UC and cloud-based services - An excellent combination?

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	UC and cloud-based services - An excellent combination? In this newsletter we'll be wrapping up our discussion of and sharing excerpts from our two reports, "2011 SMB Communications Plans and Priorities" and "2011 Unified Communications and Cloud-Based Services Report". In particular, we'll be looking at the case for implementing UC on a cloud-based services model. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Enhance Customer Loyalty through Higher Responsiveness The user experience associated with web applications relies in large part on the availability and management of their session data, its persistence, and its management. This white paper focuses on the topic of data availability and management for mission-critical web applications. Read More Today! In this Issue Paul Baran, Internet and packet switching pioneer, is mourned Most approve of hosting games on company gear, survey finds FCC may require mobile data roaming IPv4 address transfers must meet policy, ARIN chief says Microsoft offers $7.5M for 666,624 IPv4 addresses Tech firm owner pleads guilty to E-Rate conspiracy Tablets of CTIA WHITE PAPER: Aerohive SLA Compliance: Wireless Fidelity Achieved Aerohive delivers the next level in network visibility and reactive response with a new infrastructure-side performance monitoring and response system: SLA Compliance. Read now! Paul Baran, Internet and packet switching pioneer, is mourned Paul Baran, whose Cold War era invention of packet switching technology helped to lay the foundation for the Internet, has died at the age of 84. Read More Most approve of hosting games on company gear, survey finds Only about a third of more than 1,000 respondents to a Network World online survey believe it's always wrong to use company equipment to host private video game sessions for groups of players. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Take Control of Your Network Once and for All Join this IBM broadcast to learn how to manage and improve network configuration activity to keep your networks running, in compliance and generating revenue. View Now FCC may require mobile data roaming With some mobile operators making it difficult for people to use data services while roaming on their networks, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission is now working to develop a rule that would require them to negotiate reasonable data roaming deals with other operators. Read More IPv4 address transfers must meet policy, ARIN chief says The chief executive of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) today said that any transfer of IPv4 addresses from one organization to another will need to be compliant with established ARIN policy. Read More WHITE PAPER: St. Bernard Software Compare Web Filters, Enter to win an iPad View this demo of iPrism Web Filter and learn why throughput speeds of up to 100+ Mbps, anti-virus protection, and seamless Active Directory/Terminal Services integration and reporting included at no charge has made iPrism the appliance-based choice for organizations of all sizes. Learn More Microsoft offers $7.5M for 666,624 IPv4 addresses Microsoft has agreed to pay $7.5 million to purchase a block of 666,624 IPv4 addresses from bankrupt Canadian telecom equipment maker Nortel in a move that some see as a signal of the increasing value of IPv4 addresses. Read More Tech firm owner pleads guilty to E-Rate conspiracy A former owner of an Illinois tech firm pleads guilty to conspiracy related to E-Rate fraud. Read More Tablets of CTIA We round up the hot (and not so hot) tablet computers that are being launched or shown off at the CTIA show in Orlando. Read More
	GOODIES FROM THE SUBNETS Up for grabs from Microsoft Subnet: a Windows 7 Enterprise Technician class for three people. From Cisco Subnet: 15 copies of VMware ESXi books. Enter here. SLIDESHOWS Hot technology at the annual CTIA wireless show CTIA Wireless offers a look at the evolving mobile landscape, from handsets and apps to core network systems. Here's a few of the things that are hot at the show in Orlando. First look at Firefox 4 Firefox 4 has finally arrived, after months of delays and after rival Web browsers Internet Explorer 9 and Chrome 10 already shipped. The browser gets a speed boost and several feature enhancements that are so significant that they all have their own proper names, like Panorama, JaegerMonkey and Firefox Sync. Were they worth the wait? Let's take a look. MOST-READ STORIES Paul Baran, Internet and packet switching pioneer, is mourned Microsoft scheme sniffs out unused wireless spectrum How Apple played hard to get and seduced the enterprise Apple holding out on iOS 5 until fall? Microsoft pays Nortel $7.5 million for IPv4 addresses AT&T-T-Mobile merger widely panned Nokia looks to make Windows Phone 7 hottest mobile OS Update Java and you may get annoying McAfee scanner too Is Skype a security risk that endangers your privacy? The RSA Hack FAQ
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