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	Cisco pays $5 billion for video company buy Cisco this week said it will acquire NDS Group Ltd., a provider of video software and content security systems for service providers and media companies, for $5 billion. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Microsoft Try Microsoft Office 365, free Collaborate in the cloud with Office, Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync videoconferencing. Access, edit, and share documents. Starting at $8/user/month. Try it free. In this Issue Cisco Rolls out its Next Generation Fabric Computing Advanced tech conflict: China's rare earth stranglehold Wordless tribute to a machine that moved millions of voices CIA director tells a funny computer engineering joke Avaya giving UC line a video boost with $230M Radvision buyout From Coca-Cola: How to empower IT It's Time For An Enterprise Encryption Strategy WHITE PAPER: Bradford Networks BYOD Deluge This white paper will explore network access control (NAC) and mobile device management (MDM) and how together they can enable IT departments to effectively oversee devices and the network in this new era of IT consumerization. Learn more. Cisco Rolls out its Next Generation Fabric Computing Cisco as a server vendor! Ha! Read More Advanced tech conflict: China's rare earth stranglehold The battle over access to rare earth materials, critical components of all manner of advanced technologies from smartphones and computers to aircraft and cars, raged again this week as the United States, Europe and Japan joined forces to challenge China's restrictions on exports of the metals. The crux of the situation: China controls some 95% of the world's rare earth materials and sets prices and access to the materials willy-nilly and of course has threatened to cut off access to the stuff at the drop of a hat. The U.S. and Australia have begun mining rare earth materials but they are years away from equaling China's production. So the battle rages. Here's a look at the conflict. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Can Your Network Infrastructure Handle It All? Virtualization and other application layer technologies demand unification. The first step to creating a unified IT department that can build application-aware infrastructure is creating an inventory that reflects all resources that were once held in silos. Answer the 7 questions in this eGuide to get started. Learn More Now! Wordless tribute to a machine that moved millions of voices AT&T has given new life to "The Hello Machine," a 1974 wordless film that celebrates the hand-crafting by Western Electric workers of a complete Electronic Switching System, which at the time was not yet 10-year-old technology. Directed by Carroll Ballard ("Never Cry Wolf," "The Black Stallion"), the 11-minute "film-poem" was posted to the AT&T Tech Channel on YouTube earlier this month. Read More CIA director tells a funny computer engineering joke Had to pass this one along. Seems CIA Director David Petraeus made an amusing computer engineering joke to start of his speech at the recent In-Q-Tel CEO Summit. It goes like this: Read More WHITE PAPER: FireEye FireEye Advanced Threat Report – 2H2011 This report is unique in that it is not an analysis of well-known malware or billions of spam messages. Instead, we provide insight into the threats that are successful and therefore dangerous -- those which got through traditional defenses and into enterprise networks in 2H 2011. Read now. Avaya giving UC line a video boost with $230M Radvision buyout In a move aimed at enhancing video capabilities in its unified communications offering, Avaya announced plans Thursday to purchase videoconferencing company Radvision for $230 million. Read More From Coca-Cola: How to empower IT As the CIO of the Coca-Cola's Bottling Investments Group, Javier Polit has strong ideas about how to ensure that IT is in sync with the company's business needs. Read More It's Time For An Enterprise Encryption Strategy A few years ago, I began writing and talking about data encryption management problems on the horizon. I was right about the issues but a bit aggressive on the timing. Based on what I'm seeing lately however, the encryption management sky may finally be falling (or at least starting to fall). Read More
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