based services to lose 10% to 20% of the foreign market to overseas rivals. READ MORE |
| Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer survived the flop that was Windows Vista, but he wasn't able to do the same after the disappointment of Windows 8. READ MORE |
| If your small-to-midsized business is like most, you're playing a game of chicken with cyber-criminals. You probably know that your defenses probably aren't able to repel today's sophisticated, persistent attacks, yet you hope that you'll be overlooked. READ MORE |
| As word spread of Steve Ballmer's impending retirement, Microsoft shares soared 8% higher. READ MORE |
| WHITE PAPER: Mitel Networks This report looks at how IT executives at companies large and small are learning to embrace the mobile device trend, by rethinking their strategies, hammering out new policies and locking down their critical data. Learn More |
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