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	Verizon, SAP team to deliver CRM CaaS Verizon and SAP have announced that they are teaming to jointly deliver the SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) to enterprise users through Verizon's Computing as a Service (CaaS) cloud offering. Subscribers will be able to access SAP CRM from their desktops or their mobile devices. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Get your job scheduler out of the 90's Learn how companies that switched from legacy job schedulers to modern enterprise workload automation with BMC Software have seen significant business benefits. Read more. In this Issue Trucking firm brings on unified communications to save money, boost productivity Unified communications, cloud-based services and SMBs CIPT 2 (642-457) Lab #3 HP completes 3PAR integration, announces new products Telecom mogul is world's richest person Covert Cameras Designed to Spy on You 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 Trucking firm brings on unified communications to save money, boost productivity Interstate trucking company Boyd Bros. Transportation was losing experienced freight agents because it couldn't support home workers, but replacing the firm's 20-year-old phone system brought unified communications features that let it hang on to these veteran employees and save money at the same time. Read More 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: Siemens Finding the Value in Unified Communications This paper examines the four stages of return companies can see from their UC investments: Lower communications costs are followed by lower operational costs, then better productivity, and finally a true competitive advantage. Read More CIPT 2 (642-457) Lab #3 Providing Redundancy with SRST and MGCP Fallback When you have a Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) cluster located at a central site, and have Cisco IP Phones at remote sites registering with that centralized cluster, those Cisco IP Phones are dependent on the IP WAN. What if the WAN goes down? Read More HP completes 3PAR integration, announces new products HP last week announced that it has completed the integration of 3PAR's Utility Storage into the company's HPConverge Infrastructure family. The integration will allow customers to ease their transition to cloud computing. Read More WHITE PAPER: Ultrium LTO In Search of the Long-Term Archiving Solution This report documents that disk is more than fifteen times more expensive than tape, based upon vendor-supplied list pricing, and uses 238 times more energy (costing more than the all costs for tape) for an archiving application of large binary files with a 45% annual growth rate, all over a 12-year period. Read now Telecom mogul is world's richest person Several tech titans rank among Forbes' list of the world's richest people. Read More Covert Cameras Designed to Spy on You Feeling paranoid and wondering if someone is watching you? Cameras that resemble gum packages, shavers, and even handheld vacuums make spying all too easy. 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 Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 Microsoft has a real competitor once again with IE9, released at midnight Monday night on Windows 7 and Vista after several months of beta testing. The focus is on speed, privacy and simplicity, with a stripped-down interface, tracking protection, pinned sites, jump lists and enhanced support for HTML5. MOST-READ STORIES RSA warns SecurID customers after company is hacked Android violates Linux license, experts claim HP "beat the crap" out of Cisco, others Cell phones are 'Stalin's dream' RSA's SecurID breach: What should you do? Web users bury Yahoo for botched Nate Dogg obit photo iPad 2 demand still exceeds supply Why does U.S. Cen Com want to create phony online identities? Telecom mogul is world's richest person Xoom tablet pricing for Wi-Fi model sparks online debate
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