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	Wi-Fi client surge forcing fresh wireless LAN thinking Mobile Wi-Fi clients are surging on wireless LANs. The growth is forcing IT groups to adapt to a new, more dynamic RF environment and rethink WLAN design. Read More 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. 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Earlier this month Mitel announced its new focus on enabling call control and UC applications to run on general purpose VMware hypervisors. Now, WAN optimization controller (WOC) vendors are also delivering virtualized support for their applications, further reducing the need for stand-alone appliances. Read More Cisco again looks to debunk the multivendor network In its second attempt to debase arguments that a multivendor network is more beneficial to users than a single-vendor infrastructure, Cisco this week hosted a webcast of two customers discussing the merits of their all-Cisco networks. Read More Tips for navigating the evolving wireless LAN landscape The influx of mobile clients is accelerating an IT rethink of wireless LAN design and operations. 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SGI, Intel plan to speed up supercomputers 500 times by 2018 Silicon Graphics International hopes by 2018 to build supercomputers 500 times faster than the most powerful today, using specially designed accelerator chips made by Intel, SGI's chief technology officer said. Read More Data center startups emerging to solve virtualization and cloud problems A host of new data center startups are coming on the scene to help IT shops handle the challenges posed by virtualized infrastructures and cloud computing. Read More IT admins gone wild: 5 rogues to watch out for You can't survive without them. They wield enormous power over your systems, networks, and data -- the very lifeblood of your organization. Few people outside IT have any understanding of what they do, and fewer still exercise any oversight over their actions. Read More High-density design a top Wi-Fi issue Wi-Fi-enabled iPhones and iPads, Android phones and tablets, and BlackBerries and PlayBooks continue to pour onto the enterprise WLAN. As a result, high-density wireless usage is no longer only an issue in vertical markets like education, healthcare and hospitality. Read More
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