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7 classic Steve Ballmer videos $6B DHS cybersecurity contract sets off race to supply real-time monitoring to feds Network World Daily News AM August 25, 2013 Share this email iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending August 23 With the Next iPhone(s) announcement barely three weeks away, the iOSphere hungered and thirsted for data, for facts, for truth about iPhone 6, iPhone 5C, and iPhone 5S. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. 7 classic Steve Ballmer videos 2. $6B DHS cybersecurity contract sets off race to supply real-time monitoring to feds 3. Coca-Cola cloud chief reveals VMware wish list 4. TechTip: Saving YouTube videos for offline viewing 5. Mozilla 'Plug-n-Hack' project aims for tighter security tool integration 6. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's retirement announcement letter 7. The PC monitor is dead. Meet the new smart monitor 8. In their own words: Unix pioneers remember the good times 9. 5 big things to watch for at VMworld 10. Products of the week 8.19.13 WEBCAST: HP Intel VMware The Cloud: Why the Hybrid Cloud May Be Best A combination of the public and private cloud, the hybrid cloud fits the needs of a broad range of enterprises. View Now! 7 classic Steve Ballmer videos Retiring Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is one heck of a character READ MORE $6B DHS cybersecurity contract sets off race to supply real-time monitoring to feds The Department of Homeland Security's $6 billion cybersecurity award last week to a slew of contractors and vendors sets in motion a contest among them to sell federal agencies on new network monitoring, vulnerability assessment and mitigation technologies. The underlying goal of this massive "Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation" (CDM) contract is to spur federal civilian agencies to move away from static approaches to network-security compliance reporting in favor of real-time monitoring. READ MORE Coca-Cola cloud chief reveals VMware wish list Mariano Maluf is president of the VMware User Group (VMUG), which counts about 80,000 individual members with technical interests related to VMware's virtual-machine software (the group includes local chapters, lots of free education and special interest groups). In his job as cloud ecosystem architecture lead at the Coca-Cola Co., Maluf has firsthand knowledge of deploying VMware products. Here's what's on his mind heading into next week's annual VMworld conference in San Francisco. READ MORE RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SolarWinds Right Size Your Network Performance Management Solution Paying too much for network monitoring? This white paper follows four organizations in their search for the most cost-effective network performance management tool. See the challenges they encountered along the way and how they used product fit and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) to make the switch from bloated, overpriced solutions to SolarWinds. Click here to get this FREE whitepaper from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) and learn how four organizations benefitted from choosing SolarWinds award winning Network Performance Monitor. TechTip: Saving YouTube videos for offline viewing Saving YouTube videos for offline viewing is simple, but beware of copyright violations. Follow reporter Nick Barber on Twitter @nickjb READ MORE Mozilla 'Plug-n-Hack' project aims for tighter security tool integration Mozilla is developing a protocol that aims to let security tools and Web browsers work better together. READ MORE Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's retirement announcement letter Text of an internal email from Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer to employees regarding his plan to retire: READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Novell Mobile Zen: Balancing End-User Productivity and IT Control Mobility is often seen as a zero-sum game: either end users or IT can win, but never both. Learn how users can have the convenience and mobile productivity they need, while IT retains control over enterprise goods. Victory for both sides. Learn More The PC monitor is dead. Meet the new smart monitor We worry far too much about the desktop PC becoming a relic of a bygone age. Our focus, instead, should be on the monitor that the PC connects to. Indeed, as we use more and more mobile devices with integrated screens--notebooks, tablets, and smartphones--we pay much less attention to the aging, dumb monitors sitting on our desks. READ MORE In their own words: Unix pioneers remember the good times We caught up with the pioneers who brought us the Unix operating system and asked them to share some memories of the early days of Unix development. READ MORE 5 big things to watch for at VMworld For about the last decade VMware has been one of the pre-eminent companies ushering in a new era of computing related to server virtualization. Now, the company is hoping to extend the shift beyond just server virtualization to include the cloud, plus network and storage virtualization. The vision is encapsulated in what VMware executives call its Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) strategy, which will be on full display at the company's annual VMworld conference next week in San Francisco. READ MORE Products of the week 8.19.13 Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as CA and HP. READ MORE WEBCAST: Dell Wyse and VMware Capitalizing on Desktop Virtualization As more than half of those surveyed by IDG move to virtual desktop infrastructure, mastering its complexities has never been more important. With the right best practices and trusted partners, you can do just that--thus accelerating time to value, simplifying deployment and management, and creating organizational agility. 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