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	Vidyo updates: New partnerships, extended interoperability with Lync We had a chance this week to sit down for a face-to-face meeting with Ashish Gupta, the CMO at Vidyo, to catch up on the recent events at his company. Vidyo offers a software-based communication and collaboration platform for videoconferencing via an architecture that leverages H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC)-based compression technology. Read More WHITE PAPER: Teradata Cloud Computing Models for Data Warehousing Gain better business intelligence through private cloud self service capabilities. In this whitepaper, analyst Mark Madsen explores why private cloud computing is a better choice to meet your analytical needs as business conditions fluctuate and grow. Learn more. In this Issue Cool Summer Gadget Guide Yammer buyout could fit with many Microsoft businesses Cisco: Enterprise 802.11ac Sooner, Not Later VOSS and ISI measure UC value at Cisco Live Cisco's own BYOD policies and practices helped kill Cius Take it from 1000 Zombies: Google+ is no ghost town WEBCAST: BMC Software Sun Chemical Customer Success Story Sun Chemical, the world's largest producer of printing inks and pigments, quadrupled its complex batch environment with zero extra headcount using BMC Control-M's Automated File Transfer features. Learn More! Cool Summer Gadget Guide Read More Yammer buyout could fit with many Microsoft businesses Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy enterprise social network company Yammer for $1 billion-plus, a move that could bolster everything from Microsoft's unified communications to CRM businesses. Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation Easing the Transition to a Virtual Endpoint Infrastructure This Technology Spotlight discusses the drivers, benefits, and challenges of creating virtual desktop environments, and looks at the role EMC Global Services plays in helping companies achieve successful deployments of this important technology. Learn More Cisco: Enterprise 802.11ac Sooner, Not Later Cisco recently briefed me on an interesting product direction they discussed at their latest Cisco Live event, an add-on 802.11ac module for their popular 3600 series of APs. In addition to being one of the few four-antenna .11n products on the market, the 3600 has a modular architecture that enables the bolting on of additional functionality. Read More VOSS and ISI measure UC value at Cisco Live One of the more interesting parts of the annual Cisco Live event is the "World of Solutions" exhibit hall. This is where many of Cisco's vendor partners exhibit their wares and try to sell their products to the massive Cisco install base. Although the Analyst Relations team at Cisco didn't give me that much time to walk the show floor I did find time to see a few of the vendors, one of which... Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Citrix NetScaler. 2x faster 2048-bit SSL performance than F5 Ready for 2048-bit SSL? Not with F5. Don't let stronger security compromise performance. NetScaler gives your network a competitive edge with the industry best 2048-bit SSL transaction/sec performance. 2x faster SSL performance than F5. 50% lower SSL costs. Learn More Cisco's own BYOD policies and practices helped kill Cius Cisco even rejected its doomed Cius tablet internally. BYOD trends globally - and locally, officials said this week -- forced the company to cancel development of the collaboration endpoint two weeks ago, later than it apparently should have. Read More Take it from 1000 Zombies: Google+ is no ghost town Byron Rempel is a zombie artist - he draws zombies, as opposed to being one -- and he'll swear on any mother's grave that reports of the death of Google+ have been grotesquely exaggerated. He's also drawn me as a zombie (right). Read More
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