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	Stuff I Learned from My 3 Biggest Network Screw Ups Jimmy Ray Purser: My grandmother used to tell me that while painful, mistakes always make the most interesting stories and teach the best lessons. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Optimizing Virtual Environments Organizations must understand virtualization and how it is changing the way operations are performed, what the benefits are created by establishing a virtualized environment and what the necessary steps are for an organization to create and maintain a virtualized environment. Learn More In this Issue Cisco doesn't contribute nearly enough to open source 8 Cloud Security Concepts You Should Know Cisco, HP and Juniper don't have what it takes in the data center Networking and Virtualization Vendors Should Join the Open vSwitch Effort Cisco the Architect The Many Reasons Why IBM/OpenPages Makes Sense Best certification choices for networking jobs today? Dial Peer Pressure Why are there no Cisco iPad applications? Hidden Secrets in the Cisco ASA Cisco losing steam in data center switching? Visit the Cisco Subnet home page for more Cisco news E-GUIDE: IBM eGuide: A New Look at BI Craft better IT strategies, build new, targeted products and achieve operational savings. These are just some of the benefits derived from business intelligence (BI) software. This expert guide from CIO, Computerworld, InfoWorld and Network World provide an overview of recent BI trends and how to leverage its most powerful features. Learn more. Cisco doesn't contribute nearly enough to open source Julie Bort: Cisco's website proudly proclaims it responsible for a half percent of the contributions to the Linux kernel (0.5%). In reality, Cisco has been a near non-entity as an open source contributor. Read More 8 Cloud Security Concepts You Should Know Chris Jackson: Cloud security isn't that hard. It's really just traditional security concerns in a distributed and multi-tenant environment. Read More Cisco, HP and Juniper don't have what it takes in the data center Jim Duffy: Cisco's coming at the data center from a legacy of building global networks - not from any real pedigree in data center IT, Brocade claims. Read More Networking and Virtualization Vendors Should Join the Open vSwitch Effort Jon Oltsik: My colleague Mark Bowker and I are knee-deep in new research data on server virtualization. Within this mountain of data, we are discovering some existing and impending issues related to network switching. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Best Practices for producing smarter products Join industry experts as they share best practices for designing and building smarter products. Learn how leading companies are using IBM Rational software to accelerate innovation, improve quality, increase productivity, and streamline compliance and auditability - so we can all live on a smarter planet. Learn more. Cisco the Architect Jim Duffy: As expected, Cisco's annual analyst conference this week was big on long-term outlook, short on near-term issues. The company did not waver from the sober guidance it provided for its fiscal Q1. Read More The Many Reasons Why IBM/OpenPages Makes Sense Jon Oltsik: Earlier today, IBM announced its intention to acquire OpenPages, a privately-held software company focused on identifying and managing risk and compliance. Read More Best certification choices for networking jobs today? Wendell Odom: As you grow your networking career, and if you embrace the idea of getting Cisco certifications to validate those skills on paper at least, then you have lots of choices to make. Read More Dial Peer Pressure Kevin Wallace: I've named my latest CVOICE "Dial Peer Pressure." It covers the configuration of POTS and VoIP dial peers, and includes a couple of tips and tricks. Read More WHITE PAPER: ArcSight 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 Why are there no Cisco iPad applications? Larry Chaffin: I have been wondering for a while why there are no Cisco-made iPad applications within iTunes besides WebEx. Read More Hidden Secrets in the Cisco ASA Jamie Heary: Think you know ASA pretty well? Have you worked with it for years and honed your ASA skills to a razor fine edge? I'll be there are hidden secrets the ASA still has to offer you. Read More Cisco losing steam in data center switching? Jim Duffy: Just as Cisco rolls out its new and enhanced switches for the data center, Oppenheimer & Co. issues a report proclaiming share losses in this market for Cisco in 2011. Read More Visit the Cisco Subnet home page for more Cisco news This newsletter features articles from Cisco Subnet. The Cisco Subnet community hosts industry-expert bloggers, giveaways and all the top news of interest to network professionals. Check out the Cisco Subnet home page. Follow us on Twitter @ciscosubnet Read More
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