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  • Hitachi GST CEO claims hard drive future hangs in Cloud

    In March, Western Digital agreed to buy Hitachi Global Storage Technologies> (HGST), the disk drive subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., in a stock and cash transaction valued at $US4.3 billion. HGST CEO Steve Milligan will join WD as president at the closing of the deal, expected in the fourth quarter.

  • Weinman: Biz, ecosystem are keys to cloud evolution

    These days, cloud computing may be the hottest topic in IT industry as many firms are planning to unleash cloud service or already starting to deploy cloud service.

  • BRAINSHARE - Novell chief on Microsoft deal

    At Novell's annual BrainShare user conference, CEO and President Ron Hovsepian sat down with Network World Senior Editor Deni Connor to talk about the Novell-Microsoft interoperability agreement and how it's helping Novell attract customers with mixed operating system environments.

  • Microsoft's top three Vista security features

    Microsoft finally rolled its Vista operating system out the door billing it as its most secure operating system ever, but what are the security features that will really matter to enterprise users?

  • Fathi on draft API release for PatchGuard

    Microsoft Tuesday released draft application programming interfaces designed to give independent security vendors a way to get around a kernel patch protection technology in Windows Vista. Known as PatchGuard, the Vista technology has been at the center of a simmering dispute between Microsoft and several security vendors who claim that PatchGuard hampers the ability of their products to deliver key security capabilities such as host-based intrusion detection. The technology has also been part of broader antitrust concerns in the European Union that Microsoft has been forced to respond to. Ben Fathi Microsoft's vice president for the Windows core operating system, talked about the draft APIs and the company's rationale for releasing them. Excerpts from that interview follow:

  • Novell CEO on the Microsoft deal

    The landmark technology collaboration agreement between Microsoft and Novell that was announced earlier this month took a controversial twist when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer later proclaimed that Linux customers have "an undisclosed balance sheet liability" because Linux "uses our intellectual property." Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian provided his views on the ensuing controversy, along with a behind-the-scenes account of how the agreement was reached, in an interview Tuesday with Don Tennant.

  • Microsoft's Bill Hilf: Door open to open-source pacts

    Last week's pact between Microsoft and Novell has led to widespread speculation over the long-term impact on the adoption of open-source software. Under the deal, the companies will work on ways to enable Novell's Linux distribution, Suse, and Microsoft's Windows operating system to work better together. They also reached a patent truce in which users of the other's software can't be sued for infringement, and Microsoft agreed not to sue noncommercial open-source developers. On Monday, Microsoft's Bill Hilf, general manager for platform strategy, spoke further about the deal with Jeremy Kirk, addressing how Microsoft views its intellectual property relative to Linux.

  • Microsoft exec defends Vista kernel stance

    Symantec and McAfee say that a Microsoft technology called Patch Guard -- which blocks access to the 64-bit Vista kernel -- will make it harder for third-party security vendors to deliver certain features in their products.

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