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	Microsoft to acquire Skype Microsoft and Skype announced that they have signed an agreement for Microsoft to acquire privately held Skype for $8.5 billion in cash. The deal will add Skype's 170 million connected users and more than 207 billion minutes of voice and video calls (based on 2010 results) to Microsoft's portfolio in the near term. Read More WEBCAST: CA Technologies How to Maximize IT Protection and Minimize Downtime No matter how you define a disaster, you need a strategy that provides protection, fast recovery and high availability of your systems, applications and data. Attend this webcast to learn about disaster recovery best practices and the wide range of technologies available to protect your organization. Learn More In this Issue More Momentum for Consumerization of IT Microsoft-Skype Deal: Three Ways It Benefits Enterprises Skype buy, Windows Phone 'Mango' update highlight Microsoft mobile strategy Skype purchase highlights a weakness in "free enough" philosophy Zynga Moves Into Open Source with cocos2d Acquistion Cisco lands Juniper data center chief WHITE PAPER: Coyote Point Equalizer approved for Load Balancing Coyote Point is one of the select manufacturers on Microsoft's approved vendor listing for load balancing MS Exchange Server 2010. See this and other deployment guides that show how easy it is to add performance and availability to the Microsoft applications you rely on every day. Read More More Momentum for Consumerization of IT Logitech's LifeSize video-conferencing products division and privately held Skype announced plans to enable corporate users of Lifesize's Passport video systems to conduct video conferences with Skype clients. LifeSize's move builds on previously announced voice integration between Passport and Skype to enable Passport users to call out to Skype users. Read More Microsoft-Skype Deal: Three Ways It Benefits Enterprises At first glance, Microsoft's whopping $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype may seem like a pure consumer play to bolster Windows Live, Windows Phone 7 and Xbox Kinect-- or an extremely expensive way to prevent Google from gobbling up Skype first. Read More WHITE PAPER: Raritan Best Practices: KVM Smart Card Authentication Systems Selecting a smart card-enabled KVM system? Choose one that supports PKI authentication to multiple servers from a single location and makes the necessary KVM feature adjustments to enable seamless use of the reader. This White Paper examines best practices when evaluating a Smart Card solution. Learn More Skype buy, Windows Phone 'Mango' update highlight Microsoft mobile strategy The success of both the Apple iPad and Google's Android operating system has sent a clear signal to Microsoft that mobility is the future. Read More Skype purchase highlights a weakness in "free enough" philosophy If you're a Linux and heavy Skype user, the announcement that Microsoft is purchasing Skype no doubt sent shivers down your spine. You can relax, though: Steve Ballmer says everything will be OK. Reassuring, right? Read More WHITE PAPER: Splice Communications The Benefits of Outsourcing Telecom Management Choosing the right network solutions provider (NSP) will help businesses improve network reliability, service quality, operating efficiency, billing accuracy and better allocation of resources – all reducing the total cost of ownership of your network infrastructure. Many companies have realized the benefits of working with an NSP. Read now! Zynga Moves Into Open Source with cocos2d Acquistion Microsoft buying Skype for a cool 8.5b is not the only M&A news today. Online gaming giant Zynga announced that they had acquired Sapus Media which is owned by the two developers of the cocos2d gaming engine for Apples iOS. Read More Cisco lands Juniper data center chief So I get back to my room from dinner at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, site of Interop 2011, when this is waiting in my inbox: Technology Industry Pioneer David Yen to Lead Cisco Unified Computing and Nexus Server Access Switching Business. Read More
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