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	Cisco's 'Jawbreaker' seen as response to competitive pressure Why would Cisco be developing a new data center fabric product line based on merchant silicon when its Nexus switches and FabricPath software are already available?  Read More WEBCAST: IBM How much network downtime can your business tolerate? Join this IBM broadcast to learn how to manage and improve network configuration activity to keep your networks running, in compliance and generating revenue. View Now In this Issue Cisco defrauder sentenced The cloud's Achilles' Heel is that it's uninsurable Cisco to stay out of the services business T-1 reflections - Part 2 Lights, camera, Big Blue: IBM going Hollywood for 100th birthday Watch out CISOs and CSOs: Chief Risk Officers may be gaining on you 5 women leaders who are shaping IT 4 Virtualization Security Basics to Watch WHITE PAPER: Alcatel-Lucent The Application Fluent Network This paper will show how your organization can respond effectively to a shifting IT climate to create competitive advantage and drive customer loyalty while minimizing cost Read now! Cisco defrauder sentenced Minnesota man receives a year for bilking company out of $388KA Minnesota man received a year in prison for scheming Cisco out of $388,000. Philip Webb of Brooklyn Park, MN., pled guilty late last year to defrauding Cisco in a spare parts scam. Read More The cloud's Achilles' Heel is that it's uninsurable Risk expert warns industry has no model for calculating riskWhile companies like Microsoft were touting the growth and benefits of cloud computing at the recent Cloud Connect conference here in Silicon Valley, one speaker gave what he called his "wet blanket" presentation warning of a big hole in the cloud business model. 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 Cisco to stay out of the services business Cisco Systems plans to collaborate rather than compete with IT services providers as it targets new market opportunities such as virtual education and health for communities, a senior company executive said on Wednesday. Read More T-1 reflections - Part 2 As we left off the last newsletter, we left with the statement that implementing T-1/E-1 networks could typically save a company enough money to pay for the new equipment - and introduce significantly enhanced features - in less than six months. Indeed, this was the beginning of a major shift to premises-based networks. Read More WEBCAST: Quest Software Getting Your Network out of Gridlock In the Quest Software on-demand webcast, "Getting Your Network out of Gridlock," learn to monitor your network health so you can maximize performance and minimize gridlock. Learn more. Lights, camera, Big Blue: IBM going Hollywood for 100th birthday IBM brings on Hollywood directors to tell its story as it turns 100IBM wants to see itself through the fisheye lens as it turns 100.  The company today said a few well-known Hollywood directors have shot a series of three movies that highlight the company, its inventions and impact on society over the past 100 years. Read More Watch out CISOs and CSOs: Chief Risk Officers may be gaining on you CSOs and CISOs may feel more pressure from a new breed of security professional - the chief information risk officer - now that the federal government has made risk management mandatory and spelled out in a new document just how risk ought to be assessed and dealt with. Read More 5 women leaders who are shaping IT There's no better time than International Women's Day to recognize and celebrate the tech industry's key female participants. Read More 4 Virtualization Security Basics to Watch While mobile and smartphone security is the hot topic of the moment among virtualization security gurus, plenty of other virtualization security topics demand IT's attention right now. At the recent RSA Security Conference in San Francisco, the interest in virtualization security ran high - with good reason. Different IT departments are at different points on their virtualization journeys, of course, and some are still thinking about security in the old physical world terms, analysts say. Read More
	GOODIES FROM THE SUBNETS Up for grabs from Microsoft Subnet: a Windows 7 Enterprise Technician class for three people. From Cisco Subnet: 15 copies of VMware ESXi books. Enter here. SLIDESHOWS Perks drive up pay for tech CEOs Many tech vendors have shied away from extravagant perks, but there are still plenty worth highlighting. Like a $1.5 million tab for home security. Or how about the $36,619 one company paid to reimburse its CEO for the taxes he had to pay on the $106,589 he gained by using company aircraft for personal flights? Read on to find out which tech CEOs enjoyed the priciest perks in 2010 and which ones went to work perk-free. First look at Google Chrome 10 Google has released the stable version of Chrome 10 and users are now being automatically updated. As always, Chrome's new features focus on security, speed and simplicity, with greater JavaScript performance, sandboxing technology for Adobe Flash, password encryption and an easier-to-use settings interface. Here's a look at the new features. MOST-READ STORIES Researchers develop more powerful biofuel alternative Google still scrambling to recover from DroidDream Android attack Ex-Microsoft CTO publishes groundbreaking cookbook If you had bought 100 shares of Microsoft 25 years ago ... Harvard computer scientist Leslie Valiant wins Turing Award The eight most important commands on Cisco ASA security appliance VMware unleashes virtual desktops for Apple iPad Microsoft pushes more Kinect-like user interfaces Botnets, cloud computing power may be fueling attacks against VoIP Most Android, iPhone apps violate open source rules
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