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	Siemens adds social networking to UCC Siemens Enterprise Communications recently commissioned a study that found businesses are missing out on social media opportunities. The study, which was conducted by Yankee Group, found that the "vast majority of employees and consumers would prefer to use social networking for business communications." Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: ShoreTel ShoreTel rated #1 IP Provider by IT pros Independent research firm Nemertes Research surveyed IT pros, and once again, ShoreTel's brilliantly simple solution was rated "Best IP telephony provider" in all areas, including value, customer service, and technology. Read the report to see why ShoreTel rates higher than its competitors. Download the report. In this Issue Could the Droid X Replace Your Laptop? AT&T adds mobile services for business, government users 54% of travellers take corporate data on holiday IT budgets pointing to the cloud, expansion WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Forrester: IT Platform to Optimize and Consolidate In this report, Forrester investigates the reasons why you should consider WAN optimization solutions as the best way to gain better IT performance, cost savings, and greater flexibility for your business. And it's also a smart network improvement investment over the long-term. Get the facts about WAN optimization in this study. Read now! Could the Droid X Replace Your Laptop? The Droid X appears to be an opening day hit. Motorola's new smartphone--Verizon Wireless' answer to the Apple iPhone 4 via AT&T and HTC EVO 4G via Sprint--has already sold out online and at various retail shops across the nation. The ongoing iPhone 4 antenna soap opera has no doubt helped spur interest in the Droid X, as have positive reviews and Verizon's aggressive and [ Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Virtualize your end-to-end IT infrastructure A virtual storage infrastructure available only from HP can double your capacity utilization and cut management costs in half with innovations that unlock trapped capacity in individual servers or in enterprise disk arrays. Learn how. Read Now AT&T adds mobile services for business, government users AT&T today unveiled three new hosted applications targeted at both business and government users. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Implementing Tiered Storage: IDC: Enterprises that are investigating deploying a tiered storage architecture should consider using an external services provider to assist with the migration. Of critical importance is the ability to offer a range of services from the initial planning all the way through to ongoing support and management. Read Now 54% of travellers take corporate data on holiday More than half (54 percent) of travellers have work documents and sensitive data stored on a laptop they take on holiday with them, says Generator Hostels. Read More IT budgets pointing to the cloud, expansion At first, one financial services company didnt believe a cloud provider was a possible option because of financial compliance rules and client audit concerns. But it was surpised when the provider said it could meet all its needs. But the provider, in this case BlueLock LLC in nearby Indianapolis, said it could meet all the security rules, service levels and disaster recovery needs Read More
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