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	Cisco rival Brocade still struggling in Ethernet Q4 preview upbeat on SAN and overall, but downbeat on current Ethernet products, market presence Brocade's Ethernet business is still challenged as the company prepares to announce fourth quarter results, reports investment for Oppenheimer & Co. in a quarterly preview bulletin. There's growing interest in a new line of switches that Brocade will soon announce but the company still hasn't "fully addressed" its Ethernet impediments, the firm states.  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 The Incredible Shrinking Bogon List Our WAN Transformation Engineering Conference is Great Do You Know about these Real-Life NERC CIP SCADA Vulnerabilities? CEO Interview: Blue Coat Systems Mike Borman How to improve WAN performance Application delivery networking: What are the components? Visit the Cisco Subnet home page for more Cisco news WHITE PAPER: HP Dynamic Provisioning Meets Today's Network Needs HP has developed a next-generation fabric architecture that uses industry standards to converge storage, server and network resources. It combines intelligence of server edge with an advanced orchestration and management layer to enable virtualization-aware networking, predicable performance and rapid, secure provisioning of resources. Read Now The Incredible Shrinking Bogon List As the global IPv4 free pool reduces so does the size of the IPv4 bogon listUnless you have deserted on an island you presumably have heard about the IPv4 address depletion crisis. The future of our IPv4 Internet is destined for rough times with NAT444/CGN/LSN and a marketplace for IPv4 addresses that is sure to balloon the size of BGP tables. However, with all this doom and gloom there is one silver lining on the dark cloud. Read More Our WAN Transformation Engineering Conference is Great Engineering Conferences are a Good Way to Work Through the Many Issues in Large ProjectsThis week in RTP, NC, we held a 3-day "off-site" for our global WAN Transformation Project. Previous blogs on WAN Transformation: WAN Transformation is a Go! WAN Transformation is a Huge Project Positive ROI is What Made WAN Transformation Possible Read More WHITE PAPER: NeuStar, Inc. Holiday Readiness Guide for Ecommerce This white paper is all about Internet Gifting Essentials as it is critical that merchants ready their sites from both a performance and selling perspective. Based on the e-tailing group's Annual Mystery Shopping Survey, highlighted Internet gifting essentials were present in three-out-of-four of the 100 websites we surveyed last holiday season. Read More Do You Know about these Real-Life NERC CIP SCADA Vulnerabilities? Most security operations people I've spoken with at electrical utilities have a good handle on the security vulnerabilities within their own SCADA environments. Their problem is convincing their management to sufficiently fund remediation. So here are just a few SCADA security related problems we've uncovered over the years, which may be of interest to those in control of the purse strings. I'll... Read More CEO Interview: Blue Coat Systems Mike Borman In a candid discussion, brand-new CEO Mike Borman lays out his plans for WAN and network security vendor Blue Coat Read More WEBCAST: IBM Cloud as the Next Generation of Service Delivery Exceptional growth in data is driving a need to transform the delivery of services. Understand the "road map" to transform and learn how IBM adds value at every step from virtualization, consolidation, automation, and ultimately cloud computing. Learn More How to improve WAN performance The performance of applications across the WAN are beset by a range of problems – latency, congestion, chatty applications, contention with other apps, low bandwidth – that can be addressed in a variety of ways. Read More Application delivery networking: What are the components? As mentioned in the prior newsletter, this is the second of a three-part series in which our colleague Robin Layland is sharing insight from the just released "2010 Application Delivery Challenge". Read More Visit the Cisco Subnet home page for more Cisco news The Cisco Subnet community features 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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