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	NextPlane offers federated UC In our last newsletter, we talked about the need for interoperability and promised more coverage on the topic, so today we'd like to discuss federated unified communications services. Reaching out to an expert on UC federation, we spoke with Farzin Shahidi, the founder and CEO of NextPlane. UC Exchange Federation Services provides a rich set of high-fidelity federation capabilities across Microsoft Lync, OCS R2, OCS and LCS, Cisco Jabber XCP, Unified Presence Server (CUPS) and WebEx Messenger (formerly Cisco WebEx Connect), IBM Sametime, Google Apps, Jive OpenFire, Isode M-Link and eJabberd. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Systems, Inc. Cisco Certified Professionals Move Your Network Forward As your network becomes more complex, you need the right professionals to manage and maintain all your network technologies. See how Cisco trained and certified individuals enhance your team and your network, minimize network downtime, plus reduce network management and security costs. Visit the Employer Resources Portal. Employers can find step-by-step tools, resources, reports, and knowledge to hire the most talented Cisco professionals in the industry today. In this Issue 7 things you need to know about Bitcoin Alcatel-Lucent focuses on practical SDN 6 things you might not know about Virtual Instruments Products of the week 4.15.13 WHITE PAPER: HP, Microsoft & Intel HP reference configuration for Premium OLTP This paper describes a hardware and software reference architecture for using HP hardware to deploy very large and highly transactional Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 OLTP database systems in tier 1 enterprise application environments. Learn More! 7 things you need to know about Bitcoin Bitcoins are all the buzz. The virtual currency is riding a rollercoaster of speculation, rising exponentially in value and reaching a high of $260 this Wednesday before plummeting to $130. What's more, the largest bitcoin exchange in the world just survived a coordinated hack attack, and bitcoin-generating malware is spreading across Europe like wildfire via Skype. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks Considerations for Combating Modern Threats Download this White paper to learn how a new datacenter architecture based on F5's Application Delivery Firewall combats modern attacks while reducing capex. Learn More Alcatel-Lucent focuses on practical SDN Last week, Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) held its annual Industry Analyst conference in Annapolis, Maryland. Unified Communications has historically been the primary focus for ALU's go-to-market strategy, but the company has spent the last few years beefing up its OmniSwitch data networking portfolio as well. In fact, if you recall, ALU was the focal point of this Network World Article where the company beat... Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks Reducing Complexity and Enhancing XenApp 6.5 This paper examines how F5's market-leading ADC technology helps to meet these challenges and reduce the complexity of the citrix infrastructure, minimize deployment cycle time, improve scalability of VDI-related services, and enhance the mobility of users and operations alike. Learn More 6 things you might not know about Virtual Instruments Bone up on IPO candidate Virtual Instruments, which is targeting infrastructure performance management Read More Products of the week 4.15.13 Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as Kroll and ZipWhip Read More
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