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	LTE can compete with upstart IoT networks, Verizon says   Much of the Internet of Things will run on the same networks that smartphones use, cellular giant Verizon says.Despite the prospect of new networks that reach farther than cells and let IoT devices communicate for years on one battery charge, many of the power-sipping networked objects to be deployed in the coming years will use LTE and future 5G cellular systems, a Verizon executive said in an interview Wednesday.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   WEBCAST: Citrix Systems Video: What is WAN Virtualization This short animated video provides a quick overview of WAN virtualization. Watch and see how Citrix CloudBridge can revolutionize the enterprise WAN for greater reliability and cost savings while providing a better user experience. Learn More In this Issue Can Office 365's Skype for Business replace your PBX system? 8 ways to leverage location services HP is now two companies. How did it get here? The answer to wasted IT investment: Spend, spend, spend! Beware the 'black swans' in your supply chain Google threatens action against Symantec-issued certificates following botched investigation Bill Gates at 60: A look back WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems   WAN Virtualization with Citrix CloudBridge This white paper provides a detailed overview of WAN virtualization and discusses some of the unique features that the CloudBridge Virtual WAN solution provides. Learn More Can Office 365's Skype for Business replace your PBX system? "Your phone is your lifeline." Or so says the telephone company truck that just drove by my window. It's certainly true: Most businesses are not willing to give up their phones, and as convenient as mobile phones are, there's still a large market of landlines, PBXs and corporate phone systems that will not go away. And Skype for Business Online in Office 365 wants a piece of that market.The idea behind the cloud PBX feature in Skype for Business Online is to allow small- and medium-sized organizations – or departments and branch offices or home workers within larger companies – to use Skype for Business Online as their phone system as well as their instant messaging and virtual meeting solution.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   8 ways to leverage location services   For the past several decades, much of the computer revolution has aimed to link every machine to every other machine in one big harmonic convergence called the Internet. That trend is coming to an end -- at least in the emerging world of what are being called beacons. Instead of trying to reach everyone in the galaxy, beacon builders want to reach only the right people who are within a few meters of their transmitting devices.In essence, beacon technology inverts the power of a network, with a more forceful connection to place. In the view of Google, one of the proponents of beacons, it's creating "proximity experiences" or a "strong context signal."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   WHITE PAPER: PGi UCC: Are You Listening? Do more with less. That's the mantra for IT, which has fewer and fewer resources to produce more. Unified communications and collaboration tools can alleviate technical obstacles and offer significant strategic IT benefits when you have the right partner in place. Learn More HP is now two companies. How did it get here? If Hollywood wanted a script about the inexorable decline of a corporate icon, it might look to Hewlett-Packard for inspiration. Once one of Silicon Valley's most respected companies, HP officially split itself in two on Sunday, betting that the smaller parts will be nimbler and more able to reverse four years of declining sales.HP fell victim to huge shifts in the computer industry that also forced Dell to go private and have knocked IBM on its heels. Pressure from investors compelled it to act. But there are dramatic twists in HP's story, including scandals, a revolving door for CEOs and one of the most ill-fated mergers in tech history, that make HP more than a victim of changing times.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   The answer to wasted IT investment: Spend, spend, spend! "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." - John Vansant Wanamaker (July 11, 1838 – December 12, 1922) What Mr. Wanamaker was saying was, in effect, that he might as well flip a coin. His odds were rather different from those revealed in a recent study by the Genpact Research Institute. The study determined in IT, you'll need a very different coin because your chances of coming up "heads" is just 30%. Yep, the study found that almost 70% of everything spent on IT doesn't meet the functional goals of projects or deliver the expected return on investment. According to the study:To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   WHITE PAPER: Dell Inc. How do defined networks enhance value of infrastructures? Virtualization and cloud computing are changing the dynamics of IT management and deployment in networks, as well as in the overall data center. In order to address new challenges for speed, bandwidth, resilience, simplified manageability and agility, the designers of networks and data centers must take new approaches and adopt new technologies. Learn More Beware the 'black swans' in your supply chain Enterprises know that merely having a supply chain involves a certain amount of risk, but few do enough to protect against the one-off, extreme incidents that can disrupt them.That's according to Yossi Sheffi, an MIT professor who is director of its Center for Transportation & Logistics."Events that rarely happen but wreak havoc pose the most dangerous threat to corporate health," Sheffi wrote in an article this week in The Wall Street Journal.Such events -- sometimes referred to as "black swans" -- include unanticipated catastrophes such as Hurricane Katrina, the BP Horizon oil rig explosion, the 9/11 terrorist attack, the tsunami that hit Japan in 2011, and even the Volkswagen emissions scandal.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   Google threatens action against Symantec-issued certificates following botched investigation Google wants Symantec to disclose all certificates issued by its SSL business going forward, after what Google considers a bodged investigation into how Symantec employees issued SSL certificates for domain names that the company did not own.The browser maker also wants the security firm to publish a detailed analysis of how the incident was investigated.Through its acquisition of Verisign's authentication business unit in 2010, Symantec became one of the largest certificate authorities (CAs) in the world. Such organizations are trusted by browsers and operating systems to issue digital certificates to domain owners which are then used to encrypt online communications.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   Bill Gates at 60: A look back Happy birthday, BillImage by Wikipedia/ThinkstockBill Gates -- founder of Microsoft, the world's richest man, and a philanthropist for the ages -- will celebrate his 60th birthday on Oct. 28. He doesn't look a day over 50. To commemorate the occasion, we've put together a collection of Bill Gates photos, some iconic, some surprising and one or two that are less than flattering.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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