Polycom adds three new collaboration solutions

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	Polycom adds three new collaboration solutions Polycom has announced three new solutions at InfoComm 2015 based on its Polycom RealPresence Platform. These include the Polycom RealPresence Cloud, Web Suite, and Media Suite. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: LogMeIn Collaboration 2.0 Death of the Web Conference This new study from Ovum and join.me by LogMeIn is based on a survey of over 3,900 full time professionals worldwide regarding their collaboration and meeting-related behaviors and activities. Learn More In this Issue Microsoft retreats from 'Metro,' to retire Skype app next month IDG Contributor Network: Speedier 5.4-Gigabit Wi-Fi routers coming this year Review: The best password managers for PCs, Macs, and mobile devices Introducing the scaled agile framework Amazon Web Services jumps on Spark bandwagon WHITE PAPER: LogMeIn Collaboration 2.0 Death of the Web Conference This new study from Ovum and join.me by LogMeIn is based on a survey of over 3,900 full time professionals worldwide regarding their collaboration and meeting-related behaviors and activities. Learn More Microsoft retreats from 'Metro,' to retire Skype app next month Microsoft today said it would retire the "Modern," née "Metro," app for Skype in less than four weeks, abandoning it for the more traditional Windows desktop application."We're simplifying your PC experience down to one app that you can use either with your mouse and keyboard or with touch," said Aga Guzik, the lead for desktop product marketing at Luxembourg-based Skype, Microsoft's instant message, audio and video chat service. "Starting on July 7, we're updating PC users of the Windows modern application to the Windows desktop application, and retiring the modern application."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: LogMeIn Collaboration 2.0 Death of the Web Conference This new study from Ovum and join.me by LogMeIn is based on a survey of over 3,900 full time professionals worldwide regarding their collaboration and meeting-related behaviors and activities. Learn More IDG Contributor Network: Speedier 5.4-Gigabit Wi-Fi routers coming this year It seems like I was only just writing about the new, up-to-3.2 Gbps Wi-Fi routers, such as the drone look-alike D-Link DIR-890L.In fact, it was all of six-months ago, in my post, "Is it time to move to beamforming 802.11ac?"Well, that generation of wireless networking gear using beamforming and combining multiple bands, is about to be superseded. Microprocessor-maker Broadcom has launched new 5.4 Gbps-capable chips that will appear in routers later this year.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WEBCAST: Red Hat Bringing Analytics to the Masses with OpenShift Enterprise FICO, a data analytics software company, diversified into new markets with its core offering, which provides on-premise software to large businesses. Learn how FICO can create, customize, and deploy applications and services using RED The Decision Management Platform and more. Learn more >> Review: The best password managers for PCs, Macs, and mobile devices Thanks to a continuous barrage of high-profile computer security scares and reports of cloud-scale government snooping, more of us Internet users are wising up about the security of our information. One of the smarter moves we can make to protect ourselves is to use a password manager. It's one of the easiest too.A password manager won't shield you against Heartbleed or the NSA, but it's an excellent first step in securing your identity, helping you increase the strength of the passwords that protect your online accounts because it will remember those passwords for you. A password manager will even randomly generate strong passwords, without requiring you to memorize or write down these random strings of characters. These strong passwords help shield against traditional password attacks such as dictionary, rainbow tables, or brute-force attacks.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Introducing the scaled agile framework "Size clearly matters. You probably couldn't run an XP (Extreme Programming) Project with a hundred programmers. Nor 50. Nor 20, probably. Ten is definitely doable ..." – Kent Beck, “Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change,” 1st Edition, [Publication date: 2000] These days, some software teams have hundreds of programmers. Many of them are on multi-year projects and working on ongoing programs – software that might have a shelf life of more than a decade. Those projects are complex, in-flight and with no easy concept of done. Agile software development methodologies, in which individuals, interactions and cross-functional teams are valued over processes, comprehensive documentation and set-in-stone plans, have been nothing if not disruptive for big companies used to tight controls on developing the custom software they need to run their business. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Amazon Web Services jumps on Spark bandwagon Amazon Web Services’ EMR (Elastic MapReduce) service has been upgraded to handle Spark applications, giving enterprises that want to use the increasingly popular processing engine a way to do so without building their own infrastructure.Apache Spark is an open-source distributed processing engine used for big data workloads. It’s a good fit for batch processing, streaming, graph databases and machine learning thanks to in-memory caching and optimized execution for fast performance, according to Amazon.EMR supports Spark version 1.3.1 and utilizes Hadoop YARN as the cluster manager. Running Spark on top of EMR has been possible before, but the integrated support should make using the engine more straightforward. IT staff can create a cluster from the AWS Management Console, for example. Spark applications developed using Scala, Python, Java, and SQL can all run on EMR.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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