| Network World Daily News AM | | | | In a wide-ranging interview with Bill Hilf, HP's VP of Helion cloud product and services, Network World editor in chief John Dix and I asked him among other things about competition with Amazon Web Services - the leading public IaaS cloud computing vendor.Hilf says he found it amusing when he saw reports that AWS hired a head of enterprise strategy. "I kind of laughed at that," Hilf said, noting that HP's heritage is selling to enterprise customers. "We don't need one of those," he added. "That's all we do. We don't have a special enterprise guy."+ MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: Microsoft adds IoT, big data tools to Azure +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here | | | Issue highlights 1. Where to find security certifications 2. Android creator Andy Rubin leaving Google 3. Patent issued for filming a yoga class 4. Startup Capriza scores $27M to Zapp legacy apps into mobile ones 5. 6 ways to attract and retain female IT talent 6. FCC's Wheeler said to mull hybrid approach to net neutrality 7. Major banks ready their own mobile payment apps 8. Vulnerabilities found in more command-line tools, wget and tnftp get patches 9. Republican gains in Congress would have limited impact on big tech issues 10. 2014's biggest cloud deals (so far) 11. What you should know about Lenovo's Motorola acquisition 12. Petition targets Apple over 'spyware' in OS X Yosemite | | WHITE PAPER: BMC Software Businesses can't afford to let siloed approaches to incident management delay resolution and undermine IT productivity. BMC Intelligent Service Resolution bridges the gap between the service desk and network operations, and provides a unified, business-centric view across technologies, to help you resolve the right issues more quickly than ever. Learn More | | Security certificationsThe debate rages on whether gaining security certifications means much. Regardless of whether you think they aren't even worth the paper they are printed on, there are others who believe certifications prove the individual knows what they are doing. With that, here are a group of vendors who offer security certifications.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Andy Rubin, the engineer who developed Google's Android OS and was lately in charge of its robotics efforts, is leaving the company, Google confirmed Thursday.Rubin cofounded a company called Android, which Google acquired in 2005 for its mobile OS. Android has gone on to become the world's most widely used mobile operating system.Last year, though, Rubin was moved off the Android team and put in charge of Google's robotics projects. His work was taken over by Sundar Pichai, who now leads Google's Android, Chrome and other products.The reasons for Rubin's departure weren't clear, though it had something to do with the structure of his team at Google, according to a report on tech news site The Information.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | The patent issued to an outfit called YogaGlo covers methods – a term used loosely here – for filming a yoga class and transmitting those images over the Internet.The patent is so mindbogglingly ridiculous that two things have happened: The Electronic Frontier Foundation has bestowed upon it the organization's "Stupid Patent of the Month" award; and, remarkably, the patent holder a few days ago announced that it has "decided to forfeit the issued patent." (Read the announcement though and it's clear YogaGlo hasn't given up on the patent hunt altogether.)As the EFF notes, the fact that YogaGlo says it will renounce the patent doesn't make this tale any less instructive in terms of demonstrating the extent to which this country's patent system is broken.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Capriza, a startup that helps enterprises convert their legacy apps into mobile- and cloud-based ones, Thursday announced it has racked up an additional $27 million in venture funding. That should be enough to help Capriza scale its business on the marketing and sales side, and maybe even have enough left over to afford a drummer and bassist to form a company band (more on that later…). The Palo Alto firm, which started in 2011 and now employs an engineering-heavy staff of about 60 people, has raised a total of $50 million. The latest funding comes courtesy of existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Charles River Ventures, with Tenaya Capital now joining the party as well. Harmony Partners and Allen & Co., have also chipped in on this round. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | : Brother International Corp. Vehicle Protection Plus can train their sales agents, and get them productive, regardless of location using OmniJoin web conferencing. Find out how. Learn More>> | | Women are good for business. While there's no magic formula businesses can use to shrink the (still abysmal) gender gap in technology, there are some concrete steps you can take to recruit, hire and retain female tech talent.ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD: How to lure tech talent with employee benefits, perks Diversification Works Over the last decade, research has shown that companies' bottom lines benefit when they actively recruit, develop and advance women. Studies demonstrate that enterprises that strive to include women are better able to attract and retain talent, reduce turnover costs, enhance organizational performance and build a robust leadership pipeline.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | The U.S. Federal Communications Commission appears set to reclassify broadband so that it comes under the agency's authority, but without explicitly prohibiting special access deals between broadband and content companies, according to a news report.FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is mulling this hybrid answer to the knotty "net neutrality" issue, and his proposal would still require a vote of the full five-member commission, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. Broadband providers may also challenge in court the move to give the FCC more authority.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | The apps could prove a major competitor for Apple Pay and competing products READ MORE | | The critical Shellshock vulnerabilities found last month in the Bash Unix shell have motivated security researchers to search for similar flaws in old, but widely used, command-line utilities.Two remote command execution vulnerabilities were patched this week in the popular wget download agent and tnftp client for Unix-like systems. This comes after a remote code execution vulnerability was found last week in a library used by strings, objdump, readelf and other command-line tools.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | WHITE PAPER: NetBrain Technologies Accurate network diagrams are the Holy Grail in enterprise network management – most network teams know they should be documenting their networks but haven't found a universally good way of doing it. Learn More | | Anticipated Republican gains in the U.S. Congress after next Tuesday's election have limited implications for tech-related issues like net neutrality and reform of National Security Agency surveillance programs, with some observers expecting no huge changes.Many pollsters and prognosticators are predicting Republicans will add to their majority in the House of Representatives and possibly take over majority control of the Senate, allowing Republicans to set the legislative agenda for the next two years.In recent years, with split party control in the two chambers of Congress, it's been difficult for lawmakers to pass any major pieces of legislation, particularly involving anything controversial. That may not change with Republican majorities, with many in their ranks resisting new regulations, with a few exceptions.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | The top cloud deals of 20142014's slate of cloud deals reflect a few important trends in the market for the open source cloud software. One is that traditional enterprise vendors continue to see potential in OpenStack and they're willing to shell out the cash to buy the expertise and technology they need to pursue the market.The second is that despite interest from those big vendors, actual adoption of OpenStack hasn't happened as quickly as some people might have hoped. The result is that some of the startups, even trendsetters like Cloudscaling, are open to acquisition as they realize they may not be able to make it on their own.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | China's Lenovo finally has the global smartphone presence it has craved, finalizing the purchase of Motorola Mobility from Google for US$2.91 billion.Motorola's offerings in mature markets will complement Lenovo's growing smartphone presence in developing countries. Lenovo hopes to unseat the likes of Apple and Samsung, and has an ambitious goal of shipping 100 million devices, including PCs, tablets and smartphones, by the end of March next year.Details of the joint product road map were shared in a Thursday press conference and these are some points that stood out.No Motorola or Lenovo brands are being discontinuedTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Apple should remove "spyware" from its new Yosemite release of OS X, according to an online petition that has received 14,450 signatures as of early Thursday afternoon. The petition's complaints center on the Spotlight feature of Yosemite. Spotlight is a unified search service that lets users search everything from their own file structure to their installed apps, web results and a lot more besides. The petitioners say that Spotlight's default settings, in Yosemite, automatically transmit location data and search terms to Apple, Microsoft "and other third parties." + ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD: Competition is holding Apple Pay, mobile payments back | Tim Cook: 'I'm proud to be gay' +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | WHITE PAPER: NetApp Find out how new hybrid cloud architectures enable you to take advantage of public cloud resources from Amazon, Microsoft, and others while keeping your enterprise firmly in the driver's seat. You'll learn how you can benefit from the elastic compute power of public clouds and still maintain control over your company's data. View now>> | | | | | | | | | |
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