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	Say goodbye to desktop phones “When are we going to get rid of these things?” said Ken Henderson’s boss as he pointed at the corded desktop telephone that has been emblematic of the American office for decades.“I’m glad you asked that,” replied Henderson, the assistant vice president for technical infrastructure at American Fidelity Assurance in Oklahoma City. He outlined to his boss, AFA President David Carpenter, a plan that had been gestating for a while. The recent purchase of a new headquarters building was the spark to put it into action.The insurer’s IT group is shifting hundreds of employees to voice-over-IP “softphones” on Windows 7 laptops and Apple iPad tablets, all clients to Microsoft Lync Server, for IM and video conferencing and now for VoIP calls, over an 802.11ac wireless LAN from Aruba Networks.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Silver Peak Systems Silver Peak Positioned as a Leader in 2014 Magic Quadrant Gartner has published its latest Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization. Be among the first to get complimentary access to this new report now! In this Issue How WebRTC Is Making Enterprise Inroads The Firewall: Questions abound about its future role in cloud, mobile and SDN environments Looking for movie times? Bing beats Google New products of the week 07.14.14 Ubuntu 14.04: The good, the bad, the Unity WHITE PAPER: Mobiquity Inc. BYOP: How Mobile and Social Are Creating New User Personas The digital world of mobile + social creates new customer segments and behaviors. Companies need to reorient their customer interactions around these segments to drive business impact. Learn More How WebRTC Is Making Enterprise Inroads Jeff Singman operates two brick-and-mortar specialty toy stores in New Jersey and has wanted to provide an ecommerce website as well. Singman says his two Toy Genius stores, which he co-owns with his wife, offer shoppers a high level of product knowledge and customer service to stand out from other toy sellers. Employees wear lab coats and demonstrate products for customers. Gift wrapping is free of charge.But Singman found it difficult to replicate that brand of white-glove service online. "We were looking for a way to bring that ... shopping experience to the Web. I actually had the vision since 2011, but I couldn't affect that vision."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Management Insight Technologies Understanding evolving needs of IT infrastructure decision-makers from enterprise organizations in the converged infrastructure market and how CI vendors are meeting those needs. Learn More>> The Firewall: Questions abound about its future role in cloud, mobile and SDN environments It’s been 20 years since Check Point Software Technologies shipped its first enterprise network firewall, marking the beginning of a mass market for firewalls that has protected millions of networks across the world.Check Point’s FireWall-1, unveiled at NetWorld+Interop in 1994, wasn’t the first network firewall, of course. The firewall had begun taking shape with the rise of the Internet. Companies and universities throughout the 1980s and 90s saw the need to block unwanted IP traffic by creating a perimeter gateway barrier however they could. In that era, they sometimes “rolled their own” based on routers or other gear until vendors eventually came to their rescue with firewall products that spared them this unwanted labor.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Case Study - MTC Australia In moving to a "cloud first" approach for their business-critical apps, they were able to remedy the increased network traffic with Riverbed solutions to ensure a positive user experience. View now>> Looking for movie times? Bing beats Google What times are that movie you want to see being shown at the local cinema? Finding out constitutes one of the more common of Web searches and one I’ve always conducted using Google.But maybe I should be using Bing, at least according to a quick side-by-side survey undertaken by Search Engine Land. Both Bing and Google strive to provide local movie times within the first result returned on a title search, as the screen shot above shows for “Deliver Us From Evil” on Bing. Search Engine Land found: After performing movie title searches for last weekend’s top box office hits on both search engines, we discovered Bing returned movie showtimes for 100 percent of the searches, while Google was successful only 70 percent of the time.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More New products of the week 07.14.14 Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as Anturis and Apcon Read More Ubuntu 14.04: The good, the bad, the Unity Read More
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