EXCLUSIVE TEST: Huawei switch: Good first effort

Why Microsoft's Next CEO Will Fail 9/11 hero & Akamai co-founder Danny Lewin recalled in new book Network World Daily News PM August 30, 2013 Share this email EXCLUSIVE TEST: Huawei switch: Good first effort Chinese vendor enters crowded U.S. switch market with device that delivers excellent power consumption, decent performance READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Why Microsoft's Next CEO Will Fail 2. 9/11 hero & Akamai co-founder Danny Lewin recalled in new book 3. COBOL-based system for $160 billion pension fund is a political football 4. Old electronics don't die, they pile up 5. Larry Ellison to talk in-memory database, Oracle PaaS at OpenWorld 6. New smartphone OSes take baby steps forward 7. MIT develops 110-core processor for more power-efficient computing 8. US man pleads guilty to hacking Department of Energy, other sites 9. 12 terrific new updates in VMware vSphere 5.5 10. VMware brings Suse Linux to newly launched cloud service 11. Lapsing of Moore's Law opens up opportunity in chip design 12. The Loneliness of Today's Mobile Culture 13. IBM discovers its inner Kickstarter via enterprise crowdfunding WEBCAST: HP Intel VMware The Cloud: Why the Hybrid Cloud May Be Best A combination of the public and private cloud, the hybrid cloud fits the needs of a broad range of enterprises. View Now! Why Microsoft's Next CEO Will Fail Steve Ballmer isn't necessarily a bad CEO. After all, Microsoft's on strong financial footing. But Ballmer made enough bad product decisions--Zune, Kin, Vista and perhaps Surface--to suggest that Microsoft employees, swayed by a forced-ranking employee rating system, told him what he wanted to hear, not what he needed to hear. If that culture doesn't change, Ballmer's replacement will fare even worse than he did. READ MORE 9/11 hero & Akamai co-founder Danny Lewin recalled in new book We get flooded by books at Network World, with publishers hoping we'll plug their latest titles, most of which are too technically obscure or too general (yet another management book) to be worth mentioning. READ MORE COBOL-based system for $160 billion pension fund is a political football A COBOL (common business oriented language)-based system used to support New York's US$160 billion state pension fund has become the subject of controversy, with some officials claiming it poses a potential security risk and others defending it as "battle-tested," albeit set to be replaced. READ MORE Old electronics don't die, they pile up Brazil, India, China and many others are e-waste graveyards READ MORE RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SolarWinds Right Size Your Network Performance Management Solution Paying too much for network monitoring? This white paper follows four organizations in their search for the most cost-effective network performance management tool. See the challenges they encountered along the way and how they used product fit and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) to make the switch from bloated, overpriced solutions to SolarWinds. Click here to get this FREE whitepaper from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) and learn how four organizations benefitted from choosing SolarWinds award winning Network Performance Monitor. Larry Ellison to talk in-memory database, Oracle PaaS at OpenWorld Oracle CEO Larry Ellison typically uses his annual OpenWorld conference keynotes to deliver the company's biggest announcements and strategic positioning, and this year they will apparently involve an in-memory database and Oracle's PaaS (platform as a service) offerings. READ MORE New smartphone OSes take baby steps forward Four new smartphone OSes intend to challenge Apple and Google's dominant position. Mozilla's Firefox OS is the first out of the gate, but Canonical, Samsung Electronics and Intel, as well as Finnish upstart Jolla Mobile, are also getting their alternatives ready. READ MORE MIT develops 110-core processor for more power-efficient computing A 110-core chip has been developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology as it looks for power-efficient ways to boost performance in mobile devices, PCs and servers. READ MORE US man pleads guilty to hacking Department of Energy, other sites A Pennsylvania man who was allegedly a member of the computer hacking group the Underground Intelligence Agency has pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy and two counts of computer intrusion, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. READ MORE WEBCAST: Egnyte The Benefits of Hybrid Cloud Sharing Security. Scalability. Control. These are just some of the many benefits of enterprise cloud file-sharing that you'll discover in this KnowledgeVault, packed with short videos, white papers and demos. View Now! 12 terrific new updates in VMware vSphere 5.5 VMware boosts performance, scalability, and usability with enhancements that stretch from the hypervisor to the management stack READ MORE VMware brings Suse Linux to newly launched cloud service The newly launched VMware vCloud Hybrid Service will start offering a fully supported Suse Linux Enterprise Server by the end of the year, making it the first commercially supported Linux OS that the cloud service plans to offer. READ MORE Lapsing of Moore's Law opens up opportunity in chip design As the trend famously codified by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore -- that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit would double every two years -- seems to be flagging, one top engineer suggests that it is time to rethink chip design to buy performance increases. READ MORE The Loneliness of Today's Mobile Culture If you've ever felt isolated among your smartphone-obsessed friends and family, you're not alone. In fact, a new video from My Science Academy captures that feeling of isolation. CIO.com Senior Writer Tom Kaneshige weighs in on whether mobile devices connect us or sentence us to solitary confinement. READ MORE IBM discovers its inner Kickstarter via enterprise crowdfunding IBM is readying its fourth internal Kickstarter-like crowdfunding effort over the past year or so to inspire employees to innovate and collaborate, often across departments and the globe. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks 10 Steps to Improving the Mobile User Experience This paper will outline the essential network infrastructure and support best practices necessary to deliver an optimized mobile end-user experience, and offer 10 recommended steps that lead to higher end-user satisfaction. Learn more. SLIDESHOWS Hot products from VMworld 2013 Click through to see all the latest from the show in San Francisco. 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. Join Network World's LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity). Network World on Facebook Network World on LinkedIn MOST-READ STORIES 1. Juniper kills MobileNext mobile packet product line 2. IBM starts restricting hardware patches to paying customers 3. Old electronics don't die, they pile up 4. School starts mass social media surveillance of students for their 'safety' 5. Developers hack Dropbox, show how to access user data 6. Spear phishing led to DNS attack against the New York Times, others 7. 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IBM discovers its inner Kickstarter via enterprise crowdfunding

iPad 5 rumor rollup for the week ending August 28 Famous social firsts: The earliest days of your favorite social networks Network World Daily News AM August 30, 2013 Share this email IBM discovers its inner Kickstarter via enterprise crowdfunding IBM is readying its fourth internal Kickstarter-like crowdfunding effort over the past year or so to inspire employees to innovate and collaborate, often across departments and the globe. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. iPad 5 rumor rollup for the week ending August 28 2. Famous social firsts: The earliest days of your favorite social networks 3. Toyota Goes All-in With Social Media Monitoring 4. INSIDER Cloud Helps Financial Company Spin Up a New IT Operation 5. Time to Bridge the Gap between Identity and Security 6. World Tech Update, August 29, 2013 7. Report: Application delivery controller sales up, but WAN optimization slipping 8. Microsoft sets $100 Surface Pro discounts in stone 9. What is a vulnerability? 10. Windows 8.1 won't rescue PC market this year, IDC says 11. 10 Sorriest Technology Companies of 2013 WHITE PAPER: CDW Can You Benefit from Social CRM? Social tools and strategies are now crucial to building a successful CRM strategy. Learn how to take advantage of social CRM to improve business processes and enhance customer loyalty without a complete "rip-and-replace" of traditional CRM tools. Read Now iPad 5 rumor rollup for the week ending August 28 Still more photographs purporting to show exteriors of the Apple iPad 5 and iPad mini 2 were posted this week. But they only underlined how little the iOSphere actually knows about the Next iPads. READ MORE Famous social firsts: The earliest days of your favorite social networks Wondering who sent the first Tweet or posted the first pet photo to Instagram? The answers may surprise you (and are definitely cute, when it comes to pets) READ MORE Toyota Goes All-in With Social Media Monitoring Toyota's CIO says the carmaker analyzes social media commentary to learn what customers think of specific vehicles, identify quality problems and increase the accuracy of sales predictionsa(c). READ MORE RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SolarWinds Right Size Your Network Performance Management Solution Paying too much for network monitoring? This white paper follows four organizations in their search for the most cost-effective network performance management tool. See the challenges they encountered along the way and how they used product fit and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) to make the switch from bloated, overpriced solutions to SolarWinds. Click here to get this FREE whitepaper from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) and learn how four organizations benefitted from choosing SolarWinds award winning Network Performance Monitor. INSIDER Cloud Helps Financial Company Spin Up a New IT Operation Another company acquired about 75 percent of Lincoln Trust, along with its technology, which left the CTO with a pressing need for a new technology platforma(c). READ MORE Time to Bridge the Gap between Identity and Security Lots of security vendors play in the identity space. IBM is a leader in both areas while McAfee, RSA Security, and Symantec have acquired identity technologies over the past few years. These vendors present a compelling vision of tighter alignment between identity and security that is sometimes referred to as "contextual security." By unifying identity, network security, device identity, and... READ MORE World Tech Update, August 29, 2013 Nintendo cuts the price of its Wii and debuts the 2DS handheld, NASA plans to bag an asteroid and we get ready for IFA next week. Follow WTU and host Nick Barber @nickjb and facebook.com/worldtechupdate READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Novell Mobile Zen: Balancing End-User Productivity and IT Control Mobility is often seen as a zero-sum game: either end users or IT can win, but never both. Learn how users can have the convenience and mobile productivity they need, while IT retains control over enterprise goods. Victory for both sides. Learn More Report: Application delivery controller sales up, but WAN optimization slipping A report on data center networking equipment says that sales of WAN optimization gear fell in the second quarter, but application delivery controllers were on the rise. READ MORE Microsoft sets $100 Surface Pro discounts in stone Microsoft yesterday made permanent the $100 price cut to its Surface Pro tablet that it ran as a temporary sale through most of August. READ MORE What is a vulnerability? Judging by initial appearances, our security testing turned up a ton of vulnerabilities – nearly 150 of them. In reality, however, none represented actual issues in the Huawei switch. READ MORE Windows 8.1 won't rescue PC market this year, IDC says The PC market will weaken even further this year and Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8.1 OS will be unable to reverse the drop in shipments, IDC said on Thursday. READ MORE 10 Sorriest Technology Companies of 2013 Microsoft, Apple and Samsung among those issuing mea culpas READ MORE WEBCAST: HP & Intel® Cloud Knowledge Vault According to market research, more than 60 percent of enterprises will have adopted some form of cloud computing by 2013. Learn how your organization can benefit from the scalability, flexibility, and performance that the cloud offers through the short videos and other resources in this HP & Intel® Cloud Knowledge Vault. View Now SLIDESHOWS Hot products from VMworld 2013 Click through to see all the latest from the show in San Francisco. 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. Join Network World's LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity). Network World on Facebook Network World on LinkedIn MOST-READ STORIES 1. Juniper kills MobileNext mobile packet product line 2. IBM starts restricting hardware patches to paying customers 3. Old electronics don't die, they pile up 4. School starts mass social media surveillance of students for their 'safety' 5. Developers hack Dropbox, show how to access user data 6. Spear phishing led to DNS attack against the New York Times, others 7. Cisco in for a virtual fight 8. Apple's iPhone trade-in program is a game changer 9. Hot products from VMworld 2013 10. Linus Torvalds celebrates 22 years of Linux with nostalgic message Follow Network World Share this email You are currently subscribed to networkworld_daily_news_alert as networking.world@gmail.com. Unsubscribe from this newsletter | Manage your subscriptions | Subscribe | Privacy Policy Learn about INSIDER If you are interested in advertising in this newsletter, please contact: bglynn@cxo.com To contact Network World, please send an e-mail to customer_service@nww.com Copyright (C) 2013 Network World, 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham, MA 01701 ** Please do not reply to this message. To contact someone directly, send an e-mail to customer_service@nww.com. **