Cisco pulls away from pack in Q3

	US committee to investigate China's Huawei, ZTE | Raytheon gets $10.5M to develop "serious games"
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	Cisco pulls away from pack in Q3 Despite a decline in the overall market, Cisco grew revenues in carrier infrastructure in the third quarter on both an annual and sequential basis. Synergy Research Group found that Cisco grew share in service provider core and edge routers, and Carrier Ethernet switches, from 48.7% in Q2 to 52.9% in Q3, 2011. Read More WHITE PAPER: Ipanema Technologies Evolve your enterprise VPN to a "Cloud-Ready Network" Cloud computing shifts IT complexity from data centers to enterprises' networks. Branch offices must be prepared as they become the focal point where all conventional software and cloud-based application flows converge from disparate and heterogeneous sources. Learn more In this Issue US committee to investigate China's Huawei, ZTE Raytheon gets $10.5M to develop "serious games" Security roundup for week ending Nov. 18: Facebook, Norway oil-industry cyberattacks, and why virtualization and mobile devices mean security stress Top IT Turkeys of 2011 OpenFlow not the only path to network revolution Data Security and APTs WHITE PAPER: Citrix 8 Reasons Why Citrix Beats F5 Is your network ready for the Cloud? Not with F5. Shift to Citrix NetScaler. Shift up to the Cloud. Download 8 Reasons Citrix NetScaler beats F5. Read now US committee to investigate China's Huawei, ZTE A U.S. House Intelligence Committee is launching an investigation against Chinese telecommunication equipment suppliers Huawei and ZTE to find whether the companies pose a security threat to the country. Read More Raytheon gets $10.5M to develop "serious games" These aren't your basic video gaming systems here. The US government gave Raytheon BBN Technologies a $10.5 million today to develop what it called "serious games" that result in better decision-making by teaching players to recognize and diminish the effects of their own biases when analyzing information used to make decisions. 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 Security roundup for week ending Nov. 18: Facebook, Norway oil-industry cyberattacks, and why virtualization and mobile devices mean security stress Last week's flood of pornographic and violent images that hit Facebook was a coordinated spam attack that caught the attention of the world. But less remarked-upon and perhaps more sinister was what may have been a denial-of-service attack on many organizations' DNS servers, based on an exploit of the BIND 9 protocol, temporarily knocking their networks offline. The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), which maintains several software products essential for Internet infrastructure, released a patch that's something of an interim fix for this and said it would conduct an investigation. This kind of attack -- which incapacitates entire networks, as it did in this case -- is truly worrisome. Read More Top IT Turkeys of 2011 Here are the people, companies and products that earned the label of 'turkey' over the past year. Read More WHITE PAPER: FireEye FireEye 1H 2011 Advanced Threat Report The Advanced Threat Report is a technical look into the trends cyber criminals are employing to bypass traditional security. In the most recent semi-annual report from FireEye, they find that 99% of organizations are facing significant malware infections that have penetrated NGFW, IPS, AV, and Web gateways. Read now! OpenFlow not the only path to network revolution APIs and messaging protocols, including some that are standards, can let users build software-defined networks today. The key issue, though, is that not everyone implements the same ones or implements them the same way. Will OpenFlow get us all on the same path to SDN nirvana? Read More Data Security and APTs As part of our recent APT research, ESG asked security professionals working at U.S.-based enterprise organizations (i.e. more than 1,000 employees) if APTs had caused their organizations to purchase and deploy new information security technologies. About 40% are doing so. What's interesting is the types of investments they are making in order to protect sensitive data. For example: * 54% of organizations... Read More
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