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Gartner: Ten Technologies You Can’t Afford to Ignore
- Cloud Computing
- Advanced Analytics
- Client Computing
- IT for Green
- Reshaping the Data Center
- Social Computing
- Security – Activity Monitoring
- Flash Memory
- Virtualization for Availability
- Mobile Applications
Read more at CNET.

Can SIP Trunking Save Businesses Money?
Many organizations use IP phones for internal calls, but rely on legacy T1 and PRI connections for connecting to the public switched telephone network (PSTN). Yet, many businesses would like to put their phone calls on their data networks for the long-term savings. Unified Communications has not yet caught on, but SIP Trunking may be starting to take off.
Telephony Online has a great article on the topic: SIP Trunking—Savior during a Recession?

Whiteboard on Disaster Recovery and Virtualization
Las Vegas-based virtualization consultants SourceVM have a whiteboard from VMWare on their website on how virtualization helps with disaster recovery.

City of Los Angeles: Google vs. Microsoft
Los Angeles City Hall is ground zero in the cloud computing war. Microsoft and Google are vying for a $7.25-million contract to replace the city’s outdated e-mail system.
Read the Los Angeles Times article.

