The 12 days of IT

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	The 12 days of IT Gibbs puts an IT spin on the 12 days of Christmas Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Google Google Apps for Business Do more for less with your team using Google Apps. Custom web-based email, calendars, and documents to easily share & work together in the cloud. Start with a free 30-day trial! In this Issue It's too soon to call Microsoft's Surface tablet a failure Want an iPhone 5? You might get tasered first. Can HYOD Replace BYOD? Who makes the most popular anti-virus in the world? Microsoft (Yeah, that's right) Reminiscences of another Internet transition year Complaining to the FCC pays off handsomely Weighing Cisco's prospects for 2013 RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Computerworld Honors program Computerworld Honors Program Call For Entries: Deadline 1/18 Computerworld Honors Program nominations will be accepted until January 18, 2013, with the Awards Ceremony and Gala Evening taking place on June 3rd in Washington, DC. Entries selected will have their case studies published in the Honors Global Archive and receive complimentary admission to the Gala program. Submit your entry now! It's too soon to call Microsoft's Surface tablet a failure Just one day after a wealth management firm declared Microsoft was screwing up the potential of its new Surface tablet because of a lack of retail presence, Microsoft has opened the floodgates with new retail outlets. Now comes the real trick: getting customers to show up. Read More Want an iPhone 5? You might get tasered first. The demand for iPhone 5s is amazing and the dangers of overseas grey markets appear to have got a Chinese woman from Massachusetts tasered. Really. 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 Can HYOD Replace BYOD? I received an invite to listen in on a webinar tomorrow by the folks at Zscaler. Featuring Rick Holland of Forrester, the webinar will focus on the bring your own device (BYOD) approach compared to the "here is your own device" (HYOD) approach. The BYOD wave has been a nightmare for many a security and IT admin for years. Read More Who makes the most popular anti-virus in the world? Microsoft (Yeah, that's right) According to the latest report by security management company OPSWAT which Windows based AV product is now the fastest growing and most popular? If you didn't guess Microsoft you are wrong. Yes hard as it may be for some of you to swallow, Microsoft's free security essentials anti-malware software is the most popular and fastest growing AV in the world. 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. Reminiscences of another Internet transition year A good (or was it bad) chunk of 2012 in Internet-land was spent dreading and getting ready for the ITU World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai that will conclude about the time this column is published. (See "The Internet has escaped the ax, at least in the US, at least for now"; "When does free mean none?"; "The non-Internet that never was but might be"; "US Congress passes another resolution opposing UN Internet takeover.") But the year was not all focused on the spectre of a United Nations takeover of the Internet. Read More Complaining to the FCC pays off handsomely Read More Weighing Cisco's prospects for 2013 All eyes were on Cisco last Friday, December 7th as the company held its annual Financial Analyst conference in New York. Cisco, the undisputed 800-pound gorilla in networking, has been rapidly transforming itself into a broader IT company. At the event, CEO John Chambers made the bold claim that the company's goal is to not just be an IT company, but indeed the No. 1 IT Company. Chambers did clarify... Read More
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