Cisco, EMC starting new joint venture company? Cisco and EMC are said to be forming a joint venture company to develop an integrated data center platform for computing, networking and storage. IE tumbles, Firefox regains market share mojo Last month, Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer posted its largest market share loss since November 2008, while Firefox reaped nearly all the benefit, Web metrics company Net Applications said today. Instant messaging speeds up data theft danger One of the more sophisticated pieces of malware in circulation has been given an upgrade that lets cybercriminals act even faster after they've stolen data from a PC. RSA publishes virtualization security, compliance guidelines RSA today published security and compliance recommendations for virtualization products. The guidelines focus primarily on optimizing use of management and security tools available from VMware parent company EMC and EMC's RSA security division. Privacy, consumer groups want news laws to protect Web users A coalition of 10 U.S. privacy and consumer groups has called for new federal privacy protections for Web users, including a requirement that Web sites and advertising networks get opt-in permission from individuals within 24 hours of collecting personal data and tracking online habits. How to reuse your old virtual hosts Now that we're three years down the road, many of these initial adopters of ESX 3.0 are starting to replace their hosts with new ones and preparing to upgrade to vSphere 4.0. That seems to be leaving a lot of server admins staring at a stack of three-year-old virtualization hosts that aren't yet finished doing their jobs. Test Cisco NetFlow collectors and exporters with a free tool kit called Flowalyzer Today I added a new NetFlow and sFlow tool to my extensive collection of free Cisco tools. NetApp offers $1 million to virtualization user NetApp is giving $1 million of NetApp storage hardware, software and services to a user that is adopting server virtualization. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons and 15 copies of Windows Server 2008 How-To. Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies of Interconnecting Data Centers Using VPLS. Google Subnet is hosting many new bloggers (watch for giveaway information soon.) Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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