IT Today: BYOD Challenges Defined, Don’t Cut UC Cutting Corners, Detecting Application Bottlenecks By James Alan Miller March 14, 2013 10:19 AM Tags : Today on TIP Tom's IT Pro: BYOD Integration Challenges, Mellanox to Open Source Ethernet Switches, Jeopardy, IBM and Watson as a Service, Intel Processors Over the Years, VIDEO: Increase Your Internet Privacy With PETS, Unified Communications: Beware of Cutting Corners, and more. The Four BYOD Integration Challenges Careful planning across all involved interest groups will deliver a straight forward strategy to adopt BYOD. Mellanox to Open Source Its Ethernet Switches Plans to open source Ethernet switches in an effort to gain an edge in an era of software defined networking and open source software. Jeopardy, IBM and Watson as a Service IBM's Jeopardy-winning supercomputer to become the basis of a series of revenue-generating products. 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