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	Extreme CEO: New products in 2012, growth in 2013 After years of stagnant or lackluster growth, Extreme Networks tapped Oscar Rodriguez to bring new life to the switch maker in 2010. He scrutinized global operations, streamlined the product line and brought a new focus that he says will really come through this spring with a new wave of switches. Read More WHITE PAPER: Splice Communications The Real Cost of Dealing with Carriers By working with a single-source provider, customers get a dedicated team of experienced telecom professionals. This relieves you of complex and confusing carrier management tasks, letting you focus on your company's top objectives and projects. Read Now! In this Issue Tower, tower, come in tower 25 useful iPad business apps ZK Research Network Predictions for 2012 Security minefield: 'Bring your own device' will bedevil IT security in 2012 Timeline: The birth and death of the AT&T/T-Mobile merger Look, touch and feel: How your mobile interface will morph in 2012 Chinese hack on U.S. Chamber went undetected for 6 months Reduced copper network access prices would hurt fiber, say EU groups AT&T, Verizon LTE nets offer similar data download, Web browsing speeds WHITE PAPER: AMD Make Virtual Desktops a Valuable Reality with AMD This paper will explore how the fast-emerging trend of "desktop virtualization" is giving IT managers a potent solution for tackling the problems associated with PC sprawl. Read More! Tower, tower, come in tower It is hard to put your finger on any one thing that sums up developments in the world of IT this year, but a speaker at one of Network World's recent IT Roadmap conferences had an interesting analogy that seems apt. Read More 25 useful iPad business apps Need to take care of business? These iPad apps will help you get the job done. They can do it all -- provide remote access to a Mac or PC, let you edit documents and synchronize files, turn your tablet into a spare monitor, set you up to attend online meetings with colleagues, and even take dictation. Read More ZK Research Network Predictions for 2012 2011 was a turbulent year in networking. The disruption was lead by major megatrends such as consumerizaton, mobility, virtualization and cloud computing. I'm predicting that 2012 will be a year in which the industry sees Cisco stay aggressive, the start of fabric wars, partners become enemies, and vendor consolidation through acquisition. Read More WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. A New Look at Payment Security Akamai Edge Tokenization takes much of the cost and complexity out of eCommerce. By tokenizing critical payment data before it reaches your PCI-regulated infrastructure, Akamai relieves your organization from what experts consider the most important and challenging PCI requirement. Read more Security minefield: 'Bring your own device' will bedevil IT security in 2012 The rapid adoption of the newest mobile devices -- especially the Apple iPhone and iPad and the Google Android-based equivalents -- will be a huge disruptive force in enterprise security next year. Not only will there be pressure to decide how to protect and manage these devices, which are growing as malware targets, the complexity of this task is magnified many times over because companies are allowing employees to use their own personal smartphones and tablets for business purposes -- what's sometime called "bring your own device" (BYOD). Read More Timeline: The birth and death of the AT&T/T-Mobile merger In retrospect, it's not hard to see why AT&T thought its proposed $39 billion merger with T-Mobile would sail through with relatively no issues. Read More Look, touch and feel: How your mobile interface will morph in 2012 The mobile user interface is set for a range of changes in the next 12-24 months, creating new modes for users to interact with their devices, and with other devices nearby and network-based services. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Aerohive Corporate Brochure The way that Wi-Fi is being used and the requirements on an enterprise Wi-Fi network are going through a fundamental and generational change, so much so that we are calling it Wireless 2.0. It's not a new term, but it is a relevant one. Read now. Chinese hack on U.S. Chamber went undetected for 6 months Chinese hackers lurked in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce network for six months without being detected, enjoying unrestricted access although it is unknown what information they exploited, according to a published report. Read More Reduced copper network access prices would hurt fiber, say EU groups The European Commission's plan to lower access prices to copper networks in order to boost next generation networks is flawed, say Europe's leading telecoms organizations. Read More AT&T, Verizon LTE nets offer similar data download, Web browsing speeds Data downloads and Web browsing on new LTE-ready smartphones were slightly faster on AT&T's new 4G LTE network than on the far more widely spread 4G LTE network of rival Verizon Read More
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