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I used to live in fear of walking into the office and hearing "Our server crashed." No more. Not sure if you should be running your own network or hiring someone else to deal with it? Not sure what to make of all this talk about ‘moving your business to the cloud’

The future of search is social. Google and Microsoft have tied their rival engines to social, mining data from various networks (Twitter, Facebook) to deliver personalized results based on what your friends and followers recommend, rather than some lifeless algorithm.

This week news broke that an exploit had been published that affected the Apache Web server. You probably glanced past the item in the usual flow of tech news, perhaps swamped by Apple news, and didn't think anything of it. But if anything the exploit is bigger news than most other items because this Apache vulnerability has a wicked sting in its tail: It's simple, it's easy to weaponize, and it could shut down about 60% of websites online.