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	Microsoft kicks off free Office 2013 upgrades Microsoft has launched an Office upgrade offer that gives customers who purchase the current Office 2010 a free copy of the upcoming Office 2013. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Cisco Wide Area Application Services Software Release 5.0 Cisco® Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) provides the industry's most scalable, highest performance WAN optimization solution. Cisco WAAS is able to improve end user experience and reduce bandwidth for key applications. Learn more. In this Issue Juniper may be for sale, but not to EMC Coolest Halloween tech-o-lanterns Microsoft hopes to lure users away from VMware with new migration tool Brocade lands a big Cisco fish Firewalls don't cut it anymore as the first line of defense Gartner: Big data to drive $34 billion of IT spending in 2013 Six of the rarest Macs Cloud startup gets cues from Amazon, Google and OpenStack to drive private cloud F5 boosts capacity, transaction capabilities of its application delivery hardware Hybrid hard drives: How they work and why they matter WHITE PAPER: Shoretel Sophisticated Simplicity The key is to build simplicity and ease of use into these solutions from Day 1. This white paper will demonstrate a clear path to UC simplicity, and to overall success of UC deployments. Learn more. Juniper may be for sale, but not to EMC Wall Street doesn't doubt that Juniper Networks is in play, but does doubt EMC's interest in the company. Read More Coolest Halloween tech-o-lanterns Happy Halloween. Here's our collection of creative tech-o-lanterns, modernized to include the latest in iPad- and iPhone-themed pumpkins. Mostly treats, with maybe a trick or two tossed in. Read More Microsoft hopes to lure users away from VMware with new migration tool Microsoft's free Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC) tool is now available for download. The tool is used to convert virtual machines that today run on VMware products into a format compatible with Microsoft's own virtualization environment, Hyper-V, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. 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. Brocade lands a big Cisco fish Brocade has landed a rather big fish in its pond: David Meyer, Distinguished Engineer at Cisco, has jumped to the data center rival to serve as service provider CTO and chief scientist. Read More Firewalls don't cut it anymore as the first line of defense Eight major U.S. banks were recently brought to their knees by daylong DDoS attacks. Experts say these types of attacks are on the rise, and every business or agency with a Web presence is vulnerable. A new first line of defense is needed -- one that sits in front of the firewall. Read More Gartner: Big data to drive $34 billion of IT spending in 2013 Big data is forecast to drive $34 billion of worldwide IT spending in 2013, according to research firm Gartner, with the figure for 2012 standing at $28 billion. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Join the scale revolution for cloud ready networks Today's cloud evolution requires a full scale revolution. Citrix TriScale technology transforms enterprise data centers into highly scalable enterprise clouds. Download this whitepaper and learn how to scale your cloud network for more elastic performance, seamless expansion and simple consolidation. Learn More Six of the rarest Macs Many Macs are uncommon or hard to find today, but for the sake of brevity (and for fear of the dreaded TL;DR), I've decided to examine six of the rarest among them. Read More Cloud startup gets cues from Amazon, Google and OpenStack to drive private cloud OpenStack startup Cloudscaling says that for true interoperability in a hybrid cloud, it's not enough to just have API compatibility between your private and public cloud. It really helps for the fundamental architecture of the two to be analogous. Read More F5 boosts capacity, transaction capabilities of its application delivery hardware F5 Networks this week debuted the 4200v version of its BIG-IP line of application delivery controllers -- specialized hardware designed to help lessen the load imposed on network-based services -- significantly bolstering the transaction handling and capacity over its current high-end box. Read More Hybrid hard drives: How they work and why they matter An SSD can read and write data many times faster than the best mechanical hard drive. On the downside, flash memory is many times more expensive than the innards of a typical hard drive, so manufacturers have limited their SSD capacities to hit reasonable price points: A 128GB SSD costs about $130, and for that same price tag, you can buy a 3.5-inch desktop hard drive that delivers 2TB of storage, or a 2.5-inch laptop drive that provides 1TB of storage. Read More
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