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Google takes on Amazon with new cloud offerings
Google is making its Cloud Platform available to any business or developer, the company announced on Wednesday. With this week's cloud announcements, Google appears to be taking aim at Amazon Web Services. Increased competition in the cloud space can only be beneficial for enterprises and individual users.
IDC lowers 2013 IT spending estimate
Research firm IDC has lowered its estimate for 2013 worldwide IT spending growth to 4.6 percent from a previous 5.5 percent. IDC cited economic uncertainty caused by the U.S. government sequester, the ongoing European debt crisis and China's weakening GDP as the reasons for the adjustment.
Alcatel-Lucent extends reach of application fluent networking
LAS VEGAS–Alcatel-Lucent unveiled a number of new routers and switches here at Interop that extend the reach of its application fluent networking to branch offices, data centers and corporate local area networks.
Attackers could gain control of infected systems through Microsoft Office, Lync holes
There is a risk that attackers could execute commands remotely on infected systems through vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office and the Microsoft Lync unified communications platform, Microsoft warned last week in its Patch Tuesday advanced notification bulletin.
Worldwide BPO market to reach $209.4B in 2017, says IDC
The worldwide business process outsourcing (BPO) market is forecast to increase at a 5.7 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR), reaching $209.4 billion in 2017, according to the latest stats from research firm IDC.
Touring the InteropNet network - we can all just get along
LAS VEGAS--I took a tour on Wednesday of the temporary InteropNet network set up to supply the communications needs of this IT conference and trade show and was impressed that companies which are often battling for enterprise customers were able to cooperate to deploy this massive wired and wireless network.
Juniper Network unveils JunosV Contrail Controller for SDN
LAS VEGAS–Juniper Networks this week unveiled its JunosV Contrail Controller, an open standards-based controller for software defined networking (SDN), as part of its JunosV Contrail family of products.
Spotlight: ShoreTel launches docking station that turns iOS devices into desk phones
Unified communications (UC) provider ShoreTel unveiled this week a docking station that enables Apple's iPads and iPhones to function as desk phones when combined with the company's ShoreTel Mobility app.
Networks must get 'faster and flatter,' judges Broadcom's Ramaswami
LAS VEGAS–Networks need to get "faster and flatter," Broadcom's Rajiv Ramaswami told an audience Wednesday at the Interop conference being held here.
Cisco: Some IT professionals in 'London fog' regarding business initiative visibility
LAS VEGAS–Cisco released on Wednesday the results of a survey of 1,300 IT professionals from 13 countries which found that close to one-third of respondents equated their IT department's visibility into business initiatives to a "foggy day in London."
