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	Chambers: Cisco's Q1 solid, but access routers, Nexus 7000 lagging Despite a solid quarter as evidence its turnaround plan is working, Cisco still has more work to do to get where it wants to be. Read More WHITE PAPER: MegaPath Today's Network: Make It a Strategic, Future-Proof Asset Today's small and mid-sized organizations support dozens of applications and hundreds of devices and mobile workers. Network congestion has become a risk, as users change offices, work from home and add devices at will. SMBs need simplification in the form of network convergence. And a managed service provider can help. View Now In this Issue Cisco counterfeiter sentenced Fave raves: 22 IT pros name their favorite products DARPA to detail program that radically alters security authentication techniques US snapshot of broadband world finds disparity and dial-up Gartner: Security services spending to hit $49B in 2015 The Network Is The Security Techniques for Prolonging the Lifespan of IPv4 Cisco posts small revenue gain WHITE PAPER: AMD Virtualized for Agility Server virtualization is a transformative technology offering a myriad of benefits to companies of all sizes. By consolidating hardware and placing multiple virtual machines on a single server, organizations can decrease both capital and operational expenses while boosting server utilization rates and easing management. Learn More! Cisco counterfeiter sentenced A Kansas man was sentenced this week after pleading guilty to selling counterfeit Cisco networking products. Timothy Weatherly, 29, of Overland Park, KS, received 27 months in federal prison for an elaborate, eight year scheme that acquired products from China and attached Cisco logos to them. Read More Fave raves: 22 IT pros name their favorite products When we asked IT pros about their favorite enterprise tech products, their picks included all kinds of hardware and software. The common thread? Gear that saves time or money, increases productivity or tightens security. Read More WHITE PAPER: Wildpackets Eliminate Packet Loss during 10G Monitoring There are a number of choices for deploying packed-based monitoring and analysis against 10G segments, but as traffic volumes grow, the limitations of many options become problematic. This EMA paper examines the issues surrounding 10G network management and monitoring with emphasis on effective packed-based instrumentation. Read More DARPA to detail program that radically alters security authentication techniques Researchers from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will next week detail a new program it hopes will develop technology to dramatically change computer system security authorization. Read More US snapshot of broadband world finds disparity and dial-up Almost seven of 10 households in the United States subscribe to broadband service while 68% of American households used broadband Internet in 2010, up from 64% in 2009 and only 3% of households still rely on dial-up access to the Internet in 2010, down from 5 percent in 2009. Those were but a few of the interesting facts found in a snapshot of broadband use in the US released this week by the Department... Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems CVD program facilitates fast & reliable customer deployments The Cisco Validated Design program facilitates faster & more reliable customer deployments. Cisco Application Velocity is the Borderless Network Service that maximizes the user experience for any application, any time, on any device and provides application adaptability/survivability. Learn More Gartner: Security services spending to hit $49B in 2015 Gartner is predicting that corporate spending across the world for a broad swath of security services will climb from about $35 billion today to $49 billion in three years, with the managed security services expected to jump most of all. Read More The Network Is The Security How do you detect sophisticated attacks in progress? It isn't easy. Large organizations collect data from a number of sources like log files and NetFlow and then organize and analyze this data using tools like log management and SIEM. Based upon the recently-published ESG Research Report, "U.S. Advanced Persistent Threat Analysis," these tried-and-true security methods are no longer enough. Read... Read More Techniques for Prolonging the Lifespan of IPv4 IPv6 proponents have long been predicting the death of IPv4 to get the industry to recognize the importance of IPv6. Although IPv4 address exhaustion has occurred many organizations are still uncertain about the next steps. It is clear that IPv4 is going to be with us for decades to come and there are strategies to prolong the lifespan of IPv4. Are these strategies worthwhile or are they distracting... Read More Cisco posts small revenue gain Cisco Systems has completed most of a major restructuring that began early this year, and on Wednesday posted revenue and profit for its fiscal first quarter that exceeded analysts' expectations. Read More
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