Chambers: Cisco will be more of a software and services company

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	Chambers: Cisco will be more of a software and services company Cisco, the quintessential IT hardware maker, wants you to start thinking about it as software and services company. CEO John Chambers told analysts in New York today that the switch/router manufacturer that is also heavily invested in video and server gear that the company plans to double its revenues from software over the next five years from $6 billion to $12 billion, according to a Reuters report. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Ipswitch Wired & Wireless Networks? WhatsUp Gold can help! As an IT manager, you're busy taking care of the availability, performance & security of your company's IT infrastructure. But things like BYOD, rogue devices, AP over-subscription & bandwidth policy abuse can make that complex. WhatsUp Gold provides ONE dashboard to visualize, isolate & resolve wireless problems before they impact your organization. Stop being the last to know about your wireless issues- Try WhatsUp Gold free for 30 days! In this Issue Cisco, VMware and OpenFlow fragment SDNs Security Data Explosion Is Driving Big Data Security Analytics Avaya brings virtualization to the communications space Gearhead: Weird Web Sites Cisco Catalyst 6500 vs. Cisco Nexus 7000 WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors Top 10 Benefits of Virtualization In this eGuide, Network World sister publications InfoWorld, and PC World examine some of the current uses of blade servers in today's data center, as well as how trends such as server virtualization are reshaping enterprise computing. Read Now! Cisco, VMware and OpenFlow fragment SDNs Juniper Networks Executive Vice President Bob Muglia spelled it out succinctly: the nascent software-defined networking market is morphing into three camps - OpenFlow/open source, Cisco and VMware. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Financial Analytics: How IT Leaders Can Help CFOs CFOs rely on their IT leaders to guide them to the tools that help them keep up with the pace of today's business - tools that help them plan, report, measure and analyze data so they can make smarter decisions and drive more predictable business outcomes. Learn More Security Data Explosion Is Driving Big Data Security Analytics In my last blog, I mentioned that44% of security professionals working at enterprise organizations (i.e. more than 1,000 employees) believe that security data collection and analysis could be considered "big data" today while another 44% believe that security data collection will qualify as "big data" within 2 years. Read More WEBCAST: Oracle Big Data – What's Really New? According to MIT Sloane School research scientist, Andrew McAfee, big data is much more than a new label for business analytics. Join this Webcast as Andrew shares new research completed by MIT on the impact big data is having across industries. Learn More Avaya brings virtualization to the communications space A couple of years ago, there was great debate as to whether Tom Brady-led Patriots or the Peyton Manning-led Colts were the "team of the decade" for the decade ending in 2010. In tech, though, we have no ESPN or JT the Brick to pose such questions, but if we were to give an award to the "technology of the decade" for that same time period, there would be no question as to what the winner... Read More Gearhead: Weird Web Sites Here are 10 fine examples of the madness of the Internet. Read More Cisco Catalyst 6500 vs. Cisco Nexus 7000 These days, Cisco network administrators are a nation divided. Read More
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