Networking World: EXCLUSIVE TEST: Huawei switch: Good first effort

9/11 hero & Akamai co-founder Danny Lewin recalled in new book

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August 30, 2013

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EXCLUSIVE TEST: Huawei switch: Good first effort

Chinese vendor enters crowded U.S. switch market with device that delivers excellent power consumption, decent performance

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

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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

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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

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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

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