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	Cisco's 10 most opportunistic acquisitions These acquisitions helped Cisco jump on market trends early on, and take hold of them as they grow into money-makers. Read More WHITE PAPER: 8x8, Inc SMB Disaster Recovery Strategies Small and midsize businesses are finding a silver lining in cloud communications. Geographical diversity in communications and backup can keep a business up and running no matter the disaster so long as one employee can access a mobile phone or the Internet. Learn how to get your company back in business during a disaster. Learn more >> In this Issue Cisco, Google make nice on videoconferencing Troubleshooting Cisco's IWAN: It all depends on network visibility 13 cool high-tech prize competitions Hopped-up Helicopters: DARPA funds radically faster, stronger aircraft Big data, big pay: 10 data jobs with climbing salaries 12 hot security start-ups you need to know WHITE PAPER: IBM Designed to be the best Power Systems continues to prove itself as the ultimate system for compute intensive workloads, high performance analytics, high performance UNIX*, and high performance computing. Learn More Cisco, Google make nice on videoconferencing Owners of Google Chromebooks will be able to quickly join Cisco Webex conferences with an application demonstrated for the first time today at Enterprise Connect. Read More Troubleshooting Cisco's IWAN: It all depends on network visibility The network industry has largely been focused on network transformation over the past few years. Most of the vendors, though, have been geared towards the evolution of the data center network. It's time that businesses started looking at evolving the wide area network (WAN) as this is often where the biggest pain points is for application performance. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Corporation Extreme Warehouse Speed for Fast Business Decisions Informix ebook highlighting benefits of making decisions 'at the speed of business'; and discusses optimizing warehouse performance; and simplifying resources View Now 13 cool high-tech prize competitions NASA, DARPA, IBM and others offer prize money for your time and expertise Read More Hopped-up Helicopters: DARPA funds radically faster, stronger aircraft The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency today embarked on it plan to build a super vertical take off and landing or VTOL aircraft that can fly fast and carry a big load. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP SANS Survey on Network Security Results This study details a survey of 439 IT security and network professionals conducted by the SANS Institute. It explores use of IPS within respondents' organizations and their plans for future NGIPS. Read the results to understand how contemporaries are using IPS and how NGIPS is evolving to counter today's cyber threat. Learn More Big data, big pay: 10 data jobs with climbing salaries Learn more about the salaries, skills requirements, and typical duties of 10 data-centric IT jobs. The highest paying is data warehouse manager, with starting salaries ranging from $115,250 to $154,250. Read More 12 hot security start-ups you need to know The willingness to invest in new security start-ups is continuing at such a breakneck pace that start-ups still in stealth mode are getting snapped up by more established players before they even publicly introduce their security products and services. Read More
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