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	Cisco UCS pricing: It's complicated As with any server product, there are lots of ways to configure UCS, including different levels of CPU, memory and storage. Cisco has a 29-page document to help you get it right, and 29 pages are not overkill. To get an idea of what this might cost, we configured two separate systems: one with 40 dual-socket blades, and another with 80 of the same blades. Read More WHITE PAPER: Splice Communications The Real Cost of Dealing with Carriers By working with a single-source provider, customers get a dedicated team of experienced telecom professionals. This relieves you of complex and confusing carrier management tasks, letting you focus on your company's top objectives and projects. Read Now! In this Issue Cisco impresses with UCS Cisco continues to restructure internally Goodbye 2011 ... What a year! FCC doles out $100K to open source community apps challenge winners YEAR END: 2011 Tech News Review Security roundup: Security concerns slam Google Apps rollout in LA; 760 companies and research institutions hacked? The weirdest, wackiest and coolest sci/tech stories of 2011 12 Tech Gifts Under $100 WHITE PAPER: MegaPath Today's Network: Make It a Strategic, Future-Proof Asset Today's small and mid-sized organizations support dozens of applications and hundreds of devices and mobile workers. Network congestion has become a risk, as users change offices, work from home and add devices at will. SMBs need simplification in the form of network convergence. And a managed service provider can help. View Now Cisco impresses with UCS If you're tempted to think of Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) as just another blade server — don't. In fact, if you just want a bunch of blades for your computer room, don't call Cisco — Dell, HP, and IBM all offer simpler and more cost-effective options. Read More Cisco continues to restructure internally Cisco continues to tinker with its organizational structure, ever after completing a major restructuring begun last summer. This week, Cisco revamped its engineering operations to further streamline them and improve execution against company strategy, according to a blog on the Cisco site. Read More WEBCAST: Aerohive Delivering Enterprise Applications Anywhere to Any Device Unprecedented adoption of wireless mobile devices, in the enterprise impacts every IT department as they must now deal with technologies that enable access to enterprise applications anywhere, anytime, from any device whether they be corporate issued or personally owned. Read now. Goodbye 2011 ... What a year! Gibbs ponders the year that just shot past ... Read More FCC doles out $100K to open source community apps challenge winners The $100,000 challenge: Develop useful, localized open source apps that make local public information more personalized and usable. Read More WHITE PAPER: SonicWALL The Next Generation is the Smart Generation Innovations such as mobility, Web 2.0, social media and cloud computing have dramatically changed the IT landscape and introduced new security threats into the corporate network. This eBook investigates why traditional firewalls are no longer enough, and how application intelligence and control enable network security in the wake of these changes. Read more. YEAR END: 2011 Tech News Review In this year's IDG Tech News Review we'll take a look at some of the top technology stories from 2011. Consumers had a wide array of tablets and mobile devices to choose from this year as Apple lost its stronghold and legal battles shaped the market. Read More Security roundup: Security concerns slam Google Apps rollout in LA; 760 companies and research institutions hacked? The Los Angeles City Council has voted to halt efforts to bring the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) into the Google Apps services used by 17,000 other Los Angeles employees. Read More The weirdest, wackiest and coolest sci/tech stories of 2011 This year we find horses helping to build the Internet, Apple having all the money in the world and way more wackiness Read More 12 Tech Gifts Under $100 Our reasonably priced gift suggestions are perfect for home-theater owners, music lovers, gamers, 'Star Wars' fans, the eco-conscious and more. Read More
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