Top CIOs take home seven-figure pay packages

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	Top CIOs take home seven-figure pay packages Fortune 500 CIOs and IT SVPs netted multimillion dollar compensation packages in 2011. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM The Myths and Realities of Cloud This Knowledge Vault lays out just what the myths and realities of cloud are today while offering practical advice on selecting a dedicated cloud partner. Learn More In this Issue How Alan Turing set the rules for computing Data center fabrics catching on, slowly Five needs driving SDNs Five tips to virtual desktop ROI Microsoft to acquire Yammer for $1.2 billion HP to trim 9,000 jobs in US as part of cost-cutting plan When CTOs Quit, What's Next? HP unveils Windows-powered NAS box for SMBs Cloud failures cost more than $70 million since 2007, researchers estimate HP announces low-power server system with upcoming Atom chip HP puts Intel Atom chip in low-power 'Gemini' server Juniper confines SDNs to data center Five years later: Do Apple's first iPhone ads ring a bell? WHITE PAPER: Aerohive The iEverything Enterprise Virtualization, cloud computing, and wireless technology are fundamentally changing enterprise computing, providing revolutionary gains in productivity and cost savings. Powerful enterprise applications can now be delivered to almost any device, anywhere, at any time. Learn more. How Alan Turing set the rules for computing On Saturday, British mathematician Alan Turing would have turned 100 years old. It is barely fathomable to think that none of the computing power surrounding us today was around when he was born. Read More Data center fabrics catching on, slowly Early adopters say the expense and time spent to revamp a data center's switching gear are well worth it; benefits include killer bandwidth and more flexibility. Read More Five needs driving SDNs Five trends in network are driving the transition to software defined networking and programmability. Read More Five tips to virtual desktop ROI Server virtualization made IT rock stars by improving uptime and saving the organization some serious dollars. So now it is time to look at how to leverage this expertise for the desktop. Read More WHITE PAPER: Box Disaster Recovery Services Providers Evaluation Improvements in disaster recovery plans and broad business continuity strategies are top-of-mind concerns for leading enterprises today and recovery time is now measured in hours and minutes not days. These key insights are discussed in the 2010 Forrester Wave Report. Read Now! Microsoft to acquire Yammer for $1.2 billion Microsoft Monday confirmed that it would acquire enterprise social network company Yammer for $1.2 billion in cash. Yammer will be absorbed into the Microsoft Office Division, headed by Kurt DelBene, though Yammer staff will continue to report to the company's current CEO, David Sacks. Yammer claims to have more than 5 million corporate users and to be used by staff at 85 percent of the Fortune 500. Rumors of a Microsoft deal to buy Yammer cropped up earlier this month. Read More HP to trim 9,000 jobs in US as part of cost-cutting plan Hewlett-Packard plans to trim its workforce by about 9,000 in the U.S. as part of its long-term plan to reduce 27,000 jobs worldwide by fiscal 2014, a source familiar with the company's plans said. Read More When CTOs Quit, What's Next? With his announcement to quit the largest and the most popular social networking site soon via a Facebook post, Bret Taylor joins the league of some of the famous high-profiled CTOs of multi-million dollar organizations such as Microsoft, Google and NASA among others who quit to pursue other interests. Read More HP unveils Windows-powered NAS box for SMBs HP today released a smaller version of its Windows NAS file server, the X5520. The new model is aimed at SMBs and addressing unstructured data growth due to trends such as bring-your-own technology. Read More WEBCAST: Aerohive Controller vs. Controller-less WLANs Join industry analyst Craig Mathias and WLAN veteran and Airespace founder Bob O'Hara as they discuss WLAN architecture including the drawbacks of controller-based systems. Learn more. Cloud failures cost more than $70 million since 2007, researchers estimate A total of 568 hours of downtime at 13 well-known cloud services since 2007 had an economic impact of more than US$71.7 million dollars, said the International Working Group on Cloud Computing Resiliency (IWGCR) on Monday. Read More HP announces low-power server system with upcoming Atom chip Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday introduced a low-power server system called Gemini that will be based on Intel's upcoming Atom processor, code-named Centerton. Read More HP puts Intel Atom chip in low-power 'Gemini' server Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday introduced a low-power server system called Gemini that will be based on Intel's upcoming Atom processor, code-named . Read More Juniper confines SDNs to data center Juniper is initially focusing its software defined networking (SDN) strategy on the data center, a market where it can do itself the least amount of damage if the initiative fails to pan out. Read More Five years later: Do Apple's first iPhone ads ring a bell? Time flies when you're becoming the world's most popular mobile phone: The iPhone turns five next week. The iPhone hit retail stores on June 29, 2007 - at the oddball hour of 6 p.m. - by which time the Apple marketing machine had generated deafening buzz. The first iPhone TV commercial aired during the Oscars ceremony Feb. 25 and featured 32 famous actors saying "hello" or some variation, followed... Read More
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