10 ways to be an authentic IT leader

	Apple aggressively hiring new employees to work on iWatch project | SDN, NFV creeping into provider networks
	Network World Network/Systems Management				Forward this to a Friend >>>
	10 ways to be an authentic IT leader If you follow the news you can find a litany of examples of poor leadership. People are distrustful or cynical of today's leadership and many times with good reason. That's why being an authentic leader is so important. Getting all your people onboard and moving in the same direction is paramount to success in the fast-paced environment of IT. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Fluke Networks Enter to Win a Visual TruView TruView is a unified application and network performance monitoring and troubleshooting appliance that solves problems FAST. Click here to enter to win an award winning Visual TruView. Click to continue In this Issue Apple aggressively hiring new employees to work on iWatch project SDN, NFV creeping into provider networks After a year at Yahoo, Mayer still sprinting to catch up The future of Linux: Evolving everywhere Ex-Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie joins Hewlett-Packard's board The data center fabric checklist you should know App economy expected to double by 2017 to $151B Like a pinball, Zimbra bounces again, now to Telligent from VMware It's getting warmer in some data centers Startup turns applications into cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) WHITE PAPER: Dell Inc. Rapid Virtualization Deployment for Private Clouds Effective private cloud deployment requires a virtualized environment that facilitates easy management of workloads, efficient creation and migration of virtual machines, and rapid delivery of services. Learn More Apple aggressively hiring new employees to work on iWatch project The Financial Times on Sunday shed some more light on one of Apple's most mythical and long-rumored projects - the iWatch. Indeed, everytime Tim Cook sits down for an interview, we hear snippets from the Apple CEO detailing how wearable technology is an extremely interesting market. What's more, rumors that Apple has been working on an iWatch have lingered for quite some time. Read More SDN, NFV creeping into provider networks Network operators are starting small with their SDN and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) deployments, containing them to parts of the network where they can evaluate performance before rolling it out, according to Infonetics Research. Read More After a year at Yahoo, Mayer still sprinting to catch up Since taking the reins as Yahoo's CEO a year ago this week, Marissa Mayer has set out to revamp the struggling Internet company with a series of rapid fire acquisitions that could make even her former colleagues at Google envious. Read More WHITE PAPER: Juniper Networks Performance Testing of 802.11n Enterprise Access Points Performance testing on the Juniper Networks WLA532 Wireless LAN Access Point found that the WLA532 is the highest performing 802.11n three spatial stream enterprise access point at 5 GHz, delivering an average 111 Mbps sustained single client throughput 120 feet from the AP. Learn more. The future of Linux: Evolving everywhere Mark Shuttleworth's recent closure of Ubuntu Linux bug No. 1 ("Microsoft has a majority market share") placed a meaningful, if somewhat controversial, exclamation point on how far Linux has come since Linus Torvalds rolled out the first version of the OS in 1991 as a pet project. Read More Ex-Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie joins Hewlett-Packard's board Hewlett-Packard's board of directors has received a major infusion of software know-how, with the addition of former Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie . Read More The data center fabric checklist you should know Like anything in IT, there are several considerations to mull over before employing fabric technology to converge data center operations. Read More WEBCAST: Sprint The Network Foundation of an IT-to-ET Transformation There's an evolutionary process at work that will eventually affect every enterprise IT department. Nemertes Research describes it as a transformation from IT to ET – Enterprise Technology. Learn More App economy expected to double by 2017 to $151B The combined value of paid apps, app-enabled purchases of goods and services and in-app advertising is expected to double to $151 billion in the U.S. by 2017, AppNation said. Read More Like a pinball, Zimbra bounces again, now to Telligent from VMware Telligent has acquired Zimbra from VMware in order to give its enterprise social networking suite an enterprise email and calendaring component. Read More It's getting warmer in some data centers With major parts of the U.S. under an intense heat wave, opting for less cooling may seem like a bad idea. But it isn't. Read More Startup turns applications into cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) As the wave of cloud computing continues to ripple through the technology world, many applications are being left behind because they don't translate well into being delivered as a software as a service (SaaS) in the cloud, says Osman Kent, founder of Numecent, which aims to fix that problem. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS 6 rising open source stars Names you'll want to know in the free software/open-source world. JOIN THE NETWORK WORLD COMMUNITIES As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. Join Network World's LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity). Network World on Facebook Network World on LinkedIn MOST-READ STORIES 1. AT&T offers phones on monthly installments, with annual upgrades 2. The data center fabric checklist you should know 3. Microsoft Surface RT price slashed $150 4. Bill Gates vows the return of Microsoft Bob 5. Start-ups lean hard on CPU-based security technology to protect virtual environments 6. 10 tech blockbusters (just waiting to be made) 7. Encryption no protection from government surveillance 8. SDN, NFV creeping into provider networks 9. A vendor-independent comparison of NoSQL databases 10. iPad 5 rumor rollup for the week ending July 11
	Do You Tweet? Follow everything from NetworkWorld.com on Twitter @NetworkWorld. You are currently subscribed to networkworld_network_systems_management_alert as networking.world@gmail.com. Unsubscribe from this newsletter | Manage your subscriptions | Subscribe | Privacy Policy If you are interested in advertising in this newsletter, please contact: bglynn@cxo.com To contact Network World, please send an e-mail to customer_service@nww.com. Copyright (C) 2013 Network World, 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham MA 01701 ** Please do not reply to this message. If you want to contact someone directly, send an e-mail to customer_service@nww.com. **