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	Yahoo's ingenious plan to force users to switch to Gmail No matter where I go, I have two constant companions: my Motorola Droid smartphone and Yahoo Mail. I love them both, but they seem to hate each other. Read More WHITE PAPER: Polycom Top Reasons for a Hosted VoIP Solution As Voice over IP becomes more and more prevalent for businesses of all sizes, questions have emerged about the value of a hosted solution. Tune in to Alex Doyle, Senior Director of Global Solutions Marketing at BroadSoft, as he discusses the benefits of hosted VoIP to businesses. Read More In this Issue Is WAN Optimization Hardware Obsolete? 7 More Things Not to Do on Facebook My Experence with Cisco Clean Air Five arguments for a Microsoft upgrade Business Etiquette: Is that an oxymoron? WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Minimize Datacenter Costs with Server Offload This technical guide helps you learn how to reduce your server costs up to 60%. You'll gain valuable information on how Citrix NetScaler helps reduce datacetner costs with server and infrastructure offload. Read More! Is WAN Optimization Hardware Obsolete? We recently received a copy of a Netex-commissioned white paper called "The Death of the WAN Optimization Hardware Appliance: R.I.P." The paper, by a firm curiously named Dragon Slayer Consulting, predicts that WAN optimization hardware will soon be as obsolete as the buggy whip because virtualized server appliances will render it moot. We believe this prediction is wrong. Here's why. Read More 7 More Things Not to Do on Facebook There's a Yahoo Finance link that's going around the social-o-sphere called "7 Things to Stop Doing Now on Facebook", with good advice like not posting your birthday, mentioning that you're going to be away from your house or using a weak password. Good, solid stuff, that we should all be doing anyway. But that's just the start. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Software Integrating and Automating Composite Applications Batch Application Integration allows you to process critical transactions, such as payment authorizations, in real-time, and cue fulfillment (such as packaging and shipping) or other lower priority actions for batch processing. Learn more about Batch Application Integration, and how BMC CONTROL-M makes it possible. Learn More My Experence with Cisco Clean Air My first thought on how Clean Air worked was that they must have embedded a DSP into the core ASIC to handle the base level spectrum analysis operations since that would choke off a MIPS processor. Well... that's not what they did at all. Not even close. Read More Five arguments for a Microsoft upgrade With today's release of Microsoft Office 2010 to business users, IT managers are likely doing some serious number-crunching to see if it's worth it for their organization to migrate to it. But there's also a whole range of Microsoft enterprise software that Redmond wants you to consider besides Office. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Overcome Two Key Challenges with Virtualization How do you accelerate virtualization for your enterprise - and take IT flexibility and cost savings to the next level? Start by downloading this whitepaper from Riverbed. WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises in order to address the challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN. Click here! Business Etiquette: Is that an oxymoron? Is business etiquette an oxymoron? My seat-mate on a recent flight asked me this question as I pulled out the book Business Etiquette: 101 Ways to Conduct Business with Charm and Savvy by Ann Marie Sabath. Read More
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