Microsoft: Too old and too big to survive?

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	Microsoft: Too old and too big to survive? Microsoft is making lots of weird decisions; has the company reached its dotage? Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell SAN vs. NAS: The Critical Decision The factors affecting whether to deploy SAN or NAS storage have changed. This paper highlights the pros and cons of each approach, as well as the value of a combined solution, so that you can meet your organization's storage and data access needs, while staying within your budget. Learn More In this Issue SMS a killer app at 20; irrelevant at 25? Broadband Stimulus Grants Seen as Political Flashpoint Malware exists that lets Bad Guys hijack webcams and microphones. The U.S. government can't even do that yet, at least not legally, but it is working on it. Remember: It's not paranoia if they're actually after you. FBI Creates Surveillance Unit to Build Backdoors into the Web With Steve Jobs gone, Tim Cook is putting his own stamp on Apple Avaya: We're not Cisco when it comes to tablets WHITE PAPER: Riverbed IT Consolidation Hazards Providing central services means more bandwidth between data centers and remote users. This ESG paper highlights new research on IT initiatives, how to avoid the common pitfalls of consolidation, and alternatives to ensure application performance, even for remote and mobile users, does not suffer after an IT consolidation. Read now! SMS a killer app at 20; irrelevant at 25? The first SMS-capable mobile phones were approved for sale in Europe 20 years ago this month. By any measure, SMS has become a huge success, at least for the telephone companies, with more than 6 trillion SMS messages sent worldwide in 2010, generating more than $110 billion in revenue. But the future may not be anywhere near as bright because of increasing use of "free" Internet-based services such as Facebook, Apple's iMessage and WhatsApp.com. Read More Broadband Stimulus Grants Seen as Political Flashpoint Lawrence Strickling, the lead administrator of the agency doling out stimulus money for broadband deployments, urges grant recipients to amplify success stories as program faces political persecution in election season. Read More WHITE PAPER: SAP SAP Customers Move to Managed Cloud Services to Cut Costs Changes in business objectives and advances in technology compel many businesses to reassess their B2B integration capabilities to seek further process efficiency. We find that very few enterprises make a large change to their B2B integration process for a single reason; instead, multiple factors combine to create the need for change. Learn More Malware exists that lets Bad Guys hijack webcams and microphones. The U.S. government can't even do that yet, at least not legally, but it is working on it. Remember: It's not paranoia if they're actually after you. Lawrence Strickling, the lead administrator of the agency doling out stimulus money for broadband deployments, urges grant recipients to amplify success stories as program faces political persecution in election season. Read More FBI Creates Surveillance Unit to Build Backdoors into the Web The FBI still claims it is going dark and its monitoring abilities could be rendered ineffective without surveillance backdoors built into communications, according to FBI Director Robert Mueller's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Deliver Cost-Effective Business Continuity IBM DB2 provides application cluster transparency technology that equips organizations running OLTP applications with the ability to deliver high availability and continuous uptime for transactional data, plus the flexibility and capacity they need to remain competitive. Learn More With Steve Jobs gone, Tim Cook is putting his own stamp on Apple It's been eight months since Steve Jobs resigned as Apple CEO and was replaced by long-time Apple veteran and operations whiz Tim Cook. Since that time, Apple's market cap has exploded as the company continued to deliver record breaking earnings without aberration. Read More Avaya: We're not Cisco when it comes to tablets Despite Cisco's decision to end development on its Cius collaboration tablet, Avaya says it is still committed to its Flare Experience unified communications endpoint software... and to "support" the Avaya collaboration tablet on which it runs. Read More
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