Google is Building a Datacenter in...um, Where...?!?
Google is building a new datacenter in...well, I wouldn't have guessed this city.
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Microsoft: VMware Pricing "Gave The World The Greatest Gift Of All"
“Everyone wants to get off of VMware and get into the cloud." So says Microsoft's Chief Commercial Officer, and he's right.
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LowEndLOLs: CrowdStrike Meme Starter Pack
Social media has been blown up with CrowdStrike memes...heck, we even shared some Friday. But after a while you notice they tend to be the same jokes over and over...well, if you want to get in on the action, here's a handy starter pack I've put together for you. Pick a theme and get some Internet fame!
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The Top 20 CrowdStrike Memes You Can Enjoy While You Fix Servers
What a bender! CrowdStrike pushed out a bad update and woke me up at 3am. I guess there were some other global impacts as well. I've been keeping an eye on the global meme tubes and have collected 20 of the best so far for you. If you're still hip deep in deleting C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike\C-00000291*.sys, take a break and enjoy some laughs.
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Install Windows Server on any VPS or Dedicated Server without KVM/iLO or IPMI!
Do you need to install Windows on your VPS? Usually you'd go to your provider's panel and install a template, or perhaps boot from an ISO. But what if neither of those are options? Can you somehow install Windows on a KVM VPS? Yes!
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Amazon to Spend $150 Billion on Datacenters in the Next 15 Years, Getting Creative on Powering Them
Amazon is planning to spend $150 billion on datacenters over the next 15 years. Finding electricity to power them is getting increasingly difficult, so the online giant is getting increasingly creative in finding juice to power all those VMs.
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Microsoft to Go All-Wireless in Datacenters? They're Testing It
Wifi inside the datacenter? Looks promising. Microsoft is giving it a try.
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The Windows 12 Preview is Here
Windows 10 was a hit, Windows 11 less so. Let's take a look at Windows 12.
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Microsoft Hits an All Time High: Will the 20-Year Dog Now Be a 20-Year Bull?
Microsoft shareholders wallowed in pain for nearly 20 years. Now they're walking in tall cotton, as the stock has hit an all-time high.
Read MoreMicrosoft Goes Nuclear: Planning to Build its Own Reactors to Power its Datacenters
Microsoft is planning to build its own nuclear reactors and has a job posting to hire a leader for this project. Is nuclear power the future of the datacenter industry?
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How to Sell Out to Microsoft and Make Easy Money - $450 and Counting for Me
I've sold out to Microsoft...at least for search. For over a decade, Microsoft has dropped a steady drip of Amazon gift cards to me. Here's how you can get on the gravy train.
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August is International "Providers Drop Unlimited Storage" Month. The Latest? Microsoft's OneDrive
All those unlimited cloud storage plans you've been stuffing full of Linux ISOs are coming to an end. The latest? Microsoft.
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A New Mysterious Streaming Platform, Kick, Is Poised To Overtake Amazon-Backed Twitch
Twitch was originally founded back in 2011 by Justin Kan and Emmett Shear. A couple of y...
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Windows XP Activation Algorithm Cracked After 21 Years
Windows XP was Microsoft's first OS that required software activation. For most users, it was a nonevent because their OS came preloaded when they bought their new desktop or laptop. But hobbyists wh...
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Looking Back on the GitHub Acquisition: Are You Still on GitHub?
Five years ago, in June 2018, Microsoft announced it was buying GitHub. At the time, there was a tremendous amount of screeching in the developer communities. Although the site was moving from propri...
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Microsoft Injecting Ads on Google.com Pages Disparaging Chrome
If you're using Microsoft Edge, you can't trust what it's showing you because Microsoft is injecting ads into competitor sites, suggesting that you can't trust other browsers and companies.
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Google: Let's Use Our Hiring Process For Our Firing Process
Google has turned its hiring process into its firing process. Why? It's bizarre but Google always wants to show that it's different and better. Unfortunately, those interviewing (again) for their jobs and then losing them are not likely to be impressed.
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When Akamai is Bought, What Happens to Linode?
A mysterious private equity buyer has been stalking Akamai (Linode's owner) for months.
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You Can Now License Windows Server on a Per-Virtual-Core Basis
One of the headaches in cloud environments is licensing for proprietary software, and no one is more of a headache on this point than Microsoft. If you want to offer Windows as a provider, you need to...
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"Creepy" Isn't What You Want in an Emoji, Microsoft
Earlier this summer, Microsoft released new emojis for their platforms. If you're a corporate slave staring at Teams all day, there is a palette of these smiling faces to inject some humanity into yo...
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Microsoft Paid Me $400 to Use Bing. They'll Pay You, Too!
Microsoft's Bing search engine launched in 2009 and has been a distant number two to mighty Google. One might say that Google is the Microsoft of search engines and Microsoft is the Apple...well, if...
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Cloud Providers Prepare to Pull the Plug on Putin
Major cloud services companies such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle may cut off Russia's access to cloud services in days to come. Already, Amazon has suspended new service signups. This is...
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Github Entertains During Its Outage
By the time you read this, the issue my be fixed, but today when I went to install Joplin, I was greeted by this amusing picture. Apparently, Joplin is hosted on GitHub and they're having an issue tod...
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Microsoft Acquires Activision
News broke after market close yesterday that Microsoft is acquiring Activision Blizzard. The acquisition puts many gaming franchises into Microsoft's hands, including Call of Duty, Warcraft/StarCraft,...
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DigitalOcean Shares Plunge 9% on High Volume
DigitalOcean (NYSE:DOCN) shares dropped 9% today. Volume was more than double normal. It's been a rough season for DO. Shares today traded for as cheap as $59/share - well off the stock's highs abov...
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Microsoft Shrugged Off 2.4Tbps DDoS Attack
Microsoft reported recently that it had fended off a 2.4Tbps DDoS attack in August. The attack - launched from 70,000 sources in Asia and the US - was the second biggest attack on record, eclipsed on...
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AMD's Server Market Share Hits New High at 16%
According to market research group Omdia, AMD has surged to a historically high server market share of 16%. "In the server CPU market, AMD scored its best-ever quarter from a market share and sales pe...
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Microsoft Says Passwords are Passé
Are passwords a dying breed? In a blog post published September 15, Microsoft Vice President of Security, Compliance, and Identity Vasu Jakkal entitled "The passwordless future is here for your Micros...
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