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	Startup touting data center fabric that will put a scare into Cisco, Juniper The ability of your data center fabric to support millions of servers with low cost and power may not be due to advances from your major switch vendor, or to standards they may embrace. Read More WHITE PAPER: Avaya Social Media in the Contact Center for Dummies Grasp the opportunities and challenges of working within the new social media market landscape. The book describes the commercial tools, as well as free ones, organizations use to manage the massive stream of information they collect from various social media channels. Read Now In this Issue 12 of the slickest designs in enterprise tech gear available today Internet shutdown 'will never happen again,' says Egypt's IT chief FCC: Rural areas still lag in broadband speeds Desktop PCs: Dead as a doornail, or maybe just a fax machine Healthcare IT jobs lucrative but tough to land 3 steps for better data center capacity planning Cisco predicts 15 billion network devices in 2015 Tilgin launches home gateways for 1G bps broadband services How to overcome new job jitters Men vs. women: Who dominates online professional networking WHITE PAPER: Avaya Video Collaboration: Lights, Camera, User Adoption Video deployment has been slow. Today, barriers are dissolving. Price points are dropping. CIOs are more engaged in driving the business forward with process and technology. Learn More 12 of the slickest designs in enterprise tech gear available today See what happens when industrial designers take the reins on enterprise gear design. Read More Internet shutdown 'will never happen again,' says Egypt's IT chief Yasser El kady survived Egypt's revolution to remain CEO of Egypt's IT development arm. He is now in the U.S. traveling city to city to meet with IT companies to assure them that Egypt remains a good place to do business. Read More FCC: Rural areas still lag in broadband speeds Many rural areas in the U.S. lack access to mid-range broadband services, a report says. Read More WHITE PAPER: Extreme Networks Networks in Motion Download this whitepaper today and discover how you can cost-effectively optimize your network for the mobile demands of today's business. Examine how IT can provide: * Personalization and intelligence. * Ease of operation. * Seamless quality of user experience. * Secure on-the-go access to public and private networks. Read now! Desktop PCs: Dead as a doornail, or maybe just a fax machine The corporate desktop has looked the same for decades: computer, keyboard, mouse, desk phone, maybe a printer. But do these tools dominate because they're the perfect combination of technology needed for work today, or is the enterprise workplace due for an extreme makeover? Read More Healthcare IT jobs lucrative but tough to land Companies in the healthcare industry are willing to pay a premium for scarce IT talent, but they're choosy about selecting new hires. For people with the right experience, it's a great time to be job hunting. Read More 3 steps for better data center capacity planning Capacity planning is no longer just a process aimed at forecasting hardware needs; it's the key to understanding and optimizing the cost of running business services through platform selection. Forrester recommends updating today's capacity planning process with three new steps to account for cost-value analysis, governance, and global planning. Read More WHITE PAPER: Avaya Independent Lab Comparative Review MierConsulting engineers conducted an hands-on, comparative review of three leading contact center packages, focusing on these products' multimedia, mixed voice and text-based contacts - capabilities. Read Now Cisco predicts 15 billion network devices in 2015 Cisco predicts large increases in broadband traffic and in connected devices between 2010 and 2015. Read More Tilgin launches home gateways for 1G bps broadband services Swedish broadband equipment maker Tilgin has launched Simba, a platform for home gateways that can handle gigabit speeds. The availability of cheaper components has made developing Simba possible, the company said on Monday. Read More How to overcome new job jitters Starting a new job creates anxiety in even the most collected, experienced professionals. It's not uncommon for people to worry about their performance, ability to come up to speed and adjust to a new work environment in the days leading up to their start date, says Ben Hicks, a partner in staffing firm Winter Wyman's software technology group. Read More Men vs. women: Who dominates online professional networking It's the battle of the network sexes. LinkedIn pits the women against the men to find out who's better at networking professionally online. Here's what they found. Read More
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