By SearchSecurity.com(editor@searchsecurity.com) Google has added Linux kernel memory protection and other security measures to the Android OS. Expert Michael Cobb explains how these features work to protect devices. …read more Source::
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Linux versus Unix hot patching
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By Richard Fichera(editor@www.com We examine the current state of play in the ongoing competition between the Linux and Unix server operating systems …read more Source:: IT Management
IDG Contributor Network: Tech skills earning the highest cash premiums — no certification required
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By David Foote [Author’s Note: This is the first of a series of columns that will reveal the highest paying and fastest growing certified and noncertified tech skills right now.] Why would an employer pay its tech workers extra cash for a skill or certification if they’re already getting a salary and annual bonus? There…
At least SOME things about a reorg are predictable
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By Sharky This company is about to go through yet another reorganization — which means yet another staff meeting to explain the reorg plan to employees, reports an IT pilot fish who’s been through it all before. “At the very start of the meeting, the person in charge stood up,” fish says. “She began by…
Outages at Delta and Southwest Airlines hold valuable management lessons
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By Bart Perkins Delta’s and Southwest’s planes are flying again, but the system outages both suffered last summer were painful for them. What can your company learn from their unfortunate experiences? Both airlines’ outages were massive, requiring days to fully recover. Both had to cancel thousands of flights and lost millions of dollars in revenue.…
How Linux has influenced modern IT
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By ComputerWeekly.com(editor@www.com) On 25 August 1991, Linus Torvalds released the Linux kernel. We look at how the open source operating system has evolved in the last quarter of a century …read more Source:: IT Management
Satya Nadella’s comp package slips 3% to $17.7M
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By Gregg Keizer Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella received a compensation package for the year ending June 30 worth approximately $17.7 million, a 3% reduction from 2015, according to security filings. A preliminary proxy statement submitted Monday to the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission showed that Nadella’s pay cut was about a third of the 9%…
Hypergrid adds metered usage and networks to hyper-converged kit
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By ComputerWeekly.com(editor@www.com) Hyper-converged appliance maker will allow customers to pay for what they use in hardware that will now add networking …read more Source:: IT Management
Why (and how) you should manage Windows PCs like iPhones
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By Galen Gruman The days of Microsoft’s System Center may be numbered. With the introduction of Windows 10, Microsoft has begun championing a different approach to systems management — the same approach that Apple created for the iPad and iPhone, and Google later adopted for Android. Organizations adopting Windows 10 can take advantage of this…
The digital dissidents
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By Thornton May Most businesses today are thinking about digital disruption. Either they are trying to unleash it, or they are seeking ways to avoid being victims of it, rendered irrelevant. Some are involved in both activities. Most of their employees are on board with all of this. Research that I have been involved in…