Is Cisco Back (as an enterprise security leader)?

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	Is Cisco Back (as an enterprise security leader)? It wasn't too long ago that Cisco was a dominant force in information security technology. The company was a market leader in firewalls, IDS/IPS, and email security and was actively pushing products for endpoint security and SIEM as well as security "blades" for Catalyst switches. Heck, Cisco even articulated a bold vision of "self-defending networks" with security policy, enforcement, and intelligence... Read More WHITE PAPER: Ipswitch, Inc 5 Ways to Ensure Wireless Networks Keep Up With Demand Discover five ways in which you can keep up with the ever-increasing demands on your wireless networks. Learn More >> In this Issue Ex-Cisco CEO reflects, looks ahead on 25 years of Networkers TCO of Cisco ACI 3X better than VMware NSX Cisco offers an ACI migration path Google's Vint Cerf defines Internet of Things challenges Cisco to acquire malware prevention company Healthcare provider finds SDN is the proper Rx Cisco's IoT ship sails ahead as former captain joins startup Cisco welcomes Dimension Data to global cloud initiative WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Accelerating the Delivery Microsoft Office 365 Many organizations use Office 365's cloud-based mail, collaboration and communication services as the dominant workload. However, as services move to the cloud, data centers are no longer local, and end-user experience can suffer. Learn more >> Ex-Cisco CEO reflects, looks ahead on 25 years of Networkers John Morgridge was Cisco's first CEO. He took the company public and presided over its growth until John Chambers took over as CEO in 1995. On the 25th anniversary of the Networker's user conference this week, Morgridge, 80, reflects on the past and looks ahead to the future as Cisco's Chairman Emeritus. Read More TCO of Cisco ACI 3X better than VMware NSX Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) response to the software-defined networking trend could provide a 3X TCO advantage relative to VMware's NSX network virtualization platform, even when NSX is implemented on a white box switch with a Cumulus Networks open source-based operating system, according to an April report from Goldman Sachs. Goldman compares a 40G port on a Nexus 9300 switch... Read More WHITE PAPER: Neustar Inc. Binary Option: Neustar SiteProtect Case Study Learn how Neustar helped Top10optionbinaire.com protect against DDoS attacks with SiteProtect DDoS mitigation technology. Learn More Cisco offers an ACI migration path Cisco this week extended its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) programmable networking product line with new switches, integration with UCS Director, and migration tools for existing Nexus infrastructure. Read More Google's Vint Cerf defines Internet of Things challenges We are going to have to live through a period of mistakes and challenges before we can make any strong regulations about the privacy issues and other challenges the Internet of Things present. That was Vint Cerf, vice president and chief internet evangelist for Google's response to a regulation question at his keynote before today's Federal Trade Commission's workshop on the Internet of Things trend. Read More WHITE PAPER: Network Instruments Survival Tips for Big Data's Impact on Network Performance Big Data projects slam network performance. This paper offer survival tips to prepare your network before the Big Data projects hit, not after. Learn how to monitor and manage network performance for bandwidth, consistent low latency, scalable storage, processing power and security. Learn More Cisco to acquire malware prevention company Cisco this week announced its intent to acquire ThreatGRID, a New York-based maker of malware analysis and threat intelligence technology. Read More Healthcare provider finds SDN is the proper Rx William Hanna, vice president of technical services at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), went out looking for a way to add capacity to a backup network and found what he wanted in Software Defined Networking (SDN) tools from Alcatel-Lucent. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix sat down with Hanna to learn about the process and experience. Read More Cisco's IoT ship sails ahead as former captain joins startup Cisco Systems hinted at future plans for the Internet of Things on Wednesday even as its former IoT chief joined a Shanghai-based startup that plans to use sensors and big data for renewable energy. Read More Cisco welcomes Dimension Data to global cloud initiative The sun shone outside the Cisco Live conference on Tuesday even as the clouds gathered within, and that was exactly the kind of weather Cisco was hoping for. Read More
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