Nine 'everything-as-a-service’ (Xaas) companies to watch

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	Nine 'everything-as-a-service' (Xaas) companies to watch Everything as a Service (XaaS) describes, well, everything that can be offered as a cloud-based IT service. It's a pretty wide swath of service categories with a long list of products in each. To narrow the field a bit, we asked industry analysts and practitioners to list the companies they are watching in the three XaaS categories that are currently bubbling to the top in terms of enterprise interest: Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS), Monitoring/Management as a Service (MaaS) and Network as aService (NaaS). Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn Provide instant remote support with LogMeIn Rescue With LogMeIn Rescue, you can start a support session in just 60 seconds. Connect 24/7 to PCs, Macs, smartphones and tablets. You'll get in, solve the problem and save the day without ever leaving your desk. Try it free today. In this Issue Network packet brokers increase visibility and performance 25 essential business apps for Android Microsoft delivers missing Lync for telemed project WAN optimization: the key WAN technology advance of the past decade Fix your Wi-Fi network: 7 tips SDN revolution or evolution: Impact on the IT manager The cloud services explosion Hendrickson keeps on truckin' with UCaaS Zenoss boards the programmable data-center bus It's time for wireless LANs to evolve Dept. of Energy wants electric utilities to create "cybersecurity governance board" WHITE PAPER: Cisco Cisco Bring Your Own Device This paper explores the challenges mobile devices create for IT, offers key considerations before adopting a BYOD strategy and highlights a comprehensive architecture from Cisco that enables freedom of choice for users while affording IT security and control. Learn more. Network packet brokers increase visibility and performance Enterprises are deploying more security, monitoring and acceleration tools on their networks today. More data at higher velocities is coming at these tools and in a variety forms, including voice, video and data. A new wave of solutions called network packet brokers is emerging to provide a more intelligent network security and monitoring approach with granular visibility down to the link layer. Read on to see how you can benefit from NPBs. Read More 25 essential business apps for Android As Android devices continue to invade the enterprise, workers are beginning to rely on them as much as, if not more than, than laptops and desktops. In addition to basic email, plenty of other business-related tasks are moving to smartphones, including expense tracking, social media updates and even on-the-go invoicing. It can be tough finding the right app for the right task, but here are 25 essential business apps for Android (note: the last five require an enterprise component). Read More Microsoft delivers missing Lync for telemed project As Microsoft works to convince corporate IT that the underlying VoIP technology in its Lync unified communications platform has the chops to support the slew of applications the Redmond giant has built on top of it, there's no shortage of smaller-scale customers deploying it for interesting uses. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Bring Your Own Mobile Devices to School In today's educational environments, more and more students, guests, and faculty are bringing in their own Wi-Fi devices into the school's network. This paper discusses the challenges and solutions IT administrators are facing and how to address the security and management of the multiple devices being introduced into the wireless/wired network. Learn more. WAN optimization: the key WAN technology advance of the past decade With combination of disk-based deduplication and fixing Microsoft CIFS for the WAN, Riverbed led in enabling data center consolidation Read More Fix your Wi-Fi network: 7 tips Wireless Internet networks afford us the luxury of browsing the Web cable-free, but a connection that relies on radio waves is subject to failure due to interference, signal range limits, hardware problems, and operator error. With that in mind, we've put together a quick guide to the most common Wi-Fi troubles and how to fix them. Read More SDN revolution or evolution: Impact on the IT manager There has been a lot of hype concerning software defined networks (SDN) and OpenFlow. What does SDN mean for you, and how should enterprises prepare for the coming changes in network architectures? Read More WHITE PAPER: Xirrus Tablets in the Enterprise Tablets are replacing laptops at lightning speed. Whether company-issued or part of the BYOD phenomenon, the increased use of smart devices has resulted in a dramatic shift in network traffic with an emphasis on wireless. This paper explains how to predict Wi-Fi demands and architect a best-fit wireless network strategy for your environment. Learn more. The cloud services explosion If you follow cloud computing, you're no doubt familiar with software-as a service, typically associated with Salesforce.com, or infrastructure as a service, which was pioneered by Amazon.com. But how about CaaS, SECaaS, DaaS, MaaS and BaaS? Read More Hendrickson keeps on truckin' with UCaaS Hendrickson International Corporation is a leading global supplier of truck, tractor, bus and recreational vehicle suspension and heavy-duty spring components to the commercial transportation industry. Read More Zenoss boards the programmable data-center bus Responding to the trend of streamlining data-center management, Zenoss has added to its network monitoring software support for a popular open-source messaging bus. Read More It's time for wireless LANs to evolve Tablet computing, smartphones and the current BYOD craze have put a significant emphasis on the corporate wireless LAN network. Even in this current macro where IT spending seems to be in a bit of a lull, one of the few areas of enterprise networking spend that's growing is Wi-Fi. Read More Dept. of Energy wants electric utilities to create "cybersecurity governance board" The Dept. of Energy (DoE) has issued a call for to electric-power companies that encourages them to make cybersecurity a top priority by setting up a "cybersecurity governance board" to oversee an internal cybersecurity program for protection and share information with the DoE. Read More
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