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	Cisco to dump Linksys, WebEx? Cisco is rumored to be looking to sell its Linksys home and consumer networking business as it looks to shave $1 billion in expenses by eliminating product lines and jobs. The Register posts this possibility, along with another: "letting go of its WebEx brand." Read More WHITE PAPER: Avaya Tips to Tailor Your Communications Strategy An IP-based communications system helps businesses streamline voice and data improving internal productivity and customer service, but one size does not fit all. Answer 4 easy questions to find out the best strategies to meet your unique voice and data communications needs. Read Now In this Issue Microsoft faces reality with open source outreach The Verdict: Either OpenFlow Matters a Lot, or Not at All Cloud-based Security Event Management? Cisco looks to reboot its business model Android Problems? A Quick Fix – With a Big Catch Everything's a scam and you're all out to get me The Microsoft Anti-Trust Case, in Retrospect Microsoft Buys Skype: What Should Enterprises Do? Open source not just mainstream, it's mainstreamier WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Cloud-enabled Wi-Fi: Less Dollars, More Sense Aerohive's HiveManager Online is the first cloud-enabled, enterprise-class Wi-Fi management solution and is a breakthrough in management simplicity, flexibility, and redundancy. Learn more! Microsoft faces reality with open source outreach Making another stop on its "We Love Open Source" tour, Microsoft's Sandy Gupta told attendees at an open source conference in San Francisco Monday that the company will, for the first time, support interoperability of its software with the non-commercial version of Linux. Read More The Verdict: Either OpenFlow Matters a Lot, or Not at All Unsurprisingly, the opinions on OpenFlow from the vendors at Interop were all over the map. However, since I did ask a bunch of people at the show about OpenFlow, I figure it's worth a post to summarize some of the more interesting responses. Read More Cloud-based Security Event Management? I have an alternative suggestion for the security management industry; it's called "cloud computing." Why not take advantage of the massive processing scale of say AWS and build a burstable hybrid-cloud application architecture for SIEM? Read More WHITE PAPER: HP 6 Key Dedupe Challenges The deduplication market is the fastest segment ofthe storage industry, per IDC. Accordingly, every vendor is telling their version of the deduplication story. With emerging technologies, it is difficult for IT managers to determine what the true IT benefits vs. marketing spin are. Read More Today! Cisco looks to reboot its business model As Cisco prepares to embark on the largest workforce reduction in its history, company watchers openly wonder if its business model is collapsing. Core markets like switching and routing, with their fat profit margins, were helping fund Cisco's incursions into its 30 or so market adjacencies. Read More Android Problems? A Quick Fix – With a Big Catch I upgraded my Samsung Fascinate to the Android 2.2/"Froyo" release – and, as I kind of expected, trouble ensued. The fix was easy, but ultimately a serious pain. The "PC in your pocket" mentality is costing us time and money. Can the industry do better? Read More Everything's a scam and you're all out to get me Salon editor Sarah Hepola has written an excruciatingly candid account of her having been snookered by an Internet scam. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive A Practical approach to Wireless 2.0 Creating "Wi-Fi that works" is a tall order given the breadth of client and application types, the speed and complexity of 802.11n, high-density environments, etc., controller-based vendors cannot live up to their promises of Ethernet-like determinism. Read now! The Microsoft Anti-Trust Case, in Retrospect In April 2000, U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled Microsoft violated federal and state antitrust laws. The company was ordered to split into two companies, decouple its operating system and browser technology, pay hefty fines, and undergo years of scrutiny to prevent future market monopolizing. Read More Microsoft Buys Skype: What Should Enterprises Do? Unless you were sleeping under a rock last week, you probably heard that Microsoft is buying Skype for approximately $8.5 billion, gaining access to Skype's 170 million accounts, as well as creating opportunities to link Skype with Microsoft's consumer and enterprise communications and gaming products. Read More Open source not just mainstream, it's mainstreamier I had to chuckle when I saw the news release headline "Open Source Now Mainstream," because that's been the theme of every open source conference I've covered for the last five years. But when Michael Skok, general partner at North Bridge Venture Partners and chair of the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) 2011 that begins today in San Francisco, says open source is now mainstream, he can back it up. Read More
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