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	Cisco memo slams HP strategy Cisco is gearing up its sales force to exploit the turmoil currently enveloping rival HP. Cisco sales EVP Rob Lloyd apparently circulated an eight-page internal memo detailing what Cisco views as the impact of HP exiting the tablet, smartphone and PC businesses on the company. Read More WHITE PAPER: Intel Raise QoS in vSphere*4 with Dell & Intel The industry transition to 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) is creating new quality of service (QoS) challenges. This paper examines best practices for analyzing, monitoring and controlling bandwidth in VMware vSphere 4.1 environments when using Dell servers and Intel Ethernet 10 Gigabit server adapters. Click to continue In this Issue Cisco Nexus, Love Connection or Bad Medicine? Massive DDoS attacks a growing threat to VoIP services Battling botnet blight: It's going to take a big village HP aims high with top-of-rack 10G Ethernet switch In face of massive cybersecurity threat, government security dawdles Stop, Think, Connect: It's National Cybersecurity Awareness Month McAfee Acquires Nitro Security WHITE PAPER: ExtraHop Application Performance Management In this eGuide, Network World, with sister publication CIO, offer news on the latest trends, best practices, and straightforward advice on these solutions and the challenges of managing application performance. Learn More! Cisco Nexus, Love Connection or Bad Medicine? The aptly named Cisco Nexus is all about connections. As the next big thing and the new kid on the block it has certainly garnered a lot of attention. Add to that the powerhouse that is Cisco marketing and voila! You have yourself a product on the minds and hearts of system admins and CIO's everywhere. But is it all it's cracked up to be? More importantly, Is the Cisco Nexus right for you? Let's... Read More Massive DDoS attacks a growing threat to VoIP services When the massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in March brought down the voice-over-IP (VoIP) call processing supplied by TelePacific Communications to thousands of its customers, it marked a turning point for the local-exchange services provider in its thinking about security. Read More WEBCAST: Juniper Networks The Exponential Data Center Arbner will explore how changing data usage models have completely shifted network traffic patterns in the data center, making most data center networks ill-suited to today's reality, and too expensive to boot. Learn more >> Battling botnet blight: It's going to take a big village Botnets are indeed one of the scourges of the Internet and the government in conjunction with public and private companies want to work together to wipe them out. The US departments of Commerce and Homeland Security (DHS) today discussed with other federal agencies and information technology-based private-sector leaders the need to create what they called a "a voluntary industry code of conduct to... Read More HP aims high with top-of-rack 10G Ethernet switch HP this week is rolling out an array of networking products for the enterprise campus, branch and data center, including a switch that fills a major gap in the company's offerings. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring For years, Quest Software's Foglight solutions have set the standard in Application Performance Monitoring (APM). And it's no wonder – simplicity changes everything. Only Foglight delivers powerful APM that's simple to use. Read more. In face of massive cybersecurity threat, government security dawdles At a time when the cyberthreat level is at its peak, many federal agencies continue to struggle with IT security. Read More Stop, Think, Connect: It's National Cybersecurity Awareness Month As most football fans now know, October is national breast cancer awareness month. What everyone IT professional and vendor should know however is that October is also national cybersecurity awareness month. Read More McAfee Acquires Nitro Security I heard through the security industry grapevine that McAfee was close to buying ArcSight a few years ago but the board was reluctant to do another multi-hundred million dollar acquisition so the company passed. Clearly, McAfee knew it needed security management to round out its portfolio so it was only a matter of time until it pulled the trigger. Fast forward to October 2011. At the start of National... Read More
	SLIDESHOWS 26 helpful open source network management tools Over the last decade or so, open source development has skyrocketed, and network management software has ridden that wave. Many frustrated IT administrators have turned to free tools to monitor, configure and map their networked devices. Here are 26 examples of open source network management software tools to help you do your job. GOODIES FROM MICROSOFT SUBNET We've got books on System Center and Microsoft training of the winner's choice from Webucator.. Enter here.Also: Please take our survey on certifications and your career MOST-READ STORIES Steve Jobs gave Barack Obama an iPad 2 "a little bit early" What to expect when Apple finally 'talks iPhone' Tuesday iPhone 5 launch day rumor roundup The future of malware Juniper unveils cloud-based lab for customer testing Microsoft kills Google Chrome with bad malware signature Cisco loses out as Brocade wins healthcare software company business Data mine and analyze all college students' online activities Top 9 Firefox fixes Tech debate: Is a tablet a PC?
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