RingCentral buys Glip; integrates with Oracle Sales Cloud

	Microsoft testing new Office 365 features to entice educators | Wireless charging gets faster thanks to new Qi power spec
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	RingCentral buys Glip; integrates with Oracle Sales Cloud RingCentral, a cloud communication solutions provider, announced it has acquired Glip, a company that develops cloud-based applications including messaging and collaboration. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Digitizing The Enterprise Creates Content Challenges IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine these growing content transformation usage requirements within enterprise organizations. Learn More In this Issue Microsoft testing new Office 365 features to entice educators Wireless charging gets faster thanks to new Qi power spec A Facebook account is no longer needed for Messenger INSIDER Morale boosters: 5 proven ways to motivate your IT team Juniper's third attempt at WLANs Juniper, Ruckus join hands with an eye on mobile growth WHITE PAPER: ATTO Technology, Inc Cut Costs & Boost Performance with Software Defined Storage A transition is underway from standard data center infrastructures to cloud-enabled, software-defined ones that permit resources to be scaled in response to evolving business needs. Software Defined Storage (SDS) brings the benefits of virtualization to storage infrastructure by enabling a modular approach that abstracts software from hardware. Learn More Microsoft testing new Office 365 features to entice educators Microsoft announced a private beta for a pair of new services Wednesday aimed at making its Office 365 service work better in schools.The new Classroom Hub is a website that brings together content from different Office applications into a single, central location that teachers and students can use to stay on top of what’s going on in their classes. The service can pull in notes, assignments, calendars and class materials to provide a digital home for all of the information that students need to know. Teachers will also be able to track progress on assignments and provide students with feedback and grades through the site.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Wireless charging gets faster thanks to new Qi power spec A new Qi wireless charging specification will let electronics makers build much faster wireless power options into their products, but how long will you have to wait for compatible devices to become available? Read More WHITE PAPER: CommVault 5 Reasons Your Storage Snapshots Aren't Working Snapshot-based data protection solutions were supposed to solve our backup challenges, weren't they? Then why are your backups still broken? If your snapshots are manually-managed or of the build-it-yourself variety, there may be several reasons that they aren't working very well. Learn more about the top reasons your snapshots are failing. Learn More A Facebook account is no longer needed for Messenger Facebook wants to squeeze as much growth as it can out of its popular Messenger app, even if that means foregoing Facebook.While previously users had to sign up for Messenger with their Facebook accounts, now, in a few countries, it can be done with just a mobile telephone number. In the U.S., Canada, Peru and Venezuela, users who sign up this way can allow the app to sync with the contacts on their phone so they can easily find people to message.Along with the phone number, the user’s name and photo are still needed to complete the sign-up process.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More INSIDER Morale boosters: 5 proven ways to motivate your IT team Disengaged teams foster a toxic and unproductive work environment. When motivation slips, here's what you can do to get staff back on track. Read More : Cloudera Hospital Applies Enriched Data Analysis to Improve Care One of the leading pediatric healthcare facilities in the US knows children are not just small adults.This national children's hospital relies on a big data platform to better understand its patients, their conditions, and the quality of care they receive in support of its mission: to make kids better today and healthier tomorrow. View more Juniper's third attempt at WLANs Boom! Back to Square One.Juniper’s been attempting to offer wireless LANs for five years. The company is now on its third attempt in that timeframe.One year after announcing a comprehensive integration, development and go-to-market agreement with Aruba Networks, Juniper is now announcing same with Ruckus Wireless. The impetus is simple: Juniper switching competitor HP bought Aruba.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Juniper, Ruckus join hands with an eye on mobile growth The alliance between Juniper Networks and Ruckus Wireless announced on Tuesday underscores the importance of Wi-Fi in enterprises, where employees increasingly work and access cloud applications on mobile devices.Juniper and Ruckus say they’re joining forces to build integrated wired and wireless infrastructures while keeping their technologies open and standards-based. The companies focused on enterprises in announcing the partnership, but they will also integrate technologies for service-provider networks, Ruckus Vice President of Corporate Marketing David Callisch said.As Wi-Fi gets faster and more workers use laptops and other portable devices, more enterprises see wireless as a real alternative to traditional ethernet LANs, said Gartner analyst Tim Zimmerman. Some networks based on IEEE 802.11ac theoretically can deliver more speed than Gigabit ethernet, and the second wave of that technology now emerging will offer more than 6Gbps on the top end.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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