Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Retailer announces that price of its Libre eBook Pro device will drop below $100 mark on Wednesday
The service is designed to help enterprises move workloads between public and private clouds
VMware 'has ceased to be a hypervisor company,' CEO says
Companies negotiating through a tech trade group have not reached consensus, despite reports, sources say
Airgas expects many millions in annual benefits, in contrast to recent SAP failures in Marin County and elsewhere
Claim to have unpatched vulnerabilities in Excel, IE and other Microsoft, Apple and Mozilla software
The gang made $25,000 in a month from victims who had to send SMS messages to unlock their PCs
EMC, NetApp take top spots as 'most exciting' IT companies
Offers 'stacks' of cards for multi-tasking, simplified search
Rice researchers create 3-D memory chips that use only silicon -- no carbon
The computer maker has started selling a new design to large Internet service providers
The goal is to help people deal with e-mail overload
Power outages in the U.S. increase this year even before hurricane season
Google's Android looks set to take on the tablet space
IBM's X-Force admits mistake, now says Google patched all disclosed vulnerabilities in the first half of 2010
A single product combines backup, recovery, snapshots, deduplication and storage capacity
Some of the update's features, however, are only available with paid versions of the service
Are you bleeding-edge enough to try the Canary Build? Or are you yellow?
VMware's Project Horizon targets cloud-based desktop apps on any device
The Pushdo/Cutwail botnet was crippled by security researchers but is not dead yet
Internet users have higher expectations for website performance, a new survey says
Bug triggers background music, sparks malware fears
New offering designed for unlimited, cost-effective WLAN scaling
Movement of virtual machines threatens regulatory compliance
The acquisition is part of a bigger push to address vendor lock-in and offer more self-service tools
It's still not seen as a laptop replacement, however
Even with a disaster recovery plan in place, it still suffered an 8-day outage
The popular video site hopes to compete in China by offering more copyright content
The announcement comes a day before an Indian deadline to Research In Motion to allow interception of services
The Indian government maintains that communications through telecom networks should be accessible to security agencies
