Paving the way for the flat network

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	Paving the way for the flat network All of a sudden, data center networking has gone from ho-hum to hot. Read More WHITE PAPER: Alcatel - Lucent Converged Mobile Backhaul As service providers strive to leverage their network to deliver innovative services, optimizing the transport infrastructure is key in ensuring profitability. In converged mobile backhaul, the Alcatel-Lucent 9500 MPR creates a transition from TDM to IP, while preserving low total cost of ownership. Read Now In this Issue VoIP and compliance regulations make strange and difficult bedfellows Cisco hopes to steamroll the competition Cisco: 'Here you have' worm caused brief havoc Security absurdity: US in sensitive information quagmire Cisco CEO Chambers' pay climbs 33% to $18.9 million The big promise of Big Data: What you need to know today Hidden Secrets in the Cisco ASA Cisco to take the long view Should Cisco boldly go where it's gone before? Tier 1 for IPv4 != Tier 1 for IPv6 WHITE PAPER: RIM The CIO's Guide to Mobile Unified Communications Unified Communications (UC) integrates multiple communications modalities and adds presence features to allow workers to communicate and collaborate more effectively with co-workers, customers and suppliers. Learn about the cost, productivity and reachability issues. Read Now. VoIP and compliance regulations make strange and difficult bedfellows As attacks against VoIP persist businesses not only have to defend themselves, they have to do it under the gun of regulators who want proof that security was addressed in accordance with their ever-changing rules. Read More Cisco hopes to steamroll the competition When talk turns to flattening the data center network, Cisco has as much of a story to tell as the other guys, if not more so. Read More Cisco: 'Here you have' worm caused brief havoc The "Here you have" worm that clogged e-mail systems on Thursday briefly caused one of the worst spam outbreaks of 2010, according to Cisco Systems. Read More WHITE PAPER: Iron Mountain Online Server Backup. Read this white paper to examine the setbacks of traditional backup, gain a better understanding of online backup, and discover why Iron Mountain's LiveVault solution for automated server backup and recovery won the 2006 award for Best Storage Software Solution from the Software and Information Industry Association. Read Now Security absurdity: US in sensitive information quagmire Protecting and classifying sensitive information such as social security numbers shouldn't be that hard, but perhaps not surprisingly the US government has taken complicating that task to an art form. Read More Cisco CEO Chambers' pay climbs 33% to $18.9 million Cisco CEO John Chambers received compensation valued at $18.9 million in fiscal 2010, compared to $14.2 million in 2009. Read More The big promise of Big Data: What you need to know today Hadoop and other tools can unlock critical insights from unfathomable volumes of corporate and external data Read More WHITE PAPER: Zoho Corporation Randy's Wife Was Right About OpManager Randy evaluated OpManager live on his network to experience what he had heard from his wife and was impressed by how comprehensive yet easy it was. Read More Hidden Secrets in the Cisco ASA Think you know ASA pretty well? Have you worked with it for years and honed your ASA skills to a razor fine edge? Think you know all of the hidden secrets the ASA has to offer? I'll bet you answered yes to the first two but might have been reluctant to shout out a definitive yes to the last one. Why, because the ASA is a complex system that includes hundreds and hundreds of features making it near... Read More Cisco to take the long view All industry eyes and ears will be on Cisco tomorrow - Sept. 14 - as the company hosts its annual analyst conference. Watchers will look for indications on the outlook for the industry following Cisco's sobering Q1 guidance. Read More Should Cisco boldly go where it's gone before? Should Cisco aim higher when making acquisitions? Should the company go boldly - or more boldly - into new markets and market adjacencies?These are some of the assertions by RBC Capital Markets analyst Mark Sue in a bulletin explaining his downgrade of Cisco's stock this week. Excerpts of the bulletin were posted by Eric Savitz in his Tech Trader Daily blog on the Barron's web site. Read More Tier 1 for IPv4 != Tier 1 for IPv6 With the impending depletion of the global IPv4 address pool, Internet Service Providers are rapidly working on their IPv6 deployment plans. Organizations who are starting their IPv6 transition plans are asking their current ISPs about their IPv6 services. However, organizations that have chosen Tier 1 ISPs for their Internet connectivity may be surprised by these Tier 1 providers' upstream IPv6... Read More
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