UC is a mess, and Oracle's trying to clean it up

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	UC is a mess, and Oracle's trying to clean it up Saying that multi-vendor UC is hard to deploy is as gross an understatement as saying the Yankees overpaid for Jacoby Ellsbury. In both cases it makes sense on paper and may work out OK in the short term, but over the long haul, both may not provide the original value that was sought out. Read More WHITE PAPER: Fortinet High Performance Data Center Firewall Survey With Data Centers consolidating and virtualizing, the core infrastructure is upgrading to 10G, 40G and even 100G. The Firewall must keep pace with these changes otherwise it becomes a bottleneck. Does your Firewall have the horsepower to keep up? View now >> In this Issue How will going private really change Dell? How Microsoft should go about setting Windows Phone free The week online surveillance finally jumped the shark What Is Wi-Fi's Role in the Internet of Things? Microsoft fails to mention Skype in promises to protect users from NSA surveillance iPad with 12.9-inch display reportedly in the works WHITE PAPER: AT&T Transforming Your Organization with Mobility This whitepaper intends to help organizations understand the critical elements of a mobilization solution, the value and inter-dependencies, and important enablement assessment questions. Learn More How will going private really change Dell? The one thing Dell folks couldn't stop talking about at this week's Dell World 2013 conference this week was how stepping aware from the public markets was going make all the difference for the technology vendor. Read More How Microsoft should go about setting Windows Phone free The Verge reports that Microsoft is considering taking a page from Google and giving away Windows Phone and Windows RT for free to device makers in the hope of grabbing more market share. Microsoft would see revenue through other avenues, like ads and services like Skype, SkyDrive and Bing. Read More WHITE PAPER: Attachmate The Need for Enterprise-Grade File Transfer From email to Dropbox and FTP, the status quo of file transfer in most organizations is UFT—or Unmanaged File Transfer. That's the troubling finding of a 2013 survey conducted by Osterman Research. Read this paper to learn how enterprise-grade Managed File Transfer (MFT) can help. View Now The week online surveillance finally jumped the shark This week saw a high-profile We the People petition calling for the United States to reform the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. Read More What Is Wi-Fi's Role in the Internet of Things? The market for Wi-Fi may be on the verge of truly astounding growth - as in, the billions of radios required for the Internet of Things (IoT). Think Wi-Fi is just for client access and the occasional point-to-point or point-to-multipoint link? Think again. Read More WHITE PAPER: CDW Managing Essential tools for greater productivity People are interacting with software from the moment they wake up (hearing an alarm on a smartphone) to the time they relax in the evening (reading or shopping online). And in between, software affects virtually every work function in some way, whether in the executive suite or on the shipping dock. Read Now Microsoft fails to mention Skype in promises to protect users from NSA surveillance When you think about Microsoft and its major communications products, does Skype not spring to mind? Read More iPad with 12.9-inch display reportedly in the works While Steve Jobs may have said that tablets smaller than 9.7-inches would be dead on arrival, the release of the iPad Mini in November of 2012 is proof positive that Apple, though stubborn it may be, is more than capable of shifting strategies mid-stream. Read More
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