Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Funding reflects growing enterprise interest in alternatives to traditional relational databases
Training, planning and testing are key to SDN rollouts
Vendor tests, early adopters bring 11ac performance, applications into clearer focus
Twitter reveals the difficulties of monetizing its service internationally
Social networking giant uses software defined networking (SDN) to wrest more control of its network gear from vendors
The agency has attacked other software, including Firefox, in order to compromise the anonymity tool, according to documents
A month-long stoppage would impact U.S. tech spending, a debt default could have disastrous consequences
National labs have money to keep HPC up and running, but theres a limit
Simon & Schuster, one of five publishers that settled out of court earlier, also appeals to the Second Circuit
It's not clear Amazon can launch the device in time for the holidays
The U.S. still cracks the top five in global Internet freedom, as surveillance appears to be a common trend.
A weather forecast has a tropical storm or hurricane headed for the U.S. Gulf Coast
WHMCS developers released security updates to close publicly disclosed SQL injection vulnerability
More advanced processor and networks about to make travelling by car less boring
Past practice hints that Oct. 23 is the upgrade's likely launch date
Shameful stuff from some of the biggest names, plus further skullduggery from Samsung, possible specs for the Nexus 5
In wake of Facebook's tumultuous IPO, Twitter needs to come out strong
The penalty is equivalent to half the cost of a cup of coffee at McDonalds to the average American
Social startup's new Stories feature mimics Facebook's popular News Feed
The information may have included documents on Apple's patent licenses
The smartphone maker's sales are up 13 percent in the third quarter
The 13 persons were alleged to have been involved in DDoS attacks as a part of Anonymous' Operation Payback campaign
Who owns the company and the sources of its revenue are among the details disclosed
65 percent of Twitter's ad revenue comes from mobile devices
Source code for some Adobe products also was stolen
The company reported strong revenue gains in 2012, but also losses over the last several years
The latest version of NSN's operations software is designed to make mobile carriers more efficient and agile
Xtify will allow IBM customers to stay on top of new mobile and Web marketing channels
Eight updates will plug holes in IE, Windows, Office, SharePoint and Silverlight
Acquisition may also be a push to win over Apple users
Protein molecules, or peptides, automatically arrange themselves, making it easier to create memory at the molecular level
A second, low-cost phone running Fire OS is still in the works
The new Stories feature extends the lifetime of a Snapchat post to 24 hours
Users "check in" to store's Facebook page to gain free wireless access
Pays $27,000 in bug bounties to a baker's dozen of outside researchers
OpenID-related vulnerability could have allowed attackers to impersonate users on websites using Mozilla Persona authentication
Gartner says CSC is ahead of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google, Rackspace and other competitors
Verizon will launch a new IaaS offering and object storage service by the end of the year
Malware was so sophisticated it could only have come from a nation state
