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	GENBAND unveils strategy and new cloud offer Two big announcements today from GENBAND: The company has unveiled a three-pronged strategy aligned with its "Making Networks Smarter" vision. In related product news, GENBAND has launched NUViA, a cloud offering that offers unified communications and rich communications services for service providers and partners to brand. Read More WHITE PAPER: CDW Corporation The Red Report: Managing Both Your Data and Your Sanity Leverage proven storage expertise to objectively assess your environment and review your options for unified storage, data deduplication, storage tiering and unified storage management to achieve lower costs, higher storage utilization and cloud readiness. Learn More. In this Issue Startup Pertino among first to market with networking as a service (NaaS) The Smartwatch: Apple and Beyond 12 hybrid cloud security products to watch Bill Gates proves he's Bill Gates ... to Reddit's satisfaction WHITE PAPER: IBM Corporation A Guide for a Successful ERP Strategy in the Midmarket Combining an experienced service partner with an informed ERP strategy helps to maximize ROI. This helps midmarket organizations to contain costs, communicate effectively, and improve to grow into more successful organizations. Learn More. Startup Pertino among first to market with networking as a service (NaaS) Startup Pertino -- backed by former executives from Packeteer and Apple -- has what one analyst calls the most advanced networking as a service (NaaS) product on the market, available starting today as a public beta. Read More WHITE PAPER: Fiberlink Communications Mobile Device Management: Your Guide to the Essentials Smartphones and tablets have become the tools of choice for today's workers - adding a whole new world of concern for corporate IT. How do we protect corporate data? What devices are accessing email and network resources? What does a Bring Your Own Device program truly mean for security and corporate liability? Learn More The Smartwatch: Apple and Beyond By all accounts, and apart from those who use the device as a statement of fashion or wealth, the wristwatch ought to be dead at this point. In its most basic form, all the thing does is tell the time. With the advent of the smartphone, such single-function devices should be passé. I still own a number of watches, although I use only one on an irregular basis: a Casio that's solar-powered, atomic-clock... Read More WEBCAST: Shoretel ShoreTel UC Solution Overview A 7 minute overview of how ShoreTel's brilliantly simple products and solutions support organizations of all sizes. Learn more. 12 hybrid cloud security products to watch Read More Bill Gates proves he's Bill Gates ... to Reddit's satisfaction As I type, Bill Gates is conducting an "Ask Me Anything" session with the Reddit community, where interview subjects - not all of whom are famous or identified by name -- are routinely required to provide forum moderators with proof that they are indeed who they claim to be. This is the picture Gates provided ... and it's priceless: Read More
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