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	AT&T, BT offer Inter-Provider Cisco TelePresence AT&T and BT have announced an agreement to offer Inter-Provider Cisco TelePresence, providing exchange-to-exchange telepresence meeting capability. The new interoperability between AT&T and BT telepresence exchanges will allow their respective business customers to schedule and seamlessly connect telepresence endpoints. The commercial availability follows a successful trial conducted last summer. Read More WHITE PAPER: Scriptlogic PacketTrap IT Network & IT Infrastructure Management PacketTrap IT is a comprehensive solution that solves problems with bandwidth, connectivity, network & infrastructure performance quickly & easily. PacketTrap supports multiple sites, is easier to use & more complete than traditional network monitoring products. Download a FREE 21 day trial. Learn More In this Issue Is a next-generation firewall in your future? Siemens bolsters unified communication suite Journalistic responsibility in the age of the Internet telephone game Managing smartphones calls for new realism and flexibility WHITE PAPER: Brocade Communications Inc. Simplifying the Virtual Data center Virtualization technology brings numerous benefits to enterprise IT organizations. Learn how in this free white paper. Read now! Is a next-generation firewall in your future? The traditional port-based enterprise firewall, now looking less like a guard and more like a pit stop for Internet applications racing in through the often open ports 80 and 443, is slowly losing out to a new generation of brawny, fast, intelligent firewalls. Read More 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 Siemens bolsters unified communication suite Siemens upgrading its OpenScape Unified Communications suite to include a stand-alone collaboration platform that doesn't require other Siemen's products in order to set up conferences. Read More DOWNLOAD: BlackBerry Get BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express for Free BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express offers IT control and security features you can trust even for employees that choose to bring their own BlackBerry smartphones into your business. Download this free license to support up to 75 users on your existing Exchange Server. Learn More Journalistic responsibility in the age of the Internet telephone game Information security professionals are concerned with preserving the six fundamental properties of information: confidentiality, control, integrity, authenticity, availability and utility of information. One of the issues we must watch carefully is the publication of inaccurate information in corporate publications that have an Internet presence. Read More Managing smartphones calls for new realism and flexibility Enterprises are rapidly adopting modern smartphone platforms. But these operating systems vary widely in how manageable they are. IT groups need a new realism and a new flexibility to proactively support what's becoming a critical business resource. Read More
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