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Anatomy of a Cisco data center convert

Cisco Q4 looking good | Defcon: Hacking Tire Pressure Monitors Remotely

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Anatomy of a Cisco data center convert
Cisco almost didn't make the cut. NightHawk Radiology Services was ready to hand its data center consolidation project to another vendor until a facility leasing issue delayed its decision. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Insight

How to Double Productivity of Your IT Staff
Examine how Oracle Database 11g helps IT provide more information with higher quality of service, making more efficient use of budgets and reducing the risk of change in data centers. Learn more!

WEBCAST: Oracle

Getting Started with Identity Compliance
The Burton Group's, Kevin Kampman, provides an overview of the latest technology for identity management. He'll help you sift through key, mandatory requirements and features and functionality that can wait. Kevin offers guidance on how you can get a 360-degree view of users' access and behavior, best practices and a real-world implementation. View Now.

Cisco Q4 looking good
Cisco fourth quarter sales are ahead of expectations, according to investment firm Oppenheimer & Co. During its quarterly "channel check" of 37 US and European resellers, Oppenheimer found that data center demand, upgrade activity and reignited projects are boosting business for Cisco in the quarter.Cisco is not slowed by the economic malaise in Europe and spending held steady as well, Oppenheimer... Read More


REPORT: Citrix

Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers
Citrix Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant for 2009 Application Delivery Controllers Magic Quadrant, Gartner Group. Read now!

Defcon: Hacking Tire Pressure Monitors Remotely
I attended an interesting talk at Defcon today that revealed a potential security vulnerability that I never would have thought of in a million years. Yep, hacking the tire pressure monitoring system in your car. The talk called "Letting the Air out of tire pressure monitoring systems" was by Mike Metzger. Turns out the attack surface for such an attack is huge. In the U.S. the Tread Act mandated... Read More


WHITE PAPER: Citrix

NetScaler vs. F5 View the Comparison
Tolly Performance Report: "Citrix NetScaler with nCore Outperforms F5 BIG-IP" shows you how Citrix NetScaler beat F5 in head-to-head tests ? providing 3X faster Web traffic, lower latency and higher throughput. Read now!

Facebook, Farmville, etc. now consume a third of Web time
There's news from Nielsen this morning that ought not surprise anyone but might concern some: The percentage of Web time spent on social networks such as Facebook increased by nearly half last year, jumping from 16% to 23% of online hours. And if that's not enough to make you wonder how anyone's getting any work done, know that time spent on games such as Farmville now surpasses time spent on e-mail,... Read More

Nine real iPad alternatives
These products have features missing in the iPad and they're slated to ship this year Read More

Can we abandon the copper plant?
Gary Audin recently published as paper at Webtorials entitled "Can the PSTN be Shut Down?". In this paper, he takes a rather extensive look at the proposal submitted to the FCC last December to eventually retire the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) and POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) over the next several years. Read More



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