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	Verizon to Use Cisco UC&C for cloud-based service trial Verizon Business has announced it will become the first U.S.-based global service provider to deliver the Cisco unified communications and collaboration applications as a service, beginning with field trials of the new Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution. The Cisco UC&C solution was announced in June at the CiscoLive! networking event held in Las Vegas; it is targeted to offer Cisco service provider and integrator partners with a wide range of Cisco collaboration applications to their customers via the cloud. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T AT&T Enterprise Embrace Rich Media Development with ECDNs Click to continue In this Issue Chapter 1: What Is Unified Communications? Groups protest AT&T rate hikes for middle-mile access Secrecy of cloud computing providers raises IT security risks Census Bureau counting heads in the cloud Kicking distracted driving up a notch WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Building Secure Wireless LANs This paper walks through the steps to build a highly-secure wireless LAN and explains the technical considerations for: • Wireless privacy • Authentication • Client management and NAC • Network firewall and intrusion detection and protection • Identity-based access control • Rogue detection and WIDS • Compliance Read more! Chapter 1: What Is Unified Communications? Excerpt from Cisco Unified Presence Fundamentals Read More WHITE PAPER: Qualys Inc. Justifying IT Security The goal of a security program is to choose and implement cost effective countermeasures that mitigate the vulnerabilities that will most likely lead to loss. This paper discusses the management of Risk and how Vulnerability Management is one of the few counter-measures easily justified by its ability to optimize risk. Read now! Groups protest AT&T rate hikes for middle-mile access The U.S. Federal Communications Commission must move quickly to set limits on the rates that large telecom carriers charge businesses and competitors for middle-mile access because AT&T is planning significant rate hikes in July, a group of competitors, consumer groups and business customers said. Read More WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Corporation A New Look at Defragmenting While advanced storage infrastructures add additional layers of abstraction between applications and devices, they do not eliminate the need to solve fragmentation. This paper reviews different strategies for eliminating fragmentation and details a new approach that prevents fragmentation from occurring in the first place. Read Now Secrecy of cloud computing providers raises IT security risks Despite how attractive cloud computing can sound as an outsourcing option, there's widespread concern that it presents a security and legal minefield. Cloud service providers often cultivate an aura of secrecy about data centers and operations, claiming this stance improves their security even if it leaves everyone else in the dark. Read More Census Bureau counting heads in the cloud Web-based apps and infrastructure-as-a-service are a hit for 2010 Census Read More Kicking distracted driving up a notch Headed west on the Massachusetts Turnpike, I pass a car being operated by a young woman who has both hands firmly on the steering wheel, just like they teach when you get your license. Rather than the classic 10 o'clock-2 o'clock positioning, however, hers are clamped more like 11:45 and 12:15, or the optimum setup for thumb-texting on whatever device it was she had balanced in between. And texting... Read More
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