Will software-defined networking kill network engineers' beloved CLI?
SDN (software-defined networking) promises some real benefits for people who use networks, but to the engineers who manage them, it may represent the end of an era. Ever since Cisco made its first routers in the 1980s, most network engineers have relied on a CLI (command-line interface) to configure, manage and troubleshoot everything from small-office LANs to wide-area carrier networks. Cisco's isn't the only CLI, but on the strength of the company's domination of networking, it has become a de facto standard in the industry, closely emulated by other vendors.
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Microsoft: Talks with U.S. gov't on surveillance transparency break down
Negotiations have broken down between two Internet giants and U.S. government representatives over the companies' requests to publish information on the surveillance requests they receive, a Microsoft executive said Friday.
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Benioff lays out Salesforce.com's future strategies
Salesforce.com's second-quarter earnings conference call featured the usual dose of chest-thumping by CEO Marc Benioff as the company posted $957 million in revenue and raised its full fiscal year forecast to at least $4 billion. But the call also revealed some telling details about the company's strategic direction and growth. Here's a look at the highlights.
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Report: NSA pays millions for US telecom access
When it comes to tapping into U.S. telecommunications networks for surreptitious surveillance, the U.S. National Security Agency can't be accused of not paying its way.
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Offshoring will kill 1.5 million IT jobs by 2017
Approximately 1.5 million IT jobs -- about half of the number that existed in North America and Europe in 2002 -- will have been eliminated by 2017, according to new research from The Hacket Group. The mass job loss will be attributable to the combined impact of offshoring, technology-driven productivity improvements and a low-growth business environment.
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Screenshots of Samsung's Galaxy Gear smartwatch leaked
When your sink leaks, that's a problem. When your screenshots do, it's all gravy. While the big reveal on Samsung's smartwatch isn't until September 4, some apparent screenshots of the highly anticipated Galaxy Gear smartwatch app hit the Web Thursday.
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Salesforce.com mobile app developers gain security tools
Good Technology has integrated its Dynamics Secure Mobility Platform with Salesforce.com's Mobile SDK to help developers build mobile applications that are more secure and easily managed. The growing popularity of smartphones and tablets combined with the BYOD (bring-your-own-device) trend presents several challenges to IT departments, including developing mobile applications and then efficiently managing and protecting them. Salesforce.com's Mobile SDK (software development kit) helps with the former and Good's Secure Mobility Platform offers the latter.
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Samsung starts mass production of DDR4 memories
Samsung Electronics has started mass producing DDR4 memories that it expects will go into enterprise servers in next-generation data centers. A successor to the DDR3 (Double Data Rate 3), DDR4 memories are expected to offer higher performance, reliability and lower power consumption than its predecessor.[ Keep up on the day's tech news headlines with InfoWorld's Today's Headlines: Wrap Up newsletter. ]
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Microsoft sets $100 Surface Pro discounts in stone
Microsoft yesterday made permanent the $100 price cut to its Surface Pro tablet that it ran as a temporary sale through most of August. Surface Pro devices rely on Windows 8 Pro and Intel processors, rather than the stripped-down Windows RT and lower-powered ARM processors of the Surface RT. Surface Pro tablets can run traditional Windows software, often called "legacy" software, like the full-featured Office 2013 productivity suite.
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Windows 8.1 won't rescue PC market this year, IDC says
The PC market will weaken even further this year and Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8.1 OS will be unable to reverse the drop in shipments, IDC said on Thursday. Due in part to increased adoption of mobile devices globally and a drop in PC sales in China, shipments will shrink 9.7 percent in 2013, according to IDC, which previously had predicted a fall of 7.7 percent drop.
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Imagination to battle ARM with MIPS server chips
Imagination Technologies, the UK company that designs the graphics chips for the iPhone and iPad, will release a new CPU design next year for low-power servers, the company's CEO said this week. It's part of a broad push by Imagination to expand the use of MIPS chips in all kinds of products, including servers, tablets, smartphones and wearable computers. Imagination inherited the architecture when it bought financially struggling MIPS Technologies last year.
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A first, jaundiced look at Windows 8.1 RTM
Thanks to a modern-day Robin Hood enigmatically named WZOR, new pirated Windows 8.1 RTM bits are coursing through the underground veins of the Internet.
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Java security will be in the spotlight at JavaOne
If Oracle's JavaOne show plans are any indication, the company is very serious about educating developers on how to make their Java applications secure.
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