New Cisco initiative addresses growth in cloud-based services

	IBM launches enterprise social collaboration apps for tablets | Usenix: Google deploys IPv6 for internal network
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	New Cisco initiative addresses growth in cloud-based services Cisco has introduced CloudVerse as a framework designed to help organizations build, manage and connect public, private and hybrid clouds. Cisco CloudVerse combines three elements -- Unified Data Center, Cloud Intelligent Network, and Cloud Applications and Services. Read More WHITE PAPER: NetIQ First Industy-Wide BSM Maturity Benchmark Study This first-of-its-kind benchmark study reporting the IT and Business maturity illustrating the business service management imperative today. The survey offers insight into the current and future state of the Business Service Management imperative across global organizations. Learn More In this Issue IBM launches enterprise social collaboration apps for tablets Usenix: Google deploys IPv6 for internal network Changes to Cisco Jabber and WebEx 3 more use Twitter to commit professional suicide 8 Free Wi-Fi security tools WHITE PAPER: Sybase Scaling Out Query Performance with Sybase IQ 15.3 This paper is meant to provide a holistic perspective and introduce the technical concepts behind DQP in general and Sybase® IQ 15.3's DQP implementation through the PlexQ Distributed Query Platform. Read now. IBM launches enterprise social collaboration apps for tablets Responding to increased use of tablets within workplaces, IBM will release on Wednesday several mobile applications designed to let employees use IBM enterprise social collaboration software with iPads and other mobile devices. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Managing Cloud Services from Request to Retirement This lifecycle is tailored to the needs of the business, with both the flexibility to deliver the full required software stacks and the management rigor to ensure the operational integrity of the cloud. Learn More! Usenix: Google deploys IPv6 for internal network In a project that has taken longer than company engineers anticipated, Google is rolling out IPv6 across its entire internal employee network. Read More WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. A Perspective from the Edge of the Cloud Akamai Chief Scientist and co-Founder Tom Leighton explores the major forces and technology layers driving the cloud computing movement, the types of architectural approaches emerging and an assessment of the challenges that must be overcome for cloud computing to broadly succeed. Read now Changes to Cisco Jabber and WebEx It seems Cisco stepped it up again. A few weeks back, Cisco announced that they have invested in the collaboration game with new improvements to Cisco Jabber and WebEx. From what I'm reading, this is cool stuff. It opens up new possibilities for Cisco in the area of business communications and processes. Here are some highlights: Read More 3 more use Twitter to commit professional suicide Three now former congressional aides are jobless this morning in part because they are worthless layabouts who drink on the job, but primarily because they are the latest to forget that Twitter lives on the Internet and tweets are visible to one and all. Read More 8 Free Wi-Fi security tools Read More
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