Microsoft's reorg prelude? Andy Lees has left the building

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	Microsoft's reorg prelude? Andy Lees has left the building As of this writing, Microsoft hasn't confirmed the move, but Mike Isaac at AllThingsD reports that Andy Lees -- former Windows Phone president, as well as current VP of Microsoft corporate strategy and development -- will go "on sabbatical to return to his family in the United Kingdom, and will announce his new position at Microsoft later in the summer." Microsoft pulled Lees's bio from its Leadership site overnight; expect it to be replaced shortly. Read More WHITE PAPER: Network Instruments Getting Ahead Managing VoIP and Videoconferencing Can the move to UC be just another simple technology transition? End users expect these technologies to look, act and behave just as their non-IP predecessors. But for IT teams it brings very real, new requirements. Learn VoIP and video success strategies from Jim Frey, an Enterprise Management Associates analyst. Learn more. In this Issue Cassandra project chair: We're taking on Oracle The NSA upshot: We're finally taking Internet privacy seriously WHITE PAPER: QLogic Corporation The Value of Shared SSDs in Enterprise Computing With Mt. Rainier Accelerator technology, QLogic delivers a unique solution set that is optimized to address the growing performance gap between what today's processors can compute and what the storage I/O subsystem can deliver. Read Now! Cassandra project chair: We're taking on Oracle Apache Cassandra is an open source, NoSQL database accommodating large-scale workloads and attracting a lot of attention, having been deployed in such organizations as Netflix, eBay, and Twitter. It was developed at Facebook, which open-sourced it in 2008, and its database can be deployed across multiple data centers and in cloud environments. Read More The NSA upshot: We're finally taking Internet privacy seriously America's most secret agency found itself in unfamiliar territory this week: the focus of intense scrutiny by the media, Congress, and the public. Tech industry giants were dragged onto the hot seat as well, and fallout from the furor could set off a far-reaching debate about the limits of privacy in a digital age. Read More
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