Cisco, NetApp, VMware team up on virtualization security

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	Cisco, NetApp, VMware team up on virtualization security Cisco, NetApp and VMware announced a project to improve the security of virtualization deployments, with a focus on isolating applications that use the same physical network, server and storage resources in multi-tenant systems. Read More WHITE PAPER: Tripwire FISMA Prescriptive Guide Learn how Tripwire helps federal agencies, as well as the organizations and contractors that store, process or transmit federal information. The FISMA Prescriptive Guide contains case studies from three fictional federal agencies, each capturing the perspective of a key stakeholder in the FISMA compliance process. Click here. In this Issue Cisco revises CCNP exams, announces new service provider cert Here Comes Video: Cisco SVP Juniper, Polycom to test Cisco/Tandberg Cisco Announces Changes to CCNP Secure Multi-Tenancy Advances Avian Securities reiterates its negative opinion about Juniper Networks IPv4 Space is Getting Low - Really Low Riverbed expected to maintain its WAN optimization market share WHITE PAPER: HP 4 Key Principles of Storage Virtualization Applying the concept of virtual resource pools to storage can transform the virtualized storage infrastructure. Read this ESG report to learn best practices on; storage virtualization, application integration, capacity and power optimization, and storage & server convergence. Read Now! Cisco revises CCNP exams, announces new service provider cert Cisco today announced that it is revamping its CCNP exam process and also launching a new certification for service providers. Cisco Subnet blogger Wendell Odom has posted more details about the new CCNP exam in his blog. He writes, "Cisco starts by removing roughly half the topic breadth from the old CCNP: most every topic from ONT and ISCW is gone. Cisco then adds back a Troubleshooting exam that... Read More Here Comes Video: Cisco SVP 90% of IP traffic in 3 years will be video, according to Cisco's Marthin De Beer, senior vp of the company's Emerging Technologies group. It will be 50% of mobile traffic around that time too, he said from Cisco's Networkers conference in Barcelona. "It will change the way we build, design and configured networks," he told the assembled at the conference. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software Linux and Unix in Your Environment? Don't Leave Security to Chance Most businesses today rely on the stability and power of Linux or Unix in their data centers. However, these venerable platforms also create some compliance and security challenges.In this white paper, you'll learn to get the most from your Linux or Unix environment, while ensuring your data is safe and secure. Learn More Juniper, Polycom to test Cisco/Tandberg The timing only made it seem that way. Juniper and Polycom were already hatching their deepened partnership when Cisco announced intentions to acquire Polycom rival Tandberg. Read More Cisco Announces Changes to CCNP It's almost like those too-familiar infomercials that get so popular around New Year's - time to get rid of the fat and add some muscle. Cisco's done the same to CCNP with today's announcement of CCNP changes. Cisco starts by removing roughly half the topic breadth from the old CCNP: most every topic from ONT and ISCW is gone. Cisco then adds back a Troubleshooting exam that focuses on routing and... Read More WHITE PAPER: WatchGuard When Pressing the Send Button Results In Compliance Violations Protecting confidential data is serious business. Failure may result in fat fines and even jail time - not to mention damage to your brand. WatchGuard's easy-to-use, all-inclusive email and web secure content and threat prevention appliances offer a complete data protection solution. Click here. Secure Multi-Tenancy Advances Cisco (CSCO), NetApp (NTAP), and VMware (VMW) made an interesting announcement this week. The three amigos teamed up to deliver secure multi-tenancy in a virtual infrastructure. What does this mean? In large organizations, it means that IT can enable different functional departments or business applications to share server, networking, and storage infrastructure in a secure fashion. The same... Read More Avian Securities reiterates its negative opinion about Juniper Networks This Thursday, January 28, Juniper Networks will be webcasting its Q4 2009 earnings conference call. However today, Catharine Trebnick - Sr. Research Analyst at Avian Securities, reiterated her "negative opinion" about Juniper: "We expect JNPR to report revenue and EPS in-line to high end of management guidance, slightly above our estimates of $883.7M/$0.25 (Street=$884M/$0.25, Guidance of $860M-$895M/$0.23-$0.26).... Read More IPv4 Space is Getting Low - Really Low Something happened this month that probably didn't get much attention, but I always felt would be an unofficial sign that IPv4 space was getting terribly low. IANA, the organization that coordinates global IP addressing, allocated the previously unallocated, and distinctive, 1.0.0.0/8 block to APNIC. Read More Riverbed expected to maintain its WAN optimization market share On Tuesday, Feb. 2, WAN optimization vendor - Riverbed Technology will release its 4th quarter and fiscal year 2009 financial results. In his research note today, my favorite Wall Street tea-leaf reader - RBC Capital Markets Managing Director - Mark Sue, gave his take on what investors should expect from Riverbed's upcoming financial results: "The WAN optimization market may rebound in 2010 and... Read More
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