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	Avaya announces virtualization enhancements Avaya had two announcements at the just-concluded VMworld 2012, unveiling new virtualization enhancements to its portfolio that build on the Avaya Collaborative Cloud, along with a new portfolio of cloud-ready, turnkey solutions codenamed Avaya Collaboration Pods. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Delivering Exceptional Applciation Experience Enterprises can achieve customer advantage by monitoring the quality and timeliness of mission-critical applications. Read this whitepaper to learn how with CA Technologies Application Performance Management solutions. Learn More In this Issue Cisco modifies licensing for unified communications platform Toyota platform will beam drive data to phones, recreate drives on Gran Turismo 10 top colleges for tech CEOs Cisco eyeing Acme Packet? VMworld takes San Francisco with more than 21,000 attendees WHITE PAPER: Red Hat The Economics of Scale-Out Storage Scale-out storage technologies have rapidly gained popularity over the past several years, successfully crossing the chasm from niche technology to mainstream enterprise solution. Learn More Cisco modifies licensing for unified communications platform Cisco Systems is modifying the licensing options for its Unified Communications Manager's UC Release 9.0 in an attempt to simplify the process and make the use of a variety of client devices easier, the company said on Thursday. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Top Considerations When Choosing an ADC The Application Delivery Controller (ADC) chosen as the foundation for a flexible, efficient application delivery strategy can significantly affect network performance, availability, and security while providing opportunities to add business value. Learn More! Toyota platform will beam drive data to phones, recreate drives on Gran Turismo Toyota is developing a new device for its cars that will collect detailed data on driving such as gas pedal use, brake presses, and gear shifts for viewing on a smartphone app or recreating drives virtually on the PlayStation game Gran Turismo. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel How Blade Servers Impact Datacenter Management and Agility Get help evaluating your next purchases and accelerate the business value of IT as your datacenter continues to evolve. Download this Technical Adoption Profile on How Blade Servers Impact Datacenter Management and Agility from Forrester Research. Read now! 10 top colleges for tech CEOs Which U.S. college produced the most high-tech CEOs? Surprisingly, it isn't one of the nation's premier technical universities: California Institute of Technology or Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nor is it a top-three Ivy -- Harvard University, Yale University or Princeton University -- known collectively as "HYP." Indeed, none of the top CEOs in the U.S. tech industry graduated from Yale -- or other elite schools such as Brown University, the University of Chicago or Johns Hopkins University. We analyzed the educational backgrounds of the 50 highest-paid and most powerful CEOs in the U.S. tech industry. Here's what we discovered. Read More Cisco eyeing Acme Packet? Rumors were circulating this week that Cisco was eyeing Acme Packet as a potential acquisition and it goosed Acme Packet's stock. Benzinga.com, citing unnamed sources, said Cisco was considering a bid for the Bedford, MA., session border controller leader and that Acme Packet has hired an advisor to handle potential bids. Read More VMworld takes San Francisco with more than 21,000 attendees VMware says the show has grown tremendously since its first show in 2004, with about 700 attendees. 2012 brought more than 21,000. VMware made a few announcements during the show but is most proud of it's VCloud Suite. Read More
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