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	Cisco's 4,000 job cuts won't touch new acquisition Sourcefire Cisco Systems may be "rebalancing" its business by eliminating 4,000 jobs, or about 5 percent of its workforce, but it'll keep its hands off its hot new security acquisition, Sourcefire. Read More WHITE PAPER: SolarWinds Network Management Costs Overshoot User Needs Enterprise IT network management tools are difficult to use, expensive and do not address the realities of today's real-world IT management challenges, according to the results of an IDG Research Services survey. Learn More In this Issue Unified Communications Buyers Guide 10 hottest IT jobs: Developers, developers, developers Layer 2 Firewalls for the Data Center IBM, Verizon to compete for $10 billion in government cloud work As new school year nears, Ohio State systems manager talks tech Beyond Google Glass: The wearable tech that will revolutionize business The world's craziest contraband Red-handed: The 9 ugliest allegations of China-based IP theft WHITE PAPER: BlackBerry Everything You Need in One Place The BlackBerry® 10 Ready Program is designed to help address the important questions enterprise customers have expressed leading up to launch. Learn More Unified Communications Buyers Guide We occasionally suggest outside reading for our subscribers, and today we'd like to highlight a white paper "Unified Communications Buyers Guide: The Top Ten Requirements for a UC Solution" written by Larry Hettick -- yes the same guy pictured in this newsletter. We've been covering VoIP, Convergence, and (more recently) Unified Communications for Network World since July 2000, and Read More 10 hottest IT jobs: Developers, developers, developers It's a job seeker's market, if you've got the right tech skills. IT staffing specialist Modis identifies the 10 hottest IT jobs, based on the skills and roles its clients are eager to find and fill. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Unleash the full potential of BYOD with confidence Growing numbers of smartphones and tablets are pushing enterprise networks to the limit and creating security and management challenges for IT organizations. This white paper reviews BYOD administration, performance, and security implications, and describes how the HP BYOD solution lets you realize all the benefits of BYOD, with confidence. Learn more. Layer 2 Firewalls for the Data Center I had a great time meeting with a variety of customers at Cisco Live in Orlando back in June. We covered a lot of different topics around data center security. One specific item that came up more than once was the use of Layer 2 versus Layer 3 firewalls in the data center. In fact, this topic comes up fairly often, so as a follow-up I thought it would be great to write a post that discussed this topic.... Read More IBM, Verizon to compete for $10 billion in government cloud work IBM, Verizon and eight other companies will compete for US$10 billion worth of work to help move the U.S. Department of the Interior's IT systems to the cloud. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks 10 Steps to Improving the Mobile User Experience This paper will outline the essential network infrastructure and support best practices necessary to deliver an optimized mobile end-user experience, and offer 10 recommended steps that lead to higher end-user satisfaction. Learn more. As new school year nears, Ohio State systems manager talks tech Tim Winningham, a systems manager for Ohio State University's department of mathematics, has come a long way since his first official gig in educational IT. Read More Beyond Google Glass: The wearable tech that will revolutionize business From heads-up displays to implantable silicon, a brave new business world of innovative wearable tech is fast taking shape Read More The world's craziest contraband From bear paws and live pigeons to dinosaur fossils, people try to smuggle the oddest stuff. Read More Red-handed: The 9 ugliest allegations of China-based IP theft IP theft continues to be a threat to businesses' bottom lines – and a major issue for Sino-American relations. Read More
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