Recent Articles
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Businesses Not Ready to Support Mobile Workers: Citrix
Citrix announced findings from a recent global survey that examined how consumer-focused communications devices are being increasingly adopted in the workplace, revealing small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) are coming under growing pressure to enable their employees to use their personal smartphones, tablets and other devices for business use. Some 25 percent of companies are already…
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Managing Mobile Devices: Solution Providers’ Next Frontier
Workers may have been bringing their own phone and tablets onto the corporate network for some time now, but IT organizations are just beginning to address the issues and problems caused by this BYOD (bring your own device) trend. And VARs and MSPs, like the customers they serve, are looking to get their arms around…
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Aruba Networks Buys Avenda Systems to Enhance Security Portfolio
Aruba Networks will buy privately held Avenda Systems to bolster its network security portfolio to help organizations protect personal devices being used in the enterprise. Aruba Networks will offer enterprises a single management console that can secure all devices being used within the enterprise and apply consistent security policies, Hitesh Sheth, chief operating officer at…
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Cisco Readies WebEx, Jabber for ‘Post-PC’ Era
Cisco Systems is looking to grow the capabilities of its collaboration offerings–including WebEx and Jabber to address the mobile trends of what company executives agree is the post-PC era. At the Cisco Collaboration Summit 2011 event in Miami Nov. 16, company officials announced enhancements to WebEx and Jabber to enable users to leverage the new…