Military set to lay out $42M to develop advanced network prioritization, security technology; Will virtualization impact Cisco and other network hardware vendors?

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Spotlight Story Cisco NetFlow is a must have for managing virtual applications in the cloud Tech visionaries from all over the world will be visiting the Cisco booth #2118 in San Francisco's Moscone Center while attending VMworld 2009 next week from August 31 up until my birthday on September 3 (BTW: I'll be turning 54, but often it seems, Network World readers tell me I act like I'm 24). Additionally, VMworld attendees may also wish to take note that earlier this week application... Read full story Related News: Military set to lay out $42M to develop advanced network prioritization, security technology BBN, which was bought by defense giant Raytheon today, got almost $11 million to help build self-configuring network technology that would identify traffic, let the network infrastructure prioritize it down to the end user, reallocate bandwidth between users or classes of users, and automatically make quality of service decisions. Will virtualization impact Cisco and other network hardware vendors? An interesting post from Gregory Ness, a senior director at Infoblox, posits that virtualization could neutralize the network and network equipment vendors. Thoughts about UC ROI In the last Network World magazine, I came across an article called 'ROI doesn't always pan out with unified communications' and while reading through it, a few topics came up. To begin with, one must differentiate IP Telephony from UC, the vendors make it hard for us by naming everything the same, but some products are IPTEL, some are UC and some are Video conferencing. When trying to identify an... September giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet Win free Cisco Press books We have 15 copies to give away of Interconnecting Data Centers Using VPLS by Nash Darukhanawalla and Patrice Bellagamba. Deadline for entries is September 30, 2009. Power of Networking In this day and age, mission critical applications are accessed over wired or wireless networks. People are buying and selling cars and homes, looking for life partners, and virtually communicating with doctors; banks are offering electronic vault to store documents; VoIP and video solutions are providing free and effective communication with others, and just about everything else is happening on the... Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons and 15 copies of Windows Server 2008 How-To. Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies of Interconnecting Data Centers Using VPLS. Google Subnet is hosting many new bloggers (watch for giveaway information soon.) Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are 10 sports technologies to love, 5 to hate Many technologies help fans enjoy sports. Others just annoy. Apple disasters Apple has enjoyed huge success with the iPod and iPhone, but Apple has had a number of commercial flops, too. IDC: Optimizing Storage to Reduce Data Footprint and Lower Costs Read this review on today's storage optimization and technologies. Learn how they reduce the data footprint and identify how various technologies work toward this goal. Learn more 3 Key Strategies to Improving Efficiency in Network and App Management Change your approach to network management and you will improve network performance and reduce costs. Join us for this Live Webcast on Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. EST/10:00 a.m. PST for all of the details. Network World Editor-in-Chief John Dix will moderate the panel that includes EMA analyst Jim Frey and Dan Klimke, Fluke Networks. 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