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Some IT departments have decided that the best defense against hackers could be a good offense, and while deceiving hackers is one thing, outright attacking them is another altogether.

As consumerization trends sweep over the enterprise, sometimes the easiest way to deal with a problem is to provide some front-end tweaks to make it easier to use the existing back-end systems. Beats ripping and replacing.

This week we look at issues Africa faces as it embraces the cloud and mobile, the growing popularity of Hadoop and agile testing issues.

Oracle is going to have very difficult go of it in the Cloud because trying to maintain its core business while moving to the Cloud is going to require a very tricky balancing act -- especially when it's 10 years too late to the game -- and its CEO has been patently anti-cloud up until now.

When Netflix teamed with Internet Server maker NGINX to design the open source servers for its content delivery network (CDN), it turned out to be a good match for all concerned -- including ISPs who got low-maintenance, highly efficient servers and users who should get smoother streaming of Netflix content.

This week we look at what a Siri API might look like, coping with consumer devices in the enterprise and xkcd's twisted view on creating passwords.

As more competition enters the cloud space, prices are plunging, but this doesn't mean IT jobs are going anywhere. On the contrary, if anything it's just another thing for you to track.

Even though a browser approach ultimately makes more sense for smart phones, apps built a slight lead over browser usage in the latest comScore mobile report.

When hackers brought down web security service Cloudflare last week, a post mortem by the company showed the hackers exploited four unrelated vulnerabilities, proving just how relentless hackers can be when getting into a system.

The newest version of DotNetNuke, the open source web content management tool, got more social, enabling users to build internal and external social networks directly in the tool.

Netflix announced it was launching its own Content Delivery Network (CDN) this week and it was open sourcing the hardware design and software. That makes it doubly interesting and could help ISPs ease the burden of Netflix traffic across their systems.

A new AIIM survey found that companies clearly recognize the value of big data analytics, but struggle when it comes to choosing tools -- whether open source or not -- to get at the answers they need. It's an area IT pros can clearly exploit to help their companies in this increasingly important area.

In spite of the fact that companies are expanding their data centers, IDC reports that the traditional x86 server market is in decline, possibly because IT is moving toward smaller, more cost-effective and energy-efficient alternatives like high-density blades.

This summer, Aaron Schmitz will create a Google API to integrate services such as Google Maps and Analytics into Joomla-powered websites as part of Google's Summer of Code program.

Network breaches are not only embarrassing, they can cost you big money in fines, and even worse, a big hit to your reputation.

Several recent announcements have illustrated that software companies are trying to make the cloud more enterprise friendly, and IT is getting more comfortable with cloud offerings.

As data center resource pools grow, it becomes nearly impossible for humans to track and monitor. Paul Maritz, CEO at VMware, says we are going to require systems that are self-monitoring and that report to us about significant issues.

This week we look at open source file syncing and sharing, HTML5 security considerations and IT's love-hate relationship with BYOD.

Want to know the most popular phone OS in a particularly country in 2011? Our Mobile Planet lets you create custom charts on the fly based on mobile demographic data it's collected. I believe this is just the edge of the kinds of tools we will be seeing moving forward to help us process and make use of publicly available data.

When hackers are stealing valid credentials, how do you protect your system from the inside? The answer may be automated threat detection that looks for anomalies instead of accepting credentials on face value.