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	5 things Juniper must do to reignite growth Juniper Networks needs better marketing and execution, among other things, to turn its fortunes around. Read More WEBCAST: HP Intel VMware A Lower Entry Cost for Desktop Virtualization High entry costs and overall complexity have prevented many SMBs from taking advantage of the benefits of client virtualization. Now HP and VMware have teamed to bring desktop virtualization that delivers results right out of the box. Learn More In this Issue Cisco network really was $100 million more How one business uses social networking and BPM to handle disasters The geek skills challenge: 10 talents worth mastering Hurricane Sandy crashes Google's party, but not its Nexus announcement Sprint hits delays in LTE rollout IPv6 is not an all-or-nothing proposition Ciscogate Getting out in front of BYOD Moving beyond Hadoop for big data needs ORNL boosts U.S. supercomputing power with 20-petaflop Titan WHITE PAPER: Avaya Delivering game-changing productivity & dependability By creating one contiguous, end-to-end Fabric, Avaya is empowering businesses to achieve unprecedented levels of infrastructure productivity, service agility, and network dependability, the very essence of the fast, flexible, and secure design aspirations. Read Now Cisco network really was $100 million more The $100 million price differential between the Alcatel-Lucent and Cisco proposals to refresh California State University's 23-campus network that we wrote about earlier this week was based on an identical number of switches and routers in various configurations. Read More How one business uses social networking and BPM to handle disasters Brian Flynn, CIO at Crawford & Company, an insurance claims outsourcer, knew that the company's processes needed updating when he saw in person how its catastrophe team operated during an emergency. Read More The geek skills challenge: 10 talents worth mastering From replacing a hard drive to picking a lock, these are the skills you need to earn the name 'geek'. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T VoIP Solutions Provide Enterprises With Various Benefits VoIP migration is a top telecom priority for many North American enterprises. Do you know why? Find out in this Forrester study, which reveals the opinions of telecommunications decision-makers like you. Read the report. Hurricane Sandy crashes Google's party, but not its Nexus announcement As the East Coast prepared for Hurricane Sandy, Google cancelled its big Android announcement planned to take place in New York City today. Breaking with the Steve Jobs-style of high-drama public announcements, Google just went public with the announcement on the official Android blog. Read More Sprint hits delays in LTE rollout Sprint Nextel's deployment of its ambitious Network Vision infrastructure, which includes the gradual rollout of 4G LTE technology, is about three months behind schedule due to several factors, the company said during its financial results call. Read More IPv6 is not an all-or-nothing proposition I have recently met many people who are under the impression that an organization must transition directly from IPv4 to IPv6. Thankfully, this is not the case. You can run IPv4 and IPv6 side-by-side during the interim stage of migration. Only after a long period of running both will you eventually be able to start to disable IPv4. Read More WHITE PAPER: Shoretel Sophisticated Simplicity The key is to build simplicity and ease of use into these solutions from Day 1. This white paper will demonstrate a clear path to UC simplicity, and to overall success of UC deployments. Learn more. Ciscogate Are you a California taxpayer? If so, are you disturbed by the claims that San Jose-based Cisco Systems attempted to charge you $100 million more than its competitors for a computer network for your state university system? Read More Getting out in front of BYOD It wasn't long ago that BYO was something you'd find on a party invitation. But with the wave of employees bringing their own smartphones and tablets into the workplace and expecting to use them for email, network access and mobile apps, BYOD -- or "bring your own device" -- now represents a promising but formidable business trend that doesn't leave IT in the mood for celebration. Read More Moving beyond Hadoop for big data needs Hadoop and MapReduce have long been mainstays of the big data movement, but some companies now need new and faster ways to extract business value from massive -- and constantly growing -- datasets. Read More ORNL boosts U.S. supercomputing power with 20-petaflop Titan The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory on Monday completed the deployment of a 20-petaflop supercomputer called Titan, which the lab hopes will give the U.S. an edge over China and Japan in the race to build the world's fastest computers. Read More
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