Operating systems are the backbone of modern computing and play a crucial role in managing the resources of a computer. The design and implementation of an operating system involve a wide range of ...

This IDC survey of 1,025 IT decision makers illustrates cloud strategies at organizations and the role of server operating system environments. Commercial Linux is the only environment that surveyed ...

The world of computing has long been governed by traditional operating systems like Windows, Linux and Unix. These platforms form the backbone of how we interact with computers, enabling software to ...

Even with all of the advances in IT, whether it’s modular hardware, massive cloud computing resources, or small-form-factor edge devices, IT still has a scale problem. Not physically—it’s easy to add ...

Developers talk a lot about “immutability.” Outside the technical world, it usually means something negative: unmoving, inflexible, and entrenched. However, in the technical field, these features ...

Ultimately, every problem in the constantly evolving IT software stack becomes a database problem, which is why there are 418 different databases and datastores in the DB Engines rankings and there ...

Virtualization has not stripped Windows of its relevance, a Microsoft official said in response to VMware CEO Paul Maritz’s argument that operating systems are no longer the center of innovation in ...