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  • HP Q&A: Converged Cloud is company's chief initiative

    Saar Gillai, named head of Hewlett-Packard's Cloud operations in January, is on the hot seat.

    Written by Joab Jackson • 10 May 13 20:39

  • Clarifying the role of software-defined networking northbound APIs

    With software-defined networking the control of the network is pried out of the data handling devices and centralized on a controller that uses a common protocol, OpenFlow, to direct the switches on the southbound side. That much has been established. But what of the oft-mentioned northbound APIs that will let applications tell the controller what they need from the network? What kind of progress is the Open Networking Foundation making on that front? Network World Editor in Chief John Dix put the question to Robert Sherwood, CTO of Big Switch Networks and head of the ONF's Architecture and Framework Working Group, which is responsible for multiple things, including the creation of these northbound APIs.

    Written by John Dix • 02 May 13 23:26

  • Interview: Dell software chief talks transformation

    John Swainson has one of the more challenging jobs in the tech industry right now. As president of Dell's software division, he's charged with sorting through all the software Dell has acquired and organizing it into coherent offerings that can further its effort to become a more profitable, software- and services-driven company.

    Written by James Niccolai • 25 April 13 17:01

  • Oracle's Mark Hurd talks Fusion Applications, customer satisfaction and SAP's HANA

    As co-president of Oracle, Mark Hurd is tasked with selling an ever-increasing array of new software and hardware products, such as the Exadata database machine and Fusion Applications, while figuring out how to keep the company's vast installed base happy and fending off competition from the likes of SAP.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 12 April 13 20:47

  • UEFI president: We need more key providers

    Since its introduction, the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface has created a fair amount of controversy. UEFI was created through an industry consortium as an evolutionary step up from BIOS, the simple firmware long used when starting a computer to initialize all the components and load the operating system. Among its advanced features, UEFI includes an option called Secure Boot, which requires that any software used before the operating system starts, or after it shuts down, has been signed by a certificate authority.

    Written by Joab Jackson • 28 Feb. 13 20:51

  • NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson talks growth, strategy and life with Oracle

    NetSuite is one of the SaaS (software as a service) market's pioneers, having sold its growing family of ERP (enterprise resource planning), e-commerce and other applications since 1998. The vendor's results have been beating Wall Street's predictions, and may yet again in a few weeks, when NetSuite is expected to announce its fourth-quarter and year-end results.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 09 Jan. 13 20:59

  • Zend CEO: PHP is fit for the enterprise

    PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) is a well-established server-side dynamic language platform for Web development. Among its many users have been important Web properties such as SugarCRM and the Drupal content management system. Perhaps the top promoter of PHP is Zend Technologies, which offers an application server and development tools for PHP and stresses PHP usage in enterprises.

    Written by Paul Krill • 30 Oct. 12 15:53

  • The Grill: Orlando Health CIO Rick Schooler's vision of healthcare IT

    Orlando Health VP and CIO Rick Schooler talks about how analytics is transforming healthcare. Insider (registration required)

    Written by Mary K. Pratt • 24 Sept. 12 13:59

  • Red Hat CEO: We're the cloud leader -- with Linux

    Jim Whitehurst says it's not just Red Hat's products, but its philosophy that place it at the forefront of cloud computing

    Written by John Gallant • 22 Aug. 12 14:47

  • MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor on implications of 'the mobile wave'

    MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor's big interest these days is "the mobile wave," which refers to a re-ordering of technology and modern life through the proliferation of iPads, smartphones and the increasingly sophisticated software that runs on them.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 08 Aug. 12 14:12

  • Epicor CEO Pervez Qureshi talks company's renewal, SaaS and growth plans

    Following last year's merger with Activant Solutions, ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Epicor is closing in on US$1 billion in revenue, a figure that belies the vendor's relatively low profile compared to giants such as Oracle and SAP.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 19 July 12 20:25

  • 10 questions for Recall Senior VP and CFO Allison Aden

    Name: Allison Aden

    Written by Nancy Weil • 16 July 12 12:05

  • 10 questions for CHR Solutions CFO Mark Vance

    Name: Mark Vance

    Written by Nancy Weil • 09 July 12 12:41

  • Intel/McAfee: What's the future of security?

    Intel completed its multibillion-dollar acquisition of McAfee almost a year and a half ago, and this week McAfee co-President Mike DeCesare spoke with Network World senior editor Ellen Messmer about what the merger of Intel's chip-making capabilities and McAfee's security expertise is expected to bring down the road.

    Written by Ellen Messmer • 05 July 12 16:27

  • 10 questions for Gehry Technologies CFO Michael Lin

    Name: Michael Lin

    Written by Nancy Weil • 02 July 12 15:45

  • 10 questions for Hortonworks CTO Eric Baldeschwieler

    Name: Eric Baldeschwieler

    Written by Nancy Weil • 28 June 12 18:19

  • Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst weighs in on strategy, Oracle and growth

    Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst is coming up on his five-year anniversary at the helm, following his arrival in December 2007. Under Whitehurst's leadership, Red Hat's revenue has grown from US$523 million in its fiscal 2008 to more than $1.1 billion in its fiscal 2012, without deviating from its core strategy of open-source infrastructure software.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 28 June 12 14:51

  • 10 questions for Agencyport Software CFO Rick Gilbody

    Name: Rick Gilbody

    Written by Nancy Weil • 25 June 12 17:19

  • 10 questions for ownCloud CFO Dan Curtis

    Name: Dan Curtis

    Written by Nancy Weil • 18 June 12 14:24

  • 10 questions for The Children's Center CFO Michael Miligan

    Name: Michael Milligan

    Written by Nancy Weil • 11 June 12 12:10
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