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	Ciscogate Are you a California taxpayer? If so, are you disturbed by the claims that San Jose-based Cisco Systems attempted to charge you $100 million more than its competitors for a computer network for your state university system? Read More WHITE PAPER: Shoretel Reasons UC Rollouts Can Fail Complexity, integration issues and user resistance can all raise the cost of a unified communications deployment. This TCO chart from the Aberdeen Group summarizes the true costs of solutions from Cisco, Microsoft, Avaya and ShoreTel. See how they compare to build your budget. Learn more. In this Issue With Vyatta, Brocade makes a low-risk, high-reward bet on SDN SJSU didn't bid Cisco project You + Big Data = Not Anonymous; Microsoft develops Differential Privacy for everyone Microsoft Trustworthy Computing finally pays off in a big way A Really, Really Big Wireless LAN: Gillette Stadium and the New England Patriots Chrome experiments: A foundation for future browser apps 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 With Vyatta, Brocade makes a low-risk, high-reward bet on SDN This morning Brocade announced it would acquire privately held open source networking software company Vyatta. The rise of software defined networks seems to be a legitimate problem the Vyatta solution can solve. Founded back in 2005, Vyatta has struggled to find a use case for its virtual routing capabilities over the years, remaining a niche company used by network engineers who like to experiment... Read More SJSU didn't bid Cisco project San Jose State University only negotiated with a single vendor for its five-year, $28 million IT project, opting not to put it out for bid. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn LogMeIn Central: Automate, Monitor and Manage PCs. LogMeIn lets you Monitor and Manage PCs, deliver patches and updates to multiple PCS simultaneously. Central helps IT deliver seamless support that keeps employees productive and up and running. LogMeIn Central - automate routine tasks and do more. Free Trial You + Big Data = Not Anonymous; Microsoft develops Differential Privacy for everyone Too often, we hear how researchers can take supposedly anonymized or obfuscated PII (Personally Identifiable Information) data and exploit "linkability threats" to re-identify individuals such as in I know where you are and what you are sharing and deanonymizing you after one mouse click on a website. Read More Microsoft Trustworthy Computing finally pays off in a big way Back in 2002, then-Microsoft CTO and senior vice president Craig Mundie authored a whitepaper on what would become the framework of the company's Trustworthy Computing program. It would be built around four pillars that all Microsoft products would embrace: Security, Privacy, Reliability and Business Integrity. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Ipswitch Wired & Wireless Networks? WhatsUp Gold can help! As an IT manager, you're busy taking care of the availability, performance & security of your company's IT infrastructure. But things like BYOD, rogue devices, AP over-subscription & bandwidth policy abuse can make that complex. WhatsUp Gold provides ONE dashboard to visualize, isolate & resolve wireless problems before they impact your organization. Stop being the last to know about your wireless issues- Try WhatsUp Gold free for 30 days! A Really, Really Big Wireless LAN: Gillette Stadium and the New England Patriots I recently traveled down to Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts to meet with a number of managers in the New England Patriots organization and talk about one of the largest, densest, and most mission-critical wireless-LAN installations that I've ever seen. Imagine on the order of 70,000 fans in the stands, with 10,000 or so of these simultaneously seeking information in real time via the stadium's... Read More Chrome experiments: A foundation for future browser apps The battle for dominance between the major browsers continues on desktop, pad, and mobile platforms and, according to [Net Applications' Net Market Share, as of October all versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer combined had just over 54% of the desktop market having gained about 2.2% since December, 2011. Firefox, over the same period, lost 1.84% (currently at just under 20%) while the other big contender, Google's Chrome, currently stands at just less than 19% having lost 0.56% in the same 10-month period. Read More
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