Ten tech titans and their temper tantrums

	CIOs share how they made the leap to CEO | Cisco reveals its Internet of Everything router
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In this Issue CIOs share how they made the leap to CEO Cisco reveals its Internet of Everything router Quick look: The interesting rise and quick fall of Blackberry Larry Ellison takes $1 salary, declines bonus, still lands $78 million H-1B workers in line for Obamacare work VDI Technology Better, Faster and Cheaper, But Adoption Still Slow Enterprises Confident About Tackling Big Data Initiatives Red Hat serves middleware to cloud developers Oracle OpenWorld attendees fume over Ellison keynote Indian biometric ID project faces court hurdle WHITE PAPER: CDNetworks Dynamic Web Acceleration Delivering web applications over the Internet and ensuring reasonable response times for users around the globe is a significant challenge. Find out how Dynamic Web Acceleration can accelerate highly dynamic and interactive web applications aimed at a global audience. Learn more. CIOs share how they made the leap to CEO CIOs who won the CEO job talk candidly about the relentless pressure for profits, the ultimate accountability and what they wish they'd known as CIO. Read More Cisco reveals its Internet of Everything router Cisco Tuesday unveiled its Internet of Everything router, a device intended to address the growth in Internet traffic brought about by cloud, mobile, video and machine-to-machine communications. Read More Quick look: The interesting rise and quick fall of Blackberry It's hard to say what will ultimately become of Blackberry now that it likely will be bought by Canadian consortium Fairfax Financial Holdings for $4.7 billion. Without a doubt BlackBerry transformed business with smartphones that melded email with a keyboard. Then the iPhone happened and the company never really evolved much further. IDC says BlackBerry has fallen behind Microsoft's Windows Phone to into fourth place and the company's savior device, the Z10 remains largely unsold -- $1 billion worth sitting in warehouses. Here we take a quick look at the long, strange trip from the top to the bottom of the smartphone heap. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: DameWare®, part of the SolarWinds® Family DameWare® Remote Support Software – Easy, Fast & Affordable Remotely manage servers, desktops and laptops in minutes! With DameWare you can remotely manage key elements of your infrastructure - domains, workstations, disk drives, & event logs. You need to resolve Windows, Mac & Linux problems for your end-users quickly, and DameWare lets you perform various critical system management tasks – remotely! Download a fully functional, free trial today and discover in minutes why thousands of system administrators use DameWare every day! Larry Ellison takes $1 salary, declines bonus, still lands $78 million Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, who consistently ranks among the highest paid CEOs in the U.S., took an 18% pay cut this year. His total compensation, valued at $78.4 million, is down from $96.2 million in 2012. Read More H-1B workers in line for Obamacare work Some state governments are willing to hire offshore outsourcing firms to work on controversial IT contracts that don't bar use of temporary foreign labor, or workers on H-1B visas. Read More VDI Technology Better, Faster and Cheaper, But Adoption Still Slow Virtual desktop infrastructure has come a long way since the terminal service days of the 1960s. Heck, VDI has come a long way since the 2000s thanks to plummeting prices for clients, better graphics cards and improved administration. By and large, though, VDI deployments remain more of a niche solution. 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Read More Oracle OpenWorld attendees fume over Ellison keynote Oracle customers pay handsome fees to attend its OpenWorld conference each year, and many of them felt short-changed Tuesday when Larry Ellison skipped his final keynote to watch an America's Cup sailing race. Read More Indian biometric ID project faces court hurdle A controversial biometric project in India, which could require people to produce their biometric IDs to collect government subsidies, has received a significant setback from the country's Supreme Court. Read More
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