http://www.networkworld.com/rss/netflash.xml Network World News Network World, Inc. Copyright(C) 1994 - 2012 Network World, Inc. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020712-hp-cloud-255817.html?source=nww_rss With the release of its new LoadRunner in the Cloud application load testing solution, HP aims to provide the flexibility of software-as-a-service in tools that traditionally entailed substantial investments to implement. Colin Neagle 2012-02-07T12:53:01-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020712-ftc-background-screening-255815.html?source=nww_rss The Federal Trade Commission this week said it sent letters to six unidentified mobile applications makers warning them that their background screening apps may be violating federal statutes. Michael Cooney 2012-02-07T12:09:53-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020712-groups-congress-should-scrap-sopa-255816.html?source=nww_rss The U.S. Congress should scrap two controversial copyright enforcement bills and start over with attempts to target foreign websites accused of infringement and counterfeiting, more than 70 groups have said. Grant Gross 2012-02-07T12:02:30-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020712-acer-sues-former-ceo-lanci-255813.html?source=nww_rss Acer has sued its former CEO and President Gianfranco Lanci in Italian courts for allegedly violating a non-compete clause, the company said Tuesday. Agam Shah 2012-02-07T11:55:42-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020712-sap-unveils-hana-in-memory-database-255814.html?source=nww_rss SAP on Tuesday announced the first products based on its HANA in-memory database aimed at small and medium-sized businesses, including a new Edge edition of the software as well as HANA-powered analytics for the Business One ERP (enterprise resource planning) suite. Chris Kanaracus 2012-02-07T11:47:56-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020712-students-plan-to-press-irish-255811.html?source=nww_rss A group of students concerned over Facebook's privacy practices plans to continue to press the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) for action following a meeting on Monday in Vienna with representatives of the social networking site. Jeremy Kirk 2012-02-07T11:35:41-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020712-motorola-droid-4-255810.html?source=nww_rss The fourth iteration of Motorola's signature Droid series is hitting the shelves for Verizon customers this Friday. Brad Reed 2012-02-07T11:23:29-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020712-centrex-255808.html?source=nww_rss Centrex is a lot like the talking plague victim from Monty Python's "Holy Grail": It's not quite dead yet. Brad Reed 2012-02-07T11:04:15-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020712-5-ways-to-secure-your-255807.html?source=nww_rss With the ongoing rollout of Facebook's Timeline feature, security and privacy have never been more important to your digital life. The new layout presents all of your current and past activities on Facebook -- posts, photos, comments, likes and so on -- in a handy timeline format to anyone with access to your profile, which may include friends of friends, colleagues, executives at your company, a potential future boss ... well, you get the idea. Logan Kugler 2012-02-07T10:48:04-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020712-apple-appstore-255805.html?source=nww_rss Apple has warned iOS developers not to use services that manipulate App Store rankings to make their iPhone and iPad apps seem more popular than they really are. Bob Brown 2012-02-07T10:40:52-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020712-want-your-beer-and-wings-255806.html?source=nww_rss Pass the buffalo wings and the iPad. Matt Hamblen 2012-02-07T10:40:50-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020712-mobile-webstats-255804.html?source=nww_rss Over the past 12 months, mobile access to the Internet nearly doubled to 8.5%, not counting tablets, according to data released this week by StatCounter, a Web analytics company. John Cox 2012-02-07T10:25:19-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020712-juniper-routers-255802.html?source=nww_rss Juniper Networks this week has unveiled access routers designed to provide an on-ramp to the service provider network from residential, business and mobile networks. Jim Duffy 2012-02-07T10:12:17-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020712-denial-of-service-attacks-are-on-the-255801.html?source=nww_rss Both the number and volume of distributed denial-of-service attacks are increasing, according to new reports from DDoS mitigation companies Prolexic and Arbor Networks. Lucian Constantin 2012-02-07T09:34:49-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020712-red-hat-launches-storage-appliance-255800.html?source=nww_rss Red Hat has announced the Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon Web Services (AWS), which can take advantage of Amazon's cloud while at the same time offering excellent performance, the company said on Tuesday. Mikael Rickna$?s 2012-02-07T09:24:50-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020712-microsoft-teams-up-with-247-255798.html?source=nww_rss Microsoft has entered into a broad partnership with customer-service software provider 24/7 that the companies expect will yield a superior cloud-based platform that large companies can use to better address their customers' needs. Juan Carlos Perez 2012-02-07T09:07:23-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020712-large-data-center-coming-to-255799.html?source=nww_rss Tulip Data Center Services is setting up a 900,000 square foot (83,612.7 square meters) data center in Bangalore, the largest in India, to benefit from scale and target growing demand for collocation, cloud, and managed services in India and neighboring countries. John Ribeiro 2012-02-07T09:04:34-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020712-microsoft-crm-255797.html?source=nww_rss The productivity of salespeople could jump with the upcoming release of native Microsoft Dynamics CRM applications for specific mobile platforms and put the software vendor ahead of some of its competitors, an expert says. Tim Greene 2012-02-07T08:03:48-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020712-hp-to-let-partners-host-255796.html?source=nww_rss Hewlett-Packard's LoadRunner performance validation software will become available on a hosted basis through HP partners, the company announced Tuesday. Nancy Gohring 2012-02-07T07:50:23-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020712-india-builds-a-mega-data-255795.html?source=nww_rss IBM has designed and helped to build a 900,000-square-foot data center in India that it says is the largest in that country in terms of size and power. It's also among the largest in the world. Patrick Thibodeau 2012-02-07T07:39:24-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020712-sony-merges-playstation-network-into-255794.html?source=nww_rss Sony will merge its PlayStation online gaming service into its broader online platform from Tuesday. Jay Alabaster 2012-02-07T06:57:03-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020712-amazon-web-services-lowers-price-255791.html?source=nww_rss Amazon Web Services has cut the cost of storing data using its Simple Storage Service (S3) -- saving users with 50 TB stored on the service around 12 percent on their monthly bill, the company said on Monday. Mikael Rickna$?s 2012-02-07T06:19:53-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020712-data-breach-255782.html?source=nww_rss An in-depth study of data-breach problems last year where hackers infiltrated 312 businesses to grab gobs of mainly customer payment-card information found the primary way they got in was through third-party vendor remote-access applications or VPN for systems maintenance. Ellen Messmer 2012-02-07T06:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020712-china-plans-to-improve-internet-255790.html?source=nww_rss Following user complaints of slow connection speeds, China plans to improve the nation's Internet networks by building new fiber networks while also lowering their prices, said a Chinese government official on Tuesday. Michael Kan 2012-02-07T03:54:41-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020712-anonymous-claims-to-have-released-255789.html?source=nww_rss Hacker group Anonymous claimed late Monday that the source code of Symantec's pcAnywhere had been uploaded on The Pirate Bay site. John Ribeiro 2012-02-07T02:17:34-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020712-oracle-asks-for-retrial-against-255788.html?source=nww_rss Oracle has chosen a new trial in its lawsuit against SAP for copyright infringement, rejecting the reduction of a jury verdict by about US$1 billion by a federal court in September last year. John Ribeiro 2012-02-07T12:26:33-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020712-emc-to-flesh-out-vfcache-255787.html?source=nww_rss EMC has big plans this year for the VFCache flash storage it introduced on Monday, with the coming enhancements including SSDs, 1TB cards, integration with VMware and less expensive MLC flash media. Stephen Lawson 2012-02-06T07:38:48-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020712-how-to-avoid-cloud-customer-255786.html?source=nww_rss Customer support organizations were the earliest of adopters for CRM systems. Thanks to call center software and the need to drive cost reductions and faster service turn-around cycles, the customer support organization developed solid business processes, comprehensive measurement and good discipline. But that's all so last-century. David Taber 2012-02-06T07:24:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-microsoft-opens-c-extension-for-255785.html?source=nww_rss Microsoft has opened its C++ AMP specification so it can also be used by non-Microsoft compilers to harness the power of GPUs (graphics processing units). Joab Jackson 2012-02-06T06:40:50-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-amd-execs-tout-firms-tablet-255784.html?source=nww_rss With new CEO Rory Read at the helm for about six months, Advanced Micro Devices has turned its attention to the lucrative and burgeoning tablet market. Sharon Gaudin 2012-02-06T06:04:24-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-adobe-launches-sandboxed-flash-player-255783.html?source=nww_rss Adobe has released a beta version of Flash Player for Firefox, which has better protection against vulnerability exploits because of a new sandboxed architecture. Lucian Constantin 2012-02-06T05:45:58-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-lenovos-thinkpad-tablet-to-get-255781.html?source=nww_rss Lenovo's ThinkPad Tablet will get an upgrade to Google's latest Android 4.0 OS starting in May, Lenovo said on Monday. Agam Shah 2012-02-06T04:32:06-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-copyright-lawsuit-targets-owners-of-255780.html?source=nww_rss A federal lawsuit filed in Massachusetts could test the question of whether individuals who leave their wireless networks unsecured can be held liable if someone uses the network to illegally download copyrighted content. Jaikumar Vijayan 2012-02-06T04:15:24-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-java-tops-c-in-language-255779.html?source=nww_rss Java has been buoyed by Android's success, but C continues to close the popularity gap Paul Krill 2012-02-06T03:54:24-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-microsoft-drops-start-button-from-255777.html?source=nww_rss Microsoft will scratch the 17-year-old Start button from Windows 8, according to reports based on a purported leak of the latest beta build. Gregg Keizer 2012-02-06T03:44:24-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-insider-macs-255772.html?source=nww_rss Change can often be slow. It took many years for the Mac to begin to even threaten the PC in the enterprise. It is still a slow process, but Apple is making up ground on Microsoft. Ryan Francis 2012-02-06T03:25:10-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-ios-network-255773.html?source=nww_rss Businesses might long for the relatively simple policies for corporate-owned mobile devices of the BlackBerry age, but today's realities are forcing them to prepare their networks for a continued onslaught of authorized and unauthorized access from a slew of consumer devices, led by iPhones and iPads. Colin Neagle 2012-02-06T03:24:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-appeals-court-denies-google-bid-255774.html?source=nww_rss Google has failed in its latest attempt to keep a potentially damaging email out of the lawsuit Oracle filed against it over alleged Java intellectual-property violations in the Android mobile OS. Chris Kanaracus 2012-02-06T03:10:42-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-global-semiconductor-market-to-grow-255770.html?source=nww_rss The global semiconductor market is showing signs of a healthy recovery after a rough 2011 in which year-over-year growth was flat, the Semiconductor Industry Association said on Monday Agam Shah 2012-02-06T03:01:34-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-azure-255762.html?source=nww_rss U.K.-based cash-transport firm G4S is trusting the security of Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud service to keep safe the application that tracks where the money is as it travels to and from customers and the company's vaults in armored trucks. Tim Greene 2012-02-06T02:44:35-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-apple-snares-top-smartphone-sales-255761.html?source=nww_rss Apple was the top seller of smartphones worldwide and in the U.S. last quarter, analysts said today. Gregg Keizer 2012-02-06T02:19:24-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-global-broadband-255760.html?source=nww_rss Anyone who thinks their Verizon fiber connection is fast ought to spend a week hanging out in East Asia. Brad Reed 2012-02-06T02:17:42-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-mdm-apple-255756.html?source=nww_rss Anyone wanting to buy mobile-device management (MDM) software to manage Apple iOS devices will find they need a special digital certificate from Apple to activate it, a requirement that doesn't apply to the same MDM software that would be used to manage Google Android devices, for instance. Ellen Messmer 2012-02-06T01:54:59-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-facebook-may-be-readying-mobile-255757.html?source=nww_rss Speculation is circulating online that Facebook is getting ready to launch mobile ads in a few weeks. Sharon Gaudin 2012-02-06T01:51:29-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-researchers-layer-an-electronic-junction-255759.html?source=nww_rss Pennsylvania State University researchers have devised a technique for embedding an electronic junction directly into optical fiber, which potentially paves the way for more streamlined optical components. Joab Jackson 2012-02-06T01:41:40-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-att-2g-255755.html?source=nww_rss If you're an old-school iPhone user who still has one of AT&T's unlimited data plans, be prepared for a rude awakening. Brad Reed 2012-02-06T01:24:47-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-as-firefox-11-hits-beta-255776.html?source=nww_rss Mozilla on Friday rolled out the beta version of Firefox 11, complete with several key improvements for both users and developers. Katherine Noyes 2012-02-06T01:09:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-kelihos-botnet-still-dead-say-255754.html?source=nww_rss Contrary to reports, the Kelihos botnet has not crawled out of the grave, Microsoft said last week. But the company acknowledged that a new botnet is being assembled using a variant of the original malware. Gregg Keizer 2012-02-06T12:52:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-asus-u47-ultraportable-stuffs-power-255775.html?source=nww_rss Asus has unveiled the U47, an ultraportable laptop based on Intel's next-generation Ivy Bridge processor. Thanks to thin bezels, the U47 boasts a sizable14-inch display within a thin-and-light 13-inch shell. Melanie Pinola 2012-02-06T12:47:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-sap-community-portal-launch-date-255752.html?source=nww_rss Serious technical problems that have delayed the rollout of an upgrade to SAP's community portal are persisting, to the point where the company is no longer specifying a launch date. Chris Kanaracus 2012-02-06T11:45:06-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-voice-and-video-calls-via-255751.html?source=nww_rss Federal regulations forbid making calls from cell phones while aboard U.S. commercial planes in-flight, but Wi-Fi services could eventually permit voice and video calls over the Internet for a fee. Matt Hamblen 2012-02-06T11:38:28-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-samsung-galaxy-note-is-it-255771.html?source=nww_rss Pre-orders have begun at AT&T for the Samsung Galaxy Note. The device is either a very large smartphone, or a diminutive tablet. Either way, it faces some significant challenges trying to inspire buyers. Tony Bradley 2012-02-06T11:29:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-lenovo-ordered-to-pay-€1920-255750.html?source=nww_rss A French laptop buyer has won a refund from Lenovo after a four-year legal battle over the cost of a Windows license he didn't want. The judgment could open the way for PC buyers elsewhere in Europe to obtain refunds for bundled software they don't want, French campaign group No More Racketware said Monday. Peter Sayer 2012-02-06T11:15:53-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-google-fiber-255749.html?source=nww_rss Google's grand fiber network experiment is now one step closer to becoming a reality as the company announced that it is "ready to lay fiber" in Kansas City, Kan. Brad Reed 2012-02-06T11:14:52-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-google-solveforx-255747.html?source=nww_rss Google on Monday released a website and video regarding its Solve for X project, which the company says is "a place where the curious can go to hear and discuss radical technology ideas for solving global problems." Bob Brown 2012-02-06T10:50:18-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-brain-drain-protecting-your-organizations-255748.html?source=nww_rss Global healthcare provider Best Doctors employs the most robust technologies and practices available to protect the privacy of its members' personal data--but that's just a part of doing business in this industry. Less obvious but equally important is the degree of vigilance with which the company protects its brand name, which is trademarked in dozens of countries worldwide. Lauren Gibbons Paul 2012-02-06T10:43:36-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-patent-trolls-in-our-255744.html?source=nww_rss Intellectual property (IP) protections exist in U.S. law for the purpose of ensuring inventors and creators are compensated for their works, encouraging innovation. Lauren Gibbons Paul 2012-02-06T10:38:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-hundreds-of-dreamhost-websites-abused-255746.html?source=nww_rss Rogue PHP pages that redirect users to work-at-home scams have been added to hundreds of websites hosted at DreamHost following a security breach suffered by the company in January, researchers from cloud security vendor Zscaler said. Lucian Constantin 2012-02-06T10:31:27-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-the-in-depth-guide-to-data-255741.html?source=nww_rss A key part of any information security strategy is disposing of data once it's no longer needed. Failure to do so can lead to serious breaches of data-protection and privacy policies, compliance problems and added costs. Bob Violino 2012-02-06T10:21:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-programmer-personality-types-13-profiles-255742.html?source=nww_rss To the world at large, computers are scary machines that are impossible to understand, and programmers are the mysterious geniuses who know how to manipulate them even if they are never able to fix yours for whatever reason. Peter Wayner 2012-02-06T10:18:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-btjunkie-voluntarily-closes-file-sharing-255743.html?source=nww_rss The BitTorrent search engine BTJunkie has shut down its website, the latest file-sharing site to take defensive action following law enforcement's shutdown of MegaUpload last month. Jeremy Kirk 2012-02-06T10:11:07-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-review-intels-new-cherryville-ssd-255740.html?source=nww_rss Intel today started shipping its fastest solid-state drive to date, the 520 Series SSD, sporting its smallest 25nm NAND flash memory and SandForce's SATA 3.0 controller with 500MB/sec-plus performance. Lucas Mearian 2012-02-06T10:01:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-top-torrent-site-btjunkie-shuts-255767.html?source=nww_rss BTjunkie, one of the largest torrent file-sharing sites, shut down voluntarily over the weekend. The service ranked among the top five torrent sites on the Internet and was never involved in legal action, but recent moves against the likes of MegaUpload and The Pirate Bay have influenced BTjunkie's closure. Daniel Ionescu 2012-02-06T09:50:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-smartphone-sales-boom----who-255768.html?source=nww_rss Will your next laptop be a smartphone?A The idea isn't as crazy as it sounds.A In the coming decade, mobile phones will gain capabilities that make them suitable replacements for the conventional desktop/laptop computer. Jeff Bertolucci 2012-02-06T09:47:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-facebook-alternative-path-adds-depth-255769.html?source=nww_rss Facebook's rollout of Timeline and the privacy concerns that go along with it could drive some users down a less-traveled path. Christina Desmarais 2012-02-06T09:46:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-samsung-tweaks-apple-takes-galaxy-255764.html?source=nww_rss If Samsung's latest Apple-bashing commercial during Super Bowl XLVI Sunday had you frothing at the mouth for the Samsung Galaxy Note, you can now place an advance order for the device from AT&T. The Korea-based gadget maker's latest addition to the Samsung Galaxy line will cost $300 with a new two-year contract from ATT.com or any company-owned retail store. Ian Paul 2012-02-06T09:41:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-google-privacy-issues-let-microsoft-255765.html?source=nww_rss Microsoft is taking advantage of all the hullabaloo surrounding Google's privacy policy changes, by buying ads last week in major newspapers that called out how its products and practices are different than Google's and touting its Internet Explorer 9 and Bing products in company blogs. Christina Desmarais 2012-02-06T09:40:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-new-digital-spam-how-bad-255766.html?source=nww_rss Like Whack-a-Mole, new forms of digital spam pop up faster than security software can knock them down--and the problem is just getting worse. In fact, according to search engine newcomer Blekko, 1 million new spam pages are created every hour. Christina Desmarais 2012-02-06T09:29:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-malware-automates-storing-of-data-255738.html?source=nww_rss Trend Micro researchers have discovered a piece of malicious software that automatically uploads its stolen data cache to the SendSpace file-sharing service for retrieval. Jeremy Kirk 2012-02-06T09:26:41-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-microsoft-to-roll-out-wave-255737.html?source=nww_rss Microsoft is gearing up to release a phalanx of native mobile applications for its CRM software, with clients aimed at BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7, iOS, and Android 2.2 and higher devices, the company announced Monday. Chris Kanaracus 2012-02-06T09:08:28-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-google-agrees-to-court-order-255736.html?source=nww_rss Google has agreed before a court in Delhi to remove religious and other content considered objectionable, though some other Internet firms are likely to appeal the court's decision, plaintiff Mufti Ajiaz Arshad Qasmi said on Monday. John Ribeiro 2012-02-06T08:37:45-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-symantec-releases-faster-next-gen-netbackup-255733.html?source=nww_rss Symantec announced new versions of its flagship backup applications for SMBs and the enterprise adding more support for virtual machines, a cloud storage offering and integration of snapshot and backup management Lucas Mearian 2012-02-06T08:26:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-gateway-ex-ceos-settle-fraud-255763.html?source=nww_rss Two former chief executives of PC manufacturer Gateway will pay penalties totaling APS240,000, after coming to a settlement with the US financial regulator over fraud charges around accounting irregularities at the company over a decade ago. Michael Pooler 2012-02-06T08:15:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-authentication-255539.html?source=nww_rss The trusty telephone is emerging as one of the key elements in new multifactor authentication schemes designed to protect online banking and other web-based financial transactions from rapidly evolving security threats. Julie Sartain 2012-02-06T08:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-htc-aims-to-improve-on-255732.html?source=nww_rss After facing a disappointing financial fourth quarter, HTC has reviewed its under-performing products from last year, making changes in design and components for its future smartphones, according to its CFO Winston Yung. Michael Kan 2012-02-06T07:10:24-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-wi-fi-in-flight-has-yet-255731.html?source=nww_rss Launched four years ago, the use of Wi-Fi on U.S. airlines has yet to catch on, with estimates that the wireless technology is still used by only 7% of the flying public. Sharon Gaudin 2012-02-06T06:14:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-cloudyn-monitors-and-optimizes-aws-255730.html?source=nww_rss Cloudyn is launching a hosted service on Monday that aims to monitor a company's cloud usage and recommend ways to optimize that usage in order to cut costs. Nancy Gohring 2012-02-06T12:06:23-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020612-nicira-255719.html?source=nww_rss One of the most anticipated debuts of a startup company happens today when Nicira, a maker of network virtualization software, comes out of stealth mode. Jim Duffy 2012-02-06T12:01:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020512-emc-launches-project-lightning-pcie-255729.html?source=nww_rss EMC today announced the availability of its 'Project Lightning' PCIe flash cards, dubbed VFCache, which install into application servers to increase I/O performance. Lucas Mearian 2012-02-05T04:32:24-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020512-micron-appoints-coo-durcan-as-255728.html?source=nww_rss Memory company Micron Technology has appointed Mark Durcan as its new CEO, quickly replacing the former CEO Steve Appleton who died in a plane crash on Friday. Agam Shah 2012-02-05T04:10:06-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020512-emc-ramps-up-flash-game-255727.html?source=nww_rss EMC is now shipping its long-awaited entry in the server-based flash storage market while laying the groundwork for a future appliance based on the same technology. Stephen Lawson 2012-02-05T03:06:24-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020412-amds-move-could-pave-the-255726.html?source=nww_rss Advanced Micro Devices has loosened its commitment to the x86 architecture, announcing a new design strategy that could pave the way for using ARM technology in future AMD chips. Agam Shah 2012-02-03T07:36:55-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020312-facebook-malware-scam-takes-255723.html?source=nww_rss A "worrying number" of Facebook users are sharing a link to a malware-laden fake CNN news page reporting the U.S. has attacked Iran and Saudi Arabia, security firm Sophos said Friday. Cameron Scott 2012-02-03T06:37:14-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020312-bmc-and-vce-partnership-shows-255725.html?source=nww_rss Is there strength in numbers? The deal VCE recently struck with BMC suggests that a consortium of companies layering in best-in-class technology might be a more effective approach to win large-scale government and enterprise customers in the private cloud space, writes CIO.com's Rob Enderle. Rob Enderle 2012-02-03T05:12:48-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020312-engineers-wife-ferocious-in-obama-255724.html?source=nww_rss The White House is following up on an offer made by President Barack Obama this week to help find a job for an unemployed semiconductor engineer in Texas. Patrick Thibodeau 2012-02-03T05:09:24-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020312-hungarian-hacker-gets-30-months-255722.html?source=nww_rss A Hungarian hacker who attempted to extort money from Marriott International Inc. by stealing confidential data from its computers and threatening to expose it was sentenced to 30 months in prison. Jaikumar Vijayan 2012-02-03T04:27:27-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020312-social-media-fuels-planned-parenthood-255720.html?source=nww_rss Fueled by a firestorm of outrage on Twitter and Facebook, the people behind the Susan G. Komen For the Cure Friday backed off their decision to cut funding of Planned Parenthood programs. Sharon Gaudin 2012-02-03T04:06:28-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020312-microsoft-wraps-up-ads-aimed-255721.html?source=nww_rss Microsoft on Friday wrapped up a three-day campaign against rival Google by claiming its newest browser, Internet Explorer 9, is superior in stopping users from being tracked by online advertisers. Gregg Keizer 2012-02-03T04:06:25-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020312-marriott-hack-255718.html?source=nww_rss The Department of Justice today said a man who sent malicious code to Marriott International Corporation, threatening to reveal confidential information taken from the company's computers if Marriott did not offer him a job, has been sent to prison for his criminal endeavor. Michael Cooney 2012-02-03T03:28:02-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020312-insider-hypervisors-255717.html?source=nww_rss The world of hypervisors is complicated by the fact that there are proprietary and open source tools, each with different strengths and weaknesses. Network World Staff 2012-02-03T03:20:17-04:00