Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Amazon's cloud went down, again, this time on Christmas Eve, for 12 hours , blacking out 7% of AWS customers. Will continued cloud outages erode confidence in the public cloud?
Chitika reports share bump for Apple iPad competitors Kindle Fire, Galaxy Nexus and Samsung Galaxy
The company agrees to license mobile patents to competitors and to stop scraping rivals' content
More than 100M helium-filled drives are expected by 2016
ScanSource says Avanade lied about its ability to do the job, resulting in a project disaster
Gartner anticipates turbulence ,upheaval in IT security vendor landscape
Early admission statistics point to another challenging year for high school seniors
Hopes to base public cloud on OpenStack technology, but exec says platform isn't quite ready
The fast, short-range wireless technology will gain a much larger sponsor under a pending agreement
The website of Capstone Turbine Corporation served an exploit for a new Internet Explorer vulnerability, security researcher says
Apple made its request in documents filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission
Gartner tells enterprise customers to do their homework before jumping into cloud storage.
Gartner lists Amazon, AT&T, Google, HP, IBM and Microsoft among what it says are the top 10 cloud storage providers
Gartner expects worldwide IT spending to total US$3.7 trillion
Analytics company Flurry pegs device activations at 50M
A woman faces a defamation suit for negative reviews about a contractor
With a growing number and type of devices, enterprises need to assume that they are vulnerable, analysts say
The U.S. government asked it to cooperate in an investigation, it said in a filing
Business council including Coca-Cola, eBay, FedEx, EMC, Fidelity Investments, Intel, Johnson & Johnson and Walmart sees "information security shake-up" this year
Apple alleges Amazon's "Appstore" name is too close to its own "App Store"
There were many promises, but not all were delivered
Android, iOS ... Ubuntu?
HP says 18 of its key IT employees depart suddenly for jobs at GM; hints that more may leave for the automaker
The disclosure comes in the wake of a controversial $8.9 billion writedown of the company's Autonomy division
Apple boasts that Cook is paid 'significantly below the median;' doesn't ding him for Maps debacle
Starting in 2014, the group will host one main show in Las Vegas, with several adjoining events
For the past two and a half years the open source cloud platform has been building a strong vendor community and technical code base. Now it's time for the customers.
Advances in OpenFlow, APIs, applications and implementations expected next year
MDM solutions could be short-term, but need to focus on usability from the start, experts say
Here are 8 suggested New Year's resolutions that could boost your career prospects.
Companies, schools, government chart course into cloud security
IT leaders have talked for years about the need to better align IT with the business objectives. Now there's a sense of urgency.
This server upgrade is crammed with new features and can enable greater networking possibilities
The problem on the DVD website has been resolved, Netflix said
The US$10,320 TV will start shipping in February
Cheap credit and the move to cloud computing are among the factors, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers
Japan's NTT DoCoMo has signed on to help develop the OS, according to a Japanese newspaper
LG will use NFC to make content sharing between TVs and other devices easier
Second time in two years it's had to deal with late-December vulnerabilities
However, Samsung might still be able to sell redesigned versions of products
Apple removed its patent infringement allegations after Samsung said it doesn't sell the device in the U.S.
New rules approved on Friday will require users to identify themselves to sign up for Internet access
New law enforcement and marketing tools and technologies keep privacy advocates on their toes
Cook's 2011 compensation consisted mainly of stock grants, but this year he got none
The malware has backdoor functionality and runs as a JavaServer Page (JSP) file
New OS can't keep up with Vista, Microsoft's 2007 OS flop
The award to Carnegie Mellon University is one of the largest ever in a patent case
