Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Northeast Utilities confirms plan to outsource IT work to India-based outsourcers; move will affect some 200 jobs
Journalists from the British paper provide new details around the process for publishing leaks
Splunk now offers a way to easily build charts and graphs that reveal trends in machine-generated data
Qualcomm is also developing a 64-bit mobile chip, but for chip design and engineering purposes
The agency's work against encryption will lead to a loss of trust in the government and US companies, some say
SGI buys storage company Filetek as it tries to boost storage management and provisioning offerings
Expectations of a soft launch were incorrect, and many states grappling with technical issues as a result of heavy volume
High traffic volumes appear to have slowed many sites down
Wants Apple to boost buyback program 150% over current plan
Expected in Nov., PCI v.3 is expected to include changes in remote access payment handling; card storage say SSH Communications Security CEO, Tatu Ylonen
Workers still see value in laptops for running most critical apps, IDC survey says
Exploit module for yet-to-be-patched Internet Explorer vulnerability added to Metasploit
Samsung is researching how Galaxy Gear smartwatch could link to TVs and other electronics
In the last two months, Microsoft's newest OS has added 3.5 points to its share of all computing devices powered by Windows
SAP's global data center network could give it an advantage over US-based vendors, says co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe
French service undercuts Google's Kansas offering by almost 60 percent
Europe-v-Facebook says it will fight what it calls a "gag order" from the Irish Data Protection Commissioner
Interest turns to enterprise management, rather than the iconic smartphones
Moves mark the company's new strategy of focusing on private, not public, clouds
A court released only some of the assets frozen such as bank accounts
Competes with Cisco-owned Meraki and Aerohive
Spacecraft detects propylene, an ingredient use to make car bumpers and storage containers, in Titan's atmosphere
The EU competition chief expects a resolution of the case involving search results for Google services 'by next Spring'
Agencies would have skeletal IT teams in place to manage systems
Companies are looking for new ways to monitor the brisk trade in stolen information on underground forums
They will demonstrate the heat-assisted data writing technology in a HDD
The prototype creates a virtual interactive display on a flat surface
Micron, others likely to benefit from Hynix DRAM shortage
Researchers freed 500,000 infected computers from operators of the ZeroAccess botnet
Nacchio says Snowden leaks back up what he's been saying all along
Guaranteed health coverage may encourage people to launch their own business or work solo
Some 85 percent of the 650 Fusion Applications customers so far are going with a cloud deployment
Loyal Surface owners complained last week that Microsoft doesn't take trade-ins, but online auctions put more cash in pocket than any buyback deal
BMC's Control-M automated workflow software can incorporate big data-styled Hadoop jobs as well
More than 1,200 physical locations allow people to share thumb drive files, and their lives, anonymously
Google, Facebook, Apple and other companies call on Congress to move quickly on NSA legislation
Trusted Computing Group module can be used to contain data geographically
Analysts worry CIOs and enterprise IT leaders will struggle discerning the sales performance of specific products
iPhone 5 was recently a top seller, helping to reverse T-Mos sales declines
Irish bookmaker lists turn-around expert at 3-to-1 odds, second only to former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop
Researchers find Fort Disco malware variants launching brute force password guessing attacks against POP3 and FTP servers
The group is also seeking to get rid of wires in the home
CSA recommends what users should look for from cloud providers
