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For some, migration to unified messaging is a key component of VoIP plans. For others, voice messaging replacement has a new urgency and is being addressed separately. Many factors lead to this renewed interest: obsolescence of legacy voicemail systems, e-discovery and compliance rules, and the need for new capabilities to support remote workers. Finally, enterprises are looking to reduce the cost of managing complex disparate systems assembled by distributed purchasing or acquisition of other businesses.

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Johnson brings a new set of CEO skills from Microsoft to Juniper. Analysts say Juniper needs to be more aggressive in expanding its reach and growing its business. Johnson's Microsoft background matches those needs.

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Juniper Networks named senior Microsoft veteran Kevin Johnson as its new chief executive, saying he will start work in September. Kevin Johnson replaces Juniper CEO Scott Kriens, who remains chairman of Juniper Network's board. Known as "KJ," Kevin Johnson was president of Microsoft's Platforms and Services Division, its largest business unit, and had spearheaded Microsoft's failed pursuit of Yahoo.
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Now that summer is here, your heat worries turn to your data center. Is everything really being kept cool enough to be safe? Julius Neudorfer, director of Network Services for North American Access Technologies, provides 11 tips on how to keep things cool.
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Cisco Systems says it will acquire Pure Networks, a privately held provider of home networking-management software and tools, for $120 million. Cisco says Pure Networks' home networking-management solution allows users to set up and manage a home network and connect a range of devices, applications and services within the home.
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Nine days after locking down the city's IT system, a disgruntled network administrator invites Mayor Newsom to his cell and gives him the access codes.
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The huge networking deal between Brocade Communications and Foundry Networks puts a new spin on the competition with Cisco Systems. But Brocade faces serious challenges as it integrates Foundry into its organization.
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Brocade's $3 billion buyout of Foundry Networks puts networking market leader Cisco Systems on notice that it has a powerful new competitor on the horizon.
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A key court case in a long-winding patent dispute between the world's top cell phone maker Nokia and U.S. technology company Qualcomm starts July 23 in a Delaware courtroom.
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Nokia, the world's largest cell phone maker, and wireless chip supplier Qualcomm go to court July 23 in hopes of resolving a licensing fight that involves hundreds of millions of dollars and has spawned lawsuits on three continents. Qualcomm's case against Nokia is based on a 1992 licensing agreement that allowed Nokia to use Qualcomm's patents in its phones. That license expired in 2007, after Nokia paid Qualcomm $1 billion in fees and considered it to be paid up. Qualcomm disagreed and is seeking payment.
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Converting to a fully digitized entertainment library is a good way to cut down on clutter in the house. So what replaces the CD rack once you do? The 500 GB hard drive that comes standard on most home computers today? Soon, even that won't be big enough to store and organize the massive amount of digital music, video and photography that consumers are accumulating as part of the emerging "terabyte lifestyle." Home servers will be the storage infrastructure of the future.
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Adobe taps Terracotta to help Adobe scale its Acrobat collaboration solution. Terracotta's software, which helps businesses scale their enterprise Java environments, will enable users to run ConnectNow without a database.
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Is there a strange bug involved in Intel's implementation of Wi-Fi on Centrino 2?
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Microsoft, Google, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and other tech powers hope testing on Motorola and Phillips devices will lead to unlicensed use of television interference buffer zones for the delivery of wireless broadband. The earliest white spaces devices could be used is February 2009, when broadcasters are scheduled to abandon their analog signals as part of the digital television transition.
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Storage vendors Omneon and Isilon will handle a record 3,000 hours of hi-res and low-res video at the event.
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Juniper rolls out new WAN acceleration appliances designed for better scaling and manageability. The appliances from Juniper, which competes with Cisco and others in the space, also fits into Juniper's common hardware strategy.
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