Cisco acquires tiny collaboration company; how to avoid Office 365 migration gotchas

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	Cisco acquires tiny collaboration company Cisco last week acquired Assemblage, a maker of browser-to-browser collaboration tools that do not require downloads, plugins or installations. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Achieve Deeper Network Security and Application Control Next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) have emerged to revolutionize network security as we once knew it. Yet to safeguard an organization from today's ever-evolving threats, NGFWs must be able to deliver an even deeper level of network security. View Now In this Issue 10 CEOs who took drastic pay cuts Avoid the gotchas of Office 365 migrations Google is killing off Orkut Hadoop distributor MapR gets $110M from Google 10 security start-ups to watch Free Wi-Fi networks in SF, San Jose join hands through Hotspot 2.0 Cisco, NetApp mark progress 10 videoconferencing tools for small groups SIP global roll-out to accelerate through 2019 Turning network resource management on its head through software-defined WANs WHITE PAPER: HP 2013 Cyber Risk Report The "Cyber risk report 2013 Executive summary" presents the major findings of HP Security Research's comprehensive dive into today's cyber vulnerability and threat landscape. It provides information you need to effectively plan your cyber security strategy and deploy your defenses. Learn More 10 CEOs who took drastic pay cuts Spectacular pay raises keep widening the gap between what CEOs earn and what average workers take home. But not all CEOs got a raise last year. Read More Avoid the gotchas of Office 365 migrations Migrating to Microsoft's Office 365 from an on-premises Office suite requires help, experts say, in order to navigate the vagaries of moving apps smoothly to the cloud, a task made more challenging if the transition is from alternatives such as GroupWise and Lotus SmartSuite. Read More Google is killing off Orkut Orkut, one of Google's first forays into social networking, will be closed down by the search company at the end of September. Read More WHITE PAPER: Infortrend Top Reasons for Upgrading to Emulex Gen 5 Fibre Channel HBAs Did you know that the decision to purchase a Host Bus Adapter (HBA) can actually enable you to do more with less? With Gen 5 Fibre Channel HBAs you can run more virtual machines and applications per server, cut your HBA installation and management time in half to and protect your valuable data assets. Learn more >> Hadoop distributor MapR gets $110M from Google MapR, which distributes a commercial software platform based off the Apache Hadoop big data management open source project, has secured a $110 million funding round led by Google. Read More 10 security start-ups to watch Security start-ups arise because they have fresh approaches to fighting malware and cyber-espionage or combatting the insider threat through network monitoring. In this round-up of some of the newer security firms, Distil Networks, Observable Networks and Vectra Networks fit into that category. But two others just out of the gate, Exabeam and Fortscale, are part of another trend—squeezing more out of existing log management and security information and event management products. Read More Free Wi-Fi networks in SF, San Jose join hands through Hotspot 2.0 San Francisco and San Jose are now at the cutting edge of another tech trend, and one that has nothing to do with smartwatches or social-media startups—not directly, at least. Read More WHITE PAPER: CDW Bringing Business Intelligence to the Cloud Has your organization been hoping to utilize Power Pivot and Power View for your self-service BI needs but you haven't been able to justify a deployment of SharePoint and SQL Server to support proper collaboration and management? If so, I have some good news for you! View Now Cisco, NetApp mark progress Cisco and NetApp say their FlexPod integrated IT infrastructure reference architecture has generated $3 billion in joint sales since its launch in 2010. FlexPod unit shipments have grown 81% year-over-year, with demand reaching a $2 billion annualized run rate. Read More 10 videoconferencing tools for small groups Take that meeting from anywhereSorry, telecommuters. The wonders of videoconferencing mean you'll have to brush your hair and change out of your jammies, even if you're working from home. Now your colleagues and clients actually want to see you—and perhaps collaborate in real time on a jointly-developed document, sketch out new ideas on a digital whiteboard, or even take control of one another's computer to walk through the way something works. Read More SIP global roll-out to accelerate through 2019 SIP roll-out has picked and, by 2019, SIP worldwide traffic could be more than double today's volume. While 30% of worldwide network traffic today moves with the use of SIP, in 2019 76% of outbound call traffic will be SIP. Read More Turning network resource management on its head through software-defined WANs Although much of the Software Defined Networking discussion to date has been about the data center, software-defined WANs (SDW) also show great promise. In essence, an SDW enables IT teams to manage network services by decoupling the system that makes decisions about where traffic is sent (the control plane) from the underlying systems that forward traffic to the selected destination (the data plane). This can deliver greater simplicity, security and resiliency, which in turn can lead to lower operational expense (OpEx) and capital expense (CapEx). Read More
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