Most Notable Deaths of 2014 from the Worlds of Tech, Science & Inventions

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30 years of Cisco: The networking giant's boldest predictions over the years Juniper unbundles switch hardware, software Network World Daily News AM December 04, 2014 Most Notable Deaths of 2014 from the Worlds of Tech, Science & Inventions Remembering2014 has been a particularly tough year for those of us at IDG who mourn the loss of Patrick McGovern, founder and chairman of the company, this past March. Here's our tribute to Pat and others who contributed much to our lives but are with us no longer. (IDG News Service contributed to this report.) READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. 30 years of Cisco: The networking giant's boldest predictions over the years 2. Juniper unbundles switch hardware, software 3. Cloud upstarts: Too cheap to trust? 4. 11 open source tools to make the most of machine learning 5. INSIDER IT resume makeover: Top 11 tips from 2014 6. Microsoft's Latest Buy, Acompli, is a Great Email App 7. Meet Scoot, the Zipcar of electric scooters 8. Microsoft shareholders approve Nadella's mega-millions pay package 9. Using social media to recruit better tech talent 10. Sony's IT blueprints leaked by hackers 11. Zendesk brings embedded customer service tools to mobile apps 12. INSIDER Data analytics scores marketing wins for the Texas Rangers WHITE PAPER: Symantec Conquering the Top 5 Enterprise Data Protection Challenges How are today's CIO's overcoming today's datacenter challenges? IT must push for 100% virtualization, simplified disaster recovery systems, and efficient data protection solutions to achieve greater administrative efficiencies and meet these demands. Learn more 30 years of Cisco: The networking giant's boldest predictions over the years December of 1984 was a month filled with notable moments. China's Premier Zhao Ziyang and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher signed the Hong Kong Treaty. In the world of sports, Eric Dickerson broke OJ Simpson's NFL rushing record and Doug Flutie won the Heisman trophy. In entertainment circles, Madonna's "Like a Virgin" hit No. 1, launching the Material Girl's phenomenal career. And, in the technology world, Cisco Systems was born, kicking off one of the most unprecedented eras of growth that the business world has ever seen.Back in 1984, very few people had actually heard of the internet. Personally, I had just started my undergrad program at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. As a computer science student, we were all given internet accounts on a Unix mainframe. I had access to telnet, email through a program called "elm," ftp, and an awesome application called read news so I could keep up with other Star Trek and Dungeons and Dragons geeks.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Juniper unbundles switch hardware, software The switch/software disaggregation derby has begun.Juniper Networks this week rolled out a switch based on hardware from the Open Compute Project designed to run its Junos network operating system software, and others. Juniper claims the OCX1100 is the first to combine OCP hardware design with an established vendor's operating system.OCP is a Facebook initiated effort to develop low-cost open source hardware, such as servers and switches, to complement open source software.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Cloud upstarts: Too cheap to trust? Hosting provider Atlantic.net launched a $0.99 per month cloud server this fall, which is significantly less expensive than the $0.013 per hour starting price for market-leader Amazon Web Services' on-demand Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) virtual machines.SherWeb, another mid-size hosting provider that is pivoting into the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) market, launched a Hyper-V/SSD-flash/InfiniBand-fabric/Intel-powered cloud offering that it says beats AWS on a variety of input/output capability benchmark tests. Providers like Digital Ocean, ProfitBricks and Concerto are among others attempting to differentiate their services from AWS, Microsoft and Google on price, performance and usability.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE 11 open source tools to make the most of machine learning 11 open source tools for making the most of machine learning Spam filtering, face recognition, recommendation engines -- when you have a large data set on which you'd like to perform predictive analysis or pattern recognition, machine learning is the way to go. This science, in which computers are trained to learn from, analyze, and act on data without being explicitly programmed, has surged in interest of late outside of its original cloister of academic and high-end programming circles.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: PC Connection | Acer Acer Playbook: Proven Solutions for Professional Demands Whether your workforce requires high-tech mobility, powerful desktops to streamline efficiency, reliable technology available 24 x 7, or competent tools for viewing and projecting, you'll find your solution in Acer notebooks, desktops, servers, monitors, and projectors. Learn More INSIDER IT resume makeover: Top 11 tips from 2014 1. Clear Out the ClutterTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE Microsoft's Latest Buy, Acompli, is a Great Email App Microsoft this week announced it had acquired Acompli, an email and calendar integration app for Android and iOS. Re/code reports that Microsoft paid "north of $200 million," a far cry from Facebook's nearly $19 billion buyout of messaging app WhatsApp. Still, Microsoft's acquisition raises two questions (at least) for mobile users: 1) With approximately 10 zillion email apps available today, why Acompli? And 2), is the free app worth a download?To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Meet Scoot, the Zipcar of electric scooters In this episode of Breakout Startups, we introduce you to Scoot Networks, a San Francisco-based company that lets users rent scooters by the hour to zip around the city. READ MORE Microsoft shareholders approve Nadella's mega-millions pay package Microsoft's shareholders on Wednesday approved CEO Satya Nadella's multimillion-dollar pay package but by a margin much smaller than similar votes in the past.Last month, Institutional Shareholder Services, the institutional investment adviser, urged its clients to vote against Nadella's compensation, calling a February stock grant given to him a "mega equity award" and arguing that the award "lacks a strong connection to objectively measured company performance."Nadella was appointed CEO in early February, replacing Steve Ballmer, who had abruptly announced his retirement in August 2013.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: HP Top 5 Truths About Big Data Hype and Security Intelligence Big Data Security Analytics (BDSA) is the subject of exuberant predictions. However, a Gartner analyst points out that no available BDSA solutions come close to these forecasts. Nevertheless, the principles of Big Data are the key to advanced security intelligence. This white paper discusses the key tenets of Big Data. Learn more >> Using social media to recruit better tech talent A whopping 93 percent of the 1,855 recruiting pros surveyed in Jobvite's 2014 Social Recruiting Survey use or plan to use social media in their recruiting efforts.The reason why is simple and powerful. According to respondents, leveraging social media improves candidate quality by 44 percent over those using only "traditional" recruiting techniques like phone screenings and filtering resumes based solely on skills and experience.ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD: How to lure tech talent with employee benefits, perks Social media allows not only information about a candidate's experience and skills, but a better glimpse into their lifestyle, values and their cultural fit, which is crucial for companies looking not just to recruit and hire, but also to engage employees and improve retention rates.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Sony's IT blueprints leaked by hackers The hackers responsible for the nightmare at Sony Pictures have released more information, focusing on IT and sales operations. Wednesday's publication was the second data leak this week, appearing online hours after Sony's top executives admitted to not knowing the full scope of the incident.The sales data leaked by GOP – the group claiming responsibility for the Sony Pictures hack - contains information to pertaining to sales goals and expectations for various television shows. It's similar to the sales data released last weekend.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Zendesk brings embedded customer service tools to mobile apps Customers who don't get help immediately will use another app, Zendesk said READ MORE INSIDER Data analytics scores marketing wins for the Texas Rangers When it comes to convincing your boss of the value of a data dashboard, nothing works better than when you can save money as a result of a trend that you visualized. This is what Sarah Stone, one of the data-driven marketing staff, did for the Texas Rangers baseball team; her dashboard saved about $45,000 in annual costs.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE WEBCAST: EMC Redefine Your Mission-Critical Cloud with VMAX3 This webinar examines how EMC's VMAX3 storage solution provides unprecedented reliability, agility, cost-effectiveness and power in today's demanding storage environments. Learn More SLIDESHOWS 14 go-to tools for Mac sysadmins Mac pro Gerard Allen shares his must-have sysadmin tools for enterprise Apple deployments. 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. 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