Top 5 things to watch for at VMWorld 2014

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New products of the week 08.18.2014 Linux Foundation to offer new certification for IT workers Network World Daily News AM August 20, 2014 Share this email Top 5 things to watch for at VMWorld 2014 A year ago everyone wanted to know about VMware's big plan. The company had just undergone a major executive shakeup, with CEO Paul Maritz leaving to pilot VMware/EMC spinout Pivotal and long-time CTO Steve Herrod departing to join a venture capital firm. Parent company EMC's COO Pat Gelsinger - former CTO of Intel - stepped in to become VMware's CEO.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. New products of the week 08.18.2014 2. Linux Foundation to offer new certification for IT workers 3. Start-up offers up endpoint detection and response for behavior-based malware detection 4. Review: VMware VSAN turns storage inside-out 5. The best educational software for students 6. IT outages are an ongoing problem for the U.S government 7. How to Identify Soft Skills in IT Job Candidates 8. How Michael Gregoire plans to put CA back on track 9. Workers Going Rogue With BYOD (and BYOA) 10. Heartbleed to blame for Community Health Systems breach 11. Sprint's cut in data prices won't help its network woes 12. 5 cool new security research breakthroughs 13. Best and funniest Apple iWatch design concepts WHITE PAPER: Dell Software Anatomy Of A CyberAttack Do you know how to keep cyber-criminals out of your network? Cyber-criminals employ complex techniques to avoid detection as they sneak into corporate networks to steal intellectual property. Don't give the bad guys the keys to your network. Learn how to protect your organization from emerging threats in our e-book. Read Now New products of the week 08.18.2014 Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as Juniper and SilverPeak Networks READ MORE Linux Foundation to offer new certification for IT workers With an eye toward deepening the global Linux talent pool, the Linux Foundation today announced that it will offer two new certifications for engineers and administrators.The Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator, or LFCS, and the Linux Foundation Certified Engineer, or LFCE certificates will be granted to applicants who pass an automated online exam. The cost will be $300, although the foundation will hand out 1,000 free passes to attendees at LinuxCon, where the announcement was made.+ ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD: 2014's Hottest Certifications +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Start-up offers up endpoint detection and response for behavior-based malware detection Start-up SentinelOne is offering security software for behavior-based malware detection intended to augment, not replace, the type of full anti-virus endpoint protection suites that typically also have signature-based defense, a firewall and other features. However, the Mountain View, Calif.-based start-up, which has research and development roots in Israel and has received $14.5 million in venture-capital funding, does harbor ambitions to break into the multi-billion dollar anti-virus market to compete with the kind of full-featured endpoint protection suites offered today by the major vendors such as Symantec and McAfee. + ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD Start-up fights attacks on SDN, virtual-machine networks +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Review: VMware VSAN turns storage inside-out Convergence of compute and storage is all the rage in the virtualization market these days. You see it in Microsoft's Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V and Storage Spaces. You see it in third-party platforms such as Nutanix. And you see it in VMware's vSphere flagship with the addition of Virtual SAN, a new capability built into the ESXi hypervisor that turns the direct-attached storage in vSphere cluster nodes into highly available, high-performance shared storage.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: IBM Forrester 2014 Dynamic Case Management Wave Forrester has released its 2014 Dynamic Case Management Wave, and for the second consecutive time, IBM is a leader. View Now>> The best educational software for students School's back in sessionAs the summer winds down and you start packing your bags for school, don't forget to load up your laptop as well. Windows has lots of great software that can help you study more efficiently and produce better work—and in the following slides we share 10 of the best. (And if you're just not a Windows fan, check out the best Chrome apps for students. They'll turn your basic browser into a powerful productivity tool.)To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE IT outages are an ongoing problem for the U.S government When Healthcare.gov was launched last October, it gave millions of Americans direct experience with a government IT failure on a massive scale. But the overall reliability of federal IT operations is being called into question by a survey that finds outages aren't uncommon in government.Specifically, the survey found that 70% of federal agencies have experienced downtime of 30 minutes or more in a recent one-month period. Of that number, 42% of the outages were blamed on network or server problems and 29% on Internet connectivity loss.MORE ON NETWORK WORLD: 5 free Ethernet tools you should check out This rate of outage isn't anywhere near as severe or dramatic as what Healthcare.gov faced until it was fixed. But the report by MeriTalk, which provides a network for government IT professionals, suggest that downtime is a systemic issue. The research was sponsored by Symantec.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE How to Identify Soft Skills in IT Job Candidates IT is out of the backroom and in the front office – so it's time to hire candidates who match that new reality.This presents a vexing problem for both recruiters and employers alike. In a recent survey, the National Association of Colleges and Employers found that employers look for candidates who are decisive, can solve problems, are good communicators and are analytical.That need is the same for technology hires. Given how the role of IT has changed, employers see soft skills mattering more than ever.+ ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD 10 biggest CEO pay raises +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE How Michael Gregoire plans to put CA back on track What's new at CA Technologies? Turns out the company has been quietly trying to reinvent itself as a top provider of enterprise products for managing cloud services and mobile devices, extending its expertise beyond in-house IT management.It's a tough challenge for CEO Michael Gregoire, who took charge of CA in 2010 to transform the company for this new age. As enterprises slow their spending on traditional IT management software, CA's revenue has stagnated. For the past fiscal year, which ended in June, CA tallied US$4.5 billion in sales, roughly level with the prior year.But changes are afoot. With close to 200 acquisitions under its belt since its birth in 1975, CA is better known for acquiring new lines of software than building it from scratch. But nowadays more development is being done in-house, with CA coders writing new software for managing mobile devices, the cloud and security.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WEBCAST: IBM ING Transforms DevOps to Reduce Cost and Speed Delivery ING, one of the largest banks in Europe needed to reduce the high cost of isolated, inefficient application development. They chose IBM PureApplication System to move their IT infrastructure to a cloud-based shared service model. In this Webcast, ING executive, Mark Willemse, shares the lessons ING learned from this strategic initiative. Learn more Workers Going Rogue With BYOD (and BYOA) More than half of employees admit to going rogue to do their jobs. In other words, it really doesn't matter if IT formally rejects BYOD -- or Bring Your Own Apps -- because it's happening anyway. READ MORE Heartbleed to blame for Community Health Systems breach According to a blog post from TrustedSec, an information security consultancy in Ohio, the breach at Community Health Systems (CHS) is the result of attackers targeting a flaw OpenSSL, CVE-2014-0160, better known as Heartbleed.The incident marks the first case Heartbleed has been linked to an attack of this size and type.On Monday, CHS disclosed a data breach in an 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The filing itself was brief, offering few details on the actual attack and its root cause.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Sprint's cut in data prices won't help its network woes Sprint's new lower-priced shared data plan sounds ambitious, but analysts say it doesn't go far enough and won't address the carrier's network performance sore spot.On top of that, some analysts say that carrier-revenues overall could drop in the current price war, cutting into network technology advancements for all the major carriers over the long run.MORE ON NETWORK WORLD: How to use public Wi-Fi hotspots safely The new Sprint Family Share Pack, which was announced Monday and goes into effect Friday, offers four lines and 20 GB of data for $160 a month. It is open to current subscribers, and Sprint confirmed Tuesday that its current "Framily" plan will still be available, although it is not considered competitive by many analysts.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE 5 cool new security research breakthroughs USENIX Security '14 line-up explores Apple iOS security, Web privacy and more READ MORE Best and funniest Apple iWatch design concepts Artists' renderings of what Apple might have in mind for the iWatch READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Skyhigh Networks Checklist for Selecting Enterprise-Ready Cloud Applications To minimize risk, organizations must employ a methodology to identify and select enterprise-ready cloud services. This 21 step checklist includes the five categories of attribute to evaluate and an audit framework from the Cloud Security Alliance View Now>> SLIDESHOWS Top techs the CIA thinks are hot Through its investment firm called In-Q-Tel, the CIA funds companies, mostly start-ups, to push forward technologies deemed useful to government intelligence agencies. JOIN THE NETWORK WORLD COMMUNITIES As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. Join Network World's LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity). Network World on Facebook Network World on LinkedIn MOST-READ STORIES of 2014 1. Munich reverses course, may ditch Linux for Microsoft 2. New Microsoft same as the old Microsoft 3. 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