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Thursday, September 11, 2014

CIOs rack up millions in incentives

CTIA chief lashes back at FCC chair on net neutrality | Red Hat Satellite orbits the Amazon cloud

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CIOs rack up millions in incentives
A six-figure salary is just the beginning for CIOs. Cash bonuses, stock awards and executive perks can propel pay packages into the millions. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Fortinet

Security Concerns in the C-Suite
Next-generation firewall technology (NGFW) addresses the most prevalent security issues. Fortinet's FortiGate NGFW integrates five crucial security protections, including strong authentication, antimalware and APT detection. View Now>>

WHITE PAPER: Alert Logic

State of Cloud Security Report
In a relatively short time, cloud computing, specifically Infrastructure-as a-Service, has shifted from a new but unproven approach to an accepted, even inevitable, model. Driven by flexibility and efficiency, the question facing most organizations is which applications and workloads to move to the cloud and when. Learn More

CTIA chief lashes back at FCC chair on net neutrality
The keynote stage at CTIA became a net neutrality boxing ring again on Wednesday as the head of the show's sponsor, CTIA President and CEO Meredith Attwell Baker, sharply disagreed with Tuesday's comments by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler about how the mobile Internet should be regulated. Read More

Red Hat Satellite orbits the Amazon cloud
Red Hat Satellite 6 now uses Puppet as a configuration manager. Read More

Is there a viable alternative to ubiquitous GPS?
What's the state-of-the-art in non-GPS based navigation and homing technology? That's the main question behind a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) request to the industry this week as the group ponders where or not to go forward with a program that would seek an alternative to or a technology capable of augmenting GPS. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Xirrus

Optimize Your Wi-Fi Network
Designing wireless networks for coverage is no longer enough. They must be built for capacity and performance, which makes Wi-Fi optimization best practices crucial. Learn more.

Wear Your Own Device set to become next big headache for IT departments
Massachusetts-based Ipswitch believes that the Apple Watch is the most significant development so far for the mainstream adoption of wearable technology. But the company argues that networks will soon come under strain and slow down as employees connect their Apple Watches and other wearable devices to them. Read More

OneDrive now allows files of up to 10GB
Addressing an issue often overlooked by cloud storage users when choosing a service, Microsoft has increased the maximum size for files uploaded to OneDrive from 2GB to 10GB. Read More

Anti-surveillance device kicks drones, phones and Glassholes from Wi-Fi networks
If you stop to consider it, most all technology can used for good and for evil. Read More


WHITE PAPER: BMC Software

An Insightful Approach to Optimizing Mainframe MLC Spend
This paper, "An Insightful Approach to Optimizing Mainframe MLC Costs," discusses how you can penetrate the complexity of IBM mainframe MLC products and the MLC price model to gain insight into the MLC cost drivers and leverage that insight to optimize MLC spend. Learn More

Apple lays groundwork for global LTE roaming with new iPhones
The company has in some cases almost tripled the number LTE bands on the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. Read More

33 equipment manufacturers oppose public-utility broadband
IBM, Cisco, Intel and other companies oppose calls to reclassify and regulate broadband as a common carrier. Read More

VMware patches third-party components in vSphere platform
VCenter Server and ESXi patches update the bundled versions of Apache Struts, Apache Tomcat, glibc and JRE. Read More

Wire-free laptops will hit the market next year, Intel says
Laptops with Skylake chips will be able to wirelessly charge and transfer data. Read More


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