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	ITU standardizes 1Gbps over copper, but services won't come until 2015 The ITU has taken a big step in the standardization of G.fast, a broadband technology capable of achieving download speeds of up to 1Gbps over copper telephone wire. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Meru Networks   Business Drivers For Adopting The Next Generation Of Wi-Fi Higher education, hospitality and healthcare are at the forefront of industries experiencing the tsunami of devices and applications coming onto their networks. Learn what is driving the next generation of Wi-Fi and what key business variables IT leaders have to consider when evaluating 802.11ac. Learn more >> In this Issue 8 Ethernet predictions for 2014 Delivery Drone Wars!? It Could Be a Very Happy New Year for FireEye As Unix fades away from data centers, it's unclear what's next Catching fire: 10 hottest videos of smartphones burning up "Revenge porn" operator busted over extortion allegations UC is a mess, and Oracle's trying to clean it up Cisco sees SDN, Internet of Things in its 2014 crystal ball 10 top tests of 2013 WHITE PAPER: Attachmate The Need for Enterprise-Grade File Transfer From email to Dropbox and FTP, the status quo of file transfer in most organizations is UFT—or Unmanaged File Transfer. That's the troubling finding of a 2013 survey conducted by Osterman Research. Read this paper to learn how enterprise-grade Managed File Transfer (MFT) can help. View Now 8 Ethernet predictions for 2014 Among the many expectations for IT in 2014, Ethernet is projected to broaden its penetration in the metro area and the WAN. The ubiquitous technology will become further entrenched as a broadband access, cloud interconnect and wide area medium, further distancing itself from legacy TDM services. Here are eight predictions for Ethernet in the New Year, from service provider Comcast Business Services: Read More   Delivery Drone Wars!? Amazon, DHL, FedEx all in on using unmanned aircraft for package services. What's next? Read More   It Could Be a Very Happy New Year for FireEye Ah, December. Time to reflect on the past year and look ahead to 2014. In retrospect, 2013 was a banner year for the security industry as the world finally woke up to the very real perils of cybersecurity. Of all many events of this year however, FireEye's IPO may have trumped them all. As I write this blog on December 11, 2013, FireEye's market cap is just north of $4.5 billion. Wow! Read... Read More   WHITE PAPER: Attachmate A Business-Driven Approach to Legacy Modernization Learn how to get rapid service enablement via small, orchestrated steps. This paper discusses both new and traditional approaches to legacy modernization, while highlighting a service-enablement strategy that's fast and practical, with notable ROI potential. Learn More. As Unix fades away from data centers, it's unclear what's next Gartner says that its clients have started planning to migrate from Unix. For some of them, it may take two or three years, and for others, five years. A few may still be running Unix 10 years from now, but nonetheless, Gartner believes the operating system is on a path to insignificance. Read More   Catching fire: 10 hottest videos of smartphones burning up Hottest iPhones, Android phones…literally. Read More   "Revenge porn" operator busted over extortion allegations The California-based operator of a revenge porn website who posted more than 10,000 sexually explicit photos and then allegedly tried to extort victims for as much as $350 each to remove the content is sitting in a San Diego jail today with $50,000 bail and possible jail time hanging over his head. Read More   WHITE PAPER: IBM Corporation   Ricoh generates new ideas with global lateral communication Read this case study to find out how the company adopted the IBM SmartCloud Engage platform for cloud-based social business in a pilot program to enhance productivity and innovation in its Business Development Center. Learn More. UC is a mess, and Oracle's trying to clean it up Saying that multi-vendor UC is hard to deploy is as gross an understatement as saying the Yankees overpaid for Jacoby Ellsbury. In both cases it makes sense on paper and may work out OK in the short term, but over the long haul, both may not provide the original value that was sought out. Read More   Cisco sees SDN, Internet of Things in its 2014 crystal ball Next year will see demonstrable evidence of the Internet of Things, real-time communications on the Web, and SDN-enabled platforms with killer applications for them. Read More   10 top tests of 2013 Network World tested hundreds of products in 2013, but here are our top 10 tests of the year. In order to make the list, the product review had to be a comparative test of multiple products in a single category and it had to break new ground or deliver fresh insight into an important product area. Read More
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