Cisco upgrades WAN optimizers

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	Cisco upgrades WAN optimizers Cisco is coming out with six new WAN optimization appliances that upgrade its current line of Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) gear ranging from branch office to data center. Read More WHITE PAPER: Intel Deploy 10GbE 10GBASE-T with Dell & Intel Virtualization, server and application technologies are shifting bottlenecks from the data center to network I/O. This paper describes how to use 10GBase-T to broadly deploy 10 Gigabit Ethernet and help avoid I/O networking bottlenecks. Click to continue In this Issue Cisco memo slams HP strategy President Barack Obama order to bolster classified information security Oracle to pay US almost $200M to resolve false claims lawsuit Feds want uber cybersecurity compliance standard Enterasys CEO: Total cost of ownership sets us apart RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Systems, Inc. Buy One Phone, Get One Free with Cisco Empower productivity by enabling employee collaboration from anywhere using desk or mobile phones, tablets, PCs, or Macs. Upgrade your old PBX or KTS phone system to the Cisco Business Edition 6000, built specifically for midsize business, and gain a full suite of features while taking advantage of this offer through October 29 (US only). Click to continue 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: 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! President Barack Obama order to bolster classified information security In the wake of the WikiLeaks publishing of classified information in 2010 and other cybersecurity breaches, President Barack Obama today outlined a variety of new information security steps intended to prevent such disclosures in the future. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sybase Sybase® IQ Accelerates Advanced Analytics The market-leading column-based analytics server, Sybase® IQ offers accurate answers, scalability and speed for your advanced analytics environments. No platform is better suited to help your business analyse, compete and deliver above the competition. Read now Oracle to pay US almost $200M to resolve false claims lawsuit In what it says is the largest False Claims Act settlement it has ever collected, the US General Services Administration will get $199.5 million plus interest from Oracle for "failing to meet their contractual obligations." Read More Feds want uber cybersecurity compliance standard Tired of regulators from three or four federal agencies auditing your network security compliance every year? A congressional task force recommends a super-standard that would cut the number of annual audits back to just one. Read More Enterasys CEO: Total cost of ownership sets us apart How's this for a challenge? The CEO dies suddenly and you're tabbed to take his place -- on the heels of your network infrastructure company entering into a major new strategic partnership and in the midst of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. Oh, did I mention your competition includes some companies named Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard and Juniper Networks, among others? That's life for Chris Crowell, CEO of Enterasys Networks, who took over in 2009 shortly after predecessor Mike Fabiaschi's untimely death. Read More
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