Cisco Announces New ASA 5585X High Speed Firewall and IPS Appliance

	Cisco launches high-end security appliance | Research project aims to simplify large-scale network control
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	Cisco Announces New ASA 5585X High Speed Firewall and IPS Appliance New ASA Hardware pushes 20Gbps at an astounding 350K Conns/Sec of real-world performanceCisco announced the orderability of its new ASA hardware line called the ASA 5585X. It is made up of a single 5585X 2-slot chassis that has 4 different Security Service Processor (SSP) options. The top one, the SSP-60, is a screamer at over 35Gbps of large packet stateful firewall throughput and more importantly up to 350,000 connections per second setup rate. This type of setup rate is unprecedented... 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 In this Issue Cisco launches high-end security appliance Research project aims to simplify large-scale network control Cisco exec to head Skype Can Large Scale NAT Save IPv4? White House set to nail up solar panels Answers for Last Week's VLAN Lab, Plus a New Challenge The evolving data center requires a strong network heart to be successful. IT the truly International Language Cisco's Bates resigns, CTO Warrior gains title WEBCAST: NetApp Use 50% Less Storage - Guaranteed Listen to this on-demand Webcast and hear Chris Rima of Tucson Electric Power discuss how his organization managed data growth and improved performance with storage and server virtualization. You'll also hear Brian Garrett from ESG and NetApp experts discuss ways to consolidate your Windows® application data, files, and virtual machines. Learn More Cisco launches high-end security appliance Cisco today announced a multi-function security appliance that combines a firewall with VPN support, plus an intrusion-prevention system (IPS), to reach speeds up to 20 Gbps with 10,000 VPN connections and 350,000 connections per second. Read More Research project aims to simplify large-scale network control Network control project touted by Google, Nicira and NEC under the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) and UC Berkeley Simplifying large scale network environments is a complex task but one that a number of researchers and vendors are trying to undertake. This week researchers from Google, Nicira Networks and NEC under the guise of the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) at UC Berkeley will present a research project at this week's Read More Cisco exec to head Skype Bates' routing background expected to benefit soon-to-be-public videocalling company Well, it's not quite the acquisition that everyone talked about and a few expected. But there is some Cisco influence now at the top of Skype. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed IT Consolidation Hazards Providing central services means more bandwidth between data centers and remote users. This ESG paper highlights new research on IT initiatives, how to avoid the common pitfalls of consolidation, and alternatives to ensure application performance, even for remote and mobile users, does not suffer after an IT consolidation. Read now! Can Large Scale NAT Save IPv4? LSNs are a Necessary but Imperfect Transitional TechnologyI've written previously that as we make the slow - and long overdue - transition from IPv4 to IPv6, we will soon be stuck with an awkward interim period in which the only new globally routable addresses we can get are IPv6, but most public content we want to reach is still IPv4. Large Scale NAT (LSN, also known as Carrier Grade NAT or CGN) is an essential tool for stretching a service provider's... Read More White House set to nail up solar panels White House to get solar panels, hot water heaterThe White House gets s lot of heat and it is about to take advantage of some of it. With a nod toward the green effort, the US Department of Energy said it plans to install solar panels and a solar hot water heater on the roof of the White House residence. Read More Answers for Last Week's VLAN Lab, Plus a New Challenge Can One Change Make VTP a Viable Option?Last week's lab puzzle required that you configure a network based on some requirements, with as few config mode commands as possible. We ended up with two challenges from last week's post: the original lab, plus a variation that required VLAN trunking. The fewest commands I can use for each are 5 and 9,l respectively. Today I'll spell those out, but I'll start with a slightly new set of requirements,... Read More WHITE PAPER: NetApp Changing the Way You Purchase Storage Most organizations are still buying storage based on outmoded ways of thinking. Find out why it's time to modernize your approach and the key criteria you need to consider before making your next IT investment. Read now! The evolving data center requires a strong network heart to be successful. The Data Center as we know it is changing and the network is at the heartWe live in exciting times, especially when one considers the ever-evolving data center. Consolidation and virtualization are changing the rules of how data centers are designed, built and operated across the world. The concept of scale as we knew it is being turned on its head and growth projections for compute, storage and network resources are going through the roof. Read More IT the truly International Language Fun with Flexible Netflow and the Borderless 3 launch! I setting here in Singapore finishing up the final leg of a two week journey. I was invited to come to India for ten days to geek out with engineers, conduct a 8 workshops and speak at Interop Mumbai. I really had a great time and met some awesome folks. However, when it comes to communicating, most folks that speak native English have a difficult time with my surfer hillbilly slang. I was concerned... Read More Cisco's Bates resigns, CTO Warrior gains title Tony Bates, who directed Cisco's core enterprise, commercial and small business division, has left the company, according to a Cisco blog entry posted on Monday. Read More
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