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	Cisco reorgs trimming SVP ranks What’s prompting many senior vice president-level executives to leave Cisco is the company’s previously announced layoff of 6,000 employees, and a restructuring in the product development and engineering organization affecting 25,000 employees. Business Insider first wrote about the magnitude of the engineering restructuring earlier this week.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Software The Top 10 Things DBAs Should Know About Toad for IBM DB2 Toad for IBM DB2 is a powerful tool for the database administrator. But it's some of its newer and lesser known features that provide the great productivity benefits in the DBA's day-to-day work. Do you know the top 10 features of Toad for IBM DB2? Download this white paper and find out. View now In this Issue Gartner: The super-smart drone in the corner office Cisco rolls out easy-to-use iWAN More notable Cisco departures Quality of Service explained: How routers with strong QoS make better home networks Leading Enterprise Organizations Have Established a Dedicated Network Security Group IDG Contributor Network: How satellite loops could store data – or not DARPA technology uncovers counterfeit microchips : Pivotal Big Data Analytics In this in-depth PDF, InfoWorld explains how to make sense of big data using new analysis tools and abundant processing power to pluck critical insights from the massive volumes of corporate and external data. View now Gartner: The super-smart drone in the corner office ORLANDO -- One of the more interesting trends coming out of the Gartner IT/Symposium this week was the concept that smart machines, ever-more intelligent devices and drones will have an enormous amount of influence on IT in the next few years.In fact prototype autonomous vehicles, advanced robots, virtual personal assistants and smart advisors already exist and will evolve rapidly, ushering in a new age of machine helpers, said David Cearley, vice president & Gartner Fellow. “The smart machine era will be the most disruptive in the history of IT.”+More on Network World: What the drone invasion looks like+To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Cisco rolls out easy-to-use iWAN Historically, "difficult to use" and "Cisco" have gone hand in hand. Cisco's new iWAN is an effort to get away from that. Read More WEBCAST: Dell | Symantec Solve Mobile Conflicts between IT and Users Effective mobile security does not have to be a battlefield between IT and users. Join this Webcast to hear how to strike a balance between users' mobile desires and IT's need for control Learn More. More notable Cisco departures Enterprise routing, IWAN groups see a couple top people leave Read More Quality of Service explained: How routers with strong QoS make better home networks Bandwidth is the precious currency of networks. A router with good Quality of Service technology makes sure all devices get their fair share. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Understanding Liquid Computing and Handoff The greater the number computing devices we use, the more the center of our computing life shifts to the cloud. The last thing anyone wants is for data and preferences to be locked in a smartphone, tablet, or desktop. Learn More Leading Enterprise Organizations Have Established a Dedicated Network Security Group Numerous market ramifications as network security moves away from the networking organization toward the infosec domain Read More IDG Contributor Network: How satellite loops could store data – or not If you placed a satellite a light-year from earth, could you use the data stream to store data? A brace of Reddit users have discussed the matter and come up with an answer. Read More DARPA technology uncovers counterfeit microchips Any counterfeit high-tech goods are a serious safety threat to people and cybersecurity as well as a problem for system reliability and performance. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency said this week one of its contractors, working on one of the agency’s anti-counterfeit projects has developed and deployed what it calls an Advanced Scanning Optical Microscope that can scan integrated circuits by using an extremely narrow infrared laser beam, to probe microelectronic circuits at nanometer levels, revealing information about chip construction as well as the function of circuits at the transistor level.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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