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  • 10 questions for Imperva CTO Amichai Shulman

    Name: Amichai Shulman

    Written by Nancy Weil • 24 May 12 14:11

  • 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.

    Written by Lucas Mearian • 02 Sept. 11 07:16

  • Sydney Uni takes virtual course to central IT

    Following a long IT career in the financial services sector, two and half years ago Bruce Meikle joined Australia’s first higher education and research institution, the University of Sydney, as CIO.

    Written by Rodney Gedda • 01 Sept. 09 15:04

  • Aussie entrepreneur: Rob Smyth

    Rob Smyth, CEO of Blue Reef, is a successful entrepreneur who has been in the ICT sector for almost 20 years. He has overseen Blue Reef’s strategic development, operations and strong growth since founding the business in early 2002.

    Written by Georgina Swan • 28 Aug. 09 09:12

  • Nortel enterprise chief discusses Avaya deal

    Nortel agreed to sell its Enterprise Solutions group to Avaya for US$475 million, barring any better offers from other potential bidders under the "stalking horse" arrangement. Nortel's enterprise chief Joel Hackney shared a few thoughts about the deal and its implications.

    Written by Jim Duffy • 21 July 09 09:15

  • Akamai CEO sees opportunity in economic downturn

    With many companies cutting headcount and costs to weather the economic downturn, Akamai Technologies President and CEO Paul Sagan wants his sales team to spend more time with customers, part of a bid to make sure that its content delivery and edge-hosting services don't end up on the list of expenses they consider cutting. At the same time, he said the recession will push some companies, particularly those in the retail space, to accelerate their shift to the Internet.

    Written by Sumner Lemon • 10 March 09 10:34
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    Polycom CEO Robert Hagerty talks telepresence

    Videoconferencing is available for desktops and even through specially designed rooms called telepresence systems, but on wireless handhelds? According to Robert Hagerty, who has been CEO of Polycom for 10 years, it could be widely available soon.

    Written by Matt Hamblen • 10 March 09 09:48

  • Detecting Internet routing 'lies'

    Australian Geoff Huston is one of the foremost authorities on Internet routing and scaling issues. We sent Huston, a former Chief Scientist, Telstra Internet, a few questions about the U.S. government's plan to bolster R&D to secure the Internet's core routing protocol, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). Here are excerpts of from what Huston had to say:

    Written by  Carolyn Duffy Marsan • 21 Jan. 09 12:12

  • Efficiency key to Avaya's success, Giancarlo says

    Charles Giancarlo spent more than a decade at Cisco Systems and was widely considered a likely heir to Chairman and CEO John Chambers before he left last year for investment company Silver Lake Partners. Then Silver Lake orchestrated a private-equity buyout of Cisco rival Avaya, and Giancarlo stepped in as interim president and CEO. In January, former JDS Uniphase chief Kevin Kennedy will take over day-to-day operations as president and CEO, and Giancarlo will become chairman. Stephen Lawson of the IDG News Service spoke with Giancarlo on Tuesday after he delivered the opening keynote at VoiceCon in San Francisco.

    Written by Stephen Lawson • 17 Nov. 08 09:03

  • Meru looks to make Wi-Fi as reliable as Ethernet

    On Monday, Meru Networks announced virtual ports, a technology designed to make Wi-Fi networks as reliable as wired Ethernet. IDG News Service interviewed the CEO of Meru, Ihab Abu-Hakima, on a visit to London.

    Written by Peter Judge • 14 Nov. 08 10:27

  • Juniper's new CEO assesses the LANscape

    Amid the current economic doldrums, Juniper just posted third quarter revenue (up 29 percent to US$947 million) and earnings (US$148.5 million, up 75 percent). Barely seven weeks into the job, new CEO Kevin Johnson, a 16-year Microsoft veteran, spoke with Jim Duffy about what's driving the company's momentum.

    Written by Jim Duffy • 27 Oct. 08 08:48

  • Avaya CEO talks app server, economic opportunities

    Interim Avaya CEO Charles Giancarlo is winding down his tenure at the helm as the company narrows down a permanent replacement for former CEO Lou D'Ambrosio, who stepped down earlier this year for health reasons.

    Written by Tim Greene • 27 Oct. 08 08:51

  • AT&T security guru talks DoS attacks, hackers

    Edward Amoroso is the chief security officer at AT&T in the US, as well as a professor who has written several textbooks on information security. Amoroso spoke with Jon Brodkin last week in Boston, where he delivered a keynote about network security during Forrester's Security Forum.

    Written by Jon Brodkin • 08 Sept. 08 08:04

  • At the front lines of protecting the Internet

    VeriSign is in many ways synonymous with managing the Web, thanks to its handling of key DNS root servers and of name resolution for .com, .net, and other domains. In recent years, it's had both strong ups and strong downs.

    Written by Roger A. Grimes • 03 Sept. 08 08:35

  • NATs necessary for IPv6, says IETF chair

    We posed a few questions to Russ Housley, chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force, about why the standards body is developing network address translations for IPv6 when IPv6 was supposed to eliminate the need for NATs on the Internet. Here's what Housley had to say.

    Written by Carolyn Duffy Marsan • 22 July 08 09:28

  • Cisco exec shares virtualization vision

    John McCool took over for Jayshree Ullal when the longtime and very visible Cisco data center chief resigned in May. McCool is no stranger though -- he came to Cisco in the Granite Networks acquisition during the industry's Gigabit Ethernet boom in the 1990s. Weeks into his new job as senior vice president of data center, switching and security, McCool shared some of Cisco's plans and visions with Managing Editor Jim Duffy.

    Written by Jim Duffy • 11 July 08 11:10

  • Building home labs for Cisco certs: what you need to know

    Wendell Odom, Cisco press author, instructor and blogger was recently a repeat guest for Network World chat. Attendees asked him the best ways to build a home lab, which certifications still have power in the market, and strategies for most easily passing the hardest exams.

    Written by Julie Bort • 10 July 08 10:58

  • Cisco's new CTO talks first impressions

    It's been three months since Padmasree Warrior left Motorola to become Cisco's CTO. Since then, she's not been available for interviews -- until now. Jim Duffy caught up with her at the Cisco Live! customer conference in the US.

    Written by Jim Duffy • 26 June 08 09:54

  • VMware's CEO talks Microsoft, security, EMC and cloud computing

    Diane Greene is the president, CEO and co-founder of VMware, a pioneer of x86 server virtualization and one of the most innovative companies to hit the IT world in the past decade. Greene was in Boston last week with her VMware team, briefing analysts on new technologies that haven't been made public yet. She took some time out to speak with Network World's Jon Brodkin about a range of topics.

    Written by Jon Brodkin • 25 June 08 08:53

  • How the used gear industry is winning the fight against counterfeiters

    Over 100 attendees gathered for Network World's live chat on counterfeit network gear -- how to detect it and protect yourself -- with guest Mike Sheldon, chief executive officer of Network Hardware Resale. NHR employs more than 200 people in the United States and Europe. Sheldon discussed methods for identifying fake gear, the refurbished hardware industry's efforts to educate users about counterfeits and Cisco's role in eradicating this growing problem.

    Written by Julie Bort • 20 June 08 10:46
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