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Cisco declares war on Microsoft unified communications system
Cisco chose the eve of Microsoft's first Lync conference to attack the Microsoft unified communications platform as incomplete when compared to Cisco's enterprise UC offerings. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Brocade Communications

Meeting Campus LAN Challenges
IT administrators serving K-12 and higher education institutions face a host of daunting challenges managing today's campus networks. These challenges include large and unpredictable user populations, complex and antiquated network infrastructures. Learn more.

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Expert Insights on Building a User Experience Network
Join guest speaker, Forrester Research, Inc. Principal Analyst Andre Kindness and First State Bank IT leader Tristan Smith as they discuss the importance of putting end-users at the forefront of your network design. Learn More.

Quick look: Did China's army hack US companies?
Security firm Mandiant says that for past seven years a group inside China's People's Liberation Army hacked 141 companies. Read More

Cisco puts a huge value on the 'Internet of everything'
The so-called "Internet of everything," the rapidly approaching world where objects from refrigerators to factory robots can talk to people and other machines, will create a massive business opportunity worth $14.4 trillion over the next decade, according to a new study from Cisco Systems. Read More

WHITE PAPER: F5

Scale Your DNS Infrastructure to Protect Your Business
DNS continues to be a tempting target for attackers, and when they succeed in disrupting DNS, all external data center services are affected. This paper helps organizations confronting these growth and security challenges understand how a new, full-proxy architecture for DNS provides a complete solution for global, local, and cloud load balancing. Learn More.

How to hack the certificate for a Cisco Identity Services Engine node
I just got back from a few weeks traveling around Europe, presenting at Cisco Live Europe, and meeting with customers and partners. It is obvious that this blog is very much needed for a lot of the deployments that we discussed, so as promised in the Load Balancing Blog, I am following up with a blog on how to "hack" the certificate for a Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) node, so that we may include... Read More

Arista TAPs into a hot market for SDN apps
Despite the hype around software defined networks (SDNs), the industry has yet to find a legitimate "low-hanging fruit" for the network technology. It appears, though, that one might be emerging, as several vendors have announced TAP aggregation as an SDN application. Earlier this year, when Big Switch launched the company it announced its own product called Big TAP. Later, Cisco released TAP aggregation... Read More

WHITE PAPER: IBM Corporation

A Guide for a Successful ERP Strategy in the Midmarket
Combining an experienced service partner with an informed ERP strategy helps to maximize ROI. This helps midmarket organizations to contain costs, communicate effectively, and improve to grow into more successful organizations. Learn More.

12 Networking Tips for Shy and Anti-Social IT Pros
Being an introvert isn't the end of the world or your career. However, to be successful in the IT field today, you've got to overcome shyness and learn that it's OK to ask for (and offer) help. Read More

Cisco unveils software, hardware for hybrid wireless networks
Cisco Tuesday introduced small cell hardware and intelligent software designed to help carriers and enterprises improve wireless connections over hybrid networks made of 3G and 4G cellular and Wi-Fi technologies Read More

Drones still face major communications challenges getting onto US airspace
Communications and effective system control are still big challenges unmanned aircraft developers are facing if they want unfettered access to US airspace. Read More

HP quadruples virtual machines in new blade
Hewlett-Packard is set to deliver a new blade that will quadruple the virtual desktops that can be deployed from one server compared to the company's previous offerings. Read More

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