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	Outlook 2013 ... Even more interesting than 2012! Gibbs reviews his predictions from last year and surveys the more than 400 predictions that he's been sent by IT professionals Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Network World Technical Seminar SDN, Openflow and Network Virtualization event comes to NYC Attend and learn how SDN works, its potential in the enterprise, and why leading, bellwether organizations are leveraging it for data center and large-scale networking efficiency- Learn more and register for this free event. February 12, 2013 – Grand Hyatt, NYC Click to continue In this Issue Cisco, others eyeing $3.7 billion SDN market 9 Common Spanning Tree Mistakes Cybersecurity New Year's Resolutions for All PC Users The Spirit of Innovation New year, new phone: Why I use the Lumia 920 now Year One of the PPC (Post-PC) Era Canonical announces Ubuntu smartphone OS WHITE PAPER: Trusted Computing Group Mobile Endpoint Protection Comply to Connect is a standards-based approach to managing access to corporate networks, both from within and without, on multiple devices as long as the health and state of the devices can be verified. Learn More. Cisco, others eyeing $3.7 billion SDN market The worldwide market for software-defined networking products and services in the enterprise and cloud service provider segments will grow from $360 million in 2013 to $3.7 billion by 2016, according to IDC. This represents a compound annual growth rate of 117.42% and includes network infrastructure, SDN applications and control plane solutions, and related professional services. Read More 9 Common Spanning Tree Mistakes Ethernet devices running the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) have been implemented in networks since the early 1990s. Many organizations take STP for granted and do not configure it per industry best practices. STP errors are very common and during the past 15 years we have witnessed the same errors being made over-and-over again. For such a well established protocol, it is surprising that we have... 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. Cybersecurity New Year's Resolutions for All PC Users Happy New Year world! Like many of my fellow bloggers and analysts, I'll have my own set of security predictions for 2013 soon. One thing I can easily surmise however is that cybersecurity will become more dangerous and more sophisticated this year just as it has in the past. Read More The Spirit of Innovation As I pause to reflect on both the past and coming years, I find it important to find the source of my inspiration, what keeps me going every day. I wrote this essay a few years back and I still draw a lot of inspiration from it. I have never published this, and its a bit off from my normal topics but for me it sets the tone for who I hope to be and what I hope to accomplish in the coming year, and... Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Communications Meeting Campus LAN Challenges IT administrators serving K-12 and higher education institutions face a host of daunting challenges managing today's campus networks. These challenges include large and unpredictable user populations, complex and antiquated network infrastructures. Learn more. New year, new phone: Why I use the Lumia 920 now I'm starting the new year with at least one new gadget: a Nokia Lumia 920 as my main phone. The iPhone 4S, my previous main, is now a backup, used for occasional games of Angry Birds until it's available on Windows Phone. The decision wasn't one of partisanship or corporate preference. I put all that silly technology religion behind me in 1993 when I sold my Amiga and gave up on getting overly obsessed... Read More Year One of the PPC (Post-PC) Era Well 2013 is here. I am not the first or only one, but I am declaring this year to be year one of the PPC (Post-PC) Era. We have truly but the trusty old PC behind us. Today everything is mobile and an app. The days of having the ball and chain of a traditional computer tying us to a desk are officially over. Like the Apple 1984 commercial, the hammer has smashed that screen and we have been set free.... Read More Canonical announces Ubuntu smartphone OS Just moments ago, Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu), unveiled their next big plan for world domination: Ubuntu. For phones. (As it turns out, the announcement wasn't a Jono Bacon Bobblehead as I had predicted and some enterprising individual created a website for. I still hold that the Ubuntu Community Manager needs to be immortalized in Bobble form.) Read More
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