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Top 10 Programming Skills That Will Get You Hired Android smartphones given a shot at tracking gunfire Network World Daily News AM April 28, 2013 Share this email What is the Internet of Things? Chances are you've heard about the Internet of Things (IoT)—or you will soon enough. The term carries a number of definitions. But in general, the IoT refers to uniquely identifiable objects, such as corporate assets or consumer goods, and their virtual representations in an Internet-like structure. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Top 10 Programming Skills That Will Get You Hired 2. Android smartphones given a shot at tracking gunfire 3. Which Tech CEOs are making the biggest bucks 4. Juniper switching boss talks technology challenges, Cisco Nexus 6000 5. Cisco nemesis Huawei retreating from the U.S. 6. What the man behind HP's new internal IT plan has in mind 7. What's next for Virtual Instruments 8. 'Good enough' Microsoft Hyper-V starts turning more heads 9. 10 improvements we'd like to see in OS X RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: VMware Innovation Awards Showcase Your Company's Leadership Share your story and gain recognition for your leadership. Nominations are now being accepted for the first annual VMware Innovation Awards, produced by Computerworld. Categories include: Cloud, Mobility, Software-Defined Data Center, Transforming the Workforce with New Tech. Learn more. Top 10 Programming Skills That Will Get You Hired Have you been considering adding some new programming skills to your toolbox, but you're not sure where to start? When it comes to what's hot for developers, CIO.com has you covered with which programming languages are in demand and where the development and programming jobs are. READ MORE Android smartphones given a shot at tracking gunfire Vanderbilt University researchers have developed DARPA-funded Android smartphone add-ons that could be used to help security teams determine which way sniper gunshots are coming from. READ MORE Which Tech CEOs are making the biggest bucks Median pay for tech CEOs in 2012 was $10.7 million, according to Network World's analysis of CEO compensation in the tech industry. At the top of the tally is Oracle's Larry Ellison, who received a 24% raise that upped his 2012 pay package to $96.1 million. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Salesforce.com Incorporating Social Media Into Your Customer Service In order to satisfy today's customer, a case must be made to incorporate social media into your customer service strategy. Read Now! Juniper switching boss talks technology challenges, Cisco Nexus 6000 Jonathan Davidson took over Juniper campus and data center switching when the two previously separate business units were combined following the departure of founding engineer R.K. Anand. Davidson has a service provider routing background at Juniper and Cisco, which is no coincidence -- after five years in switching, Juniper has been unable to mirror the success it had in its first five years in service provider routing. But it did start from zero and surpassed at least six other incumbent vendors to attain the No. 3 position in the market. The company has more than 20,000 switching customers cultivated through organic development, Davidson notes. And as Juniper moves forward amid a forklift upgrade facing its EX core switch base and after an initial misfire on the QFabric data center switch, it's focusing on customer demands for simplification, agility and automation. Davidson discussed some recent and future developments in Juniper enterprise switching. READ MORE Cisco nemesis Huawei retreating from the U.S. Huawei has retreated from the U.S. market after taking a beating from Congress on security issues with Chinese tech companies, according to this post in sister pub PC World. READ MORE What the man behind HP's new internal IT plan has in mind As someone who spent billions with HP over 20 years while in IT leadership roles at Boeing and Verizon Wireless, John Hinshaw knew the big hardware, software and services company from the outside as well as anyone. In the year and a half since becoming executive vice president of technology and operations at HP, he's been putting that knowledge to use on the inside. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Wildpackets Essential Reference for Monitoring Your IT Infrastructure How do you choose a network monitoring solution – SNMP monitoring, flow-based monitoring, or packet analysis – that is right for your IT infrastructure? This ebook your crash course in network monitoring for analysis and learn to use multi-segment analysis to diagnose performance problems with distributed application architectures. Download this ebook What's next for Virtual Instruments Virtual Instruments, whose software and hardware is used to manage data center performance, plans to release the next edition of its VirtualWisdom software in the fourth quarter. READ MORE 'Good enough' Microsoft Hyper-V starts turning more heads About three years ago Embotics jumped into developing support in its private cloud management platform for Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor, hopeful that the VMware virtualization challenger would take off. When that takeoff initially stalled, Embotics curtailed its Hyper-V work to focus resources elsewhere. READ MORE 10 improvements we'd like to see in OS X As part of last year's surprise release of Mountain Lion, Apple promised that it would begin delivering yearly updates to Mac OS X, much as it has to iOS in recent years. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks Tackling Peak Traffic Demands in Today's Data Center As demands on data center infrastructure increase, both IT professionals and their tools will need to adapt. Learn how application delivery controllers (ADCs) can accommodate enterprise needs for performance and scalability while providing a unified platform for application services. Download the report today. Download Now SLIDESHOWS 25 weirdest things in the 'Internet of Things' The Internet is slowly creeping into every part of our lives, so much so that it's becoming easier to look around the house and find objects that can be connected to the Internet. 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