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	Orange adds new Lync features, mobile video app Orange Business Services has had two announcements in recent weeks that are noteworthy: the company has deployed new unified communications and voice services based on Microsoft Lync 2013, and it has launched an Orange Video Meeting app providing video meetings via tablet or mobile device based on Radvision Scopia Mobile platform. Read More WHITE PAPER: BlackBerry Apps on BlackBerry 10: What Every Developer Should Know Get a quick review of what you need to know about creating, deploying, and managing the apps that enterprises rely on today, and will tomorrow, with BlackBerry® 10. Learn More In this Issue The five evils of enterprise social Building trust between cloud providers and consumers Can BES 10 save BlackBerry? 11 fun facts about Apple Hospital unresponsive to multiple alerts about stolen data WHITE PAPER: Riverbed IT Consolidation Hazards Providing central services means more bandwidth between data centers and remote users. This ESG paper highlights new research on IT initiatives, how to avoid the common pitfalls of consolidation, and alternatives to ensure application performance, even for remote and mobile users, does not suffer after an IT consolidation. Read now! The five evils of enterprise social The history of enterprise collaboration technology is littered with abandoned platforms that were intended to "change everything." But many new social collaboration tools quickly end up on the shelf, collecting dust, unless there are compelling reasons to use it, and dramatic incentives for people to maintain it. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Managing Performance of Critical Applications In conducting a survey of more than 150 IT professionals with direct responsibility for business-critical applications, Forrester found that enterprises are supporting corporate objectives of productivity and efficiency, a typical trend in times of economic uncertainty. Read Now Building trust between cloud providers and consumers In a recent report, analyst Ray Wang proposes a cloud consumer 'bill of rights.' Wang's proposal is important because it highlights significant aspects of the client/vendor relationship in the cloud computing space. This relationship is unique because of the level of both trust and communication that must exist between client and vendor in order for cloud deployments to be successful. Read More WHITE PAPER: Netscout Systems Inc. Holistic Service Management is Critical to the Growth of IT This paper looks at new approaches to service delivery management to allow IT organizations to deliver better service quality, performance and user experience, and to be more predictive with application performance management and network performance management. Learn More. Can BES 10 save BlackBerry? Research in Motion (RIM) is now BlackBerry, and the renamed company recently launched the BlackBerry 10 OS. While much attention was focused on phones running the new OS, we decided to take a closer look at the company's new management platform called BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 (BES 10), which unites mobile device management (MDM), security, unified communications, and application management. Read More 11 fun facts about Apple Read More Hospital unresponsive to multiple alerts about stolen data Security experts trying to tell a rural hospital that a pile of its sensitive data belonging to staff and possibly patients sits exposed on the Internet have been stymied for five days now by the fact that no one at the medical facility will respond to their repeated warnings. Moreover, says one of the experts, this kind of situation happens with alarming regularity. Read More
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