System Management

Adobe patches critical vulnerabilities in Flash Player, Shockwave

An exploit targets one of the vulnerabilities by using Flash content embedded in Microsoft Word documents, Adobe warns

Microsoft Patch Tuesday reinforces the value of software upgrades

Microsoft has issued five critical security bulletins in December's round of Patch Tuesday

Oracle becomes sponsor of OpenStack Foundation

Oracle says it knows customers don't want to be locked into proprietary cloud management tools

Goldman Sachs, with 10,000 tech workers, embraces open systems

Risk-averse Goldman Sachs is an advocate of Facebook's Open Compute Project, embracing open systems, commodity computing

Tomorrow’s Data Center Will Be Mobile, Flexible, Highly Efficient and Secure

Ruby on Rails security updates patch XSS, DoS vulnerabilities

The updates also strengthen the protection for a vulnerability patched in January

Cisco has this SDN thing covered

Opportunity in automated IT provisioning vs. threat of cheap hardware; Threat will be from SDN competition, IT administration

How to get a handle on capacity management when workloads fluctuate wildly

What’s New with Configuration Manager in System Center 2012 R2

Microsoft brings significant updates to System Center Configuration Manager with the 2012 R2 release

The DevOps Army

Engineers leverage DevOps every day