Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Unified communications and cloud-based services

AT&T's $39B T-Mobile buyout raises regulatory, competitive and customer service questions | 'Rogue' game server admins defend hosting on company gear

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Unified communications and cloud-based services
We've been discussing a pair of our State-of-the-Market Reports, and today we're moving from the more general communications trends - unified communications and cloud-based services. In particular, we'll be examining and excerpting how these two complementary trends can be of significant advantage when considered together. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Coyote Point

Equalizer approved for Load Balancing
Coyote Point is one of the select manufacturers on Microsoft's approved vendor listing for load balancing MS Exchange Server 2010. See this and other deployment guides that show how easy it is to add performance and availability to the Microsoft applications you rely on every day. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Sprint

Gearing Up for IPv6
Do you have your checklist to get ready for IPv6? Iyad Tarazi, Vice President of Network Development & Engineering for Sprint, discusses what it's going to take for you to make the transition. Read Now

AT&T's $39B T-Mobile buyout raises regulatory, competitive and customer service questions
AT&T's surprise buyout of T-Mobile USA for $39 billion has industry watchers scrambling to figure out what the deal means for subscribers, the U.S. cellular industry and investors. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Aerohive

SLA Compliance: Wireless Fidelity Achieved
Aerohive delivers the next level in network visibility and reactive response with a new infrastructure-side performance monitoring and response system: SLA Compliance. Read now!

'Rogue' game server admins defend hosting on company gear
They say it's a perk and harmless ... as long as they're carefulBack in January, I wrote about a group of Scandinavian gamers who hijacked a New Hampshire medical center's server and bandwidth to host their "Call of Duty: Black Ops" sessions, which resulted in some 230,000 patients having their personal information put at risk. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks

Magic Quadrant for Wireless LAN Infrastructure
Gartner positions Aruba Networks as a Leader in the new 2011 Magic Quadrant for Wireless LAN Infrastructure. The Magic Quadrant evaluates vendors based on the completeness of their vision and ability to execute. Read now!

Study: Virtual medicine as effective as physical doc visits
A study involving the treatment of 200 HIV patients via remote control systems over the Internet has showed that over a five-year period the medical results were as satisfactory as those obtained in a visit to the hospital. Read More

Trade group sets off debate over spectrum 'hoarding'
A TV trade group questions why its members should give up additional spectrum for mobile broadband. Read More

Verisign signs on for upcoming 24-hour IPv6 trial
Verisign is the latest major Internet player to sign up for World IPv6 Day, a 24-hour trial of the next-generation Internet Protocol that is scheduled for June 8. Read More



GOODIES FROM THE SUBNETS
Up for grabs from Microsoft Subnet: a Windows 7 Enterprise Technician class for three people. From Cisco Subnet: 15 copies of VMware ESXi books. Enter here.

SLIDESHOWS

Perks drive up pay for tech CEOs
Many tech vendors have shied away from extravagant perks, but there are still plenty worth highlighting. Like a $1.5 million tab for home security. Or how about the $36,619 one company paid to reimburse its CEO for the taxes he had to pay on the $106,589 he gained by using company aircraft for personal flights? Read on to find out which tech CEOs enjoyed the priciest perks in 2010 and which ones went to work perk-free.

First look at Microsoft Internet Explorer 9
Microsoft has a real competitor once again with IE9, released at midnight Monday night on Windows 7 and Vista after several months of beta testing. The focus is on speed, privacy and simplicity, with a stripped-down interface, tracking protection, pinned sites, jump lists and enhanced support for HTML5.

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