Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Letter to Congress says Anonymous might have helped, even unwittingly
Google, Adobe, Intel, Intuit, Pixar and others were allegedly involved in collusion to limit tech workers' pay
But Google's Android Market growing four times faster than App Store
Tiny in size, it runs latest WebOS
Private and public cloud offerings served up by open source vendor.
The disk storage arrays support both file and block level data transfers
Carriers to work with big U.S. credit card companies rather than collect payments on their own
Meru Networks hardware, software designed for high performance, reliable access
New plug-in allows administrators to simplify user management in a cloud-based infrastructure
The new department will unify enforcement of the Web into one regulatory body
But the ERP market will still grow substantially, according to a new report.
Between Bridge and Balance, RIM lends IT departments a hand
Many productivity application alternatives challenge the Microsoft juggernaut
New Thunderbolt I/O port, swappable graphics processor among nice surprises in Apple's latest iMac computer
The European Union Presidency raises concerns over preparedness for cyberattacks
Microblogging has become bigger in China than Facebook-like sites such as Renren, according to analysts
Starting in the third quarter, Internap will offer a public cloud service based on VMware as well as the KVM hypervisor
The Commission's defense of the text's legality is "idiotic," said the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure
SAP is integrating StreamWork with its core ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications
System provides common view of six years of data
Some users who ran unauthorized tool to get 'NoDo' report problems
Company officials say firm also plans to announce three more cloud or virtualization products this summer
Fibre Channel SAN adoption continues to outpace NAS, survey shows
The warning comes as scammers press to take full advantage of global interest in bin Laden's death
The company is also planning a massive data-center chassis switch for next year
It is encouraging customers to migrate to the Rackspace cloud and off the virtual private hosting service
Despite growing pressure from security experts, Microsoft and Juniper have so far refused to patch a dangerous hole that can freeze a Windows network in minutes.
The tier system for ranking data center reliability has become a useful tool for businesses selecting a cloud provider
Facebook scams also ramp up as criminals exploit major news event
Marten Mickos discusses MySQL, cloud computing and new startup Eucalyptus
Retailer must broadly expand data analysis efforts in plan to maintain constant engagement with customers
The Xobni Gadget Platform and Store is based on the OpenSocial set of common APIs
Verizon says Google is responsible for blocking the apps; reports say apps blocked on AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile networks
Adapteva has announced a multicore accelerator that can scale to 16 cores in smartphones and 4,000 cores in servers
Ballmer announces Bing will be default search and mapping tool on BlackBerry devices
Data breaches in late 2009 exposed the personal information of 65,000 consumers, the FTC says
Multiple improvements – and Angry Birds! – are on the way, RIM says
GoFlex drives are set to ship in mid-2011
New desktops should reverse negative growth rates, says NPD Group
Apple boosts desktop's storage, adds FaceTime camera