Watch out for the VEPA standard; Cisco has 84% of Tandberg locked up

Cisco has 84% of Tandberg locked up; Cisco statement about SSLVPN Vulnerability is awfully hard to find Cisco Alert NetworkWorld.com | Update Your Profile | Forward this to a Friend >>> Sponsored by APC Virtualization: Optimized Power and Cooling Data centers are routinely and unknowingly missing a great portion of their entitlement from virtualization. Beyond virtualization's undisputed IT benefits – from reduced rack footprint to disaster recovery – is the parallel story of a substantial benefit from optimizing the physical infrastructure that supports it. Learn more Spotlight Story Watch out for the VEPA standard Networking Nuggets and Security Snippets blogger Jon Oltsik says that the IEEE has a new standard in the works that could be a game changer, helping to align virtualization, networking, and security. He writes, "I recently spoke with Extreme Networks about its data center networking strategy. One of the highlights for me was Extreme's plan to embrace the Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA) standard being developed in the IEEE. In simple terms, VEPA off-loads all switching activities from today's hypervisor-based virtual switches to actual physical switches. There is a bit of debate between HP and Cisco whether this switching should occur at an edge or aggregation switch (note: I like HP's approach), but suffice it to say that each vendor's goal is similar." Read full story Related News: Cisco has 84% of Tandberg locked up Jim Duffy: Cisco this week said it now controls 84% of the outstanding shares in Tandberg. Cisco needs 90% to win the company and Tandberg has until today to accept its $3.4 billion bid. Cisco statement about SSLVPN Vulnerability is awfully hard to find Brad Reese: US-CERT has issued a warning on its website that certain networking products from Cisco and Juniper and three other vendors are vulnerable to an SSL exploit. Cisco leads funding for supply chain management company Jim Duffy: Cisco is backing a privately-held company that's developed a supplier information management system for enterprises. Cisco's worldwide Routing and Switching CCIE count falls by -48 Brad Reese: The December Cisco CCIE count shows that the new CCIE R/S test is slowing down the number of successful candidates. Why IBM Bought Guardium Jon Oltsik: IBM paid a good chunk of change for Guardium, a provider of database monitoring solutions. Mainframe visibility was important but I don't think this closed the deal. Brocade/Foundry "resonating" as Cisco alternative: CTO Jim Duffy: Following a solid fourth quarter in which sales rose 31%, Brocade says the integration of its Foundry Networks purchase is complete. A whole series of CCIE R/S Lab Posts Wendell Odom: Here is a master list of links to my series on the CCIE Route/Switch lab exam. A Sneak Peek at the CCIE R/S LabPart 2 - CCIE R/S Troubleshooting: Initially Shocked, but Wasn't Too Bad. Can Santa Deliver a Hummin' Dynamips Platform for Christmas? Wendell Odom: Bam! A quick idea about how something works on a router pops into your head. 5-10 clicks later, you're typing in the config you want to test, while waiting 5-10 minutes for one of your saved Dynamips pods to boot up. Visual Voicemail Dennis Hartmann: Visual Voicemail is a feature of Cisco Unity that allows voicemail users to see all of their voicemails on the Cisco IP Phone when the Messages button is selected from the phone. Today from the Subnet communities On Cisco Subnet: Cisco has 84% of Tandberg locked up and The VEPA standard -- a potential game changer?; On Microsoft Subnet: Fake Microsoft security e-mail spreads malicious code; On Google Subnet: Google releases free public DNS Network World on Twitter? You bet we are Ethernet everywhere! 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