Cisco, others may see a 4% hike in IT spending

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	Cisco, others may see a 4% hike in IT spending Gartner has lowered its IT spending forecast for 2012 down to 3.7% from 4.6%, meaning companies like Cisco and its competitors will be fighting harder for fewer bucks. Gartner says that growth rates in computing hardware, enterprise software, IT services and telecom equipment and services, will slow this year due to a series of factors: Read More WHITE PAPER: Splice Communications Offloading Telecom Delivers a Big Payback for IT Inaccurate invoices, complicated contracts, slow provisioning and poor support from Telecom carriers wastes time, money and resources. Learn the difference a custom data network solutions provider can deliver. Read Now! In this Issue 5 major changes facing the Internet in 2012 Avaya: Top 10 pitfalls with UC implementations Cisco rival facing a mixed quarter? 7 Signs You've Outsourced Too Much to IT Service Providers New Versions of the Cisco Cius - Excitement or Shoulder Shrugs? Consumerization creates IT management blind spots, increases business risk: survey Security roundup: DOD revving up cyber-defense for 2012; Microsoft to have big January Patch Tuesday FBI warns of new Zeus-based malware in phishing scam EPA wants your environment pictures, issues public photo challenge 9 hot technology startups to watch in 2012 WHITE PAPER: MegaPath Today's Network: Make It a Strategic, Future-Proof Asset Today's small and mid-sized organizations support dozens of applications and hundreds of devices and mobile workers. Network congestion has become a risk, as users change offices, work from home and add devices at will. SMBs need simplification in the form of network convergence. And a managed service provider can help. View Now 5 major changes facing the Internet in 2012 2012 is poised to go down in Internet history as one of the most significant 12-month periods from both a technical and policy perspective since the late 1990s, when this network-of-networks stopped being a research project and became an engine of economic growth. Read More Avaya: Top 10 pitfalls with UC implementations Webtorials and Avaya have once again provided a great reference for those considering a unified communications (UC) deployment. The white paper, titled "Why UC Implementations Fail," reviews the top 10 pitfalls that organizations should consider when as they move through the UC implementation process. Read More Cisco rival facing a mixed quarter? Juniper's enterprise business is tracking well but the compnay still may face some challenges in 2012 as four major new products ramp. For Cisco, this is good news - enterprises are spending, which means they'll buy Cisco stuff as well as Juniper's - and its rival's product transition may also open up some opportunity. Read More WEBCAST: Aerohive Wi-Fi Management Moves to the Cloud Once you've enabled your people to work from virtually anywhere, anytime, and on any device, you need to maintain essential security and control under the constant pressure to drive down cost, while increasing productivity and growth. Enter the Cloud. Learn more. 7 Signs You've Outsourced Too Much to IT Service Providers Have you outsourced too many IT services? Once an organization gets a taste of the benefits of IT outsourcing, the hunger for more naturally increases. But the ROI quickly diminishes as internal IT service organization shrink. If these seven traits apply to your company, you've outsourced too much. Read More New Versions of the Cisco Cius - Excitement or Shoulder Shrugs? Cisco recently announced that it will release both smaller and larger versions of its Cius tablets in 2012. While this is potentially exciting news, it also may be met with quite a bit of indifference. This is Cisco's ongoing attempt to get into a highly competitive, highly loyal, consumer market space. Read More Consumerization creates IT management blind spots, increases business risk: survey As end users bring their own devices to work, download apps and sign up for cloud services, it's getting harder for IT to maintain application visibility and control performance. Trends such as consumerization, mobility and cloud computing are also increasing business risk, CIOs say. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Rethink Your Branch Network Strategy In today's virtual enterprise, access to corporate resources must be secure, reliable, and manageable, with consistently enforced policy while simultaneously allowing access from anywhere at any time. This is why access network strategies have become critical to business growth. View Now Security roundup: DOD revving up cyber-defense for 2012; Microsoft to have big January Patch Tuesday Buried in the lengthy National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, the $622 billion defense spending bill which was signed into law by President Obama on Dec. 31, 2011, are some interesting nuggets about how the U.S. military wants to expand its cyber-defense strategy over the course of this year. Read More FBI warns of new Zeus-based malware in phishing scam So long as people click on unsolicited attachments in email, scammers will invent new ways to take their money, identities and more. Read More EPA wants your environment pictures, issues public photo challenge Challenges from US government agencies are all the rage these days and the Environmental Protection Read More 9 hot technology startups to watch in 2012 Nine networking and IT startups that could hit the big-time in 2012. 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