Unified communications, cloud-based services and SMBs

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	Unified communications, cloud-based services and SMBs The Webtorials Analyst Group has recently released two State-of-the-Market Reports. "2011 SMB Communications Plans and Priorities" and "2011 Unified Communications and Cloud-Based Services Report" are a complementary set of reports that, while focused on SMBs, are quite pertinent to organizations of all sizes. Over the next few newsletters, we'll be sharing key findings and excerpting from these two reports. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sprint Gearing Up for IPv6 Do you have your checklist to get ready for IPv6? Iyad Tarazi, Vice President of Network Development & Engineering for Sprint, discusses what it's going to take for you to make the transition. Read Now In this Issue Eyes in their ankles: The congressional view of network neutrality U.S. carriers waive fees to call, text Japan Brocade touts IPv6 experience with Hurricane Electric Quake damage to Japan cables greater than thought Bandwidth caps coming to AT&T wireline services Wi-Fi 802.11n: Still evolving Cisco's 'Jawbreaker' seen as response to competitive pressure Perks drive up pay for tech CEOs If you had bought 100 shares of Microsoft 25 years ago ... WHITE PAPER: Nastel Technologies Control & Automate Application Performance Management. This report by Forrester Research discusses how to handle IT complexity using application performance management converged with Complex Event Processing to produce a closed-loop automation solution for application management. Learn More Eyes in their ankles: The congressional view of network neutrality For quite a while I've been baffled by the inability of too many members of Congress to understand the importance of the network neutrality discussion. I'm not satisfied that I know for sure, but I may be getting closer. Read More U.S. carriers waive fees to call, text Japan Major U.S. wireless carriers are waiving fees on calls and text messages to Japan as well as texted mobile donations made to emergency relief efforts in Japan. Read More Brocade touts IPv6 experience with Hurricane Electric Brocade Networks announced last week that it provides the routers and switches that underpin the network backbone operated by Hurricane Electric, a leader in next-generation Internet services using the emerging IPv6 standard. Read More WEBCAST: Adobe Deliver Engaging Communications with PDF Portfolios Learn how easy it is to create and send a single PDF Portfolio using Adobe Acrobat X Pro. See how to create a rich, branded PDF Portfolio containing many types of documents, each with a rich preview experience. Learn More Quake damage to Japan cables greater than thought Damage to submarine telecommunications cables from the earthquake in Japan Friday is worse than first believed, with two segments of a trans-Pacific network out of service and at least two other cables damaged. Read More Bandwidth caps coming to AT&T wireline services It seems that the era of unlimited data consumption isn't just ending for wireless Internet services anymore. Read More Wi-Fi 802.11n: Still evolving With 802.11n ratification a distant memory, news reports regarding this giant leap in WLAN capability have also waned. But while 11n has quietly receded into the background, WLANs have crept out of our data-only world and taken flight as full-fledged network platforms. Read More WEBCAST: IBM How much network downtime can your business tolerate? 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 Cisco's 'Jawbreaker' seen as response to competitive pressure Why would Cisco be developing a new data center fabric product line based on merchant silicon when its Nexus switches and FabricPath software are already available? Read More Perks drive up pay for tech CEOs Jets! Cars! Home security services! All of these perks add to tech CEOs' pay packages. Read More If you had bought 100 shares of Microsoft 25 years ago ... Sunday marks 25th anniversary of company's initial public stock offering It's Thursday, March 13, 1986: Microsoft, founded more than a decade earlier and already a powerhouse in the world of personal computer software, executes an initial public stock offering that will raise $61 million for the company and leave 30-year-old co-founder Bill Gates unfathomably wealthy. (2011's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries) 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 Perks drive up pay for tech CEOs Many tech vendors have shied away from extravagant perks, but there are still plenty worth highlighting. Like a $1.5 million tab for home security. Or how about the $36,619 one company paid to reimburse its CEO for the taxes he had to pay on the $106,589 he gained by using company aircraft for personal flights? Read on to find out which tech CEOs enjoyed the priciest perks in 2010 and which ones went to work perk-free. First look at Google Chrome 10 Google has released the stable version of Chrome 10 and users are now being automatically updated. As always, Chrome's new features focus on security, speed and simplicity, with greater JavaScript performance, sandboxing technology for Adobe Flash, password encryption and an easier-to-use settings interface. Here's a look at the new features. MOST-READ STORIES iPad 2: Don't take it apart, or risk cracked glass Microsoft apologizes for using Japan disaster to market Bing Happy Pi Day: More than 3.14... pictures of cool Pi creations If you had bought 100 shares of Microsoft 25 years ago ... Japanese earthquake as seen by YouTube citizen journalism IE9's final release is Monday. Will it make a difference? What reviewers are saying about iPad 2 5 signs that your techies are being poached GNOME creator respects propriety software, can't wait for iPad 2 Should Cisco sell?
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