Cisco joins chorus against Obama's net neutrality plan

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	Cisco joins chorus against Obama's net neutrality plan President Barack Obama's call for ISPs to be regulated like traditional telecommunications carriers continued to send shockwaves through the Internet industry on Wednesday as the head of Cisco Systems warned that the idea could hurt his company's business. Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Software Bridge the Gap between Network Ops and the Service Desk Businesses can't afford to let siloed approaches to incident management delay resolution and undermine IT productivity. BMC Intelligent Service Resolution bridges the gap between the service desk and network operations, and provides a unified, business-centric view across technologies, to help you resolve the right issues more quickly than ever. Learn More In this Issue Juniper needs to get it right this time Palo Alto says its new endpoint protection tool can stop the bad stuff in its tracks AT&T won't do in-flight Wi-Fi after all Big data jobs with climbing salaries Cisco funds university research into VoIP security Alcatel-Lucent virtualizes WANs and routers Pica8 blends SDN with traditional networking Riverbed is now a FORCE in hybrid WANs Net neutrality advocates: Hybrid approach won't work WEBCAST: Ciena Corporation Security+ Guide to Network Security Fundamentals Serious IT breaches happen too often. Is there a way to reduce or eliminate the impact on consumers? Attend this Live Webinar Dec. 2nd,1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT to learn methods for protecting your information resources. Learn More Juniper needs to get it right this time Retaining and maintaining customer trust, confidence and respect will be key for Juniper Networks going forward now after two misfires in the CEO's office. Shaygan Kheradpir resigned suddenly this week after the Juniper board questioned his leadership and conduct with a particular customer, whom they did not name. Read More Palo Alto says its new endpoint protection tool can stop the bad stuff in its tracks The problem with signature based security tools is you are vulnerable until the signature is released and distributed. Palo Alto Networks takes a different approach with Traps, so Network World Editor in Chief John Dix tracked down Palo Alto VP of Product Marketing Scott Gainey for an inside look at how Traps works. Read More AT&T won't do in-flight Wi-Fi after all AT&T has reversed itself on in-flight Wi-Fi, dropping a plan announced just months ago that would have seen the carrier launch services on airliners next year. Read More WHITE PAPER: Curvature The State of IT Infrastructure & Operations The challenge that IT decision-makers face is the pressure to reduce costs paired with the pressure to progress digital maturity. Curvature analyzes why businesses miss significant CapEx and OpEx cost savings and how to refocus IT strategy. View now Big data jobs with climbing salaries Compare the salaries, skills requirements and typical duties of 10 data-centric IT jobs. Read More Cisco funds university research into VoIP security It's understandable why Cisco Systems would fund university research into VoIP security: The vendor has a lot at stake if customers lose faith in the technology. The company is right up there with Microsoft atop the broader unified communications and collaboration market, as measured by the likes of Synergy Research and Gartner. Read More Alcatel-Lucent virtualizes WANs and routers Alcatel-Lucent's Nuage Networks SDN venture has broadened its product line to tackle enterprise WANs, an increasingly vital market for the technology. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Evolving Toward the Next Phase of Email Osterman Research conducted a survey during March 2014 with 294 information workers to determine how they employ email, how they manage various information focused work processes, and the changes they would like to see in these processes. Read the research paper for key takeaways about social collaboration and email. Learn More>> Pica8 blends SDN with traditional networking As hot as the topic of software defined networking (SDN) has been over the past few years, many organizations have stayed away from it. It's not because SDNs don't provide value, but because the technology can be quite disruptive to network operations. Read More Riverbed is now a FORCE in hybrid WANs A little over a decade ago WAN optimization became a real market, and it was flooded with names like Peribit, Actona, Packeteer, and SWAN Labs. However, no one did WAN optimization better than Riverbed. In fact, Riverbed and the term WAN optimization became synonymous with one another as the market took off. Read More Net neutrality advocates: Hybrid approach won't work In the fractious debate over net neutrality, efforts to strike a compromise don't seem to be working. Read More
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