Tablets, smartphones force Cisco to rethink how security works

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	Tablets, smartphones force Cisco to rethink how security works Cisco has unveiled a self-described "complicated" security architecture dubbed SecureX that it says provides a context-aware way to safeguard networks increasingly overrun with smartphones, tablets and virtualization. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Cisco Whitepaper, Architecting the Network for the Cloud Learn more about cloud computing and Cisco Borderless Networks, which helps enterprises prepare for cloud services. This whitepaper describes the benefits and challenges of migration and the importance of deploying a cloud-ready network architecture. Download now. In this Issue Are the iPad 2 HD Rumors for Real? A sneak-peek preview of Android 3.0 Microsoft certifications won't boost your pay much Obama seeks big boost in cybersecurity spending Symantec looks to protect users from mutating malware Toward a Gigabit Wi-Fi Nirvana: 802.11ac and 802.11ad Five iPad safety tips Mozilla: Firefox 4 for Android to ship in a few weeks Does Cisco get consumers? IBM's Watson surges to giant Jeopardy lead, retains tie against human competitors What makes IBM Watson so smart? RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Netezza Get Proof. Not Promises. Take the Netezza TestDrive. Your site. Your data. Our technology. Experience the high-performance and operational simplicity of the IBM Netezza data warehouse appliance firsthand. Our open Proof of Concept allows you to test a Netezza appliance with your most demanding, real-world analytics challenges. Learn More. Are the iPad 2 HD Rumors for Real? The much anticipated iPad 2 hasn't even hit Apple Stores, while a new rumor about an iPad 3 arriving in time for the holidays began swirling around the blogosphere recently. Two iPads in the same year? What's going on? Does this rumor carry much weight? Read More A sneak-peek preview of Android 3.0 Expect a new holographic look, customizable home screens, a Windows-style taskbar, and tabbed browsing in Google's upcoming version of the Android OS, code-named Honeycomb. Read More Microsoft certifications won't boost your pay much Microsoft certifications are dropping in value and provide a smaller pay boost than IT skills related to Cisco, Oracle, EMC, VMware, IBM, SAP, and Red Hat technologies. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Citrix XenServer Download Free XenServer XenServer is the only enterprise-ready, cloud-proven virtualization platform you don't have to pay for. With live migration, centralized multi-server management, and shared storage support, you can't afford not to try it! Click to continue Obama seeks big boost in cybersecurity spending The White House is proposing a big increase in cybersecurity research and development in next years budget to improve, in part, its ability to reduce the risk of insider threats and ensure the safety of control systems, such as those used at power plants. Read More Symantec looks to protect users from mutating malware Symantec today announced the 12th edition of its flagship enterprise desktop anti-malware product, Symantec Endpoint Protection, that looks to go beyond traditional anti-virus signatures to use a cloud-based file-identification system to protect users from virus mutations. Read More Toward a Gigabit Wi-Fi Nirvana: 802.11ac and 802.11ad Today's existing state-of-the art wireless LAN can achieve 300 Mbps using 802.11n with two spatial streams. Future developments will deliver three- and four-stream speeds of up to 600 Mbps. But the 802.11 working group has set its sights on a more ambitious milestone: 1 Gbps throughput. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Hitachi CPC Jan-Feb2011 Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer Pinpoint root cause of network issues up to 90% faster. Automated Root Cause Analysis speeds remediation. FREE video and 30-day trial. www.hitachimonitoringcenter.com Download free 30-day trial Five iPad safety tips Don't deploy iPads in the enterprise without considering these security measures. Read More Mozilla: Firefox 4 for Android to ship in a few weeks The Mozilla Foundation expects to release the final code for the Firefox 4 browser for Android mobile devices in a few weeks, with one more beta version to be released in the next week or so. Read More Does Cisco get consumers? The consumer market doesn't seem too hard to figure out: give us cool gadgets that can do useful, practical things - that's things with an 's' - at a reasonable price and we'll buy it. Some of those things include data (e-mail and text), voice and video. Maybe a flashlight and a currency converter too, or a tip calculator for lunch and dinner. Read More IBM's Watson surges to giant Jeopardy lead, retains tie against human competitors IBM's Watson surged to a giant lead in the early minutes of the Jeopardy man-vs.-machine challenge, taking a $4,200 advantage into the first commercial break by dominating "Beatles People" and several other categories. But the massive supercomputer relinquished "his" lead and ended Day 1 of the three-day challenge in a tie at $5,000 with Jeopardy champion Brad Rutter. Read More What makes IBM Watson so smart? If you have seen any of the video of its preliminary bouts on "Jeopardy!" you know that IBM's Watson computer is pretty amazing. One of the main reasons it turns out is that IBM enlisted the intelligence of eight of the country's top universities to make sure Watson has superb question answering ability. Read More
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