Should Cisco make like HP, and split?

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	Should Cisco make like HP, and split? As is usual after an event like this week’s breakup of HP, pundits start opining on whom else should follow suit. Naturally, Cisco’s name came up in a bulletin penned this week by Mark Sue, an analyst at investment firm RBC Capital Markets, and a longtime Cisco watcher.Sue believes Cisco should consider splitting into two entities: Cisco Solutions and Cisco Cloud. Cisco Solutions would include parts of routing, switching and services – those that are mature and profitable, and that Cisco should manage these businesses for higher free cash flow.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: Ping Identity 6 Trends Driving IT Execs to Rethink the Security Perimeter This paper discusses six distinct trends that are reshaping how business is conducted and why they are driving the need for an improved identity and access management (IAM) architecture. Learn More In this Issue Cisco, EMC consortium debuts new cloud gear Gartner: Top 10 Technology Trends for 2015 IT can't ignore Gigabit copper? Sckipio says yes Gartner: Make way for digital business, risks or die? Belkin says router outages should be resolved Gartner: Top 10 strategic predictions for businesses to watch out for Gartner: IT careers – what's hot? Polycom RealConnect, G12 Incorporate Microsoft Lync Upgrades The Internet is one step closer to universal HTTPs HP Enterprise: What to watch WEBCAST: IBM Leveraging Software-Defined Flash to Drive Your Business With end-to-end, tightly integrated functionality and super-fast flash technology, products like IBM FlashSystem V840 Enterprise Performance Solution empower businesses to leverage the efficiency of SDS and the speed of flash storage all at once. Learn More Cisco, EMC consortium debuts new cloud gear VCE unveils first all-flash-based integrated IT infrastructure system Read More Gartner: Top 10 Technology Trends for 2015 IT can't ignore Gartner defines its Strategic Technology Trends as those technologies that have the most potential to drive great change in the enterprise IT arena in the next three years. Indeed this year's crop has that potential as trends like software-defined networks and 3D printing take center stage in Gartner's list. Read More Gigabit copper? Sckipio says yes The first applied use of a transmission protocol that can theoretically reach gigabit speeds over standard home copper connections debuts today, with the release of Sckipio Technology’s G.Fast chipset. The G.Fast standard, approved in 2013 by the International Telecommunications Union, describes a protocol designed to achieve very high speeds over nothing more than the regular paired copper wires used in most U.S. homes. The drawback is that G.Fast only works over comparatively short distances – anything beyond 250 meters or so, delivered speeds drop precipitously, thanks to a noisy signal. Today’s announcement includes two chipsets, the DP3000 distribution point unit, presumably designed to operate at the fiber end of the connection, and the CP1000, meant for the end user’s modem. Sckipio said that each DP3000 can support up to 16 separate connections and as much as 10Gbps of total backhaul. Initial OEMs include XAVi, Suttle, Zinwell and VTech.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: Coresite 4 Advantages of Multi-Tenant Data Centers Increasing demands on IT are forcing organizations to rethink their data center options. For many organizations, that means turning to the flexibility afforded them by outsourced cloud solutions, which can provide exponential cost savings. Learn More >> Gartner: Make way for digital business, risks or die? ORLANDO -- Change, change and more radical change: That is the opening theme at this year’s Gartner Symposium/ITxpo. While the notion of IT changing is nothing new really, Gartner says the shift towards everything virtual – what it calls the Digital Business – is more intense than years’ past. +More on Network World: World’s craziest Halloween coffins+  For example in his opening keynote Garter’s Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president and global head of research said that since 2013 650 million new physical objects have come online. 3D printers became a billion dollar market; 10% of cars became connected; and the number of Chief Data Officers and Chief Digital Officer jobs have doubled.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Belkin says router outages should be resolved Belkin said Tuesday afternoon it had fixed an issue that caused some of its Wi-Fi routers to disconnect from the Internet.Some of the older routers experienced problems around midnight on Tuesday when pinging a Belkin-hosted service to check for general network connectivity, the company wrote on its forum.Several of the company’s wireless LAN routers were affected, including the F9K1102, F9K1105, F9K1113, F9K1102, F9K1105 and F9K1116 models. It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the problem.Belkin apologized to customers, writing that “we are taking a number of actions to eliminate this sort of incident from reoccurring.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Gartner: Top 10 strategic predictions for businesses to watch out for For a session that is high-tech oriented, this year’s Gartner strategic predictions were decidedly human. That is to say many were related to increasing the customer’s experience with technology and systems rather than the usual techno-calculations.+More on Network World: Gartner: Make way for digital business or die?+“Machines are taking an active role in enhancing human endeavors,” said Daryl Plummer is a managing vice president, chief of Research and chief Gartner Fellow. “Our predictions this year maybe not be directly tied to the IT or CIO function but they will affect what you do.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: Ping Identity 5 Reasons It's Time For Secure Single Sign-On While cloud-based applications provide many business benefits including lowering capital expenditures, they can also drive up operational expenses by requiring more administration and lowering employee productivity due to more application login-ins, password resets and helpdesk calls. Learn More Gartner: IT careers – what's hot? ORLANDO— If you are to believe the experts here a the Gartner IT Symposium IT workers and managers will need to undergo wide-spread change if they are to effectively compete for jobs in the next few years.How much change? Well Gartner says by 2018, digital business requires 50% less business process workers and 500% more key digital business jobs, compared to traditional models. IT leaders will need to develop new hiring practices to recruit for the new nontraditional IT roles. + MORE FROM GARTNER: Top 10 strategic predictions for businesses to watch for +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Polycom RealConnect, G12 Incorporate Microsoft Lync Upgrades Polycom's RealConnect offers interoperability between Lync and non-Lync users. Separately, G12 Communications adds Lync certification for its SIP Trunk service. Read More The Internet is one step closer to universal HTTPs The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which is on the front lines for protecting digital freedom and preventing censorship of the web, applauded content delivery network provider CloudFlare for the company’s recent announcement that it will offer encrypted HTTPs as its default setting for any website it hosts. CloudFlare CDN provider CloudFlare wants HTTPs encyrption for all websites.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More HP Enterprise: What to watch Expect HP to move deeper into software, but it's not yet clear what kind, analysts say Read More
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