5 things to watch for at Amazon's cloud show

Inside CIO paychecks Snowden used sys admin role to collect passwords: Reuters Network World Daily News PM November 08, 2013 Share this email 5 things to watch for at Amazon's cloud show Last year some 6,000 attendees trekked out to Las Vegas for the first customer conference of what many consider to be the leading public IaaS cloud provider: Amazon Web Services. AWS re:Invent 2012 saw the launch of a new data analytics and warehousing product, price drops on its services, and lots of tips and tricks for how to use Amazon's cloud. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Inside CIO paychecks 2. Snowden used sys admin role to collect passwords: Reuters 3. Cryptolocker: How to avoid getting infected and what to do if you are 4. Alcatel-Lucent enterprise on the block again? 5. To thwart spies, IETF wants to 'strengthen the Internet' 6. Why Sonus expanded the role of its Session Border Controller 7. Stealthy startup at root of Riverbed brain drain 8. The 9 hardest things programmers have to do 9. 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