How much do CIOs really make? Pay packages of 25 Fortune 500 execs revealed

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	How much do CIOs really make? Pay packages of 25 Fortune 500 execs revealed To find out how much CIOs at giant global companies really earn, we scoured the proxy statements of the 500 largest U.S. companies and found 25 that disclosed CIO pay. Here are the details on their pay packages. Read More WEBCAST: Dell Inc. Re-architecting Legacy Applications for the Enterprise In this webcast, Ovum IT Services Analyst Hansa Iyengar and Cameron Jenkins, Dell Application Modernization Services Executive Director Cameron Jenkins discuss the importance of re-architecting legacy applications and provide practical recommendations to address the challenges around migrating legacy architecture. View now In this Issue How Amazon Web Services can prevent repeating its recent outage Cisco names two more to new CEO's team EARLY ACCESS Q&A: New Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins heads into "hyper-connected" mode Did Cisco lop 400 from Nexus 7000? John Chambers' 10 most memorable quotes as Cisco CEO Cisco kills Invicta storage product line INSIDER FREE COURSE: Learn basic Cisco networking Silver Peak CEO: We're re-imagining the WAN for a cloud world INSIDER It pays to be CIO: Median pay for 25 Fortune 500 CIOs tops $2.4M : BMC Software IT Security and Compliance With BMC Intelligent Compliance, you can reduce both the amount of time you're vulnerable to attacks and the cost of maintaining complete IT compliance. View Now How Amazon Web Services can prevent repeating its recent outage The recent AWS outage exposed the dependence of countless enterprise applications on a few cloud components. Nick Kephart published a very good analysis here that explains how a route leak from data center provider Axcelx was responsible for this incident. This is not a new problem. Read More Cisco names two more to new CEO's team Cisco has named two new executives to the leadership team of new CEO Chuck Robbins, who begins his tenure today. Zorawar Biri Singh is Cisco's senior vice president and CTO, Platforms and Solutions, and Kevin Bandy is the company's senior vice president and chief digital officer. Both will report to Robbins. Read More EARLY ACCESS Q&A: New Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins heads into "hyper-connected" mode When Cisco Systems employees head into work Monday they'll encounter something they haven't seen in two decades: A new boss. Chuck Robbins – formerly senior vice president of worldwide operations – takes over as CEO from John Chambers, one of the most visible and quotable figures in business.In this early-access interview with John Gallant, chief content officer of IDG US Media, Robbins sets out his priorities for Cisco and his new management team, and talks about the opportunities and challenges facing the network giant. Robbins dissects the competitive landscape and explains why so-called 'white box' data center gear and software-defined networks are not the threats to Cisco that some pundits contend. Read More WHITE PAPER: CDW An Infrastructure in the Cloud In many organizations, in fact, "cloud first" has become the mantra when seeking out new software solutions. But often, enterprises are less clear on the specific use cases of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and how providers can help deliver IT capabilities that meet their needs and help them to achieve desired business outcomes. Learn more >> Did Cisco lop 400 from Nexus 7000? Cisco has apparently cut 400 employees, or 5%, from its Nexus 7000 data center switching product operations as part of the limited restructuring now underway. Read More John Chambers' 10 most memorable quotes as Cisco CEO After all the pomp and circumstance, July 25th is almost here, officially marking the end of John Chambers' 20-year run as CEO of Cisco. Over the years I've had the good fortune of meeting Chambers several times as well as hearing countless keynotes. Below are my most memorable Chambers quotes. Read More Cisco kills Invicta storage product line Cisco has pulled the plug on its troubled Invicta flash storage appliances in another admission that an acquisition didn't pan out as hoped. Read More WHITE PAPER: Silver Peak Systems Inc 5 Reasons why Enterprises are Moving to Broadband Their WAN The WAN has always been about connecting users to applications and moving data, but the playing field has now changed with datacenters migrating to the cloud along with missioncritical applications. Ultimately the way that enterprises and their users do business has changed - and so must their approach to connectivity. Learn more >> INSIDER FREE COURSE: Learn basic Cisco networking In partnership with Pluralsight, Network World presents a free course on CCNA routing and VLANs. In this course, the student will learn the fundamental concepts of networking, and then immediately apply this knowledge to the configuration of a router and switch. (Insider Story) Read More Silver Peak CEO: We're re-imagining the WAN for a cloud world Silver Peak, Inc., made its name as a top provider of wide-area network optimization capabilities. But the company has its sights set on a loftier goal today: Completely changing the way you build your entire WAN. Silver Peak is moving rapidly to support so-called software-defined WANs, which make it easier and cheaper to connect branches and end users to cloud applications. Read More INSIDER It pays to be CIO: Median pay for 25 Fortune 500 CIOs tops $2.4M Today's CIOs can make millions as they ascend the corporate ladder. While climbing, many tech chiefs take on additional titles and broader administrative roles. (Insider Story) Read More
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