Top 5 Security No Brainers for Businesses

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	Top 5 Security No Brainers for Businesses Occasionally folks forget about covering the fundamentals of security and start off down a rabbit hole following some shiny new technology that turns out to be just a rat hole. With today's limited security budgets you need to be sure that you've adequately covered your highest risk areas before moving on to other things. The high-risk areas are, of course, not the same for everyone and will change... Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Oracle Accelerate - Not Just Smart But Timely This video highlights the Oracle Accelerate program - a group of pre-configured, tested solutions that combine Oracle enterprise applications and rapid implementation tools with industry-specific bundles. The program reduces the time, complexity and cost of deploying Oracle and is implemented by highly trained partners. Learn More. In this Issue Cisco's Flip Video SlideHD goes on sale for $280 HP closes 3Com deal, strengthening competition for Cisco Hardware to drive IT spending growth in 2010 An inside look at intellectual property theft Very cool: Riverbed and Vyatta partner for all-in-one router, WAN appliance WAN Carriers Need Better Bandwidth Pricing Models for Enterprises WHITE PAPER: NetApp Top 5 Hyper-V Best Practices Read this whitepaper to get advice on everything from making sure you configure enough network connections, especially in iSCSI, to specifying the specific initiator groups and the correct LUN type when provisioning the NetApp LUN for use with Hyper-V. Learn More! Cisco's Flip Video SlideHD goes on sale for $280 The new Cisco Flip Video SlideHD pocket camcorder device is now available online and at retailers for about $180. Read More HP closes 3Com deal, strengthening competition for Cisco Cisco's competition just got stronger. HP this week closed on its acquisition of 3Com, which added about four percentage points to HP's share of the Ethernet switching market.HP now holds about 10% of the Ethernet switch market, solidifying its position as the No. 2 vendor in that space. Cisco is still far and away the market share leader with 67% of the $16 billion market in 2009, according to Dell'Oro... Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Inc. Improve Productivity by Optimizing your SSL VPN Are you getting all you can from your SSL VPN? Read this whitepaper to find out Learn More Hardware to drive IT spending growth in 2010 Industry watchers forecast an increase in computer hardware and equipment purchases, followed by investments in software, which both will contribute to a strong economic environment in 2010. Read More An inside look at intellectual property theft Measuring the exact cost of intellectual property theft is difficult, even for the government entities assigned to measure such activities. 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. Very cool: Riverbed and Vyatta partner for all-in-one router, WAN appliance Since last summer, we have been combining Vyatta router software and Riverbed WAN acceleration for some of our customers, but as of today the two vendors announced a deal run Vyatta on the Riverbed Steelhead. (Disclosure: I am a Riverbed reseller, but not a Vyatta reseller). Specifically Vyatta announced a deal with Riverbed to add the Vyatta Subscription Edition to the RSP Platform. Read More WAN Carriers Need Better Bandwidth Pricing Models for Enterprises Two weeks ago I wrote a blog asking "should enterprise IT provide great Internet access?". Essentially, enterprise WANs usually give 3-10 Mbps to a field site and 100-200 users need to fit inside that bandwidth. Meanwhile, these users go home at get 20 Mbps for themselves via cable modem (please no e-mails about cable modem sharing, blah, blah, blah...the fact is I can download at up to 20 Mbps at... Read More
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