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	Gartner: Cisco CEO John Chambers talks HP, tech complexity and patent trolls Cisco CEO John Chambers sat down with Gartner analysts for a wide-ranging and interesting interview at the Gartner Symposium/Itxpo today. The upbeat CEO chatted about everything from the company's greatest challenges in his 17 years at the helm to how he views the completion and many other topics. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T OUTSOURCING SUPPORT, ROI SUCESS When United Rentals looked at running its new PeopleSoft Human Capital Management system in house, the business case didn't make much sense. It was obvious the company would get a better return on investment if it outsourced the hosting and application management. Find out why in this case study. In this Issue Microsoft targets virtualization with Windows 8/Windows Server combo 10 awesome new additions in Office 2013 Amazon outage started small, snowballed into 12-hour event How to optimize Windows 8 on old hardware Cisco study finds clouds moving in '2013 is going to be ugly' for Microsoft as it shifts to Windows 8, Forrester predicts Tim Cook: Apple by the numbers Why Cisco should buy Citrix Juniper Networks sees another top exec leave Mobile devices still poorly secured, survey finds - nobody shocked RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Ipswitch, Inc. WhatsUp Gold Wired and Wireless Network? WhatsUp Gold can help. Introducing WhatsUp Gold v16- The powerful network management software that delivers comprehensive monitoring for networks, systems, and applications. V16 is loaded with functionality you won't find anywhere else like wireless infrastructure management, integrated layer 2 discovery & asset reporting, and distributed polling architecture. Try WhatsUp Gold free for 30 days and see how it can help you! Microsoft targets virtualization with Windows 8/Windows Server combo Much of the attention being paid to this week's Windows 8 launch focuses on the new Metro-style interface and the fact that Microsoft is extending its desktop OS to tablets and smartphones. But for enterprises, the real story is the way Microsoft has integrated Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 and the Hyper-V hypervisor to create an unmatched system for running virtualized environments. Read More 10 awesome new additions in Office 2013 This is a heady time for Microsoft as it rolls out an ambitious OS and polishes off its productivity suite, billed as "the new Office." At the suite's core is Office 2013—the desktop applications. Changes include a sleek appearance that reflects the look of Windows 8, functional improvements, and tie-ins to SharePoint and SkyDrive for storing documents online. In addition, the various components of Office Web Apps improve productivity in the cloud, while Windows 8 Surface RT tablets get their own flavor of Office. Read More Amazon outage started small, snowballed into 12-hour event Amazon Web Services has almost fully recovered from a more than 12-hour event that appears to have started by only impacting a small number of customers but quickly snowballed into a larger issue that took down major sites including Reddit, Imgur and others. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T VoIP Solutions Provide Enterprises With Various Benefits VoIP migration is a top telecom priority for many North American enterprises. Do you know why? Find out in this Forrester study, which reveals the opinions of telecommunications decision-makers like you. Read the report. How to optimize Windows 8 on old hardware Microsoft has made a point of advertising the performance enhancements and optimizations being made to Windows 8. Although Windows 7 was well received and typically offered better performance and stability than its much-maligned predecessor, Windows Vista, Microsoft had some loftier goals in mind for the jump to Windows 8. Read More Cisco study finds clouds moving in Global cloud traffic will grow sixfold between 2011 and 2016 while global data center traffic will quadruple in that time. That's just one of the findings in Cisco's second annual Global Cloud Index, an estimate of global data center and cloud-based IP traffic growth and trends. Read More '2013 is going to be ugly' for Microsoft as it shifts to Windows 8, Forrester predicts As Microsoft launches Windows 8, and with it, an attempt to stabilize a precipitous decline in its share of operating systems for 'personal devices, 2013 is going to be a tough, very tough year, research firm Forrester said. Read More WHITE PAPER: CDW Corporation Mobile Employees Are The Norm - Are You Ready? To realize promising benefits and accommodate today's highly mobile workforce, many organizations are making changes to their collaboration tools and approaches. The key is finding the right vendor. This guide highlights the critical collaboration functionality provided by Cisco, Microsoft and IBM. Learn More. Tim Cook: Apple by the numbers Apple CEO Tim Cook came to Tuesday's media event armed with numbers--a lot of them--to demonstrate his company's continued dominance. The biggest number? In theA month since its release, iOS 6 has been downloaded to more than 200 million devices. Read More Why Cisco should buy Citrix Earlier this week Cisco and Citrix made some noise when they announced an expanded partnership. The partnership brings together the market leader in networking and data center infrastructure and combines it with the market leader in desktop virtualization. The expanded partnership should be a "win-win-win" for both organizations and their customers. Read More Juniper Networks sees another top exec leave A management shake-up at Juniper Networks continues, as Stefan Dyckerhoff has been replaced as executive vice president of Juniper's Platform Systems Division by Rami Rahim, who currently leads the company's edge and aggregation routing business unit. Read More Mobile devices still poorly secured, survey finds - nobody shocked Anyone with doubts about BYOD look away now. A new survey has found that almost half of mobile users still employ no security despite the fact that many devices are used to access and store corporate email. Read More
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