Maybe best known as the company which brought a splash of color to corporate and scientific computing with its Indigo range of computer systems, Silicon Graphics Inc. (later SGI) burst onto the mar…
When (and How) Will Enterprise GenAI Apps Get Real?
As Generative AI apps move toward production, the stage is set for companies to start seeing real, consumption-based gains contributing to their bottom lines.
The Open Source Market’s in Flux. How Can IT Managers Cope?
Unexpected license changes, rotating sponsors for projects and shrinking numbers of maintainers roil the open source world. Balance risks in choosing tools.
While Flux lost Weaveworks-employed Flux contributors, most of them continue their work on the project and it continues to have a significant and active contributor and user base.
In a previous edition of this magazine, we argued that English was so pervasive in our industry, nobody even questioned its use anymore. The same can be said of Git. It is difficult to imagine that merely twenty years ago, the landscape of source control tools was more diverse, and the choice of one such tool was much more complicated than today. Actually, Git was not even on the map yet. Before debating whether the hegemony of Git is good or bad, let us go back in time for a little while.
"Were 'In the Penal Colony' to be written today, Kafka could only be speaking of an exercise machine. Instead of the sentence to be tattooed on its victims, the machine would inscribe lines of numbers. So many calories, so many miles, so many watts, so many laps."
So begins Mark
The Internet Archive Just Backed Up an Entire Caribbean Island
By becoming the official custodian of an entire nation’s history for the first time, the Internet Archive is expanding its already outsize role in preserving the digital world for posterity.
Apr 07, 2024 — Topic: personal Note: This is not prescriptive advice. It is not meant to be read as: "How to land a job at Microsoft." It simply cover…
I was reading the most recent Club MacSrories and this paragraph got me thinking…
The reasons why Apple is so hesitant to compete more directly with a broader segment of the videogame industry are as much a mystery today as ever. However, the rise of handheld gaming on Linux- and
The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy
Blitzscaling promises to teach techniques that are “the lightning fast path to building massively valuable companies.” But it's not a recipe for success—it's survivorship bias masquerading as a strategy.
Network connectivity issues are leading cause of IT service outages
Uptime Institute finds networking problems are the root cause of most IT service-related issues, while power is the primary source of data center downtime, and cyberattacks are becoming a significant contributor to outages.
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