| The Cisco squeeze
Cisco has long had a unique competitive position in the enterprise market. In the glory days of the mainframe, IBM still competed with HDS and Amdahl, but Cisco has had the enterprise networking market to itself for a number of years. This monopoly seems to be at its greatest risk ever -- ESG calls this market phenomenon the Cisco squeeze. Cybersecurity Coordinator Political Hot Potato
President Obama had it right when he said that he would make Cybersecurity a priority of his administration. That was back in May and things have progressed since then. That said, a visible gap in the President's plan remains. John Chambers: Is America's best leader an investor's nightmare?
Cisco CEO John Chambers was recently named one of America's Best Leaders, today however, The New York Times in a scathing article (at least in my opinion), is questioning whether Cisco shareholders will ever see a return on their investment. Microsoft Is Perfect Example Why Executive Pay Is Broken
Text message this morning from CNN: Unemployment hit 10.2% in October. Microsoft announced earlier this week another 800 employee layoffs to the 5,000 previously announced employee layoffs. If you look at Microsoft's financials you see why, a 14% revenue and 18% net income drop for the last reported quarter, on top of disappointing prior quarters. About that "extra fee" Verizon is charging for Droid users to access Exchange email...
Verizon yesterday got kicked around the Internet for allegedly planning to charge business users of Motorola's Droid smartphone extra to access Exchange email behind the corporate firewall.The only problem with that meme is that it's not true. Your definitive guide to today's Android smartphone
Although phones featuring Google's open-source Android operating system have been out for more than a year, it's only been in recent months that the platform has really caught on. In fact, this fall alone has seen the debut of several new high-profile Android devices from such esteemed manufacturers as HTC, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and Samsung. Version, Out of Control?
In late April 2009, Google released Android 1.5.In mid-September 2009, Google released Android 1.6.In late October 2009, Google released Android 2.0.That is three version releases in a span of six months. Progress is great. Progress is necessary. But there is going to be some fallout for this flood of Android versions, both with consumers and developers. The Craziness Pandemic, Part I
Gibbs has spotted a new pandemic sweeping the globe and there's no swine or birds involved; this one is an outbreak of craziness and the Japanese airline ANA appears to have had a bad case of it. Investing in (all kinds of) infrastructure
October 27 marked the 105th birthday of the New York City subway system, which is both gratifying and depressing. Is a neutral net within the power of the FCC?
Questioning whether new FCC network neutrality rulemaking process produces a legally supportable set of rules. Can we block all IPv6 tunnels in our enterprise network?
A major IPv4 to IPv6 transition technique is the use of tunnels; this is encapsulating IPv6 packets into IPv4 packets that can then be transported over the IPv4-only parts of the Internet. Those tunnels can also be used within the enterprise network either on purpose (for example to traverse some legacy network devices not supporting IPv6) or not on purpose. November giveaways
Cisco Subnet is giving away free books on VMware vSphere security. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons and free books on Exchange Server 2010. Google Subnet is giving away free books on Android app development. Entry forms can be found on the main contest page. Trivia answers are revealed on each main Subnet page. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are | 
Inside planes, trains, cars and spaceships, Ethernet is a morph master. Here's a look at some of Ethernet's cooler implementations.
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