"Why the hell does this mouse need to connect to the Internet?"
Razer asks users to activate gaming mice online, uproar follows.
Cloud / Ars Disciplines
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Tweet Relief
How did Twitter handle election tweets? Less Ruby, more Java
As Twitter continues to tweak Ruby performance, it moves more to JVM on servers.
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Virtual machine used to steal crypto keys from other VM on same server
New technique could pierce a key defense found in cloud environments.
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Mega PR play
Kim Dotcom now plans to give New Zealand free broadband pipe to US
Says he'll sue US, Hollywood for "unlawful destruction" of Megaupload.
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AMD announces ARM-based Opteron CPUs due to launch in 2014
New 64-bit processors aim for high-density, low-power servers.
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Zend targets mobile and cloud with new PHP tools
Zend Studio 10 adds PhoneGap for drag-and-drop mobile app development
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I had time to write this because Reddit was down
Amazon Web Services outage once again shows reality behind "the cloud"
reddit, Imgur, and other sites fall offline due to cloud storage failure.
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One big cluster: How CloudFlare launched 10 data centers in 30 days
With high-performance computing, "pixie-booting" servers a half-world away.
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Ubuntu 12.10 “Quantal Quetzal” takes flight with a bag full of Juju
Ubuntu kicks off a new two-year cycle with fancy enterprise features.
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Take Your Kindle To Work Day? First glance at Amazon's Whispercast
New Web-based tool can distribute e-books, lock down many Kindles at once.
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The Pirate Bay ditches its servers, sets sail for the cloud
To avoid police raids, torrent site places hosts across multiple cloud networks.
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NVIDIA's VGX cards bring big graphics performance to virtual machines
However, the new hardware and software is not without limitations.
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VMware realizes it doesn't rule the cloud, boosts support for Amazon
As competition heats up, VMware supports rival hypervisors and cloud platforms.
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Bank error in your favor
Former MobileMe subscribers getting free 20GB iCloud storage until 2050
Is it a glitch? Or is Apple just being nice?
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How to put all your data on the Web—without storing it in the cloud
Product showdown: Tonido and PocketCloud put your desktop hard drives online.
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Feature Story
A fast NAS with class: 5 months with the Synology DS-412+
Pricey but quick network storage has tons of features—and gigabit Ethernet speed.
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Create your own local Dropbox with AeroFS
It's not perfect, but this promising public beta is easy to set up and use.
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iCloud for Windows 2.0: An improvement, but not much has changed
iCloud isn't just for Mac owners. Version 2.0 brings a handful of new features.
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Cloudy with a chance of helium
Helium-filled hard disks will lead to higher capacities
Western Digital's disks to be targeted at cloud storage solutions.
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A build-your-own cloud
An Amazon cloud rival lets users spec out their own servers
With ProfitBricks, customers choose any combination of CPU, RAM, and storage.
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525,600 Chromebooks
New Chromebook and Chromebox rentals lower prices (sort of)
Rental option is cheaper in the short term, but more expensive over time.
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Good guy Netflix
Eureka! Netflix makes Amazon more reliable with open source software
Netflix built cloud load balancing tool called Eureka, gives it away.
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Feature Story
First look: Windows Server 2012 brings the cloud down to earth
Microsoft's next-generation server platform offers mostly gain, little pain.
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Former OnLive CEO: "We chose this path because it was the only option we had."
Steve Perlman talks OnLive's technical operations, its strength going forward.
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IBM's new mainframe aimed at assimilating "private clouds"
The zEC12 aims to do what "private clouds" do faster, better, and cheaper.
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