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Oracle founder Larry Ellison steps down
Iconic Oracle founder, Larry Ellison, today said he will step aside as chief executive of the company.According to the IDG News Service: Ellison has been appointed executive chairman and CTO of the vendor, with co-presidents Safra Catz and Mark Hurd named co-CEOs."Safra and Mark will now report to the Oracle Board rather than to me," Ellison said in a statement. "All the other reporting relationships will remain unchanged. The three of us have been working well together for the last several years, and we plan to continue working together for the foreseeable future. Keeping this management team in place has always been a top priority of mine."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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Overcoming Visibility Deficits in Virtualized Environments
With up to 80% of data center traffic traveling between virtualized servers, end-to-end visibility is a major concern. This paper provides an overview of virtualized data center blind spots and offers a solution to overcome them. View now
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Archiving benefits more than just email
Many organizations assume archiving is mostly related to email and compliance; however, archiving is associated with a wide range of business improvements. This ESG paper covers the real reasons companies archive, as well as the business value that can be achieved through archiving. Learn moire
Larry Ellison's distractions
Ellison's love of sailing is no secret, but this year his Oracle Team USA racing team reached new heights of glory with an unprecedented come-from-behind victory over New Zealand, taking home the America's Cup. The CEO was so eager to see his team's climactic races that he ended up skipping a keynote he was supposed to deliver at Oracle's OpenWorld conference, to the irritation of many customers. Read More
Microsoft boards-up research lab amid more layoffs
Microsoft Research is shutting down its Mountain View, Calif., facility as part of a move that included a reported 2,100 more layoffs throughout the company. Derek Murray, who identifies himself as a researcher of distributed systems at Microsoft Research on his Twitter account, tweeted that "Today they announced that the lab in Silicon Valley will be closing Friday." +[Also on Network World: The new Microsoft under Satya Nadella; Nadella issues manifesto to shake up Microsoft]+To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Life as an IT contractor: What's it really like?
I'm writing a story about life as an IT contractor, and I'm looking for people who are game to share their experiences. If you're interested, please check out the questions below. You can email me your answers or we can set up a time to talk. Please reach out to Ann Bednarz (abednarz@nww.com) if you'd like to talk about life as an IT contractor. QUESTIONS * What do you like most about being an IT contractor? * What do you like least about being an IT contractor? * What's an ideal assignment for you? What kind of work do you like best? * What do you like to do in between assignments? How do you make the most of your time in between jobs?To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Top US brands still falling foul of CAN-SPAM legislation, study finds
But have consumers moved on anyway? Read More
China says US hacking accusations are 'totally groundless'
The country says it has no knowledge of attacks against US transportation contractors Read More
Report: Bad communication among defense agencies makes China hacks more dangerous
It's not just the fact that China has been hacking U.S. military contractors' networks, it's that the agencies discovering the breaches and the contractors themselves haven't been telling other agencies that need to know, a U.S. Senate report says. The report investigated just 11 out of more than 80 contractors hired by one U.S. military agency that are supposed to report cyber security incidents. The Senate Committee on Armed Services found 50 successful intrusions, including at least 20 attributable to advanced persistent threats (APT) placed by China, according to the report by theTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Apple Lays Out Its Social Media Aspirations
Apple CEO Tim Cook unequivocally tells PBS' Charlie Rose that the company has no plans to be in the social media business. "We have no plans to be in the social networking area," he tells Rose without hesitation.The question arose over the course of a two-part interview when Rose asked Cook: "Who is your competition?" To which Cook replied: "Google, clearly."When Rose prodded Cook further, he essentially balked at the notion that there may be others with an extended period of silence. While many in the technology space consider Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon to be the strongest and most important platforms in existence today, Cook seems to take a different view.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Right-to-be-forgotten 'dashboard' to help EU's data protection authorities
The complaints should be dealt with in a common way, the authorities said Read More
Cisco's improves its memory by acquiring Memoir Systems
Cisco's latest acquisition, Memoir Systems, addresses the network gap challenge. Read More
Citrix touts new 'software-defined workplace' focus
Citrix rolls out software-defined workplace strategy Read More
Back to the future: 13 year old video outlines Citrix's plan for the next 10 years
Citrix has a grand vision for how it plans to approach the next 10 years, and it's all centered around the idea of "software-defined workplaces," company CEO Mark Templeton told me.During an exclusive interview with Network World, toward the end of the conversation Templeton mentioned how this strategy is not much different from what the company has been preaching over the past decade, but now with a crisper, clearer message. To prove that, he said I should Google "Citrix Virtual Workplace" and watch the top YouTube video. So I did. You've got to check this out. It's a video that Citrix produced in 2001 to depict what the future of working would be like. And it's so early 2000s.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Home Depot, Target breaches exploited Windows XP flaw, report says
The Home Depot and Target breaches reportedly could have been avoided by upgrading to Windows 7 for Embedded Systems. Read More
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