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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 10 questions for WellDoc CFO Jon Brilliant

    Name: Jon Brilliant

    Written by Nancy Weil • 27 Aug. 12 12:06

  • 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

  • 10 questions for Symplified founder and CTO Darren Platt

    Name: Darren Platt

    Written by Nancy Weil • 02 Aug. 12 16:52

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 ownCloud CFO Dan Curtis

    Name: Dan Curtis

    Written by Nancy Weil • 18 June 12 14:24

  • 10 questions for Bit9 CTO Harry Sverdlove

    Name: Harry Sverdlove

    Written by Nancy Weil • 31 May 12 19:41

  • 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

  • Q&A: Austereo CIO Ross Forgione

    What does an average work day involve for you at Austereo? The average day at Austereo is an adventure. It's a combination of managing daily operational needs and activities and taking on the new challenges associated with an organisation that continually pushes itself and the traditional boundaries of our industry.

    Written by Lisa Banks • 09 Sept. 10 09:53

  • Quantum CEO on EMC's buyout of Data Domain

    Now that EMC has purchased deduplication technology leader Data Domain, its reseller agreements with the likes of FalconStor Software Inc. and Quantum Corp. for the same type of single-instancing technology could be in jeopardy. Quantum resells both its tape libraries and dedupe software through EMC, sales that amount to less than 10% of its revenue.

    Written by Lucas Mearian • 31 July 09 09:05

  • Nick Carr: The ways cloud computing will disrupt IT

    Whether you prefer the term "utility computing" or "the cloud," the industry is headed in that direction, however slowly, and the transition will have a multifaceted impact on IT in some ways productive, others unpleasant. And it will strike to the heart of the very technology professionals who provide a significant chunk of what is today's enterprise IT.

    Written by Tom Sullivan • 26 March 09 08:35

  • Where today's datacenters have gone wrong

    Today's datacenters are downright cramped, yet forced to continue absorbing more technologies and tapping into the latest trends, all while maximizing efficiency and reducing costs. The current recession makes now the time to glance back for a historical perspective to better understand how to not only survive in this different world but also to best prepare for the future.

    Written by Tom Sullivan • 10 March 09 09:25

  • The inside view of Microsoft's cloud strategy

    Microsoft this week launched its cloud computing environment, Windows Azure, which is the foundation of the Azure Services Platform for developing applications extending from the cloud to PCs, datacenters, phones, and the Web. Microsoft's goal is to let Windows developers transition from Windows client development to Windows cloud development, using familiar tools, both those from Microsoft and other sources such as Eclipse. Developers would continue to develop apps on their desktops, but the Azure platform would handle the app deployment in the cloud.

    Written by Paul Krill and Eric Knorr • 03 Nov. 08 08:32
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