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Just how bad is Microsoft’s bottom line? Earnings report will be closely watched after job cuts

GeekWire

GeekWire File Photo Microsoft is seeing customers “optimize their digital spend to do more with less,” and “exercise caution” in the face of an uncertain economy, CEO Satya Nadella said in a memo last week , announcing 10,000 job cuts. But how bad are things getting, really? Microsoft is taking a charge of $1.2

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What Is Patch Management and Why Is It Important?

SecureWorld News

Whether it's an employee desktop, a dormant endpoint device, or a cloud-based document storage system, they all need to be secured and patched. Doing so is often a governance and compliance exercise for organizations, but patch management mustn't be ignored when establishing these policies from the off. It optimizes resource usage.

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Networking the Cloud for IoT – Pt 3 Cloud Network Systems Engineering

Cloud Musings

Dwight Bues & Kevin Jackson (This is Part 3 of a three part series that addresses the need for a systems engineering approach to IoT and cloud network design. Networking the Cloud for IoT - Pt. 1: IoT and the Government , Networking the Cloud for IoT - Pt. This is the beginning of the CONOPS document referenced earlier.

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How to Sync All of Your iCloud Passwords and Data to Windows

Gizmodo

Syncing all of your Apple data and files to devices that aren’t made by Apple isn’t the exercise in futility that it once was. There are now several signs that Apple is ready to cautiously welcome users of other hardware to its services, including tools for Chrome, Windows, and Android. Here’s how to get your… Read more.

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

IT leaders have always needed to exercise fiscal responsibility while meeting business demands for technology. West Monroe’s Tanowitz agrees, saying, “There’s cloud spend where immature governance approaches have resulted in excess consumption that can be reduced when a holistic cloud architecture approach is taken.”

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Google Stadia has reportedly been demoted, but it might show up in your Peloton

The Verge

In fact, Peloton bike owners might have already experienced the fruits of those labors — BI reports that Peloton’s very first video game, Lanebreak , was actually powered by Google’s cloud gaming technology, now dubbed Google Stream. That’s one way to put a game inside your exercise machine!).

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Technology Short Take 170

Scott Lowe

So, here you go—here’s your latest collection of links from around the internet focused on data center and cloud-related technologies. Servers/Hardware I must admit that I always wanted to have a Sun workstation, and I’ve had an interest in SunOS/Solaris for years (check out this link if you don’t believe me).

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