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True tales of invisible employees who make IT work

Smooth like btrfs: Inside Facebook's Linux-powered infrastructure

Police test smartphones over cellular for undercover use during Boston Marathon

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June 25, 2014
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True tales of invisible employees who make IT work

Not everyone in IT is a VC-funded, app-building, social media superstar.

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Issue highlights

1. Smooth like btrfs: Inside Facebook's Linux-powered infrastructure

2. Police test smartphones over cellular for undercover use during Boston Marathon

3. ENTER TO WIN: JavaScript Essentials LiveLessons (Video Training)

4. Google I/O looks to be about more than Android

5. Montana data breach exposed 1.3 million records

6. Why one CIO is saying 'no' to BYOD

7. IT Resume Makeover: How to avoid selling yourself short

8. 'Jimmy' the 3D-printed robot coming soon from Intel

9. 12 characteristics of successful IT professionals

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Smooth like btrfs: Inside Facebook's Linux-powered infrastructure

Facebook engineer Chris Mason is unequivocal about the primacy of Linux in Facebook's storage infrastructure. READ MORE

Police test smartphones over cellular for undercover use during Boston Marathon

During April's Boston Marathon, police in Brookline, Mass., piloted a wireless system that let undercover police and supervisors to use ordinary iPhones and Android devices to communicate with rugged Land Mobile Radios over LTE and other commercial cellular networks. READ MORE

ENTER TO WIN: JavaScript Essentials LiveLessons (Video Training)

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Google I/O looks to be about more than Android

Today's keynote and several sessions will be shared via live video streams. READ MORE

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Montana data breach exposed 1.3 million records

Up to 1.3 million records, including health care and bank account information, may have been exposed after a server at Montana's public health department was hacked in May, the state said Tuesday. READ MORE

Why one CIO is saying 'no' to BYOD

A growing backlash threatens to thwart the BYOD trend. The CIO of a large electrical contractor explains why his company will "never have a BYOD environment." READ MORE

IT Resume Makeover: How to avoid selling yourself short

Resume expert Cheryl Lynch-Simpson helps an early career project manager develop her personal brand in this month's resume makeover. READ MORE

'Jimmy' the 3D-printed robot coming soon from Intel

A family of robot kits for 3D printers is being developed by Intel, with the first, named "Jimmy," due out in September. READ MORE

12 characteristics of successful IT professionals

A chance encounter at a networking meeting prompted ITworld's career expert to ponder the question, "What makes an IT person successful?" After careful consideration over a couple of hours and a glass of wine, he settled on these twelve attributes. READ MORE

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