Looking ahead to 2011: Cloud, regulation, VoIP and more

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	Looking ahead to 2011: Cloud, regulation, VoIP and more Picking up where we left off as we closed last year with part one of our 2011 predictions, today we'll continue our discussion, outlining what we expect to happen this year with hosted/cloud services, net neutrality, VoIP evolution, and consolidation trends. Read More WHITE PAPER: PacketMotion PacketMotion and Sox IT Controls PacketMotion's PacketSentry solution for User Activity Management and how it allows companies to comply with SOX quickly, efficiently, and without risking application availability. Read now! In this Issue Skype adds video-over-3G capabilities to its iPhone app Trends to watch for the next decade Is the Skype Crash Windows' Fault or Skype's? WHITE PAPER: Oracle Dramatically Accelerate Oracle Database Performance Built for top performance with SPARC64® VII processors, large memory capacity, and massive I/O expansion capabilities, Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers excel at executing high- throughput transaction processing workloads while offering mission critical reliability and fine grain high availability architecture. Learn More Today! Skype adds video-over-3G capabilities to its iPhone app Skype has updated its free iPhone app, adding the ability to make video calls over 3G mobile networks. The updated app is available for download from Apple's app store, Skype announced Thursday. Read More WHITE PAPER: LogMeIn Geeks Online Succeed with Remote Management Geeks Online's business is to provide technology, networking and IT support to small businesses, most of whom have no IT staff of their own. Read how LogMeIn is an essential component of their success, providing remote monitoring, management and updating of hundreds of machines. Read Now Trends to watch for the next decade At this change of year and change of decade, we've been providing some historical context. Now it's time to look forward toward the next decade and venture forth with some prognostication - or at least reasonable guesses, as to some of the major trends we're already seeing and that we expect to become major factors. Read More WHITE PAPER: Symantec Next Generation Data Protection These next generation tools, such as disk based backups, deduplication, virtualization, archiving, and continuous data protection, are essentially revolutionizing the world of data protection. download this whitepaper to find the newest approach to unified data protection. Read now! Is the Skype Crash Windows' Fault or Skype's? Who's to blame for the massive Skype crash of 2010 that knocked 10 million users off the grid right before the holiday season? Microsoft's Windows? Or Skype itself? Read More
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