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	Avaya acquires Esna, Mitel buys TigerTMS Avaya has acquired Esna Technologies in a move intended to facilitate easier user access to cloud-based, multi-vendor communications capabilities. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Inc. What Makes a Private Cloud a Cloud Private clouds are the means for IT to re-establish its value back to the business— enabling productivity, competitive advantage, and increased customer service. To attain true private cloud capabilities, you must also deploy a systems management framework, optimize application delivery, and drive visibility. Learn Now In this Issue Microsoft goofs, leaks new Wi-Fi service for consumers and Office 365 Enterprise subscribers How to create a robust backup strategy with cloud services 4 strategies to negotiate a better salary Security startup finds stolen data on the 'Dark Web' WHITE PAPER: Dell Inc. Old PCs put your business at risk Read this paper to learn what your organization can do to overcome security challenges. View now Microsoft goofs, leaks new Wi-Fi service for consumers and Office 365 Enterprise subscribers Microsoft is preparing to rebrand and expand its almost-unknown Skype WiFi service to make it both a consumer service and a perk for enterprises already subscribing to Office 365, according to a briefly-available website. The draft site -- microsoftwifi.com -- was up for hours Tuesday, but was eventually pulled and a "coming soon" placeholder substituted. However, parts of the website still languished in various search engine caches as of early Wednesday. Microsoft touted the service as a "hassle-free" way to connect to the Internet with a single sign-on. Like Skype WiFi, the renamed Microsoft WiFi will let users connect to paid public wireless hotspots without having to grab a credit card and fill out online forms for each operator. Those hotspots are typically found in hotels, airports and restaurants, and in the U.S. often run by companies such as Boingo.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Inc. Old PCs put your business at risk Read this paper to learn what your organization can do to overcome security challenges. View now How to create a robust backup strategy with cloud services Love it or hate it, cloud storage is here to stay. Yet the fact is that cloud storage providers, like all IT companies, can experience outages or even go out of business. Moreover, the ever-present threat of data-corrupting malware and ransomware means that synchronizing to the cloud no longer offers adequate protection against data loss.With this in mind, let’s look at how you can work with more than one cloud storage service to put together a cloud-based disaster recovery strategy to protect your files.Narrow down your cloud storage option Despite there being many cloud services out there that offer free storage space, it makes sense to narrow down your primary cloud provider to just one service before trying to create a backup strategy. This serves to reduce complexity, and also makes it easier to ensure that your files are accounted for and backed up correctly.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks How to Protect Against Evolving DDoS Threats CIOs want harmony. Security directors loathe point products. Networks operations won't buy into anything new. Stakeholders can get the harmony they need around DDoS mitigation by extending the F5 Application Delivery Controller into a hybrid solution: on-premises with a new cloud component. Learn more >> 4 strategies to negotiate a better salary Salary negotiation is nerve-wracking, whether you've landed a new job or are angling for a raise at your current employer. Here are four strategies to help your next salary or raise negotiation end successfully.1. Don't be afraid to negotiate While salary negotiations can be stressful, don't let fear and anxiety get in the way of being paid what you're worth. After the 2008 financial crash and during the ensuing recession, many people were happy to have a job at all -- any job, at any salary, says Lydia Frank, senior director of editorial and marketing, at PayScale.com. As the economy improves, businesses have more flexibility in their budgets and are starting to loosen the purse strings.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Security startup finds stolen data on the 'Dark Web' Finding stolen data on the Internet is often the first sign of a breach, and a Baltimore-based startup says it has developed a way to find that data faster and more securely.The company is called Terbium Labs, named after a malleable, silver-gray element. CEO Danny Rogers and CTO Michael Moore say they're taking a large scale, computational approach to finding pilfered data.Terbium's product, Matchlight, uses data fingerprinting techniques to create hashes of an organization's data in fragments as small as 14 bytes. Only those hashes -- which can't be transformed back into the original data -- are stored by Terbium.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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