Recommended reading: 'Mobile Collaboration for Dummies'

	Microsoft revamps MSN, integrates with productivity tools | SDN vital to IoT
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	Recommended reading: 'Mobile Collaboration for Dummies' Incorporating mobility into your Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC&C) strategy and deployment is critical for most businesses. Most employees have a mobile device, and many employers have support a BYOD (bring your own device) program. UC&C support for mobility offers many benefits that include cost savings, better customer support, and improved collaboration. However, mobility is also fraught with risks, including security concerns and the opportunity for significant cost overruns. Having a comprehensive plan specific to mobile collaboration is important to any organization that supports UC&C. To make UC&C work well with mobile devices, business communications platform should help workers collaborate effectively, tame the costs of mobile phones and devices, and offer appropriate security to protect the company’s information and reputation.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: OPSWAT Inc. Secure the Use of Portable Media in Critical Infrastructure Securing critical infrastructure is crucial to ensuring that our current way of life is sustained. Our whitepaper provides insight into the development of strong security policies around the use of portable media, and how to effectively mitigate the threat from external sources. Learn more In this Issue Microsoft revamps MSN, integrates with productivity tools SDN vital to IoT Cisco's UCS splash: some unfinished business Netflix looking to hire a 'Chaos Engineer' 20 years ago, AT&T ad campaign 'predicted' technology that was well on its way WHITE PAPER: Motorola Solutions Inc. The Next Logical Evolution in WLAN Architecture Motorola Solutions has been the driving force behind the creation and evolution of the wireless LAN (WLAN), from its inception through today's third generation architecture. Today, they are Introducing the world's first scalable, virtualized WLAN controller that brings a new level of scalability, cost efficiency and reliability to the WLAN. Learn more Microsoft revamps MSN, integrates with productivity tools Microsoft has unveiled its revamped MSN portal that combines easy access to personal productivity tools and content from a large number of providers.As the company tries to revive MSN, the focus this time is also on top content from the Web instead of offering original content. For the relaunch, the company has signed up with over 1,300 publishers worldwide including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Yomiuri, CNN and The Guardian.A “Services Stripe” at the top of the MSN homepage gives users easy access to personal services including Outlook.com email, OneDrive, Office 365 and Skype, as well as popular third-party sites like Twitter and Facebook, according to an online preview provided by Microsoft on Sunday.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive The New Mobility: Astonishingly Simple and Powerful Mobility has not only changed how we live, it is also dramatically changing the network infrastructures that we rely on. For the better. As organizations cope with a tidal wave of mobile users, mobile applications, and demand for pervasive access, it's becoming clearer that prior-generation approaches to providing mobility are breaking. Learn more SDN vital to IoT Two major emerging network trends, Software-defined networking (SDN) and Internet of Things (IoT), are destined to intersect, with one perhaps dependent on the other.Experts say that SDN, through its ability to intelligently route traffic and use underutilized network resources, will make it much easier to prepare for the data onslaught of IoT. SDNs will eliminate bottlenecks and induce efficiencies to help the data generated by IoT to be processed without placing a larger strain on the network. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: Xirrus Optimize Your Wi-Fi Network Designing wireless networks for coverage is no longer enough. They must be built for capacity and performance, which makes Wi-Fi optimization best practices crucial. Learn more. Cisco's UCS splash: some unfinished business Cisco executives say this week’s launch of its expanded UCS servers is “the most significant technology announcement from Cisco this year” but there’s more to come. In case you missed it, Cisco announced systems designed to scale from the largest cloud deployment to those with only up to 15 servers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Netflix looking to hire a 'Chaos Engineer' Here’s a job offering you don’t see every day (asterisks mine): “Netflix is hiring a ‘Chaos Engineer’ … Basically, somebody to go in and f**k s**t up to prove we can recover. Ping me for details!”The “recruiter” in this case is Dan Woods, a senior software engineer at Netflix, and the “listing” was in the form of a tweet, which elicited a string of wisecracks – and a few expressions of interest -- from the Twitter crowd: Netflix is no stranger to chaos. In 2012 the company released the source code for Chaos Monkey, the first of its Simian Army collection of cloud testing tools.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More 20 years ago, AT&T ad campaign 'predicted' technology that was well on its way A YouTube compilation of a 20-year-old AT&T ad campaign dubbed “You Will” is getting pass-along traffic today (and not for the first time). It’s a fun look at the company’s predictions for a range of technologies that would become the likes of GPS, online books and electronic toll collection.Don’t get me wrong: I’m not saying that anyone could have seen these things coming back in 1994. It’s remarkable that these innovations would become not only real but commonplace so soon after this ad campaign aired. That they would become a reality at all? That’s less remarkable, because many were already well on their way.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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