Avaya willing to share customers with Cisco, Microsoft in three-way networking battle

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	Avaya willing to share customers with Cisco, Microsoft in three-way networking battle Avaya unified communications products can get along with Microsoft's Lync Server, and many customers will probably choose to deploy both rather than just one, says Avaya's CEO. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco The Art of Application-Centric Networking BYOD, virtualization and cloud are making application deployment and delivery more challenging than ever for IT departments. Employees want to access applications anytime, from anywhere, on any device, and they expect the same level of performance and reliability. Read Now In this Issue Shrinking idle capacity: Corporate SIP trunks could equal T-1 links by 2015 HP launches free service to secure mobile, Web apps 10 Geeky and Foolish Ways to Celebrate April Fools' Day HortonWorks: The Hadoop company everyone wants to be best friends with now Cisco Certified Network Associate Certification Turns 2: Here's what's new Gartner: Global IT spending to rise 4.1% to $3.8 trillion in 2013 Cisco lays off 500 Linux use in enterprises jumps again: survey Storage strategies for the brave new world WEBCAST: Sprint The Network Foundation of an IT-to-ET Transformation Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2013, 1:00 PM EDT There's an evolutionary process at work that will eventually affect every enterprise IT department. Nemertes Research describes it as a transformation from IT to ET – Enterprise Technology. Learn More Shrinking idle capacity: Corporate SIP trunks could equal T-1 links by 2015 The percentage of North American companies using SIP or Session Initiation Protocol trunking and traditional T-1s will just about equalize in two years, marking a dramatic shift in technology used for external corporate communications. Read More HP launches free service to secure mobile, Web apps HP says it now has a free service called "Fortify My App" that lets anyone building mobile or Web applications upload code to the Fortify software-as-a-service and get a limited analysis about whether the code has specific vulnerabilities or design flaws. Read More 10 Geeky and Foolish Ways to Celebrate April Fools' Day The Web is the epicenter of foolishness these days, but there are also ways to celebrate April 1 offline Read More WHITE PAPER: Wildpackets Essential Reference for Monitoring Your IT Infrastructure How do you choose a network monitoring solution – SNMP monitoring, flow-based monitoring, or packet analysis – that is right for your IT infrastructure? This ebook your crash course in network monitoring for analysis and learn to use multi-segment analysis to diagnose performance problems with distributed application architectures. Download this ebook HortonWorks: The Hadoop company everyone wants to be best friends with now During the past few years Neustar, an $830 million publicly-traded data analytics company, has undergone a dramatic business transformation, and it's been powered almost entirely by Hadoop. Read More Cisco Certified Network Associate Certification Turns 2: Here's what's new By: Cisco Press author Anthony Sequeira Read More Gartner: Global IT spending to rise 4.1% to $3.8 trillion in 2013 Worldwide spending on IT products and services will grow 4.1% this year to roughly $3.8 trillion, according to new forecast figures released by analyst firm Gartner. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors Top 10 Benefits of Virtualization In this eGuide, Network World sister publications InfoWorld, and PC World examine some of the current uses of blade servers in today's data center, as well as how trends such as server virtualization are reshaping enterprise computing. Read Now! Cisco lays off 500 Cisco this week reduced its workforce by about 500 people as the company realigns to face the advent of software-defined networking, cloud computing and its impact on routing and switching. Read More Linux use in enterprises jumps again: survey The past two years have already seen significant jumps in corporate Linux usage, but now it looks like that trend is continuing into a third year. Read More Storage strategies for the brave new world The enterprise storage picture is changing fast as resources are abstracted through virtualization, new computing options like cloud are embraced, and companies search for ways to extract more value out of the data they already are swimming in, even as more arrives in the guise of big data. Read More
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