RFID technology can help you keep track of data center inventory if you can support the up-front costs.

Cryptographic keys, usually available locally but not on remote computers, can be accessed for use in cloud environments.

Quantum computing used to be an esoteric thought experiment for theoretical physicists, but now it is actually starting to happen. We spoke with Murray Thom of D-Wave, a company that is leading the way to this radical new vision.

Use dd fluently to compare disk performance.

The VyOS Linux distribution puts network routing, firewall, and VPN functionality together and presents a fully working dynamic multipoint VPN router as an alternative or addition to a Cisco DMVPN mesh.

Computationally complex problems constrained by conventional machine architectures might be improved with the use of hardware/software co-design, wherein components are purpose-built for specific applications.