Vendors and Providers

Microsoft Lync service out for some North America customers

Cause and extent of the outage not released.

Why Facebook’s SDN switch won’t affect Cisco’s customers

1 in 5 small businesses still use Windows XP, survey says

People still don't feel the impetus to upgrade from Windows XP, or maybe they can't afford it.

Breaking down the wall between VMware vSphere and cloud

Leveraging Microsoft Azure as your disaster recovery/failover data center

Using Azure Site Recovery (ASR) to replicate VMs to Azure.

SDN system controls hundreds of Cisco routers; saves contractor time, money

OS X Snow Leopard desertion rate accelerates after patches stop

More than 300,000 servers still unpatched for Heartbleed

A quick scan shows that the patch rates have dropped off and a lot of servers remain unsecured.

Can anybody stop Facebook?

New crop of potential Facebook killers emerge, then Facebook starts buying them.

Goodbye stupid software patents?

The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Alice v. CLS Bank could make many of the ridiculous business-method and software patents invalid ... eventually.