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Thursday, July 08, 2010

Cisco warns attendees that the Cisco Live database was hacked

IBM, EU partner on open source projects | Boots & Coots adopts virtual WAN acceleration to speed backup and disaster recovery

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Cisco warns attendees that the Cisco Live database was hacked
I, along with thousands of others, received an interesting e-mail from Cisco this morning warning me that details about me seem to have wound up in the hands of unauthorized people. Cisco Subnet editor, Julie Bort, also received an e-mail tip from a reader about the situation. You know I have many thoughts and opinions to share, but before I get into that, here's the e-mail in full. Please note that... 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: HP - Cupertino

Guide: Best Vmware backup method for you
Although data protection processes developed for physical environments can be used for virtual environments, backup processes specifically designed for virtualized environments are more flexible and scalable. This whitepaper presents information to assist in making a considered choice of data protection method for your VMware environment. Read Now.

IBM, EU partner on open source projects
IBM and the European Union are partnering on two projects that, in the end, aim to make government run more smoothly and businesses able to collaborate on web-based services. Both will take advantage of and contribute to the open source community. PINCETTE (which means "tweezers" in French) aims to be a new technology that will be able to hone in on even the smallest of software bugs in large networks... Read More

Boots & Coots adopts virtual WAN acceleration to speed backup and disaster recovery
Boots & Coots, a well control fire suppression and prevention company headquartered in Houston with offices worldwide, was facing a problem – the amount of data they were replicating multiple times each day for data protection was piling up and they were having queuing problems – replication jobs wouldn't have completed before the next job was scheduled to begin. After deploying Certeon's aCelera Sync WAN optimization software, they were able to replicate data without interruption and reduce their network bandwidth utilization by up to 90%. Read More


WHITE PAPER: HP - Cupertino

IT Pain Relief for Midmarket Business
Examine how end-to-end infrastructure virtualization delivers better management of physical and virtual server environments; reduced operational costs; and increased agility and responsiveness. Learn More Now!

Podcast: No more security updates for Windows 2000, XP SP2; New BlackBerry Server offers security features
Microsoft will stop supporting Windows 2000 and Windows XP Service Pack 2 next week - on Tuesday, July 13 - meaning that customers have to either upgrade to newer versions of the software or stop receiving security updates. Also, Research in Motion has padded the latest version of its BlackBerry Enterprise Server software with new security features designed to accommodate the growing use BlackBerry devices in corporate settings. (x:xx) Read More

Supreme Court on patents: "less than pellucid"
U.S. Supreme Court patent decision in Bilski case satisfies no one, except perhaps patent lawyers. Read More


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Network Virtualization Planning Guide
The Vyatta network operating system lends itself to a variety of virtualization and cloud deployment models. Review some common ways that Vyatta addresses the routing and security needs of virtual infrastructures in this paper. Read more!

Litmus tests HTML e-mail compatibility
As online sales and marketing evolved the need for testing became increasingly important so now we test Web applications and services for reliability and performance and Web content for browser compatibility. But there's one area of compatibility testing that's often overlooked and you've seen the consequences of no or poor testing a million times: HTML email. Read More

Internet2 taps Georgetown CIO as its chief
Internet2, the advanced networking consortium, has appointed Dave Lambert as its new president and CEO, replacing Douglas Van Houweling. Read More



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