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SDN meet sheds little light on Cisco 'Daylight' | 5 best business reasons to choose a hosted UC solution

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Cisco posts higher profit and revenue in Q2
Cisco Systems posted higher revenue and profit in its fiscal second quarter as Chairman and CEO John Chambers reiterated the company's ambitious goal to become the biggest company in IT. Read 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.

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WHITE PAPER: Netscout Systems Inc.

Good APM Practices Get Results
According to NetForecast's survey, enterprises with application performance management (APM) best practices benchmark scores above six on a ten-point scale experience 75% better results in critical areas. This research paper reveals the survey results as well as discusses the best practices for APM. Learn More.

SDN meet sheds little light on Cisco 'Daylight'
Despite the promise of SDNs and the filled sessions at Network World's Open Network Exchange conference this week, lots of questions remain on the technological trend virtually everyone says will redefine networking. Read More

5 best business reasons to choose a hosted UC solution
It seems we've been talking about the rise of hosted communications services for years now, but adoption has been rather light. I think one of the main reasons is that the features and functions available from the hosted providers historically weren't even close to what was available from the premise-based vendors. Read More

WHITE PAPER: HP, Microsoft & Intel

HP reference configuration for Premium OLTP
This paper describes a hardware and software reference architecture for using HP hardware to deploy very large and highly transactional Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 OLTP database systems in tier 1 enterprise application environments. Learn More!

Executive Order on Cybersecurity: Will It Spark Further Activity?
As Bruce Springsteen once sang, "you can't start a fire without a spark." With this in mind, President Obama issued an executive order on cybersecurity this week. Will this truly be a spark? To answer that question, it is worthwhile to start by describing what the executive order does. There are really three main points as the order: 1. Directs the Federal government (primarily DHS) to create... Read More

First bionic eye gets FDA blessing
The US Food and Drug Administration today approved what it says is the first bionic eye, or retinal prosthesis, that can partially restore the sight of blind individuals after surgical implantation. Clinical trials demonstrated that totally blind individuals could safely use the device to successfully identify the position and approximate size of objects and detect movement of nearby objects and people,... Read More

WHITE PAPER: Cisco

Research Report--Cisco vs. Microsoft for UC
Unified communications are critical for remote working, collaboration, and cost savings. Learn the critical factors to consider when evaluating unified communications solutions such as Cisco Jabber™ by downloading the research paper from respected analyst Zeus Kerravala. Read Now

The pleasure of finding things out about Richard Feynman
Nobel Prize-winning physicist and renowned teacher of science Richard Feynman, whose career was bracketed by work on the Manhattan Project and the Challenger Commission, died of cancer 25 years ago tomorrow, Feb. 15, 1988, at the age of 69. Read More

10 high-tech breakups and hookups to look for in 2013
Buyouts, betrayals, and booty calls -- this Valentine's Day finds the tech industry steamy with merger and split-up intrigue Read More

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12 hybrid cloud security products to watch

Here are 12 security products that you can buy for your hybrid cloud whether they run on premise, in the cloud or a little of both.

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