Videoconferencing highlights from Blue Jeans Network and Avaya

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	Videoconferencing highlights from Blue Jeans Network and Avaya Today we continue our news coverage of videoconferencing highlights with announcements from Blue Jeans Network and Avaya: Blue Jeans announced its progress after two years in service, while Avaya unveiled a new solution targeting the small and midsize enterprise (SME) market. Read More WHITE PAPER: FICO (formerly Fair Isaac) Cloud Analytics for the Masses Learn the best practices in building applications that can leverage volume, variety and velocity of Big Data for organizations of any size. Learn more. In this Issue Increasing operational efficiency with unified communications Project Chess helped NSA snoop on your Skype communications iFixit giving away 1,776 'iPhone Liberation Kits' WEBCAST: Fluke Networks Redefining Performance Management Video See Jim Frey, Managing Research Director, Enterprise Management Assoc., Doug Roberts, Managing Director of Product Strategy, and Bruce Kosbab, CTO, Fluke Networks discussing how TruView redefines enterprise performance monitoring and troubleshooting. Learn More Increasing operational efficiency with unified communications Companies that have implemented unified communications have seen direct and tangible savings of up to 75% in their phone and equipment costs, but the longer-term and greater impact is increased productivity. What was originally seen as a soft benefit is now turning into hard ROI. Unified communications is becoming a strategic element in daily workflows and is making organizations more operationally efficient than ever before. Read More WEBCAST: Wildpackets 802.11ac Data Rates Driving Changes in Wireless Analysis At the data rates delivered by 802.11ac, traditional WLAN analysis with USB adapters capturing traffic isn't possible. This webcast dives into 11ac, & explains what we believe will be the new standard in wireless packet capture & analysis. Watch Now. Watch Now Project Chess helped NSA snoop on your Skype communications Before Microsoft owned Skype, way back in 2008 when Skype was an eBay subsidiary, it began Project Chess, a "secret program" for spying on users communications. Anonymous sources told the New York Times that Project Chess was setup "to explore the legal and technical issues in making Skype calls readily available to intelligence agencies and law enforcement officials." Read More WHITE PAPER: Netscout Systems Inc. Service-Oriented Performance Management Strategy This white paper is to help IT organizations adopt a management methodology that enables them to improve the user experience by focusing on service delivery management. Learn More. iFixit giving away 1,776 'iPhone Liberation Kits' In a clever bit of self-promotion, the do-it-yourself repair evangelists at iFixit announced this morning that they will be giving away 1,776 free "iPhone liberation kits" that will allow Apple customers access to the innards of their devices by replacing the difficult-to-remove pentalobe screws with standard Phillips screws. From the iFixit press release: Read More
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