Stories by Jon Brodkin

Former Citrix CTO says virtualization will solve security problems

While IT shops and vendors struggle to apply security practices to virtualized systems, a startup called virtualization to secure all types of devices.

Google Chrome hits 20% global share as Microsoft continues browser slide

Google Chrome's rise in popularity has been remarkably fast and it's just hit a new milestone: more than 20% of all browser usage, according to StatCounter.

Microsoft: Cloud computing won't hurt us

Cloud computing is widely perceived as a threat to Microsoft, because the maker of Windows and Microsoft Office earns the lion's share of its money selling licenses for packaged software.

Microsoft, Google and Twitter debate whether HTML5 is "Holy Grail"

Is HTML5 the Holy Grail for building next-generation Web applications?

Research tackles powering the virtual data center

Data center managers are well versed in distributing power efficiently to physical servers. But the proliferation of virtualization, with multiple virtual machines and applications running on a single piece of hardware, has made this task a lot more complicated.

The data center needs an operating system?

Personal computers have operating systems. Even phones have operating systems. So why doesn't the data center have one?

Who needs a cloud? Microsoft sold 31 million copies of Office 2010

Microsoft is taking aim at some unspecified critics on the one-year anniversary of Office 2010, saying the product has sold a copy every second despite the rise of Google Apps and other cloud-based alternatives.

Want to stop cybercrime? Follow the money

Five dollars for control over 1,000 compromised email accounts. Eight dollars for a distributed denial-of-service attack that takes down a website for an hour. And just a buck to solve 1,000 captchas.

Chrome nearly replaced Firefox in Ubuntu Linux, Mark Shuttleworth says

Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth is a big fan of Google Chrome, and says the browser could replace the standard Firefox in future versions of Ubuntu Linux.

As iPad sales boom, Gartner downgrades PC forecast

Apple's iPad and other tablets are causing consumers to delay laptop purchases, Gartner said Wednesday as it downgraded PC shipment projections.

Startup targets flash memory latency

Plenty of hardware vendors are pushing out Solid State Disk products to speed up data access. Now a startup is emerging from stealth mode with server software designed to make it easier to use SSD with existing storage systems and applications.

Mac OS X more vulnerable than Windows in some ways, security expert says

Although Mac users are more likely to experience virus-free computing than Windows PC owners, there is nothing inherently more secure about Apple's operating system, and in certain respects Mac OS X is more vulnerable than Windows, a security expert tells Network World.

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