Implications of virtualization and the cloud on your career; Hide the VMotion

From Cisco Subnet; Compliance officer on the floor, hide the VMotion Cisco Alert NetworkWorld.com | Update Your Profile Sponsored by HP IDC: Realizing the Benefits of Deduplication Many organizations are grappling with rapidly growing storage requirements. IDC has found that those organizations are experiencing 50% growth in data, adding as much as 4TB of data each year. Read this whitepaper on dynamic deduplication to understand cost effective solutions to exploding storage. Learn more. Spotlight Story Implications of virtualization and the cloud on your career Douglas Gourlay, writes in his Default Gateway blog, "IT is at a precipice- will we move from build it they will come 'Field of Dreams' models to a Just-in-Time IT architecture? What will the impact be on the infrastructures we have built? What will the impact be on the role of the network? My fear, that may be unfounded - but worth discussing, is that the next wave of IT value will not be delivered by the network but instead by software and virtualization platforms. Systems vendors, such as HP, are moving to reduce the network to dumb plumbing." Read full story Related News: From Cisco Subnet This is Network World's Cisco Subnet news alert in which we focus on the top items from Cisco Subnet, your daily source for Cisco news, blogs, discussion items, security alerts, giveaways and more. Compliance officer on the floor, hide the VMotion Ryan Trost: VMotion is used to move VMs from one ESX Server to another mostly for maintenance. All VMotion traffic must be unencrypted. Will auditors and compliance officers less knowledgeable about VLAN security or virtualization throw up 'red flags' once they discover VMotion is clear text? Former Cisco star joins Arista Networks Brad Reese: Arista Networks President and CEO Jayshree Ullal announced the appointment of a former Cisco star as Arista's new vice president of marketing - Douglas Gourlay. Account Password Reset Procedures a Joke Jamey Heary: When I logged into one of my online accounts today it said it was locked out and I needed to call to get it reset. You won't believe what happened next. A Private Extranet for Cloud Computing Michael Morris: I foresee network issues with cloud computing. The Internet lacks QoS, there are bandwidth constraints, inefficient routing, and it requires public IPv4 space. Oh, and there's that whole security thing to deal with. Risk assessment tool RedSeal does security prioritization Ryan Trost: If you are anything like me, the term 'sound asleep' is nothing but a fairy tale as Microsoft patches and application vulnerabilities dance around in your head. About eight months ago, I went on the hunt for risk assessment software and found RedSeal. Cisco-Juniper battle for carrier business continues neck-and-neck Cisco Subnet blog: In the ongoing battle between Cisco and Juniper for dominance in carrier networks, the two vendors have battled to a split decision in a recent Infonetics poll. Cisco came out on top for its carrier Ethernet switches, while Juniper won for its IP edge routers. Klausner Technologies sues Cisco, Avaya for patent infringement Cisco Subnet blog: Klausner Technologies said that it is suing Cisco and Avaya for alleged patent infringement. The company asserts that the vendors' visual voicemail products violate Klausner's visual voicemail patents. Cellular plus WebEx could yield mobile Centrex on steroids Joanie Wexler: If one of my readers has his way, collaborative network platforms such as Cisco WebEx will mix with mobile operators' wireless networks to provide, in effect, an IT-rich, high-end mobile Centrex service. 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