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	Hotspot 2.0 guru talks Wi-Fi roaming, new job at Ruckus Dave Stephenson is at the center of one of the most important efforts in mobile networking, the move to shepherd smartphones and other devices among Wi-Fi hotspots safely and automatically. Read More WHITE PAPER: AccelOps BYOD Monitoring Strategies solution brief This solution brief highlights how AccelOps' integrated security, performance and availability monitoring software allows you to confidently and securely support mobile device access to sensitive corporate IT resources. Read Now In this Issue ZyXEL integrates Alcatel-Lucent's small cell software Google strikes back at BT with patent infringement lawsuit Cisco posts higher profit and revenue in Q2 F5's SDN investment puts it in play with Cisco, Juniper Alcatel-Lucent hopes to make data plans more flexible Startup Pertino among first to market with networking as a service (NaaS) Tech 'firsts' that made a President's day WHITE PAPER: IBM Corporation Using Services to Support a New Generation of ERP Top organizations are looking for a new generation of ERP that supports multi-tiered businesses, is easy to use, flexible, and powerful enough to support a growing organization. Learn More. Learn More. ZyXEL integrates Alcatel-Lucent's small cell software ZyXEL Communications will use software from Alcatel-Lucent to integrate mobile networking into its home networking equipment. Read More Google strikes back at BT with patent infringement lawsuit Google filed a patent infringement lawsuit against BT Group companies in a court in the U.S. stating it was defending itself against the British communications services company's own "meritless patent claims" and its arming of patent trolls. Read More WEBCAST: Silver Peak Systems, Inc. Tackle Global Collaboration Challenges with Silver Peak With key productivity applications such as file, email, web, AutoCAD and Revit becoming more bandwidth-, processing- and storage-intensive, dwp turns to Silver Peak Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture (VXOA) software to accelerate its file transfers and optimize its WAN performance, while reducing infrastructure costs by 80 percent. Learn more. Cisco posts higher profit and revenue in Q2 Cisco Systems posted higher revenue and profit in its fiscal second quarter as Chairman and CEO John Chambers reiterated the company's ambitious goal to become the biggest company in IT. Read More F5's SDN investment puts it in play with Cisco, Juniper Network acceleration vendor F5's recent purchase of LineRate Systems, a startup specializing in software-defined networking technology, is both a near-term attempt to associate itself with a hot industry technology and a canny look ahead to the future, according to experts. Read More WHITE PAPER: Fiberlink Communications True SaaS for Mobility Just as Software as a Service (SaaS) liberated IT from perpetual grunt work and watching a green bar load for hours, Mobility as a Service (MaaS) for managing mobile devices, apps, documents and files offers the same kind of liberation without sacrificing security or compliance. Learn More Alcatel-Lucent hopes to make data plans more flexible Through its new Smart Plan platform, Alcatel-Lucent wants to make mobile subscription plans more flexible and allow data packages to be shared among users and handed out by companies to their customers using an application on smartphones and tablets. Read 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 Tech 'firsts' that made a President's day From the first presidential steamboat ride to the introduction of electricity in the White House to Obama's famous BlackBerry, our nation's commanders in chief have always enjoyed the privilege of being exposed to technology's cutting edge -- even if they haven't always embraced the opportunities. So in honor of Monday's celebration of Presidents' Day, here's a look at some of the more notable – and controversial -- presidential first encounters with the leading technologies of their days. Read More
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