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	New Avaya IP Office 7.0 completes Nortel Enterprise Solutions integration Avaya has unveiled the latest version of the company's communications solution targeting the small medium business (SMB) market with the release of Avaya IP Office 7.0. Avaya also announced that service provider partners including Bell Canada and Verizon will offer Avaya IP Office 7.0 to their SMB customers. Read More 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! In this Issue Cisco sued for PoE patent infringement Microsoft Buys Skype: What Should Enterprises Do? Check Point's new security blades cut both ways 10 things we like and don't like about Check Point's R80 endpoint security product HP management suite gets more cloud-ready Father of China's 'Great Firewall' target of tossed shoe WHITE PAPER: Quest Software Controlling and Managing Super User Access Effectively managing privileged – aka "super user" – accounts is vital for addressing your company's security concerns. In this Quest white paper, see why native tools are limited when managing these accounts. Read now! Cisco sued for PoE patent infringement Canadian intellectual property licensor Mosaid Technologies this week said it is suing Cisco for patent infringement, filing its compliant with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) in Washington. Mosaid asserts that six of its patents are infringed by certain Cisco products, including Power over Ethernet (PoE) switches and routers, DSL and cable modem wireless access points, PoE IP phones and VoIP cable modems. Mosaid is requesting that the ITC halt the "unlawful importation and sale" of these and certain other Cisco products in the United States. 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 WHITE PAPER: Dell Business-Ready Configuration for Servers with Storage The technical configurations in this guide are optimally configured to run virtualized workloads and provide redundancy with no single point of failure. Read more. Check Point's new security blades cut both ways If you're in the market for endpoint protection, Check Point's new R80 Unified Endpoint Security Management product shows promise. Read More 10 things we like and don't like about Check Point's R80 endpoint security product Check Point's Unified Endpoint Security Management tool offers powerful single client for comprehensive endpoint security Read More WEBCAST: BMC Software Get the Leading ITSM Suite on your Terms BMC Remedy OnDemand offers the power of the industry's leading IT Service Management solution with the flexibility of Software as a Service. And when your needs change, switching between the OnDemand and on-premise BMC Remedy suite is seamless. Watch the demo for a peek inside BMC Remedy OnDemand. View Today! HP management suite gets more cloud-ready HP earlier this week took the wraps off Network Management Center (NMC) 9.1, which includes support for multitenant clouds, more automated performance management capabilities and the ability to managed unified communications environments, among other key updates. Read More Father of China's 'Great Firewall' target of tossed shoe Whether the target is an American president visiting Iraq or a notorious mastermind of Internet censorship in China, there is a temptation for some to find amusing the political protest act of tossing a shoe. While that's understandable on one level, Muntader al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist who in 2008 threw a shoe at President George W. Bush, would probably have advised the latest leather-hurler in... Read More
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