Cisco's alright with free FCoE

	Cisco partners not affected by product transition | US needs to get better at preventing foreign access to advanced technology
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	Cisco's alright with free FCoE Just another service driving demand for its gear, data center chief saysCisco is unfazed by the realization that FibreChannel over Ethernet, the storage virtualization technology it helped define, standardize and evangelize, is essentially being given away for free. FCoE is designed to help unify a data center switching fabric by converging FibreChannel storage traffic over Ethernet, thereby saving the expense and operational complexity of running separate cables, deploying... Read More WHITE PAPER: Coyote Point Equalizer approved for Load Balancing Coyote Point is one of the select manufacturers on Microsoft's approved vendor listing for load balancing MS Exchange Server 2010. See this and other deployment guides that show how easy it is to add performance and availability to the Microsoft applications you rely on every day. Read More In this Issue Cisco partners not affected by product transition US needs to get better at preventing foreign access to advanced technology Cisco's call to arms Most IPv6-certified home network gear is frightfully buggy Are IT Vendors Getting A "Free Pass" On Security? Internet Access at 30,000 Feet Is your company at risk of an IPv6 brain drain? Verizon: We have plenty of IPv4 addresses Cloud, mobility will drive revenue, Juniper says WEBCAST: Cisco & Citrix Regain Control of the Desktop Learn how one IT organization is realizing the benefits of Desktop Virtualization and find out what they did to ensure a successful deployment of VMware View 4.5. Learn More Cisco partners not affected by product transition Cisco partners say they are not impacted by the product transition challenges, particularly in switching, currently affecting the company. Read More US needs to get better at preventing foreign access to advanced technology GAO watchdogs find holes in high-tech access, licensing rulesWhen it comes to protecting the US family jewels - high-tech data on everything from aeronautics, information systems and electronics to lasers and unmanned aerial vehicles -- parts of the government tasked with protecting those assets need to do a way better job. Read More Cisco's call to arms Chambers, other execs fire up the channel for clouds, architecture at the Cisco Partner SummitJohn Chambers opened up the Cisco Partner Summit this week with some meaty targets for channel partners and Cisco itself. He says there's a $170 billion total addressable market in products and services for Cisco and its partners, and it will grow to $210 billion in the next couple of years, he says. Read More WEBCAST: Cisco Mobile Powerplay: Secure, High Performance, Unified The mobile revolution is here—and here to stay. iPhone, iPad, Droid--employees bring their mobile devices into the workplace, and they want access to personal and professional information. This brings a new set of concerns for IT and the business: IT needs to ensure that the corporate network and the access remains secure. Register Now Most IPv6-certified home network gear is frightfully buggy The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab held an IPv6 consumer electronics Plugfest a couple of weeks ago and CableLabs has scheduled two more for this year. The Lab is tight-lipped about the results, but the sad fact is that most home routers and DSL/cable modems certified as IPv6-compliant by the IPv6 Forum are so full of implementation bugs that they can't be used by ISPs for IPv6... Read More Are IT Vendors Getting A "Free Pass" On Security? Technology industry won't emphasize security until there is a market or regulatory pushI gave a presentation on cyber supply chain security at a Mitre Software Assurance conference last week. One of the things I highlighted was that many organizations are not doing an adequate level of security due diligence on their IT vendors. This fact is clearly illustrated in a few ESG Research data points from the recent report, "Assessing Cyber Supply Chain Security Vulnerabilities Within the... Read More Internet Access at 30,000 Feet My First Time With WiFi on a PlaneI had my first experience with airplane wifi this week on a trip to California. Upon boarding the Southwest flight, I noticed a sticker on the plane saying "Wifi-ready" (or something like that). This was the leg from RDU to Chicago and, since it was only $5, I gave it a shot. Read More WHITE PAPER: St. Bernard Software Compare Web Filters, Enter to win an iPad View this demo of iPrism Web Filter and learn why throughput speeds of up to 100+ Mbps, anti-virus protection, and seamless Active Directory/Terminal Services integration and reporting included at no charge has made iPrism the appliance-based choice for organizations of all sizes. Learn More Is your company at risk of an IPv6 brain drain? Timothy Winters, senior manager at the University of New Hampshire's InterOperability Laboratory, gets calls every week from headhunters looking to hire network engineers, network architects and software developers with experience in IPv6, the looming upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol. Read More Verizon: We have plenty of IPv4 addresses Verizon Business says it has enough IP addresses using the current version of the Internet Protocol, known as IPv4, to support its U.S. business and government customers as they transition to the next-generation standard, IPv6. Read More Cloud, mobility will drive revenue, Juniper says Juniper Networks reaffirmed its long-term forecast for annual revenue growth of 20 percent or more as it met with financial analysts on Thursday following two big product-line introductions. Read More
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