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	Purdue's hefty switch discounts 'unusual,' Cisco says The steep discounts that Purdue University recently received on Cisco's Nexus 7000 switches are 'unusual' and based on factors that go beyond the purchase alone, Cisco says. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Map Critical Network Assets and Dependencies Learn how Riverbed provided the International Herald Tribune with an end-to-end view of application delivery paths – from servers to desktops, and how advanced traffic analysis ensured faster problem resolution and more effective WAN management. Read now! In this Issue Cisco Profit Fell One-Third in Q4 The great data center network debate 10 scariest hacks from Black Hat and Defcon Remote Workers: An Easy Target for APTs Adtran buys Wi-Fi vendor Bluesocket Vulnerable Insulin Pumps Demostrate Pervasive Risks TVOICE Video #4 CalTech, UCSD bring photonics to silicon WHITE PAPER: CenturyLink Business Maximizing The Cloud To Your Needs Today's enterprise is increasingly IT-dependent and network-based, requiring agile IT infrastructure sourcing approaches to meet rapidly changing business objectives. See how a dynamic, cloud-based infrastructure can flexibly supports key business needs—and whether it's right for your organization. Read now! Cisco Profit Fell One-Third in Q4 Cisco's profit in its fiscal fourth quarter fell about one-third from a year earlier, while its sales increased only 3.3 percent, the company reported on Wednesday. Read More The great data center network debate As was discussed in the last newsletter, all of data center network design guidelines and technologies that IT organizations have used for the last decade are now being questioned. The good news is that IT organizations have a lot of new and emerging technology and design options that they can implement. The bad news is that the breadth of available options can be overwhelming. We will use this newsletter to describe a series of discussions on data center networking that we are driving the goal of which is to help IT organization evaluate their options. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Visualization of an Intricate Network The Depository Trust & Clearing House required enhanced network visibility to support their custody and asset servicing valued at $40 trillion. See how Riverbed provided: • End-to-end visibility of encrypted traffic • Lower MTTR • Application and network activity analysis without requiring probes on every WAN link Learn more! 10 scariest hacks from Black Hat and Defcon Researchers showed all manner of serious attacks on everything from browsers to automobiles. Read More Remote Workers: An Easy Target for APTs After Black Hat, DefCon, and the recent McAfee report, you are probably tired of all of the hype around APTs. I agree that the industry has co-opted and obfuscated but these "low-and-slow" attacks are something we need to understand and address before more of our private information and intellectual property flies out the IP-connected door. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Hardware Load Balancing A comprehensive F5 solution readies application infrastructure for a successful implementation of the re-engineered Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Learn More! Adtran buys Wi-Fi vendor Bluesocket Enterprise Wi-Fi vendor Bluesocket has been bought by Adtran, which plans to hammer Bluesocket's "virtualized" wireless LAN like a stake into the hearts of its WLAN rivals, Cisco and Aruba Networks. Read More Vulnerable Insulin Pumps Demostrate Pervasive Risks I was catching up on the news from the DefCon security event in Las Vegas when one particular story caught my eye. A security researcher named Jay Radcliffe, a diabetic, discovered that he could hack his own Insulin pump and prompt the device to deliver either too much or too little Insulin. By exploiting this vulnerability, a hacker could literally use technologies like wireless networking to commit... Read More TVOICE Video #4 One of the most common troubleshooting issues when working with Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) is call privileges, which is usually configured with partitions and calling search spaces. This video takes a look at a call privileges troubleshooting issue. Read More CalTech, UCSD bring photonics to silicon Researchers at the California Institute of Technology and the University of California, San Diego have developed a silicon-based optical waveguide that could prove to be an instrumental component in building low-cost, all-optical networks in the future. Read More
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