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	Avaya upgrades Aura; BroadSoft acquires Adaption Technologies Two news announcements in the headlines today: Avaya has announced its latest offer with Avaya Aura Conferencing 7.0, while BroadSoft has acquired Adaption Technologies Ventures, a Texas-based provider of hosted business VoIP solutions. Read More WHITE PAPER: Silver Peak Systems, Inc. WAN Optimization eGuide In this eGuide, articles from Network World examine the maturing WAN optimization market, collect advice from experts and users on how best to implement these products, and look at new trends. Read on to discover how to make the most of WAN optimization in enterprise networks. Read now. In this Issue Are enterprise collaboration tools all the rage? Microsoft overhauls enterprise Office and SharePoint app development 10 Ways to Get the Most From Your Wi-Fi-Only Tablet 10 Mobile Apps That Promote Health and Wellness The 6 companies Google has bought in 2012 (so far) 5-year-old's souped-up Power Wheels wows YouTube WHITE PAPER: Raritan A Quick Start to Measuring Power Use Rule-of-thumb estimates for power consumption are no longer sufficient. Discover a quick way to establish baseline power measurements with intelligent rack power distribution units (iPDUs) to meter the power and wireless sensors communicating that information, and eliminate the need for Ethernet connections to iPDUs. Learn More Are enterprise collaboration tools all the rage? Talk to Dan Schoenbaum, the newly announced CEO of enterprise collaboration company Teambox, and he'll tell you the market for applications that let workers share files using cloud-based tools, collaborate instantaneously and access the software anywhere is ripe to take off. Read More Microsoft overhauls enterprise Office and SharePoint app development With the introduction of Office 2013 Preview, Microsoft has overhauled how business developers write Office and SharePoint applications and how users access them while at the same time giving IT administrators the ability to control which applications are available to users. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed CIO's Guide to Advanced Consolidation Consolidating IT infrastructures is a continuing trend, particularly in an uncertain economy with organizations looking to reduce costs. Learn more. 10 Ways to Get the Most From Your Wi-Fi-Only Tablet Much to the chagrin (and much against the ill wishes) of wireless carriers such as AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile, people are buying Wi-Fi-only tablets. In fact, some studies have shown that in 2011 up to 90 percent of all tablets sold in the United States relied on Wi-Fi, rather than on 3G or 4G LTE. Read More 10 Mobile Apps That Promote Health and Wellness If you're one of the growing number of people who carries a smartphone everywhere, why not take advantage of mobile apps that can help you organize your medical history, eat right, exercise or fall asleep at night? Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Application Delivery Optimization Fueled by users who are hyper-sensitive to delays in application delivery, organizations are striving to improve performance by optimizing delivery. Learn how to achieve that goal without sacrificing the agility of modern data center architectures. Learn More! The 6 companies Google has bought in 2012 (so far) A six-pack of acquisitions for the search giant Read More 5-year-old's souped-up Power Wheels wows YouTube Five-year-old Evan Burgess drives the coolest Lightning McQueen Power Wheels on the planet, and as a result, a lot of people think he also has the coolest Dad. Watch the video, which is closing in on 400,000 views since being posted to YouTube on Sunday ... and then read my interview with the Dad. Here's the basic background from the YouTube description: Read More
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