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Businesses Honing Specialized Strategies for the Internet of Things #CES2014
The Internet of Things (IoT) could be the hottest topic at the 2014 International CES in Las Vegas. But even if it dominates the popular consumer electronics show, it still has a long way to go before it becomes a reality.
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HP Beats IBM to Become Top Server Vendor
HP has overtaken IBM to become the world’s biggest server vendor in terms of revenue in the third quarter this year, according to new figures from IDC, a market research company. This follows recent and indirectly related research by Forrester that identified HP as the top private cloud vendor in
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Forrester Names HP, Cisco, Microsoft Top Private Cloud Vendors
Private cloud computing is going mainstream. It has moved from a technology limited to a handful of innovative enterprises to a technology that has been prioritized for development in the next 12 months by more than half the enterprises surveyed, according to new Forrester research.
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WebRTC Video Decision Delayed, Stalling Development
A closely followed Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meeting in Vancouver last week took an anticlimactic and mysterious turn. Committee members failed to reach a consensus on an important component of the new web-based communications standards called WebRTC. RTC stands for Real Time Communication.
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WebRTC, Video Codecs and Why You Should Care
Right now, a bunch of nerds on the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in Vancouver are making big decisions about the next big wave in web communications standards. And these decisions will have a big impact on some of the largest technology companies, for many years to come.
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Contact Center Evolution Calls for Changing Metrics, New Tools
No matter the length of a call with a contact center, if the customer’s happy and has a tangible result at the end, who cares, right? Fifty minutes or five -- does it matter anymore? Meeting Success with New Tools Changes to the metrics contact centers use to
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Social Media Briefs: Facebook Offers Free WiFi, Instagram Gets Ads, Social Media Careers Soar
Social media can bring us so much. This week, it brings ads to Instagram, free WiFi to Facebook and Sticky Hashtags to Nestivity. Instagram Ad Nauseam? Only recently did we tell you that Instagram "could start selling ad space sometime next year." This week, however, in a blog post,
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Gartner MQ Leaders for Secure Email Gateways: Cisco, McAfee, Microsoft, Proofpoint, Symantec
Earlier in the week we saw that the market for Secure Email Gateways (SEG) is a mature one with low digit growth expected annually over the coming years. We also saw that it is characterized by a move towards SaaS models with most vendors providing some kind of service offering.
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MicroStrategy Mobile Apps Integrate with Cisco TelePresence
Leading analytics vendor MicroStrategy has built in Cisco's Unified Communications system, nee Jabber (above image), into its Mobile Apps builder so apps can lauch voice and video chats natively. Mobile Collaboration Since MicroStrategy is already a Gartner MQ for Business Intelligence leader, it made sense for the company to
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Gartner MQ Secure Email Gateways: Market Moves to SaaS, Microsoft, Proofpoint, Symantec Dominant
If Gartner’s recently published Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateways is anything to go by, email security is still a major concern for many enterprises. As a result, the market grew by nearly 2% last year.
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How to Create a Cost-Effective BYOD Policy
When it comes to the mobile enterprise, issues related to BYOD are at the forefront. In their recent report, AIIM found that while more companies are developing BYOD policies, there are still those who are putting their systems at risk, resulting in increased costs.
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HP, Dell Battle For Top Spot In Server Market, IBM Shipments Trail
If you were looking for a concrete indication of how IT spending is at the moment the recent figures from Gartner on server shipments and revenues offers just that. The figures show that in the first quarter of 2013 revenues from servers dropped by 5%, while shipments fell by 0.
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BYOD Alert: Personal Smartphones Heavily Used for Work; Company Compensation or Security? Not So Much
An overwhelming 90 percent of employees used their personal smartphones for work-related purposes in the past year, but only 46 percent think their companies are prepared for Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD ) issues. That disconnect is one of the findings in a new report about the realities of BYOD.
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Cisco Puts Focus on B2B Video Collaboration, Integrates TelePresence, WebEx
Enterprise software vendor Cisco is focusing on increasing the scale and easing the process of B2B video collaboration and communication with several new technology releases and upgrades. Most significantly, Cisco is integrating its TelePresence and WebEx platforms.
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