Federal agencies face a growing challenge as they try to rationalize their applications: how to capitalize on the potential of the cloud when their IT infrastructure increasingly exists in a dual ...

Operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Linux and Apple OSx are the software “bridge” between application code and computer hardware. It’s the operating system (OS) that defines the capabilities ...

Ultimately, every problem in the constantly evolving IT software stack becomes a database problem, which is why there are 418 different databases and datastores in the DB Engines rankings and there ...

The rise of Kubernetes came about through a combination of forces that were, in hindsight, quite a long shot. Amazon Web Services Inc.’s dominance created momentum for cloud-native application ...

Enabling your existing “pre-cloud” enterprise applications to take full advantage of cloud computing is fraught with technical obstacles, such as unsupported versions of operating systems (OS), ...

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Microsoft's newest operating system isn't even out of the gate, but Tim Sweeney has Thoughts about it. As you may have guessed from his previous comments, he's not much of a fan. Share on Facebook ...

What are open-source operating systems? Underpinning an operating system, for example Windows on your PC or Android on your phone, is many, many lines of code. Allowing anyone to inspect the source ...

When a microprocessor vulnerability rocked the tech industry last year, companies scrambled to patch nearly every server they had. In Oracle’s case, that meant patching the operating system on about 1 ...