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	Avaya upgrades its video collaboration Following on the heels of its support for a virtual environment, Avaya also announced enhancements to its video collaboration solutions, designed to improve simplicity for the mobile SME and enterprise user. The new and expanded capabilities include features affecting mobile consumer devices, desktop and room-based systems -- building on Avaya's acquisition of Radvision in June. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T Top 10 Considerations for cloud computing As business users push for faster and easier ways to roll out applications, cloud usage is on the rise. As a result, many cloud projects are initiated outside the realm of IT – without the clear requirements or measurable objectives. "Top 10 Considerations for Cloud Computing" provides a checklist for taking a more strategic approach to cloud. Download your complementary checklist In this Issue Ray Ozzie seeks encore to Lotus Notes, Microsoft triumphs What Does a Cloud IT Career Really Mean? 7 Technologies Poised for Failure in 2013 Perl programming language turns 25 today WHITE PAPER: Coyote Point Solutions for delivering content & applications to IPv6 This document provides an overview of the challenges inherent in the transition from IP version 4 (IPv4) to IP version 6 (IPv6) and describes the features provided by the EqualizerTM family of Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) that ease this transition. View Now Ray Ozzie seeks encore to Lotus Notes, Microsoft triumphs Ray Ozzie -- the creator of Lotus Notes who had a successful five-year run at Microsoft -- stands ready to leave his next mark on the industry, this time with his nearly year-old startup Talko (formerly Cocomo), a venture funded by $4 million from investors and shrouded in secrecy. 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 What Does a Cloud IT Career Really Mean? The push is on to put more infrastructure and services in the cloud, but what does that mean for the cloud technology job market? Read More 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 7 Technologies Poised for Failure in 2013 Which technologies and products will be put out to pasture in 2013? Some are no-brainers, some others might say are poised for a comeback and a couple might surprise you. Read More Perl programming language turns 25 today Feel free to light 25 candles today for "the duct tape of the Internet," or if you prefer, "the Swiss Army chainsaw." By either of its future nicknames, version 1.0 of the Perl programming language was released on Dec. 18, 1987 by its creator Larry Wall. Read More
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