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	If Cisco buys you, you're 1 in 100 BusinessWeek profiled Cisco's M&A strategy this week and found that for every company Cisco's buys, it's looked at 100. Cisco has 50 people sizing up acquisitions all the time, the story states.In those 100 evaluations, 10 get to the "serious level of conversation" stage, says Charles Carmel, Cisco's vice president of corporate development, in the story. Only one is chosen, however, for a 1% hit rate.... Read More WHITE PAPER: Force10 Data Center Optimization Strategies Enhance the efficiency of your data center by improving power and cooling. Learn the strategies you can use to refine power efficiency, thereby boosting your TCO and lowering your budget. Read More In this Issue F5 Networks Financials Tell a Bigger Story How will NASA defend Earth against killer asteroids and comets? Me Versus QoS...Round 1... Internetwork Performance Monitor Vulnerability How dead is Nortel? 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! F5 Networks Financials Tell a Bigger Story This week, F5 Networks announced delightful Q1 financial results to Wall Street. Company revenue was up 11% topping Wall Street estimates, the company hired nearly 100 new employees, and F5 now has a market cap in excess of $4 billion. Share price actually jumped 3% after the announcement. These results say a lot about F5 Networks, a leader in the Application Delivery Controller (ADC) market staffed... Read More WHITE PAPER: Zscaler How Hackers are Targeting Enterprise Users via Web 2.0 Browser Exploits Securing enterprise servers with firewalls and intrusion detection is critical, but the most common threats are executed on thousands of mobile end users through the Web. Lean how to protect your clients with more than desktop anti-virus/anti-spyware and HIPS. Learn more! How will NASA defend Earth against killer asteroids and comets? Combinations of space- and ground-based telescopes may be the most economically palpable defenses NASA can mount against asteroids and comets heading toward Earth, but there are more advanced defenses involving spacecraft and nuclear Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Rapid Replication for Virtual Servers What's the connection between virtualization and acceleration? It's deeper than you might think. See how these two hot technologies complement each other to consolidate servers, enhance DR and simplify the IT infrastructure. Learn more. Me Versus QoS...Round 1... Last week we were shooting a TechWiseTV episode on Telepresence. I refused to do this at first since there is a ton a crap out there on how cool it looks. If we do this show we have to go behind the scenes and not even show a Telepresence system until the end of the show. We did that and it turned out to easily be one of our best shows hands down. It airs in Feb if you want to check it out. Read... Read More Internetwork Performance Monitor Vulnerability Cisco announced a vulnerability on Internetwork Performance Monitor (IPM) today at the following URL: http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20100120-ipm.shtml Internetwork Performance Monitor (IPM) is an add-on for the Cisco Works network management platform. IPM is a graphical utility that works very closely with service assurance agent (SAA) probes in a technology suite that Cisco... Read More How dead is Nortel? Analysts are mixed on whether Nortel, the disintegrating telecom titan, will survive in some form or die off, becoming a distant memory of a bygone era and century. Read More
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