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Cisco in for a virtual fight
VMware is lining up a Who's Who of networking vendors to take on partner/rival Cisco in network virtualization and SDNs. Read More


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11 things Microsoft is actually doing right
From Office to Hyper-V to Azure, the much-maligned 'dying dinosaur' has a lot going for it as the Ballmer era winds down. Read More

New York Times site outage caused by attack on domain registrar, company says
The New York Times blamed a prolonged website outage on Tuesday on a hacking attack at the company's Australia-based domain name registrar, Melbourne IT. Read More

Server revenue continued slide in Q2 on weak demand, says IDC
The server business continued to slide in the second quarter with worldwide revenue and unit sales down, IDC said Tuesday. Read More


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If you sell 36 million Samsung or Apple smart watches, are you successful?
Sales of so-called "smart watches" will surge from 1 million to 36 million in five years, according to a speculative new report from Juniper Research. But whether that defines "success" remains an open question. Read More

VMware adds networking, storage to its virtual data center stack
At the kick-off of its annual VMworld user conference, being held this week in San Francisco, VMware will fill in more layers of its software stack for running its envisioned software defined data center (SDDC). Read More


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Windows 8 Update: Microsoft Windows 8 is not Ballmer's biggest regret
Even though Windows 8 incited hordes to call for Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's ouster, the operating system is not what he regrets most about his 33-year tenure at the company. Read More

HR Departments Invaded By Data Scientists
As leading HR departments turn to 'talent analytics' for a wide range of staffing issues, CIOs are at the center of this data-driven transformation Read More

Will VMware's big gamble on network virtualization pay off?
In unveiling its NSX software this week, VMware is looking to convince its huge base of server virtualization customers to trust it with network virtualization, too, even though many of them already look to Cisco for their primary network needs. Read More


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