Today, business lives and dies by hyperscale cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. | These are the five most common causes of hyperscale cloud downtime.

I was a database administrator and developer for Adabas/Natural on IBM mainframes; Datatrieve Rdb on VAX/VMS; and the xBase database management system (DBMS) language family when I was much younger | Databases are hard to set up, administer and run, which is why database-as-a-service is exploding.

Here's why Meta's Threads is my least favorite of all the new Twitter alternatives.

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi estimated a 2.95-mile ride would cost $20 but was surprised to learn it actually cost $51, Wired reported.

Past public ire over high drug prices has recently taken a back seat to a more insidious problem – no drugs at any price.

A years-long period of record-high quits rocked the workforce in ways we couldn't have imagined. But the mass exodus is done, say experts.

Three of Red Hat's rivals are taking on Red Hat Enterprise Linux with their new Open Enterprise Linux source code repository. Here's why this is a big deal.

Quebec farmers are demanding more help from the provincial government in order to face the rise in extreme weather events, which they say are killing crops on a massive scale.

Penn will rebrand its current sportsbook to ESPN Bet this fall in the 16 states where it is licensed after a licensing deal was reached Tuesday.

Despite the doom-and-gloom headlines about tech jobs, the Linux Foundation's latest survey says companies are still hiring savvy Linux and open source staffers.

The Federal Aviation Administration has certified for testing a vehicle that a California startup describes as a flying car — the first fully electric vehicle that can both fly and travel on roads to receive US government approval. Alef Automotive said that its vehicle/aircraft, dubbed the “Model A,” is the first flying vehicle that is drivable on public roads and able to park like a normal car.

A quarter of Twitter users said they 'are not very or not at all likely to be on Twitter a year from now.'

The Twitter meltdown "is also useful for my purposes as a medieval historian in that it serves as a really excellent way of explaining to people what happened in the early medieval period."

A farm in Bavaria is covering its hops with solar panels, providing electricity to 250 households and shading the plants from the increasingly scorching summer heat in the process.

The ongoing US District Court lawsuit from Masimo against Apple ended Monday with a mistrial after jurors couldn't reach a unanimous vote. Masimo is a medical firm suing Apple for stealing trade secrets to build the Apple Watch. It won its preliminary case with the International Trade Commission, but Masimo also brought its charges in front of the US District Court in April.

Public speaking is an excellent way to build your personal brand. Here is a five-point strategy for delivering a perfect public speech.

The average person doesn’t think much before writing on social media. But the average person is not a business with a reputation to build and defend.

Big Blue's top brass either don't get it or don't care

We’ve noted repeatedly that as the streaming sector grows and consolidates, it’s revealing many of the same problems we saw inherent in traditional, shitty, cable TV. As in the need to …

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