Amazon’s AWS ambition: “What [Bezos] did to retail, he will do to IT.”

Amazon wants to remake the IT stack in its own image

Package delivery within an hour by drones. Terraforming Mars. Reworking the fundamentals of IT. Put in context with what else he wants to get done, Jeff Bezos’ ambition to remake IT in Amazon’s image of low cost, ultra-convenience, and near monopolistic domination seems almost reasonable.

And the world is starting to notice.

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After over a decade of MSDN and TechNet help, Microsoft eyes an upgrade: docs.microsoft.com

Preview of new documentation site includes coverage of Enterprise Mobility products

​TechNet and MSDN have seen a lot of expansions and upgrades over the years, but Microsoft has decided the two documentation portals deserve some retirement: The company announced the preview release of its new documentation systems, docs.microsoft.com.

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Microsoft acquired an Italian firm to help it stitch together the Internet of Things

Redmond betting that smarter Espresso machines mean happier customers and more efficient employees

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CloudJumper, a spinoff from cloud services firm nGenx, launches with focus on Workspace as a Service Market

CloudJumper officially launched today, spinning off from parent company nGenx to focus specifically on its Workspace-as-a-service product, being sold through the channel.

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PowerShell: Granting Computer Join Permissions

The principle of least privilege, as applied to Active Directory (AD), means that users should be granted only the minimum permissions necessary to complete their job functions. Here’s how you can work towards that a little more easily with PowerShel… Continue reading PowerShell: Granting Computer Join Permissions

How one company saved $132k a Year with an IT Infrastructure Audit

Adnan Issadeen

How one team dug into its stack to find — and kill — a few zombie services with big savings

Over the last year and a half, the Buffer team has tripled in size, from 25 teammates to 80.

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