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	Reports offer info for VoIP, UC users Today, we'd like to highlight two studies that readers who have already deployed VoIP and UC systems may find valuable. The first study will be of interest to those who need to support VoIP systems in a multi-vendor environment. Read More WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Maximize SAN Infrastructure Performance Although SAN has advantages in performance, reliability, availability and provisioning, it is affected by fragmentation and performance will decline unless it is addressed. Find out why this is true and how to best avoid SAN slowdowns. Read more In this Issue Verizon launches IPv6 transition services Cisco, call home Uniting Microsoft Lync and Video Conferencing Mac of the future: the graphics WHITE PAPER: IBM Ask the Oracle 8 Ball Do you know how much more WebLogic Server Enterprise Edition now costs? Who is the real leader on performance benchmarks? How will the recent acquisition of Sun affect you? Is Oracle inhibiting your ability to cost effectively develop and manage your critical business workloads? Ask the "Oracle 8-Ball" for the answers. Read More Verizon launches IPv6 transition services Organizations struggling to adopt IPv6 could get a hand from a new service offered by Verizon Read More WHITE PAPER: Symantec A Candid Examination of Data Deduplication When a new technology like data deduplication comes along that promises to solve today's information management and backup problems its, it is no surprise that organizations may view it as a silver bullet. Read this whitpaper and get a candid view of deduplication. Read now! Cisco, call home Router titan claims first VoIP call from spaceCisco this week said it conducted the first-ever software upgrade of an IP router aboard a commercial satellite while in orbit. It also claimed to complete the first VoIP call without the use of any terrestrial infrastructure to route the call, which is a requirement in current communications satellite technology. Read More WEBCAST: MegaPath What is Security-as-a-Service, and Should SMBs Consider It? Tune in with John Ramsey and learn what managed security services mean to your business. Why should you pay attention? Details on what security-as-a-service brings to your business, benefits of the SaaS model, which businesses gain most, and how SaaS helps you comply with regulations. Learn More Uniting Microsoft Lync and Video Conferencing UCOne of the more promising aspects of Microsoft's new Lync unified communications server and client product is the growing number of options to use it as a platform for video conferencing. Out of the box Lync, like its predecessor Office Communications Server (OCS), supports simple one-to-one standard definition desktop video chat. Few of the companies we've researched that have deployed OCS have... Read More Mac of the future: the graphics Graphics processing units (GPUs) already handle more than just graphics. The nVidia graphics chips found up and down Apple's Mac product line support the Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA), which allows a computer's CPU to offload some of its processing work to the GPU. Apple will surely continue to be a driving force in making graphics chips good for a lot more than just games. But that's not all we can expect over the next couple of years. Read More
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