Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Project Hail offers platform APIs resident in the cloud; Deltacloud will enable an interoperating ecosystem across clouds
The company is taking applications for and will help people throw house parties in honor of the Oct. 22 launch
Tornadoes create risks that differ from those in a hurricane. Cancer Treatment Centers of America showcases a plan to help
Few clues in advance warning make Sept. 8 updates a mystery, says researcher
The deadline for comments to the court on the proposed deal is Tuesday
Spacewalk set for today as 19-square-meter piece of rocket debris expected to pass on Friday
Company expects to lose up to $55 million as a result of deal
Using side-channel attacks they find ways to steal data from cloud applications
Carrier says it needs to prepare the network for 'record volume of MMS traffic'
Syncs Mac OS X 10.5 with Sun's early August fixes, but remains an update behind; Snow Leopard in same boat
Pod looks a little like the Jetson’s flying car but it travels on magnetically levitated highways.
Intel plans to put the Clarkdale chips for mainstream desktops in single-socket servers
How to compare commercial software to open source software and make the right decision based on requirements and risk
And if you do get a job, thank a retiring Baby Boomer
Experts predict an expanding online 3D world and much more collaboration
MMS gets green light, but tethering's a no-go until 'in the future'
Octo-mom, ransom notes and stolen Blackberries entangled in these tales of health information breaches and lost medical records
Maimonides signs up for twice-annual audits of wireless, wired networks
Microsoft exploits hardware hooks in Intel's new chips to deliver hardware-specific enhancements in Windows 7
The system will show workers their contacts, media, communities and key applications on one screen
Company confirms that IIS 5 and IIS 6 are affected by new attack
But Microsoft's next virtualization release will close the gap with its rivals
In a bid for new sales, the on-demand CRM vendor is rolling out a low-cost edition of its application for up to two users
The company is adding more proven implementations and consulting services and offering VMware training
Worldwide factory server revenue is the worst since 1996, when IDC started tracking the numbers
Defendants used eBay to sell goods bought with stolen credit card numbers, shifting money through Internet transfer services
The N97 mini will ship in October
China's mobile carriers are building application stores that support multiple phone operating systems
VMware still leads market with 50% share of new licenses
Data center that serves 20,000 virtual machines sits on mere 1,700 square feet
The reference architecture isn't perfect, but it's a firm step toward long-distance failover.
Can cloud providers provide critical services and keep quiet about problems?
The Parti Pirate will use its campaign to highlight the threat to civil liberties online, it says
Protocol descriptions and authentication can help get information on the Web that meets their own standards for quality
Software makers have their work cut out for them in building apps for these newfangled devices
A forum this week could lead to some people landing jobs with the company
Big Blue collaborates with Metropolitan Community College to deliver curriculum, courseware and technology for Data Center Management degree
Lab will certify smartphones, netbooks, GPS products and more
The launch of a 3D capable TV in 2010 will signal a push into the home for 3D
Laptop, to be priced at $3,000, has two 15.4-inch LCD screens
They're focusing on switch technology for virtualized environments
Dell will market array of Brocade network and storage products.
P&G and Cisco make widespread internal use of videoconferencing, collaboration tools
It's unlikely to have IIS fix ready by next week's Patch Tuesday, says expert
Symantec's Zulfikar Ramzan checks in on last year's predictions and IDs emerging trends in malware, phishing, spam and more
At Red Hat Summit '09, CEO Jim Whitehurst took on Oracle's inflexibility as his company launched Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
