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	INSIDER Network jobs are hot; salaries expected to rise in 2016 Network professionals continue to be among the toughest IT talent to find and hire – a situation that will drive up salaries in the coming year. (Insider Story) Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Cisco & Citrix: Opening the Way to Data Center Agility In most enterprises today the lack of data center agility is a major drag on business agility. Applications have become far more flexible, but the promised business advantages cannot be realized while the infrastructure is rigid. Learn how leading-edge technology companies are learning to support flexible application-centric infrastructures. View now In this Issue FCC strikes again on Wi-Fi blocking: Hilton, big electrical contractor fined PC storage waning, Cisco study finds LTE can compete with upstart IoT networks, Verizon says How Cisco's digital transformation is driving business outcomes Microsoft shrinks OneDrive for Office 365 customers 8 ways to leverage location services Can Office 365's Skype for Business replace your PBX system? HP is now two companies. How did it get here? The answer to wasted IT investment: Spend, spend, spend! Cisco's Lancope acquisition aims to improve network security from the inside out WHITE PAPER: Dell Inc. Best Practices for WiFi in K-12 Schools As school districts increase technology access for students and staff, whether through school provided devices, BYOD programs, or a hybrid approach, they must ensure the district wireless LANs (WLANs) can deliver the reliability, performance and security needed to keep learning productive. Learn More FCC strikes again on Wi-Fi blocking: Hilton, big electrical contractor fined The FCC isn't kidding around in going after Wi-Fi blockers: Now it has slapped big electrical contracting company M.C. Dean with a $718,000 fine for blocking consumers' Wi-Fi connections and has proposed a $25,000 fine for Hilton Worldwide for 'apparent obstruction of an investigation' into whether Hilton blocked consumers' Wi-Fi devices. Read More PC storage waning, Cisco study finds Most data stored on client devices will move from PCs to elements such as smartphones and tablets by 2019, according to a Cisco study released this week on cloud traffic and services. Read More 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, Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems NSS Labs Web Application Firewall Comparative Analysis NSS Labs reported that NetScaler AppFirewall achieved an overall block rate of 99.8% at $1.93 TCO per protected Connection Per Second – the lowest TCO of all contenders – that placed it in the Recommended section of their Web Application Firewall Security Value Map. Learn more >> How Cisco's digital transformation is driving business outcomes Cisco Systems, as part of its digital transformation efforts, is automating business processes and quantifying the cost of delivering services to ensure accountability for each unit. The effort, called business outcome assurance, is one of CIO Guillermo Diaz' strategic imperatives to drive more operational efficiency under new CEO Chuck Robbins. Read More Microsoft shrinks OneDrive for Office 365 customers Microsoft is ending its unlimited OneDrive cloud storage plan and will put a cap of 1TB on storage for Office 365 consumers. The company said its earlier unlimited storage offer had been misused by a few users of its Office 365 Home, Personal or University application. 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. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Inc. Is Dell Driving the Open Future of Networking? As open networking becomes more prevalent, we believe the networking market will mimic what we have already seen in servers and storage with more standards, more virtualization, and more heated competition. Learn More Can Office 365's Skype for Business replace your PBX system? 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. Read 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. Read More The answer to wasted IT investment: Spend, spend, spend! A 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. Read More Cisco's Lancope acquisition aims to improve network security from the inside out Bolstering its effort to position the network as a security tool, Cisco acquired network visibility company Lancope. Read More
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