A brief history of UC&C, part five: Fixed mobile convergence

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	A brief history of UC&C, part five: Fixed mobile convergence Today we'll add the fifth dimension to our brief historical review as we discuss how fixed mobile convergence (FMC) has become integral to unified communications and collaboration (UC&C). Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Three steps to agile change Comprehensive IT change configuration and release management (CCRM) continues to confound and frustrate both IT and the business units for which it provides services. But by first instituting the appropriate foundational processes and supporting tools, many enterprises are experiencing renewed CCRM success. 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Read now Google fiber network beta goes live at Stanford Some lucky Palo Alto, Calif., residents are getting a glimpse of what Google's new fiber network will soon deliver to Kansas City, Kan. Read More Cisco aims for a go-anywhere router Cisco Systems made its fortune selling routers for the cores of enterprise and service-provider networks, but now the company is sending its technology farther from those cozy confines than ever before. Read More Android now most attacked mobile OS, McAfee reports Google's Android operating system is now the most-targeted mobile platform for malware, according to McAfee's latest threat report. Read More WHITE PAPER: Kaseya Why Corporations Need to Automate IT Systems Management In today's competitive business environment, corporations across all industries are looking to provide quality products and services while at the same time cutting costs, saving energy and doing more with less. Automated IT systems management is the ultimate facilitator for achieving these goals…and more. Read now Cisco announces the Cisco Certified Technician Practical. That's the one overriding word that keeps coming to mind when I think of Cisco's new Cisco Certified Technician (CCT) cert announced today. But then again, I've always been a fan of the Cisco TAC, and it's not surprising that a cert developed by the TAC, for a very specific purpose, would indeed be practical. Read More Vendors as partners Ken Piddington, CIO of Global Partners LP, an $8 billion energy company in the Northeast, recently implemented an innovative vendor partnership program that he hopes will improve the product and services the company gets from suppliers while helping those suppliers more efficiently serve the company and benefit from the relationship. He recently outlined the plan with Network World Editor in Chief John Dix. Read More Tablets becoming popular bathroom activity, survey finds With the market flush with hot-selling tablets, it shouldn't bowl anyone over to learn that many tablet users are taking the plunge and bringing their devices to the bathroom with them. Read More WHITE PAPER: Seeburger Increasing Supply Chain Efficiency: A cloud-oriented focus A solution called "community cloud" offers advantages such as: -Flexible, scalable compute capacity -A highly secure, consistent services layer managed by a third party in the cloud -The cost benefits of moving IT from a capital expenditure to an operating expense. Read now A video platform for the mobile enterprise With the "consumerization of IT" introducing a flood of personal mobile devices into the workplace, enterprise networks are bearing an unanticipated burden. Read More Harvard class project compares iPhone, Windows 7, Android, Blackberry usability; triggers a wave of invective College students devised a class project to compare the usability of four different smartphones by first-time users. But instead of sparking a design discussion, the video results unleashed condemnation. Read More Will desktop virtualization prosper over the WAN? For years, large organizations have centralized applications and IT services in order to cut costs and drive greater efficiencies. This slowly decreased the IT portfolio in remote offices/branch offices. One-by-one email, file, application, and backup servers were pulled out of branches as these services were moved to central IT. Read More Dish Network hopes to build LTE cellular network Satellite TV provider Dish Network hopes to build a 4G cellular network, if the U.S. Federal Communications Commission permits it, according to a filing the satellite provider made on Monday. Read More
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