Asynchronous replication technology is the latest approach to providing fault tolerance for server and network storage. Unlike the replication technologies that preceded it, asynchronous technology ...

The first passwords were easily compromised, but Corbató's pioneering time sharing and operating system work led to the LAN, email, file sharing, and other technologies computer users now take for ...

A NeXTcube computer running the NeXTSTEP operating system. Simon Claessen / Flickr Today marks the 35th anniversary of the launch of NeXTSTEP, a computer operating system launched by Steve Jobs during ...

I've used nearly every possible desktop operating system known. I've experienced nearly every incarnation of Windows and MacOS, I've used just about all the various Linux distributions over the years, ...

Microsoft researchers develop a prototype of an app-shielding technology called Haven, which builds on top of its previous Drawbridge operating system work. Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has covered the ...

Linux vendor Red Hat Inc. is partnering with embedded operating system vendor Wind River Systems Inc. to jointly create Red Hat’s first-ever embedded Linux operating system, while Wind River plans to ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Chinese telecommunications, data and cloud company Huawei also makes software. Logically, its smartphones, ...