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	Want to telework? Not so fast, IT IT pro spend their days figuring out how to support a mobile workforce that can operate wholly off-site, yet the telework perk remains elusive for them. Read More WHITE PAPER: Anue Systems Proactive, Cost-Effective Management of 4G LTE Networks This industry iGR report examines how a network monitoring switch allows mobile carriers to manage 4G LTE networks efficiently and cost-effectively with network visibility and accurate analysis of monitoring tool data. Read Now. In this Issue 2011 DEMOgods enjoy a heavenly year Trying to fill 6,000 jobs, Microsoft pitches $10,000 H-1B visa 5 dysfunctional IT relationships -- and how to repair them Cisco rival quietly downsizing too IT headcount expected to rise in Q4, CIOs say Oracle looks to take business from Amazon Web Services How Cisco moved along to PaaS Industry watcher: Network infrastructure market overdue for venture capital infusion iPhone 5 update fixes Verizon cellular data drain Google patches 24 Chrome bugs, pays out $29K to bounty hunters Students will be doing vulnerability tests on security products at Iowa State University's new lab RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T Voice Transformation: Taking the First Steps Voice has been - and will continue to be - a foundational component in business communications. But the aging, disconnected voice infrastructures of today are doing more than just impeding productivity, they're impeding progress. Find out in this AT&T article how to transform voice communication in your enterprise today. Click Here 2011 DEMOgods enjoy a heavenly year A lot can happen in a year, especially for young companies given the exposure of presenting at the bi-annual DEMO conference. With fall 2012 DEMO about to kick off, Network World caught up with some of last year's DEMO award winners. Read More Trying to fill 6,000 jobs, Microsoft pitches $10,000 H-1B visa With the recession hit in 2008, Congress put the idea of a "skills shortage" and a need for more H-1B visas in a closet. This didn't mean that interest in raising the H-1B cap went away for good. Read More 5 dysfunctional IT relationships -- and how to repair them Sys admins are from Mars, developers are from Venus, and legal is from hell -- here's how to heal friction among IT factions. Read More WHITE PAPER: Blue Coat Systems Optimize and Secure Cloud, SaaS, BYOD, and Social Media Today's threat landscape has migrated to the web causing many security professionals to prevent direct Internet access at the branch. But with new cloud-based security solutions from Blue Coat you can re-architect your network to embrace the Internet – safely – and optimize application performance. Learn more. Cisco rival quietly downsizing too Juniper has cut 500 employees, or just over 5% of its workforce, according to TechTarget. Most of the hits were to the company's QFabric data center switching personnel, the site reports. Read More IT headcount expected to rise in Q4, CIOs say Nine percent of CIOs plan to expand their IT departments in Q4, and 6% anticipate cutbacks. The net 3% increase in anticipated IT hiring is up two percentage points from Q3, according to Robert Half Technology. Read More Oracle looks to take business from Amazon Web Services Oracle is planning to roll out a new IaaS (infrastructure as a service) offering that will compete directly with Amazon Web Services, along with a service called Oracle Public Cloud that runs inside customers' facilities, CEO Larry Ellison announced Sunday during a keynote address at the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. Read More WHITE PAPER: Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Storage: Getting the Best of Two Worlds In this report we look at each component of Hybrid Cloud Storage as users of this new technology will be able to choose where to locate their data, on-premise with Scale-out NAS or in the Public Cloud. Learn More How Cisco moved along to PaaS Having on-demand virtual machines for employees is one thing, but that wasn't enough for networking giant Cisco, says Rodrigo Flores, an enterprise architect in the company's intelligent automation business unit. Read More Industry watcher: Network infrastructure market overdue for venture capital infusion Venture capitalists have pumped oodles of money in recent years into startups that exploit telecom networks and wireless infrastructure, but now it might be time for infrastructure startups themselves to start attracting more funding, according to industry watcher Ovum. Read More iPhone 5 update fixes Verizon cellular data drain Apple released on Sunday an update that fixes a problem where the iPhone 5 draws data from the carrier Verizon despite being connected to a Wi-Fi network. Read More Google patches 24 Chrome bugs, pays out $29K to bounty hunters Google patched 24 vulnerabilities in Chrome, and paid out $29,500 in bounties to nine researchers, more than half of that to one of the company's most prolific bug finders. Read More Students will be doing vulnerability tests on security products at Iowa State University's new lab Iowa State University (ISU) is setting up a product-security test and evaluation lab where university students will be assessing network security products' strengths and weaknesses in a formal program supervised by faculty and a newly-named lab director. Read More
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