Category: Tech Insight

Kubernetes adoption reaching critical mass for MSPs

Kubernetes adoption reaching critical mass for MSPs

A survey of 333 IT operations and application development stakeholders directly responsible for Kubernetes in production environments suggests Kubernetes adoption has hit a critical mass point. This means managed service providers (MSPs) will be increasingly relied on to assist with...

/ January 23, 2024
Tech Time Warp
Tech Time Warp: Happy mail? Not so much back in 1999

Tech Time Warp: Happy mail? Not so much back in 1999

In this edition of Tech Time Warp we see how the email users of January 1999 were an innocent bunch. Fresh from seeing “You’ve Got Mail” at the box office, they received emails with the attachment Happy99.exe. They thought nothing...

/ January 19, 2024
Pioneers in Tech: Aaron Swartz, co-developer of RSS

Pioneers in Tech: Aaron Swartz, co-developer of RSS

When you consider the life story of Aaron Swartz, many questions come to mind. Most notably, what if? What if Swartz had lived past age 26? What might have he accomplished? Let’s take a closer look at this month’s edition...

/ January 12, 2024
Tech Time Warp: Time’s daring choice for “Machine of the Year”

Tech Time Warp: Time’s daring choice for “Machine of the Year”

Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” is an annual conversation starter. This year’s selection of megastar Taylor Swift not only delighted Swifties but also sparked a new TikTok trend. This edition of Tech Time Warp looks at what (instead of...

/ January 5, 2024
Tech Time Warp: Everybody was kung fu fighting

Tech Time Warp: Everybody was kung fu fighting

This week’s Tech Time Warp goes back twenty-nine years ago, when one of the more convoluted chapters in technology history was being written. Research scientist Tsutomu Shimomura was enjoying a Christmas vacation in Lake Tahoe when he received a troubling...

/ December 29, 2023
Tech Time Warp
Tech Time Warp: Father Christmas leaves a lump of coal for NASA

Tech Time Warp: Father Christmas leaves a lump of coal for NASA

These days, there seems to be a festive seasonal version of everything. Even items you never dreamed possible (such as cat litter). Malware is no exception. In this edition of Tech Time Warp, we look back at 35 years ago,...

/ December 22, 2023
Tech Time Warp
Tech Time Warp: Public sees glimpse of computing’s future on TV

Tech Time Warp: Public sees glimpse of computing’s future on TV

In this edition of Tech Time Warp we see how sixty-nine years ago this week, the public got a televised glimpse of computing innovations we now take for granted. On Dec. 14, 1954, legendary journalist Edward R. Murrow featured the...

/ December 15, 2023
Optimism for IT spending in 2024

Optimism for IT spending in 2024

A survey of 1,000 business leaders in North America and Western Europe conducted by Endava, a provider of managed services, finds a full 81 percent are optimistic about where the economy is heading, with 75 percent planning IT spending and...

/ December 14, 2023
Pioneers in Tech
Pioneers in Tech: Happy birthday to code-breaker W.W. Chandler

Pioneers in Tech: Happy birthday to code-breaker W.W. Chandler

This month marks the 110th anniversary of the birth of W.W. Chandler. In this edition of Pioneers in Tech, we will look into his impact on technology. Chandler was responsible for installation and maintenance of the World War II-era code-breaking...

/ December 8, 2023
Tech Time Warp
Tech Time Warp: O CHRISTMA tree, O CHRISTMA tree, your exec is not so amazing

Tech Time Warp: O CHRISTMA tree, O CHRISTMA tree, your exec is not so amazing

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! That doesn’t mean you should let your guard down when it comes to cybersecurity. That’s a lesson some computer users learned the hard way in December 1987. In this edition of Tech...

/ December 1, 2023