Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Google's EMEA president Matt Brittin explains the numbers but tells legislators he didn't know his own salary
Two-thirds of the vulnerabilities patched this week in IE11 and Edge likely exist in now-retired IE7 and IE8, definitely in semi-obsolete IE9 and IE10
Some interesting uses for today's most popular messaging and collaboration service.
Not quite 2:1 adoption rate for ACI like last fall, but close
Will Cato Networks be able to convince enterprises to trust its cloud with their data?
Enterprise Social Solutions GM shares thoughts on Project Toscana, cloud vs. on-premises and more at IBM Connect event
RIFT.io combines open source with ETSI standards under Apache 2.0 for virtualized service development
Users may love its hardware, but the software that comes with it is another matter.
Study says there are 546 encryption products that lie outside US law, maybe more
Some enterprises waited to buy new campus gear when they saw things get shaky in January
Appliance gives insight into the control plane of programmable logic devices that run power grids and factories
Firewalls running Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software can be compromised remotely with malformed UDP packets
Qualcomm's new Snapdragon chips have PC-class graphics, faster LTE and better camera support
Breach-of-contract and copyright lawsuit dragged on for about 13 years
The new Release Preview ring lets users get new features without the risk of computer-breaking bugs
The proposal would make it so states couldn’t write their own laws about technology to decrypt private messages
Stating the obvious, James Clapper says the U.S. government could use the IoT for surveillance.
Do the networking company names Ligado, Fuze or Apteligent ring any bells?
The Bluetooth SIG's gateway toolkit is designed to link Bluetooth networks with the wider Internet
Boston healthcare organization BIDMC readying to move business critical systems into the public cloud
Overall tablet sales are slumping, except for Surface, thanks to good hardware and Windows 10.
Drugs, hitmen, and money laundering are among the trove of iffy material on the dark web, a research group has found. Surprisingly sparse was extremist religious propaganda.
A flaw in SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (xMII) allows attackers to extract information without authorization
KDE's recently announced Linux distro, KDE Neon, seems like a questionable move that has the potential for disaster.
Free 2GB of Google storage is yours, for about 2 minutes of your time to lock down your account security
Also renames commercial Office 365 plans' update and upgrade tracks: Old 'Branches' are out, 'Channels' are in
February’s Patch Tuesday brought 12 security bulletins, five of which Microsoft rated critical
As buildings get smarter and increasingly connected to the Internet, they become targets
The IT Modernization fund has important goals that won’t be reached until well after the current administration expires.
Lack of information & communications technology (ICT) representation hurts projects, costs taxpayers millions, BICSI Winter Conference attendees are told
The NHTSA is evaluating a proposal from Google
Alpine Linux may be the new default OS, but Docker
Russia's newly appointed Internet czar wants to lay some heavy taxes on both Apple and Google.
Analyst says reform-inspired consolidation among carriers has benefitted enterprise customers
Non-cloud technologies lumped into cloud revenue makes for a cloudy financial picture for users
HP says it will continue with Itanium in servers for HP-UX customers
Employees get flexibility; IT gets security and control
SQL Server, Azure, SharePoint and .Net among the Microsoft skills in demand
Trifacta's $35 million in funding comes amidst a general sowing of tech investment. So why is this category bucking the trend?
It phones home a lot more than E.T. and in many, many ways.
Why PayPal's move to cut off VPN services may not be as effective as it, or Netflix, might hope.
Photo sharing app Instagram eases the pain of managing multiple accounts on iOS and Android devices
IE5000 industrial Ethernet devices have a short that could spark combustion
The Adwind/AlienSpy RAT is back in action as the JSocket malware-as-a-service platform
HPE's Integrity MC 990 X is the first in a line of servers that will sport new names
AWS also wants to put its $1B Twitch acquisition to greater use with more game integration
Cyberthreats continue to outpace new defenses, a top official said
New Sup6T has arrived, as well as a low-end supervisor for the 4500-E and a "Mini" for small sites
The updates come less than two weeks after Azure Stack's first beta was released to the public
