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	'Christmas gift for someone you hate: Windows 8' That headline runs atop a blog by MIT researcher and instructor as well as serial entrepreneur Philip Greenspun who ran Windows 8 through its paces and found it wanting in several areas. Read More 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. In this Issue The season for quantifying enterprise happiness Why did BlackBerry blacklist the 'Pooh' gang? What if Linux went closed source? Would you still use it? How much would you pay for a Windows Surface Tablet? Time to Move Off Cisco Catalyst 6500 Non-E Chassis Best practices to close the door to spear-phishing attacks 'Everyone in US under virtual surveillance;' Are you sure you have nothing to hide? 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! The season for quantifying enterprise happiness Hitachi has a system that can analyze how happy your organization is and maybe even re-engineer it to make it happier! Read More Why did BlackBerry blacklist the 'Pooh' gang? A report surfaced earlier this week contending that BlackBerry OS 10 will include a list of 106 prohibited passwords designed to prevent the clueless from choosing the likes of 123456, blackberry, or the ever-popular "password" as their password. However, a RIM spokesman told me today that the list actually applies to BlackBerry ID universally, not only the upcoming operating system, and "has been... 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 if Linux went closed source? Would you still use it? When was the last time you downloaded source code? Seriously. Take a look at the applications you currently have running – your web browsers, office suites, terminals, graphics editors and the like. Have you ever downloaded the source code for any of them, made a change and recompiled? (Okay, all of you Linux-From-Scratch and Gentoo-ers can put your hands down.) Read More How much would you pay for a Windows Surface Tablet? I am not a Microsoft hater. I scoff when I read some of the articles recently about Microsoft being irrelevant and toast because of the post-PC era bringing a Windows Apocalypse upon us. I actually believe that if you are a top 3 player in a given category, you are successful. Microsoft will continue to be top 3 in a wide range of markets. 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 Time to Move Off Cisco Catalyst 6500 Non-E Chassis The Cisco 6500 Ethernet switches were introduced in 1999 and have been deployed by more than 45,000 organizations. Cisco has continued to come out with additional supervisor modules and interface modules and larger power supplies to keep the switches current. However, now the original chassis are outdated and not supported by Cisco anymore. Cisco wants their customers to upgrade their 6500 chassis... Read More Best practices to close the door to spear-phishing attacks Security firm Trend Micro has identified spear-phishing emails as a top vector for allowing advanced persistent threats (APTs) onto company networks. Attackers use personal information to gain a victim's confidence and then zap him or her with malware that can scout for and exfiltrate confidential data. Share these best practices with your colleagues to "avoid the spear." Read More 'Everyone in US under virtual surveillance;' Are you sure you have nothing to hide? "NSA Whistleblower: Everyone in US under virtual surveillance, all info stored, no matter the post," reported RT after interviewing William Binney. RT said this is being done under the "Terrorist Surveillance Program" which is probably better known as NSA warrantless wiretapping. But Binney also named and blamed the FBI this time: Read More
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