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Jay Lyman, senior analyst for the 451 Group, spoke at LinuxCon North America 2011 on the changing Linux landscape. Sessions are short at LinuxCon – about 50 minutes in total,

The twentieth anniversary of the World Wide Web was celebrated worldwide a few days ago, which says something quite compelling about the state of the Web itself. As ReadWriteWeb Editor-in-Chief

The nginx Web server and reverse proxy server has already posted impressive numbers in the Web server market as a small open source project. Now the project's creator, Igor Sysoev,

Ever wondered which industries use the most data? How much data storage has grown since the late 80's? If you're obsessed with data (aren't we all?) this infographic posted on

Yesterday Cisco announced that it will lay off 6,500 employees and sell a manufacturing plant in Juarez, Mexico to Foxconn to shave off an additional 5,000 employees. This follows

Last week we told you about Microsoft's admission that, if compelled by the U.S. Patriot act, the company would hand over data stored outside the U.S. to U.S. authorities.

Shrinking the IT department and cutting down on costs are two commonly touted benefits of cloud computing. We've reported before about estimates of how many IT jobs would be

Today Microsoft announced the Windows Thin PC (WinTPC) thin client operating system will be available on July 1. A release candidate has been available since March. The company also

Platform-as-a-service is one of the toughest types of cloud offerings to understand, but provides some of the most promise - especially for startups. We've looked at the confusion and

The nation's cryptologic intelligence agency is moving towards a cloud-centric approach to computing. In an interview with Information Week, National Security Agency CIO Lonny Anderson talks about the cloud,

Ever since the term "Web 2.0" started to catch-on, people have been speculating as to what "Web 3.0" will be. Briefly stated, Web 1.0 was the Static Web and

If you weren't one of the few who snagged tickets to Google I/O during in the 59 minutes before they sold out, you're in luck. Google will stream the

Over the weekend we told you about Oracle's killer quarter. One of the interesting things about how well Oracle is doing is that a large part of the company's

Forrester released two reports on cloud-based e-mail this week: one on selecting a provider, and another on migrating to the cloud. Although Forrester doesn't recommend any specific providers, the

Want a more global perspective of enterprise technology trends? Gartner's 2011 CIO Agenda survey included responses from 2,014 CIOs across 50 countries and 38 industries. In a recent announcement,

Google Cloud Connect is a Microsoft Office plugin released today by Google. It has been available for testers since November, but it is now generally available. It syncs a

Okta was founded in 2008 by two former Salesforce.com executives to solve an emerging problem for organizations using cloud services: user management and access control. Okta integrates with Active

Today Heroku, a Ruby platform-as-a-service which was recently acquired by Salesforce.com, disclosed a serious security issue. The vulnerability has been fixed, and there is no evidence that it was

We just looked at some potentially disruptive technologies that fall outside the usual domain of the enterprise. In this post, we'll look at some of the more near-term challenges

Dreamforce, Salesforce.com's annual user conference, is next week and the related announcements are starting to roll in. This week we're seeing an upgrade to Zuora's cloud billing system, a

Today EMC announced its acquisition of scale-out NAS vendor Isilon Systems for $2.25 billion. According to EMC's announcement, the company will now be able to offer its customers a

Microsoft announced today that Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie is stepping down from his position. Although Microsoft does not intend to replace Ozzie, he will assist in transferring his

V3 is running an interview with Google director of security Eran Feigenbaum. Feigenbaum makes some interesting points about cloud security and the possibility that cloud solutions might actually be

A recent poll found that most enterprises that have already become infrastructure-as-a-service customers worry much less about cloud security than companies that are only thinking about making the leap.

Last week we wrote about Google's long term strategy to win over enterprise customers. But MarketWatch reported Friday on a short-term setback for Google enterprise ambitions: the company missed