Top 5 things to watch for at VMWorld 2014

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	Top 5 things to watch for at VMWorld 2014 A year ago VMware laid out an ambitious plan, now it's time to hear the details. The big question this time around is whether the company will actually be able to execute its ambitious strategy cleanly. VMWorld, which starts on Aug. 25 in San Francisco's Moscone Center, could be the place to see evidence. These are the top five moves we're hoping to see from VMware at the show. Read More WHITE PAPER: CDW Looking to the Horizon: SDN Software-defined networking is one of the hottest buzzwords of 2014, but saying exactly what SDN is can be a challenge. SDN has its roots in the early 1990s, when both network managers and service providers began to express frustration with typical network architectures that inhibited innovation and change Learn More In this Issue Linux Foundation to offer new certification for IT workers How Michael Gregoire plans to put CA back on track VC investors hot for the cloud, mobile and robots Sprint's cut in data prices won't help its network woes Review: VMware VSAN turns storage inside-out IT outages are an ongoing problem for the U.S government Cloud BI: Going where the data lives Citing super-busy schedule, Ballmer resigns from Microsoft board 5 cool new security research breakthroughs : Aerohive Navigating the New Wireless Landscape Wireless LAN controllers are about to become obsolete—a fate sealed by the advent of 802.11ac. This KnowledgeVault is packed with informative short videos, webcasts and white papers that show how you can capitalize on this emerging trend. View Now>> Linux Foundation to offer new certification for IT workers With an eye toward deepening the global Linux talent pool, the Linux Foundation today announced that it will offer two new certifications for engineers and administrators. Read More How Michael Gregoire plans to put CA back on track What's new at CA Technologies? Turns out the company has been quietly trying to reinvent itself as a top provider of enterprise products for managing cloud services and mobile devices, extending its expertise beyond in-house IT management. It's a tough challenge for CEO Michael Gregoire, who took charge of CA in 2010 to transform the company for this new age. Read More VC investors hot for the cloud, mobile and robots Deloitte survey shows increased investment in U.S. tech companies. Read More WHITE PAPER: Instart Logic Travel Sites - Premium Web Experiences for Mobile Users Radically Immersive Travel and Hospitality Sites Are the New Normal. But How Can Publishers Extend These Experiences to Mobile Users? View more Sprint's cut in data prices won't help its network woes Sprint's new lower-priced shared data plan sounds ambitious, but analysts say it doesn't go far enough and won't address the carrier's network performance sore spot. Read More Review: VMware VSAN turns storage inside-out Convergence of compute and storage is all the rage in the virtualization market these days. You see it in Microsoft's Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V and Storage Spaces. You see it in third-party platforms such as Nutanix. And you see it in VMware's vSphere flagship with the addition of Virtual SAN, a new capability built into the ESXi hypervisor that turns the direct-attached storage in vSphere cluster nodes into highly available, high-performance shared storage. Read More IT outages are an ongoing problem for the U.S government When Healthcare.gov was launched last October, it gave millions of Americans direct experience with a government IT failure on a massive scale. But the overall reliability of federal IT operations is being called into question by a survey that finds outages aren't uncommon in government. Read More WHITE PAPER: WorldApp SaaS Tip: Move Your Operations to Cloud with this Platform Form.com offers the horsepower and flexibility, along with the robust feature set needed to move large scale, data-driven operations to a fully digital, cloud-based environment. The core technology is modular – meaning you can define exactly what you need in your ideal solution without paying for all the extras. Learn More Cloud BI: Going where the data lives As more companies store data in the cloud, they're increasingly crunching the numbers there, too. Read More Citing super-busy schedule, Ballmer resigns from Microsoft board Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has broken another tie with the company, stepping down from the company's board of directors effective immediately. Read More 5 cool new security research breakthroughs USENIX Security '14 line-up explores Apple iOS security, Web privacy and more. Read More
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