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	Cisco slashing up to 6,000 jobs Cisco Systems will cut as many as 6,000 jobs over the next 12 months, saying it needs to shift resources to growing businesses such as cloud, software and security. The move will be a reorganization rather than a net reduction, the company said. I Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Software Five Levers to Lower Mainframe MLC Costs This paper discusses five levers you can use to lower your mainframe MLC costs by up to 20 percent or more. Explore best practices and real-world examples of dramatic savings through a mainframe MLC optimization strategy based on higher visibility, predictability, and automation. Learn More In this Issue F5 CTO: We're working hard on the transition to software How packet micro-shaping maximizes bandwidth utilization Emerging networking technology used by Apple, Cisco will frustrate firewalls The biggest iPhone security risk could be connecting one to a computer ShoreTel Mobility 8 delivers mobile video collaboration Cisco patches traffic snooping flaw in operating systems used by its networking gear Hacker hunts and pwns WiFi Pineapples with 0-day at Def Con F5 CEO sees opportunity in myriad challenges facing IT Cisco: Blackhole arrest cuts exploit-kit traffic, but don't let your guard down Android tops iOS in online usage for the first time, says one tracker WHITE PAPER: CDW The Capacity Boost You Can Expect from WAN Optimization WAN optimization techniques tweak bandwidth for better network performance and more. Read Now F5 CTO: We're working hard on the transition to software F5 Networks is a veteran player in the network management market, having sold its load balancing hardware - or application delivery controllers, as it prefers to call them - to large numbers of data center customers. One might think that the rapid shift toward software-defined networking, then, would spell trouble for a company like F5. But CTO Karl Triebes, speaking to Network World at F5's Agility event in New York on Tuesday, said that F5 is working hard on a shift of its own. Read More How packet micro-shaping maximizes bandwidth utilization Enterprises are increasingly virtualizing IT infrastructure by migrating storage, application, and database servers into cloud/hosted datacenters. As they do so, they need to partner with ISPs and service providers to establish reliable, performance assured, bandwidth optimized connections between each enterprise and data center location. In many cases, enterprises aren't getting what they paid for - often not even close. Read More Emerging networking technology used by Apple, Cisco will frustrate firewalls Today's security software is ineffective against an emerging networking technology already in use by Apple for its Siri voice-recognition software, according to research presented at the Black Hat hacking conference. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive The New Mobility: Astonishingly Simple and Powerful Mobility has not only changed how we live, it is also dramatically changing the network infrastructures that we rely on. For the better. As organizations cope with a tidal wave of mobile users, mobile applications, and demand for pervasive access, it's becoming clearer that prior-generation approaches to providing mobility are breaking. Learn more The biggest iPhone security risk could be connecting one to a computer Apple has done well to insulate its iOS mobile operating system from many security issues, but a demonstration shows it's far from perfect. Read More ShoreTel Mobility 8 delivers mobile video collaboration ShoreTel has launched a major update to ShoreTel Mobility with version 8, offering mobile-enabled video conferencing. Read More Cisco patches traffic snooping flaw in operating systems used by its networking gear The vulnerability affects the OSPF routing protocol implementation on Cisco networking equipment. Read More WHITE PAPER: McAfee The Significant Threat of Advanced Evasion Techniques Advanced hacking methods, like advanced evasion techniques (AETs) have become more prevalent and harder to detect. Yet many network security vendors have downplayed the threat they pose as purely theoretical. Learn the false sense of security many IT professionals are under View Now Hacker hunts and pwns WiFi Pineapples with 0-day at Def Con After finding people using a WiFi Pineapple at Def Con, @IHuntPineapples supposedly deployed a zero-day exploit to "wreck" it before sending a message to the "skiddies." Read More F5 CEO sees opportunity in myriad challenges facing IT F5 Networks CEO John McAdam said at his company's Agility conference in New York that, in essence, the future of IT is complicated, confusing and riddled with security threats - and that's a good thing. Read More Cisco: Blackhole arrest cuts exploit-kit traffic, but don't let your guard down Exploit kits of cybercrime tools fell into a big slump in the first half of this year after Russian authorities nabbed the alleged creator of the popular Blackhole kit, but users aren't necessarily safer. Read More Android tops iOS in online usage for the first time, says one tracker A web metrics firm has announced that Android devices accounted for more mobile web traffic than iOS in July, the first time that's happened since NetMarketShare began tracking such statistics. Read More
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