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Cisco Systems and Microsoft's partnership in the small- and midsize-business market is bearing fruit.
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Microsoft and Cisco plan to work more closely together to ensure their products interoperate, while remaining fierce rivals in other markets.
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Today's systems increasingly blend the digital and the physical -- and the convergence is spawning industry alliances that might have seemed unusual in the past.
The dawning era of "end to end" security architectures is squeezing customers between the proprietary efforts of two dominant vendors.
Australia's IT industry needs to follow the example laid down in Queensland this week and band together to lobby for more government support instead of individual firms fruitlessly pushing their own campaigns.
The IT security industry has come to a frank realisation that the current approach to preventing malware is simply not working. Is whitelisting, which is the reverse of our current approach, the answer?
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By being very easy to configure and manage, the 3CX Phone System for Windows scores well on functionality and is compatible with most SIP handsets, gateways and services. However scalability could be an issue for larger organisations.
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