Julie Bort

Julie is also author of Building an Extranet (Wiley, 1997).


Will IT certs get you jobs and raises? Survey says yes

Sixty percent of IT professionals said a certification led to a new job, and half say it gave a salary boost. But some certs are more valuable than others

Barnes & Noble fires back at Microsoft over Android patents

As Microsoft tries to pressure more Android device makers into paying license fees, Barnes & Noble calls for antitrust investigation

Microsoft releases manual fix for Duqu zero-day

The company is still investigating if it will also release a patch

Microsoft expected to offer hot fix for Duqu soon

Microsoft will likely issue a manual fix rather than to include a patch for the vulnerability in next week's Patch Tuesday

Internap launches first OpenStack-based public cloud

OpenStack offers enterprises increased portability between cloud providers and an alternative to Amazon Web Services

SQL injection attack has compromised nearly 200,000 ASP.Net sites

Attack can be successful only if visitor uses outdated, unpatched browser without latest version of Adobe PDF, Flash, or Java

PC infected? Blame yourself, Microsoft report concludes

Patchable vulnerabilities -- particularly Java-based holes -- account for the vast majority of malware infections

Sam Ramji: Cloud makes open source 'inevitable' for Microsoft, others

Once the legal liabilities of contributing to open source are eliminated, proprietary software vendors will be forced to use open source to build their own clouds

Red Hat raids cloud storage market by acquiring Gluster

Company makes open source software clustering commodity SATA drives and NAS systems into massively scalable pools of storage

NEC to ship OpenFlow switch for Microsoft Windows Server 8 Hyper-V

The switch will offer features like network policy mobility, monitoring, and programmability for Hyper-V environments

Microsoft gets Casio to sign Linux patent protection deal

The deal is a 'broad, multiyear patent cross-licensing agreement' that gives Microsoft access to some of Casio's intellectual property

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