Articles by Dice Staff
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CloudFlare, Microsoft Azure Explain Outages
[caption id="attachment_8171" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Crashes suck.[/caption] CloudFlare essentially "dropped off the Internet" for about an hour on March 3, as all its edge routers (use… -
Tech Salary Trends Reveal Surprising Winners, Losers
While overall tech salaries rose a relatively healthy 5 percent during 2012, closer study of the numbers reveals some clear -- and surprising -- winners and losers. Among the winners: Network man… -
Add CSS, Database Tables to Your CodeIgniter App
In my last installment, we set up a framework so we could begin building the app we'll dig into today. Before we go any further, however, we need to do two more things. See All of Scott’s CodeIgn… -
Watch a 1-min Video Tour of Open Web
Today's tech professionals leave digital signatures – little pieces of themselves all over the web that reflect who they are and what skills they have. To recruit them, you're probably searching… -
Among Servers, Apple’s Mac Mini Quietly Gains Ground
In 2005, the first business to offer colocated Mac Minis inside a data center made its debut, provoking criticism of everything from how the Mini was cooled to the underlying business model. Sinc… -
Game Studios at the Forefront of Big Data, Cloud
If you want to see the future of Big Data, look no further than the nearest gaming-development studio. It isn't all fun and first-person-shooting. Game developers are the sentinels of a variety o… -
Microwaves Could Solve Need for Long-Haul, Low-Latency Networks
While high-speed optical fiber might be the way to go for large national research networks, point-to-point microwave connections have emerged as key links between financial exchanges. The reason?… -
HP, Dell Server Sales Swallowed Up by 'Other' Vendors: Gartner
Server sales were flat in the fourth quarter, estimates research firm Gartner, thanks in part to virtualization-driven consolidation. While server-related revenues grew 5.1 percent, budget constr… -
Who Wants Juniper's Enterprise Businesses?
What’s worse than when the sharks are circling about a beleaguered company? When the sharks aren't circling at all. That's apparently the case for Juniper Networks, which came to the RSA conferen… -
Intel Launches Its Own Apache Hadoop Distribution
It’s no secret that Apache Hadoop has caught on in a big way among companies large and small. The open-source framework specializes in running data applications on large hardware clusters, making…