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	AT&T acquires mobility assets; NTT expands VoIP offering Two announcements this week:  AT&T has added to its expertise in enterprise mobility with an acquisition while NTT has disclosed plans to extend its VoIP offering to 159 countries.  Read More WEBCAST: Meraki Google Invests in Cloud-Controlled WiFi Effective management is key to wireless success. View this Webcast to hear how cloud-controlled wireless management provides the security, remote administration and reliability resource-constrained IT departments require. Learn more now! In this Issue Cisco VP talks of data center strategy UC platform: Use Microsoft or go the open route? As I Was Saying, Pay Attention to UC Security Products of the Week slideshow Stephen Colbert gives Cisco TelePresence the Bump US wants upper hand in battling high-tech bad guys Boost VoIP and Video on Your Network Chinese video site Tudou files for $120 million IPO in US Galaxy Tabs to soon have access to HD videoconferencing WHITE PAPER: Sprint Next Wave of Growth for Unified Communications Today's enterprise is undergoing a significant transformation, moving toward becoming a true Anywhere Enterprise®—a company where the workers can access any information from any device over any network. Enterprise mobility has been a crucial component in kicking off the evolutionary process. Learn More Cisco VP talks of data center strategy Cisco Vice President of IT John Manville discusses the company's data center makeover strategy, the migration to the company's own Unified Computing System, the benefits of cloud and the new IT organizational structure with Network World Editor in Chief John Dix. Read More UC platform: Use Microsoft or go the open route? Unified communications requires integrating multiple tools, and there are many ways to skin a cat. But is it better to come at the opportunity using integrated tools from Microsoft or try to stitch something together using open tools? See what our experts have to say in this Tech Debate. Read More As I Was Saying, Pay Attention to UC Security UCA couple of weeks ago I provided some guidelines for UC security (http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/67878), noting that SIP-based services such as SIP trunking and SIP-based peering create new vectors for potential attack. This week comes reports of widespread SIP brute-force attacks targeting public-facing SIP servers (see: http://www.stuartsheldon.org/blog/2010/11/sip-brute-force-attacks-escala...).... Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Test Data Privacy is Critical to Meet Compliances Just because data is stored in a test or development environment does not release your firm from the responsibility to comply with privacy regulations. Lean how to protect test data as if it were production data. Do not let test data privacy cause a confidential data breach. Read now Products of the Week slideshow Our round-up of intriguing new products from Cyberark, McAfee, Sophos, among others. Read More Stephen Colbert gives Cisco TelePresence the Bump Should President Obama have skipped his trip to India in favor of TelePresence conference call? Stephen Colbert makes no bones about it – if you've want a product featured prominently on his show, he'll take your money. And so the Colbert Nation was treated to a none-too-subtle Colbert Bump for Cisco TelePresence videoconferencing Monday night. Read More US wants upper hand in battling high-tech bad guys 4G cell phone, cloud computing, VoIP forensics target of US Department of Justice call for actionThe US Department of Justice this week said it was looking to boost the research and development of technology that could significantly bolster new forensic tools for digital evidence gathering. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Determine Your SharePoint Readiness Score SharePoint is growing in the usage of portals, team sites, enterprise content management, and Web content management. This IDC workbook will help you assess your organization's infrastructure readiness to manage SharePoint and discusses the value an expert service provider can bring to optimize SharePoint implementations. Read now Boost VoIP and Video on Your Network By default, all packets of data traveling across a local-area network (LAN) are created equal. If all of the traffic on a network is text- or file-transfer-based, the system is workable--and no one notices when a 40MB file is delayed by 50 milliseconds as more bandwidth is made available to all users and applications. Read More Chinese video site Tudou files for $120 million IPO in US Tudou, one of China's leading video sharing sites, is seeking to raise US$120 million through an initial public offering on the Nasdaq Stock Market to help sustain operations as it strives to become profitable. Read More Galaxy Tabs to soon have access to HD videoconferencing Polycom announced an agreement with Samsung to embed high-definition videoconferencing capability in the new Galaxy Tab. Read More
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