A brief history of UC&C, part four: Video collaboration

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	A brief history of UC&C, part four: Video collaboration Today we'll continue our mini-series on the evolution of unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) with a discussion on how video became part of the equation. As with other components of UC&C, the road to telepresence and other video-over-IP solutions was crafted with several building blocks. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Riverbed Services Platform Feature Brief The enhanced Riverbed® Services Platform (RSP) provides customers with the capability to run up to five additional services and applications virtually on VMware in a protected partition on the Steelhead® appliance. Learn More Now. In this Issue With SSL, who can you really trust? Skype acquiring startup GroupMe for group text messaging Future smartphones: How they will look, what they will do 3G cellular network-in-a-box provides service to disaster zones and remote locations TVOICE video #5 Be prepared: Physical security is migrating to your (IT) domain Cisco announces plan to buy Axioss management software Comcast offers IPv6 in Michigan Brace for email-attachment malware spree WHITE PAPER: IBM Improve IT Performance with Analytics-Based Services To meet application performance demands, many organizations are implementing high-density computing solutions. But this places greater demands on the data center's power and cooling needs, adding to the cost of operations. Read now With SSL, who can you really trust? SSL, the encryption scheme that protects virtually all secure online transaction, requires that users rely on trusted third parties, but what if they can't be trusted? Read More Skype acquiring startup GroupMe for group text messaging Internet calling company Skype said Sunday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire GroupMe, a startup that offers a free group text messaging and conference call service on mobile phones. Read More Future smartphones: How they will look, what they will do As you're reading this article, developers, engineers, and product designers are working on the next great mobile technology. The mobile world is rapidly changing: Smartphones have gone from portable messaging and email devices to streaming-video machines that surf the Web at blazing speed and have cameras that rival point-and-shoots (and they also happen to make calls). What will smartphones look like in five years? Or ten? What sort of amazing things will they be able to do? Read More WHITE PAPER: Fujitsu A New Look at Energy-Efficient Servers The family of PRIMERGY® Intel® Architecturebased servers offers a wide range of capacities, performance, and configurations to fit almost any application service requirements. Read now! 3G cellular network-in-a-box provides service to disaster zones and remote locations We've all cursed our cell service providers when the signal peters out. But what if there's no signal at all because you are so remote or the network has been knocked offline by a disaster? Now there's a turnkey 3G cellular network-in-a-box that emergency agencies and commercial businesses are using to bring a signal to where none exists. Read More TVOICE video #5 In this week's video training blog we consider an issue with an H.323 gatekeeper configuration and determine why a Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) server is not registering with the gatekeeper. Read More Be prepared: Physical security is migrating to your (IT) domain It is clear that video has a terrible reputation, and also clear that the IT industry on the whole is relatively unaware of trends in video surveillance and security. But, just as VoIP brought the world of telephony under the IT umbrella, the rise of network-based surveillance systems is bringing physical security under the network administrator's province as well. Read More WEBCAST: GFI Software GFI MailEssentials Complete Appliance Demonstration View a 20-minute product demo of this comprehensive email protection solution that combines antivirus, anti-spam and attachment filtering in a robust, highly scalable, easy-to-manage platform. View now Cisco announces plan to buy Axioss management software Cisco Systems has agreed to acquire service fulfillment software assets from the UK subsidiary of Comptel, in an effort to help operators speed up the launch of new services, the networking company said on Monday. Read More Comcast offers IPv6 in Michigan Comcast has added Michigan to its list of states - including Pennsylvania, California, Colorado, Illinois and Florida -- where the cable ISP is offering services that support the next-generation Internet standard known as IPv6. Read More Brace for email-attachment malware spree A sizeable spike in malicious email attachments is just subsiding, but if history is any indicator, several smaller spikes are about to follow that use even more deceptive means than their predecessors. Read More
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