Tech companies pick up tab for pricey CEO perks

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	Tech companies pick up tab for pricey CEO perks CEO perks are a magnet for shareholder criticism, but some extras are hard for execs to relinquish. Find out which tech CEOs indulged the most. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP HP ArcSight ESM Solution Helps Bank to Combat Fraud Turkey's Finansbank needed a way to spot potential fraud among millions of electronic transactions. But implementing a commercial fraud management application would take 18 months. Based on their experience using HP ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) for IT security operations, they decided to adapt HP ArcSight ESM for fraud management. Learn More In this Issue Microsoft's IE steps back from the brink of irrelevance Cisco mulling membership in Google, Microsoft Ethernet group Commissioners rip FCC's spendy school Wi-Fi plan EMC looks to the clouds with TwinStrata and new VMax3 array Why the Internet of Things scares the "living crap" out of this security guru Gartner scales back Windows forecast Standalone wearables coming this year, AT&T executive says 13 things to do with the Sun besides getting a tan This is what the new hybrid cloud looks like Google's Larry Page talks of killing the 40-hour work week WHITE PAPER: Infortrend Optimized Efficiency for SMB Datacenters Did you know that Infortrend's EonStor DS systems are ideal solutions for storage infrastructure consolidation, high-availability clusters, server virtualization and green datacenters? And now, they're 16Gb Fibre Channel-ready. Learn more >> Microsoft's IE steps back from the brink of irrelevance Microsoft has managed a feat seldom seen in software -- it's reversed years of sometimes-sharp decline in Internet Explorer's user share and revived interest in the browser it bundles with Windows. Read More Cisco mulling membership in Google, Microsoft Ethernet group Cisco is considering joining a handful of companies, including Google and Microsoft, that have defined a specification for 25Gbps and 50Gbps Ethernet for data centers requiring greater than 10/40Gbps. Read More Commissioners rip FCC's spendy school Wi-Fi plan A proposal by U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler to pump billions of dollars into Wi-Fi deployment at schools and libraries has run into a snag, with the commission's two Republican suggesting the money will come from U.S. residents' pocketbooks. Read More WHITE PAPER: Netscout Systems Inc. Enabling Unified Service Delivery Management With nGeniusONE Today's IT organizations manage diverse business services comprising a host of applications running on many server farms within the data center. NetScout provides a highly scalable, unified approach to service delivery management that enables efficient, topdown performance management across complex application, server and network tiers. Learn More EMC looks to the clouds with TwinStrata and new VMax3 array EMC's TwinStrata acquisition announced on Tuesday is just part of a bigger move to keep its venerable VMax storage platform up to date with large enterprises as they enter the cloud era. Read More Why the Internet of Things scares the "living crap" out of this security guru The Internet of Things could be the next big thing in tech: A world of connected devices, from thermostats, refrigerators to enterprise tools like fleets of cars and data center switches. But it could also turning into a real headache for security folks. Read More Gartner scales back Windows forecast Gartner today scaled back its forecast of Windows' near future, saying that while Microsoft's operating system will power an increasing number of devices this year and next, the gains will be smaller than it projected six months ago. Read More WHITE PAPER: Mobiquity Inc. Five Steps to Developing a Successful Mobile Strategy Don't lose time and money with a "throw an app against a wall to see if sticks" approach to mobile. It won't work. You need a well-thought-out strategy to take full advantage of mobile. This white paper lays out the five important steps to a robust enterprise mobile strategy. Learn more. Standalone wearables coming this year, AT&T executive says The most successful wearable devices will be ones that can work without a phone, and AT&T will have at least one of them by the end of this year, the man who manages the carrier's partnerships said. Read More 13 things to do with the Sun besides getting a tan It's July in the Northern Hemisphere, so occupants are basking in the sun. What a waste! Put it to work while you're not. Reduce your carbon footprint. Cool off the globe. And don't forget to update your Facebook page every time you do. Thirteen solar innovations that will, at best, make only the very slightest improvement to human life. Read More This is what the new hybrid cloud looks like The hybrid cloud seems to be what everyone wants to get to. End users seem to like the idea of using a public cloud, like Amazon Web Services for its large scale and low-cost. But they're not willing to put everything up in AWS's cloud, so there are on-premises clouds for mission-critical and extra secure information. Read More Google's Larry Page talks of killing the 40-hour work week Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page said we may someday see more part-time work weeks than we do today. Read More
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