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Openness & Cloud
What is Microsoft doing to become more open?

We are at the forefront of efforts to support a broader developer ecosystem and improve interoperability and deeply invest in commonly used industry standards to facilitate interoperability. We work closely with over 150 standards organisations and 400 standards working groups and make contributions to the industry and to the benefit of our customers; including support for standardized doc formats - OpenXML, ODF and PDF.

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Wi-fi: The Coming of Age
From tablets to smartphones, multiple operating systems, and corporate or employee-owned devices, the WLAN must preform in the face of a significant rise in demand without draining operational resource within the IT department.

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ShoreTel - Brilliantly simple
Straying from the herd and avoiding the same old providers can be rewarding for your business. Just ask anyone who has rejected the status quo in favor of ShoreTel's fundamentally different all-in-one UC solution. With no legacy in the way, ShoreTel designed complexity out for all-around ease that frees up your valuable IT resources, resulting in the lowest total cost of ownership guaranteed. So why settle for average when you can do so much better?

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Cloud Computing and Government
Cloud computing can help the government achieve its priorities by increasing national competitiveness, enhancing citizen services, and driving down costs of ICT. To realise the benefits of these services clear thinking is required to navigate privacy, security and soverignity concerns. In our experience, organisations often underestimate the risk of existing solutions and offshore cloud services can actually reduce the overall risk of a solution. For situations where offshore cloud services are not viable, local are responding with cost effective in-country solutions.

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Amtel - Mobile Mania
Mobile mania triggers demand for Unified Communications.
With the advent of Mobile Mania, talking is becoming a thing of the past with customers using their smartphones for everything but talking. Ready or not customer service as we know it is in for a major upheaval. We live in a work where we have everything at our fingertips, we can satisfy every need, every curiosity in an instant. And so this expectation has spilled into our social networks and subsequently the customer service area.

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Three Steps for Adding Value to Your Big Data Strategy
There's a lot of buzz about Big data in the market at the moment - it seems everyone is talking about it. Whenever I think of Big Data, I think of the dinosaur movie, Jurassic Park. In it, John Hammond cloned dinosaurs, just because he could. the astute Dr. Ian Malcolm, however, was quick to point out that Hammond's scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could create clones that they didn't stop to think if they should. Much like cloning an extinct species without considering the consequences, Big Data buzz has caused may companies to jump headfirst into a data management strategy without thinking about the repercussions.

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Dell SonicWALL discusses ways to stay protected against DDos Attacks
Don't assume you're too small or don't have enough money to become a DDoS victim. every organisation is vulnerable whether a large enterprise or a single operator or anything in between. All are potential targets and even well protected organisations have suffered DDoS attacks - think Amazon, Viza, Sony and PayPal. Attacks are both increasing and growing in scale, well exceeding traffic volumes of 100 Gbps. One prolonged attack on an Asian site involved a botnet of more that 250,000 zombie computers.

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Embracing the cloud
Rex Wang, Vice President of Product Marketing at Oracle Corporation talks about the challenges, opportunities and business hurdles CIOs must surmount as they embrace cloud computing.

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