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Inside CIO paychecks
Ever wonder what payday is like for CIOs at giant global companies? Network World scoured the proxy statements of the 500 largest U.S. companies to find instances where a CIO or senior IT executive ranks among a company's highest-paid executive officers. We found 25. Check out the details on their multi-million pay packages, which include six-figure salaries, cash bonuses, stock awards, and perks. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Brocade Communications

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In this Issue

WHITE PAPER: Motorola Solutions Inc.

What You Need to Know About 802.11AC
The first standard wireless LANs emerged at 1Mbps and 2Mbps to serve niche applications such as warehouse picking, inventory scanning and, in office buildings where mobility wasn't a requirement, cordless PC connections aimed at lowering cabling costs. Fast forward through several WLAN generations to today, and the story has completely changed. Learn more.

Gartner: The cloud according to Daryl
Gartner Managing Vice President Daryl Plummer, the master of the concise, astute observation, delivered his annual 'state of the cloud' report Wednesday at the company's Symposium. Here are his six key points. Read More

Shhh… Cisco's latest switch supports VMware NSX
A recent switch upgrade by Cisco has added an interesting twist to the company's battle royale with VMware over next-generation virtual networking and data center operations management. Read More

Three lessons from Netflix on how to live in the cloud
Netlfix is a big company, and a big cloud user. With 38 million members across 40 countries, it streams a billion hours of content per month. Read More

WHITE PAPER: HP

Unleash the full potential of BYOD with confidence
Growing numbers of smartphones and tablets are pushing enterprise networks to the limit and creating security and management challenges for IT organizations. This white paper reviews BYOD administration, performance, and security implications, and describes how the HP BYOD solution lets you realize all the benefits of BYOD, with confidence. Learn more.

Google to pay rewards for open-source code security fixes
Google said it plans to reward developers for developing proactive security improvements for some of the most widely used open-source software programs. Read More

6 cool new wireless technologies from MIT
MIT grad students show off their research at Wireless Retreat. Read More

INSIDER

SDN pioneers share their secrets
With the ability to create virtual networks quickly and efficiently – rather than programming network-connected hardware on an individual basis – software defined networks (SDN) appear to be the time-and-resource saving solution that overwhelmed IT managers have been looking for. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks

10 Steps to Improving the Mobile User Experience
This paper will outline the essential network infrastructure and support best practices necessary to deliver an optimized mobile end-user experience, and offer 10 recommended steps that lead to higher end-user satisfaction. Learn more.

ExtraHop mines the network to glean operations intelligence
Jesse Rothstein, who was the lead architect of F5's flagship product line, founded ExtraHop in 2007 to develop products to derive IT operations intelligence from data gleaned from the network. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix recently caught up with Rothstein for an update on the company and what it has learned about things like virtual packet loss (hint: it can be the bane of highly virtualized environments). Read More

Next generation of carrier systems going virtual
The latest version of Nokia Siemens Networks software for running mobile carriers is virtualized, pointing toward a future of fully cloud-based systems that could help operators run even more efficiently and roll out new services more quickly. Read More

BlackBerry offers itself up to six would-be buyers; Cisco looks like the best fit
BlackBerry has reportedly asked Cisco, Google, SAP, Intel, LG and Samsung separately to consider buying all or parts of its embattled company. Read More

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