10 CEOs who took drastic pay cuts

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	10 CEOs who took drastic pay cuts Spectacular pay raises keep widening the gap between what CEOs earn and what average workers take home. But not all CEOs got a raise last year. We examined 62 tech CEOs' compensation -- including salary, bonuses, stock awards, and perks -- and found 10 who took big cuts. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Software MyIT- Consumer Cool for Business Apps Rich Ptak discusses how BMC's MyIT combines the ease and familiarity of accessing today's consumer apps with the stability, security and strengths of the enterprise IT infrastructure. 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Read More Riverbed goes mobile with AppInternals 9.0 Riverbed, the company known best for its Steelhead WAN Optimization product, has beefed up its Application Performance Management (APM) suite. In 2012, Riverbed acquired OPNET for a cool billion to complement the network performance management (NPM) suite it inherited when it purchased Mazu. Read More SDN system controls hundreds of Cisco routers; saves contractor time, money A global environmental engineering company is turning to software-defined networking as a way to boost productivity and save money. 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 Google tests domain registration service If you fancy yourself as a .guru or any other newfangled Internet address, Google wants you to try out its new domain name registration service. The search giant quietly launched Google Domains on Monday as an invite-only beta service. It's being billed as an easy way to set up an address on the Web with simple management tools. Read More Encrypted Web traffic can reveal highly sensitive information Analyzing encrypted Web traffic can potentially reveal highly sensitive information such as medical conditions and sexual orientation, according to a research paper that forecasts how privacy on the Internet may erode. 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