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Wednesday, June 09, 2010

Cisco flexes its Quad

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Cisco flexes its Quad
Cisco is hitting the road, giving editors a sneak preview of a new enterprise collaboration tool it plans to formally debut next week at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston. Network World Editor-in-Chief John Dix got a demonstration of Quad at our Framingham headquarters last week. Read More


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Building a Successful Security Operations Center
This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center

WHITE PAPER: Riverbed

Overcome Two Key Challenges with Virtualization
How do you accelerate virtualization for your enterprise - and take IT flexibility and cost savings to the next level? Start by downloading this whitepaper from Riverbed. WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises in order to address the challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN. Click here!

Cisco releases 7.0 wireless code, increases 5508 AP capacity from 250 to 500 APs.
Cisco released their 7.0 code train for their Unified Wireless products this week, and while bringing obvious support for the new 1260 and 3500 APs, it also adds a few more needed features, such as increased AP count on the controller. Read More

What kind of software costs $920 million?
Some big defense contractors got even bigger this week as the Air Force awarded a $919,640,000 deal for the development of its critical mission planning software. Read More


E-GUIDE: Compuware

Perfecting Application Performance
The enterprise application scene has become increasingly complicated over the years. Things have changed with the rise of Web services, SOA, Virtualization and cloud computing. In this Executive Guide explore how to get the best performance out of today's application environments. Read Now.

Cisco vs Juniper
In the data center, the Cisco vs. Juniper argument will hinge on which company has the more compelling unified data center fabric architecture: Cisco's Unified Computing System or Juniper's single-layer Stratus. Read More

How vulnerable is Cisco?
Cisco has been the dominant vendor of enterprise switches and routers for the last 20 years and that is not likely to change anytime soon. There are, however, some transitions taking place in the overall IT marketplace that indicate that Cisco could be vulnerable to losing at least some market share. We will use the next two newsletters to discuss our thoughts on how vulnerable Cisco is in the enterprise networking market. Read More


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Intelligent Storage Management at the File Level
Many storage management tools for file storage are "dumb." They treat all files the same regardless of business relevance and they lack the ability to automate user-storage management tasks or set policies based on business requirements. Learn how to augment your existing storage management system with intelligence at the file level. Read Now

What is the average cost of a data breach?
We've all read the statistics about the number of publicly-disclosed breaches and the number of public records that were compromised along the way. Think TJX, Heartland Payment Systems, the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs, and you are talking well over 100 million records alone. So how much does a data breach cost an organization? Good question as there are a lot of moving parts. You have... Read More

Communication Manager 8.x: Cross Cluster Extension Mobility lab attempt - part 2
Time to continue discussing my lab attempts with EMCC, which started about a month ago and is still 'work in progress' (mainly due to time constrains). Here is the link to my previous post on it: http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/60986 Read More

The New Cisco Nexus 2232PP Is Nice!
Remember the catch-phrase in Field of Dreams - "Build it, and they will come."? The pretty much sums up our experience with 10GbE host connectivity over the past year in our new cutting-edge, 10GbE data center. Read More

Cisco building up market adjacencies
Cisco plans to increase the number of market adjacencies it is looking to enter by 20% per year. Currently, Cisco is addressing 30 or more such markets beyond its core routing and switching business. Read More



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