NETWORKING NEWS UPDATE
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Friday, October 9, 2009
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
LATEST NETWORKING NEWS
- Motorola Unveils Wide Area Mesh AP
- Ciena Bids $521 Million For Nortel Unit
- Global CIO: SAP 2.0 Promises Business Value Over Products: Can It Deliver?
- Sybase, Interop Prep For 4G
- Sprint Forms M2M Business Unit
- Obama Orders Federal IT To Get Greener
- Emerson To Acquire Avocent For $1.2 Billion
- Salesforce.com, Cisco Team Up On Cloud Offering
- Global CIO: Why Hewlett-Packard Must Articulate Its Enterprise Strategy
ANALYTIC REPORTS
- Cloud Computing: Platform As A Service
WHITEPAPERS
- SIP Trunk
- Overcoming Single Provider MPLS Limitations
TODAY'S MOST POPULAR STORIES @ TECHWEB.COM
- Google Offers Advice On Strong Passwords
- Dell May Bring Android Smartphones To AT&T
- Step-By-Step: Moving Your Server To Linux
- Sony Intros Touchscreen PC/TV
- SSL Still Mostly Misunderstood
WEBCASTS
- Legacy IT Modernization -- Practical Reality
RESOURCES AND EVENTS
- InformationWeek 500 Virtual Event: Navigating The Boardroom
- Opinion: Why Microsoft Needs To Make Windows 7 A Free Upgrade From Vista
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LATEST NETWORKING NEWS
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TODAY'S TOP STORY
- Motorola Unveils Wide Area Mesh AP
The AP7181 802.11n access point is likely to be beneficial to enterprise Wi-Fi networks.
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ALSO SEE
- Ciena Bids $521 Million For Nortel Unit
Informal estimates have placed the value of Nortel's Optical Networking and Carrier Ethernet businesses at $800 million.
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- Global CIO: SAP 2.0 Promises Business Value Over Products: Can It Deliver?
If SAP can deliver on the vision of its Chief Value Officer, it will make available to CIOs best practices, benchmark metrics, and breakthrough thinking and innovation.
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- Sybase, Interop Prep For 4G
As 4G networks come on line, wireless carriers will face interoperability and support issues with mobile messaging.
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- Sprint Forms M2M Business Unit
The company sees machine-to-machine products and connected consumer devices as critical to increasing revenue from its data networks.
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- Obama Orders Federal IT To Get Greener
An Executive Order mandates that federal agencies implement green data center strategies, double-sided printing, and PC power management, as part of a broader sustainability push.
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- Emerson To Acquire Avocent For $1.2 Billion
The deal is expected to help Emerson offer total infrastructure management solutions to its data center customers.
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- Salesforce.com, Cisco Team Up On Cloud Offering
Customers of Salesforce.com will have access to Cisco's Unified Contact Center technologies for customer service.
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- Global CIO: Why Hewlett-Packard Must Articulate Its Enterprise Strategy
Mark Hurd has cranked up HP's operational excellence but HP has yet to reveal an equally compelling external strategy to the world: what is HP's core strength? What does HP do best?
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ANALYTIC REPORTS
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- Cloud Computing: Platform As A Service
Web application development is moving to online platforms. This report explores the leading vendors and development environments for online development, and some of the trade-offs that are required.
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WHITEPAPERS
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- SIP Trunk
Integrate both voice and data onto a single, converged network and reduce costs and improve productivity. Find out how Qwest iQ SIP Trunk can help.
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- Overcoming Single Provider MPLS Limitations
In this paper, Frost & Sullivan reviews the limitations associated with taking a single-provider approach to MPLS networks and contrasts them to the benefits of a global multi-carrier MPLS network.
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TODAY'S MOST POPULAR STORIES @ TECHWEB.COM
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- Google Offers Advice On Strong Passwords
Passwords remain the primary means of online authentication, despite their shortcomings. That's why Google wants to make sure users' passwords won't be easily defeated.
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- Dell May Bring Android Smartphones To AT&T
The lines between smartphones and laptops are increasingly blurring as hardware and mobile data networks rapidly improve, analyst says.
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- Step-By-Step: Moving Your Server To Linux
You can make the move Ubuntu Linux Server in no time at all by following the steps in this hands-on guide where you'll learn how to install the software and start using your Linux server.
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- Sony Intros Touchscreen PC/TV
The computer maker also announced a half-inch, 1.6 pound notebook with an 11-inch display.
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- SSL Still Mostly Misunderstood
Even many IT professionals don't understand what Secure Sockets Layer does and doesn't do, leaving them vulnerable, new survey shows
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- Opinion: Why Microsoft Needs To Make Windows 7 A Free Upgrade From Vista
bMighty offers Microsoft a modest proposal: Establish your Web 2.0 street cred and instantly erase years of bad press with one simple move...Make Windows 7 a free upgrade for Vista users.
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