Articles by Dice Staff

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  F5 or Fortinet: Who Has the Fastest Firewall?

  F5 Networks is claiming the world’s fastest firewall—which might produce a squawk or two over at Fortinet, which insists its Fortigate-5140B is the world’s fastest. F5’s new BIG-IP Advanced Firew…
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  Will the Ubuntu Phone Actually Mean Anything?

  Canonical recently rolled out plans for an Ubuntu smartphone, a year after unveiling its Ubuntu-powered TV. Over the years, the company's done a great job of promoting Linux, and it shows in Ubun…
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  Don't Sign That NDA Until You Read This

  Back in November, Facebook surprised a Silicon Valley iOS Meetup when it requested that attendees sign non-disclosure agreements before they were allowed into its building to hear a presentation…
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  5 Interview Questions for Consultants

  A key to landing a consulting job is to answer interview questions with specific examples of previous challenges you've addressed and a sound demonstration of your ability to tackle projects, sol…
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  IT Automation Evolving Thanks to New Open-Source Tools

  One of the simplest ways to tell whether a data center is being well managed is to see if the individual servers have pet names. Naming a server suggests the machine has some characteristics that…
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  Data Centers Will Prioritize Blocking DDoS Attacks in 2013

  Data-center owners and other service providers are prioritizing investments in technology designed to prevent Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, according to a new survey from Infoneti…
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  What We Mean When We Talk About HTML5

  HTML5 has generated a great deal of buzz lately. It’s bursting with potential as an application platform that could augment or even outright replace traditional technology stacks. Yet even with i…
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  Our New Guidelines on Discussions and Comments

  I’ve written in the past about the guidelines we publish to make sure conversations and comments on Dice are courteous and on-point. (You can read them here.) Many of these are obvious: be courte…
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  IT Security: When Protection Becomes Prohibitive

  In the business world, security is sold as a protective measure and discussed as an enabler of productivity. But what happens when security hinders work, slowly killing the business from within?…
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  NVIDIA's Tegra 4 Could Reshape Mobile Gaming

  NVIDIA's Tegra SoC platform has always been interesting, but with the next generation 22-nm Tegra 4 boasting six times the graphical processing power as its quad core predecessor, it's gone from…