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• Making Slack, the massively multiplayer online business tool

  ​When a couple of small teams at software powerhouse Adobe first started using Slack, Cal Henderson and his team were pleased, but hardly surprised.

• Slow growth ahead for IT spending, Gartner says

  The days of go-go, double-digit growth for tech are long gone and do not appear to be on the way back anytime soon.

• Intel's top PC, IoT executives leave in management shakeup

  The writing was on the wall for some Intel executives after a former Qualcomm executive was hired in November to oversee the company's PC, Internet of Things and software businesses, and two of them have now departed.

• The tech revolution could change (or erase) your job by 2020

  The Fourth Industrial Revolution is under way and while it could lead to the loss of more than 7 million jobs over the next few years, it will add jobs in areas like computer science, math and engineering.

• Yo, CIOs: Don't think your role is mostly operational

  CIOs who cling to an operational role could find themselves marginalized in the coming years, according to IDC, but those who focus on innovation could attain new heights.

• Beyond Alerts: Using orchestration to realize network self-healing

  Managing modern networked systems and applications is daunting because infrastructure is complex and things can go wrong in so many parts of the technology stack -- servers, storage, network devices, applications, hypervisors, APIs, DNS, etc. How can you address the challenge?

• Hacking PingPlotter, Part 2

  In the previous column on hacking PingPlotter I discussed how you can use the tool's Web interface and the curl utility to add targets to be tracked, for example, to add a single host you would enter the following on the command line:

• How to script: A Bash crash course

  An easy step-by-step guide to the Bash command-line shell and shell scripting

• Optimize your router for VoIP and video

  We're at an awkward stage as the age of network-streamed multimedia matures. Broadband and cell providers have only recently realized the public's enormous appetite for streaming video, VoIP, and the combination of both.

• How to pick NAS for any business

  Network-attached storage (NAS) can make your business easier to run and more efficient in multiple ways.

• How college CIOs brace for back-to-school (with video!)

  To some, the job of a higher-education CIO might seem downright cushy. After all, unlike their corporate counterparts, these IT leaders don't have to answer to shareholders, cater to business-line leaders or survive acrimonious mergers.

• Network infrastructure cost optimization services can save millions

  <em>This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.</em>

• Three critical considerations when optimizing infrastructure for application performance

  <em>This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.</em>

• A common theme in identity and access management failure: lack of Active Directory optimization

  From the vantage point of most people, even technical folks, Active Directory (AD) seems like it's doing pretty well. How often can you not log in when you sit down at your PC? How often do you fail to find someone in the corporate directory in Outlook? How many times have you heard of an AD outage?

• Meet Cobol's hard core fans

  Some of the world's largest businesses say their Cobol application infrastructure, running on state-of-the-art big iron, still delivers a powerful competitive advantage. The challenge going forward will be staffing it.

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