'World's largest' telecom deal turns out to be a dud

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	'World's largest' telecom deal turns out to be a dud Originally billed as the world's largest telecommunications purchase, the U.S. government's Networx contract is turning out to be chump change for the five carriers involved in the deal. Halfway through its 10-year term, the contract has driven around $2 billion in revenue compared to projections as high as $34 billion for this stage of the program. Read More WHITE PAPER: Avaya Delivering game-changing productivity & dependability By creating one contiguous, end-to-end Fabric, Avaya is empowering businesses to achieve unprecedented levels of infrastructure productivity, service agility, and network dependability, the very essence of the fast, flexible, and secure design aspirations. Read Now In this Issue Top tools for BYOD management What do 100% of mobile users want? No fails! Gartner upbeat on big data jobs DHS official suggests sharing IT resources to survive hacks 7 things we love/hate about Microsoft Office 2013 for Windows RT GM plans to hire 3,000 HP IT workers E-voting results: Trust, but verify Carriers to feds: Fix current telecom deal before starting follow-on VMware CTO: Adapt, enable choice, or die WHITE PAPER: HP Building modern, virtualization-optimized data centers HP offers a flexible, virtualization-optimized data center network architecture that requires far fewer devices, interconnections, layers, and discrete appliances. HP Networking solutions streamline network operations and accelerate application and service delivery; reduce space, power, cooling, and capital requirements. View Now Top tools for BYOD management SOTI MobiControl and SAP Afaria lead the way in five-vendor test of MDM tools. Read More What do 100% of mobile users want? No fails! The rush to make everything mobile has generated new ways to do business, new ways to organize ourselves and new ways to communicate, but mobile apps aren't your father's mainframe, desktop or laptop applications. Read More Gartner upbeat on big data jobs The economic picture that Gartner's head of research painted at his firm's recent Symposium/ITxpo conference was upbeat in a surprising way. 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. DHS official suggests sharing IT resources to survive hacks Groups of companies in the same industry could mitigate the effects of cyberattacks by pooling infrastructure resources and working together on security issues, a senior official in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has suggested. Read More 7 things we love/hate about Microsoft Office 2013 for Windows RT Microsoft has released its new Surface tablet running the Windows RT operating system that has been designed specifically for mobile-device-friendly ARM processors. OEMs are expected to start shipping their own Windows RT-based tablets soon. These products come with a different version of Microsoft Office; one that's tailored to ARM-based devices. Here's how Office 2013 for Windows RT stacks up against the traditional Microsoft Office for x86/x64-based systems that we know and love. Read More GM plans to hire 3,000 HP IT workers Hewlett-Packard has agreed to transfer 3,000 of its employees to the General Motors payroll, as the automaker moves IT operations in-house. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Scaling Out Data Centers Organizations of all sizes are facing daunting challenges as they struggle to adapt their data center networks to new technologies and applications. The move toward cloud architectures in particular is demanding a high-performance network interconnect that can host servers potentially numbering in the thousands. Read Now E-voting results: Trust, but verify Technology and process improvements implemented since the controversial 2000 presidential election have made electronic voting machines more secure and reliable, the Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project said in a recent report. Read More Carriers to feds: Fix current telecom deal before starting follow-on Carriers aren't excited about the General Services Administration's plans for a follow-on contract to Networx -- tentatively dubbed Network Services 2020 -- because they want to see the U.S. government's procurement arm take steps to make the current contract more profitable for them. Read More VMware CTO: Adapt, enable choice, or die To some outsiders looking in, VMware has gone through quite a change recently by purchasing two companies, embracing OpenStack enabling multi-cloud support. CTO Steve Herrod says it's all part of the broader plan. Read More
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