Data Center

Microsoft extends Azure Active Directory to support Facebook, Google

Use Facebook and Google login credentials to authenticate customers, partners

iOS 9 release spurs upgrade of JAMF’s Apple management suite

Apple is releasing iOS 9 today, and JAMF Software is ready with an updated version of Casper Suite, its management platform for Macs and iOS devices.

A guide to Docker container networking

How pumped up is your pumped-up cloud data center?

A cloud data center is supposed to scale sky-high, but few know the actual capacity. How many virtual machines can it host, and how will the cloud perform as CPU, storage, networking and I/O utilization climb higher and higher?

Arista expands its portfolio with 25, 50, and 100-Gig data center switches

California delays the backlash over IT layoffs

At its final legislative session of the year, California Senate stalls action on two H-1B bills

Arista joins Cisco, Dell at 25G

Rolls out new switches based on Broadcom Tomahawk chipset

Profiling directory contents with Unix commands

Microsoft pushes Windows 10 upgrade to PCs without user consent

Confirms it has been silently downloading massive upgrade to Windows machines via automatic updates, chewing up bandwidth and storage space

Why (and how) VMware created a new type of virtualization just for containers

VMware says containers and virtual machines are better together