Mitel and Aastra to Merge, Creating a Billion Dollar Company

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	Mitel and Aastra to Merge, Creating a Billion Dollar Company Big news coming from Mitel and Aastra this week as the two companies have announced plans to merge. Their combined revenues will company with US $1.1 billion in revenues – including a US$100 million cloud business, 2500 channel partners, and a global customer base of 60 million end users. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology 5 Reasons To Migrate From ACE to ADC As you consider refreshing your legacy Cisco ACE application delivery infrastructure, consider migrating to the Riverbed® Stingray™ family of products. Stingray™ View Now In this Issue Cruise line plans 11ac network upgrades for stem-to-stern Wi-Fi 2013 job watch: Top 11 metro areas for tech jobs Wikileaks releases draft of long-secret trade proposal Hot new products from Amazon's cloud show WEBCAST: Dell Wyse and VMware Capitalizing on Desktop Virtualization As more than half of those surveyed by IDG move to virtual desktop infrastructure, mastering its complexities has never been more important. With the right best practices and trusted partners, you can do just that--thus accelerating time to value, simplifying deployment and management, and creating organizational agility. View Now Cruise line plans 11ac network upgrades for stem-to-stern Wi-Fi People sign up for cruise ships to get away from it all. But not quite all: Passengers still want Wi-Fi access for the growing number of mobile devices they lug with them on vacation for staying in touch, web surfing, music, photos and video. Cruise line Royal Caribbean is turning to 802.11ac to optimize their Wi-Fi connectivity for this mobile data deluge. Read More WHITE PAPER: Netscout Systems Inc. Solution Guide: Application Performance Management Application performance management today sits at a juncture that crosses many disciplines and domains such as software dev, IT services, mainframes, mobile, cloud services, virtualization, app testing, network infrastructure, and storage. This report aims to clarify the definition of an APM solution, and how vendors are taking them forward. Learn More 2013 job watch: Top 11 metro areas for tech jobs Looking for a new IT job? Or a change of scenery? Across the U.S., companies are looking for IT pros with skills that can drive profits -- such as data analytics, software development and project management. But where is demand highest? Modis, which operates in 70 cities in North America and Europe, ranks the 11 U.S. cities where IT hiring is hottest. The staffing firm based its list on internal data, factoring in metrics such as historic and projected IT job openings. Each market's overall economic health and demand for talent are also worked into the rankings. Read More WHITE PAPER: Mitel Networks Unified Communications: Empowering the Enterprise When you think of unified communications, you need to think about its impact on your business. And that means approaching your UC strategy with your business goals in mind. In this telling interview, Stephen Brown lays out Mitel's philosophy on flexibility. It's must-read before you take one more step down the path to UC. Learn More Wikileaks releases draft of long-secret trade proposal Wikileaks this morning has released what they say is a complete draft of the portion of the ultra-secret Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty that covers intellectual property. A consumer watchdog group, Public Citizen, which says it has analyzed the documents, is slamming the Obama Administration for what it calls a complete capitulation to American corporate interests that is being summarily rejected... Read More Hot new products from Amazon's cloud show Amazon's re:Invent conference is a hot place to show off the latest and greatest tools for the cloud Read More
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