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	2013 IT salaries: 15 titles getting the biggest pay raises Certain IT titles will be getting sizable salary hikes, according to data from recruiting and staffing specialist Robert Half Technology. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Tie Together Multi-Vendor Devices in the Enterprise Network The complexity of multi-vendor network management is bogging down IT. Discover a platform that provides comprehensive insights into the network across the entire enterprise – from wired and wireless networks to physical and virtual environments. Manage all network resources, services and users with one tool, regardless of device manufacturer. Learn More In this Issue 11 sorriest tech companies of 2012 Teen CEO launches storage startup; catches Facebook's eye Cisco VP to memo leaker: Finding you is now 'my hobby' AT&T to invest $14B for wireless and wired networks over three years 'World's largest' telecom deal turns out to be a dud Are lawyers getting in the way of cloud-based security? Brocade buys Cisco nemesis Vyatta Apple seeks standard to appease angry university net managers Gartner's IaaS Magic Quadrant: a who's who of cloud market Smart meters not so clever about privacy, researchers find Yawns may greet Microsoft Office port to iOS and Android 7 things we love/hate about Microsoft Office 2013 for Windows RT RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn LogMeIn Central: Automate, Monitor and Manage PCs. LogMeIn lets you Monitor and Manage PCs, deliver patches and updates to multiple PCS simultaneously. Central helps IT deliver seamless support that keeps employees productive and up and running. LogMeIn Central - automate routine tasks and do more. Free Trial 11 sorriest tech companies of 2012 Vendors apologize in 2012 for everything from Apple Maps to Cisco Connect Cloud to outage after outage and breach after breach Read More Teen CEO launches storage startup; catches Facebook's eye Just a few years ago, Andrew Mayhall had to decide whether to continue his unique education or drop out of school to start his own server company. Now, he's mulling another major decision - whether to continue discussions about potentially selling that company and working for Facebook, or to follow the entrepreneurial path Facebook's founder laid out when he was around Mayhall's age. Read More Cisco VP to memo leaker: Finding you is now 'my hobby' Cisco vice president of services Mike Quinn, a former CIA operations officer, believes that whoever recently leaked an internal company memo to a blogger committed corporate treason and violated a "family" trust. In an email sent to Cisco employees, Quinn invites the anonymous leaker to voluntarily step forward, concedes that such a confession is unlikely, and adds, "so I will now make (finding) you... Read More AT&T to invest $14B for wireless and wired networks over three years AT&T will invest $14 billion over the next three years for wireless and wired capital improvements, including an expansion of 4G LTE service to 300 million people by the end of 2014. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T VoIP Solutions Provide Enterprises With Various Benefits VoIP migration is a top telecom priority for many North American enterprises. Do you know why? Find out in this Forrester study, which reveals the opinions of telecommunications decision-makers like you. Read the report. 'World's largest' telecom deal turns out to be a dud Originally billed as the world's largest telecommunications purchase, the U.S. government's Networx contract is turning out to be chump change for the five carriers involved in the deal. Halfway through its 10-year term, the contract has driven around $2 billion in revenue compared to projections as high as $34 billion for this stage of the program. Read More Are lawyers getting in the way of cloud-based security? In an age where enterprises and their employees are being relentlessly targeted with malware-based phishing, denial-of-service and other attacks, the ability of the IT security staff to defend their networks and valuable corporate data faces yet one more obstacle, according to some: their own company lawyers. Read More Brocade buys Cisco nemesis Vyatta Brocade has announced its acquisition of Vyatta, a privately held maker of open source-based network software, for an undisclosed amount of cash. Read More Apple seeks standard to appease angry university net managers Under fire from its customers in the higher education market, Apple has proposed creating a new industry standard that would fix problems with its Bonjour zero configuration networking technology that is causing scalability and security problems on campus networks. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Ipswitch Wired & Wireless Networks? WhatsUp Gold can help! As an IT manager, you're busy taking care of the availability, performance & security of your company's IT infrastructure. But things like BYOD, rogue devices, AP over-subscription & bandwidth policy abuse can make that complex. WhatsUp Gold provides ONE dashboard to visualize, isolate & resolve wireless problems before they impact your organization. Stop being the last to know about your wireless issues- Try WhatsUp Gold free for 30 days! Gartner's IaaS Magic Quadrant: a who's who of cloud market The cloud market can be a big, daunting place. Seemingly every tech vendor has a cloud strategy, with new products and services dubbed "cloud" coming out every week. But who are the real market leaders? Research firm Gartner's answer lies in its Magic Quadrant report for the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market. Read More Smart meters not so clever about privacy, researchers find Researchers at the University of South Carolina have discovered that some types of electricity meter are broadcasting unencrypted information that, with the right software, would enable eavesdroppers to determine whether you're at home. Read More Yawns may greet Microsoft Office port to iOS and Android Microsoft's most iconic application suite -- Microsoft Office -- will be moving off the PC and the Windows OS to two mobile platforms, iOS and Android, in early 2013. But will customers in the enterprise, where Office has been a PC standard for years, really care? Read More 7 things we love/hate about Microsoft Office 2013 for Windows RT Read More
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