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	BREAKING: Microsoft buying Nokia's mobile phone business Microsoft is to acquire Nokia's Devices & Services business, which includes the smartphone and mobile phones businesses, and license the Finnish company's patents for a total of $7.2 billion in cash, the companies said Monday. Read More WEBCAST: APC by Schneider Electric Make your data center available, efficient and safe We will discuss what you should expect from a world class service provider and the scope of services needed to make your data center the best it can be. Learn More. Learn More. In this Issue Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on acquisition of Nokia VMware CTO Casado on network virtualization, security and competition with Cisco Tech's cash kings are sitting on billions Microsoft ends top Masters certification exams for IT pros Windows XP's user share nose-dives IBM discovers its inner Kickstarter via enterprise crowdfunding CIOs Say Mentoring Works, Classes Don't Will software-defined networking kill network engineers' beloved CLI? 10 Sorriest Technology Companies of 2013 WHITE PAPER: Brocade Communications SDN: The next wave of networking innovation Brocade and IDG bring you this exclusive eBook exploring the impact of today's IT and Data Center challenges on your network. With a focus on software-defined networks, use this eBook to start your evolution toward a flatter, less complex and more agile network architecture—an architecture ready for the future. View Brocade's eBook on SDN Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on acquisition of Nokia Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on acquisition of Nokia Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaks at a news conference in Espoo, Finland on September 3, 2013, on his company's plans to acquire Nokia's smartphone business. From: networkworld Views: 15 3 ratings Time: 03:04 More in Science & Technology Read More VMware CTO Casado on network virtualization, security and competition with Cisco How do you bring the virtualization operations model to networking? That will be the job of Martin Casado, CTO of networking and security at VMware which this week launched NSX, the company's over-arching network virtualization package. Casado was one of the creators of OpenFlow, the protocol that spawned the software defined networking (SDN) movement. Read More Tech's cash kings are sitting on billions Tech companies are hanging on to record amounts of cash when they could be using it to do more acquisitions, repurchase stock, pay down debt, and pay out dividends. Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Apple and Oracle are among the biggest hoarders. Combined, these five tech companies held $245 billion in cash at the end of March. Read More WEBCAST: Juniper Networks Live Event: Deploying a Virtual Network in Your Data Center Many believe that data center network virtualization can effectively operate over any physical network infrastructure. Wrong! Join a live webinar discussion on September 26th at 11am PDT // 2 pm EDT with IDG, VMware and Juniper Networks where you'll learn to demystify this assumption. View Now Microsoft ends top Masters certification exams for IT pros Microsoft plans to retire its Masters level certification exams by Oct. 1 this year, generating strong protests on blogs and community forums from IT professionals. Read More Windows XP's user share nose-dives Maybe people are listening to Microsoft's demand that they ditch Windows XP. 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: Brocade Communications SDN: The next wave of networking innovation Brocade and IDG bring you this exclusive eBook exploring the impact of today's IT and Data Center challenges on your network. With a focus on software-defined networks, use this eBook to start your evolution toward a flatter, less complex and more agile network architecture—an architecture ready for the future. View Brocade's eBook on SDN CIOs Say Mentoring Works, Classes Don't A survey of 200 CIOs finds that most well-meaning efforts at IT leadership development aren't very successful. Read More Will software-defined networking kill network engineers' beloved CLI? SDN (software-defined networking) promises some real benefits for people who use networks, but to the engineers who manage them, it may represent the end of an era. Read More 10 Sorriest Technology Companies of 2013 Microsoft, Apple and Samsung among those issuing mea culpas Read More
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