This week for IT Origins, we got to hear from Theresa Miller, the founder of 24×7 IT Connection.

This week on the Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Richard Stroffolino discuss the GitHub acquisition, SAP CRM, lifting the ZTE ban, and the IT implications of WWDC.

Application monitoring has become difficult when you’re dealing with SaaS. ThousandEyes uses a unique architecture to monitor the Internet itself as a network, and provide visibility into your SaaS supply chain.

WWDC is not known to be an event brimming with impact for IT pros. But there were a few announcements that may impact IT operations, if not now, then in the near future.

For this bonus episode, enjoy our recent interview with Ted Dunning, Apache Software Foundation board member, and the Chief Application Architect at MapR.

Security researches have found that ultrasonic tones can crash your hard drive and even brick a system, because evidently we can’t have anything nice.

Microsoft will reportedly acquire GitHub. Many developers are not exactly thrilled by the news. Is this a case of knee-jerk Microsoft hate, or are concerns over the platform’s future well founded? Spoiler: It’s complicated.

Ned Bellavance broke down the three types of Microsoft hates. The company has changed substantially under their new leadership, so question is now whether the company deserves their reputation.

Serverless is a way to sound esoteric when talking about Functions as a Service. If you’re still not clear what Serverless is and where it’s useful, Ehi Kioya published a great introduction to get you started.

Searching for files across cloud storage and on-premises sources can be a disjointed and time-intensive process. Cloudtenna’s DirectSearch looks to ease that problem, providing a single login and UI to get unified file search across a wide range of repositories.