Networking World: iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending August 23

$6B DHS cybersecurity contract sets off race to supply real-time monitoring to feds

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August 25, 2013

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iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending August 23

With the Next iPhone(s) announcement barely three weeks away, the iOSphere hungered and thirsted for data, for facts, for truth about iPhone 6, iPhone 5C, and iPhone 5S.

Issue highlights

1. 7 classic Steve Ballmer videos

2. $6B DHS cybersecurity contract sets off race to supply real-time monitoring to feds

3. Coca-Cola cloud chief reveals VMware wish list

4. TechTip: Saving YouTube videos for offline viewing

5. Mozilla 'Plug-n-Hack' project aims for tighter security tool integration

6. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's retirement announcement letter

7. The PC monitor is dead. Meet the new smart monitor

8. In their own words: Unix pioneers remember the good times

9. 5 big things to watch for at VMworld

10. Products of the week 8.19.13

WEBCAST: HP Intel VMware

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7 classic Steve Ballmer videos

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$6B DHS cybersecurity contract sets off race to supply real-time monitoring to feds

The Department of Homeland Security's $6 billion cybersecurity award last week to a slew of contractors and vendors sets in motion a contest among them to sell federal agencies on new network monitoring, vulnerability assessment and mitigation technologies. The underlying goal of this massive "Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation" (CDM) contract is to spur federal civilian agencies to move away from static approaches to network-security compliance reporting in favor of real-time monitoring. READ MORE

Coca-Cola cloud chief reveals VMware wish list

Mariano Maluf is president of the VMware User Group (VMUG), which counts about 80,000 individual members with technical interests related to VMware's virtual-machine software (the group includes local chapters, lots of free education and special interest groups). In his job as cloud ecosystem architecture lead at the Coca-Cola Co., Maluf has firsthand knowledge of deploying VMware products. Here's what's on his mind heading into next week's annual VMworld conference in San Francisco. READ MORE

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TechTip: Saving YouTube videos for offline viewing

Saving YouTube videos for offline viewing is simple, but beware of copyright violations. Follow reporter Nick Barber on Twitter @nickjb READ MORE

Mozilla 'Plug-n-Hack' project aims for tighter security tool integration

Mozilla is developing a protocol that aims to let security tools and Web browsers work better together. READ MORE

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's retirement announcement letter

Text of an internal email from Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer to employees regarding his plan to retire: 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

The PC monitor is dead. Meet the new smart monitor

We worry far too much about the desktop PC becoming a relic of a bygone age. Our focus, instead, should be on the monitor that the PC connects to. Indeed, as we use more and more mobile devices with integrated screens--notebooks, tablets, and smartphones--we pay much less attention to the aging, dumb monitors sitting on our desks. READ MORE

In their own words: Unix pioneers remember the good times

We caught up with the pioneers who brought us the Unix operating system and asked them to share some memories of the early days of Unix development. READ MORE

5 big things to watch for at VMworld

For about the last decade VMware has been one of the pre-eminent companies ushering in a new era of computing related to server virtualization. Now, the company is hoping to extend the shift beyond just server virtualization to include the cloud, plus network and storage virtualization. The vision is encapsulated in what VMware executives call its Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) strategy, which will be on full display at the company's annual VMworld conference next week in San Francisco. READ MORE

Products of the week 8.19.13

Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as CA and HP. READ MORE

WEBCAST: Dell Wyse and VMware

Capitalizing on Desktop Virtualization

As more than half of those surveyed by IDG move to virtual desktop infrastructure, mastering its complexities has never been more important. With the right best practices and trusted partners, you can do just that--thus accelerating time to value, simplifying deployment and management, and creating organizational agility. View Now

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