| How not to get 'royally screwed' on wireless costs
Wireless plans are a great place to start for companies looking to cut communications costs, with one firm reporting at VoiceCon that it saved $33,000 per month by renegotiating unfavorable contracts. Cisco blows away Q1 expectations
Even the bullish forecasts for Cisco's Q1 fell far short. Cisco this week posted first quarter results that far exceeded Wall Street, and its own, expectations. Cisco/EMC cloud packages proprietary, but may not cause lock-in
The private cloud packages developed by Cisco and EMC could integrate with existing internal clouds. About that "extra fee" Verizon is charging for Droid users to access Exchange email...
Verizon yesterday got kicked around the Internet for allegedly planning to charge business users of Motorola's Droid smartphone extra to access Exchange email behind the corporate firewall. The only problem with that meme is that it's not true. RIM Still Hasn't Recovered From The Blackberry Storm
The Blackberry Bold is getting good attention but the mobile SmartPhone world has become a two horse race between the Apple iPhone and the Motorola/Google Droid. Even with the new Blackberry Storm 2 model, the Storm missed its window to be a serious contender against the iPhone (despite all my ill advised pro-Storm predictions). Report: Microsoft to ax 800 more jobs (but top five execs earn $31 million)
Microsoft said on Wednesday that it will cut 800 more jobs, bringing total cuts to 5,800 including the layoffs it announced in January. The company was not specific as to what kinds of jobs would be eliminated nor in what locations. AT&T's lawsuit over Verizon ads could backfire, some argue
AT&T's lawsuit against Verizon Wireless over its TV ads could be a public relations mistake, some analysts said. How to Create a Virtual PC on Windows 7
Windows 7 is already a big hit for Microsoft, according to market-share tracker Net Applications, which shows it rising past all the extant versions of Linux and Windows except Vista and XP and into fourth place hot on the heels of the Mac OS X 10.5. Proactive Strategies for Pandemia
It seems my last post was timely regarding network access during and through a pandemic. Gartner Group came out the next day with their list of concerns, which were quite similar to mine. They also mentioned a strategy which I had talked about with my colleague but forgot to include in my post -- the use of WAN optimization technologies as a hedge against Internet congestion. Do collaboration tools enable collaboration?
At the recent IT Roadmap conference in Washington D.C. there was a panel discussion about how the younger generation uses tools such as texting to stay in touch with friends. One of the implications of the discussion was that the younger generation is more facile with collaboration than is the current workforce. Cisco computer game lets you play CEO
If you want to be a CEO but not have any of the real responsibilities of one, you could try to play a new online game being offered by Cisco. The company this week posted myPlanNet, a computer game that lets anyone be a broadband executive making network deployment decisions. November giveaways
Cisco Subnet is giving away free books on VMware vSphere security. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons and free books on Exchange Server 2010. Google Subnet is giving away free books on Android app development. Entry forms can be found on the main contest page. Trivia answers are revealed on each main Subnet page. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are | 
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