Brocade BCNE most valuable cert? Cisco shipping 160G Ethernet card

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	Brocade BCNE most valuable cert? Brad Reese: Scrappy data center networking vendor Brocade appears to be offering networking gurus the most valuable cert on earth, the Brocade Certified Network Engineer (BCNE). BCNEs earn an average salary of $146,250, at least according to the rankings of the 2009 Certification Magazine Salary Survey. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Rapid Replication for Virtual Servers What's the connection between virtualization and acceleration? It's deeper than you might think. See how these two hot technologies complement each other to consolidate servers, enhance DR and simplify the IT infrastructure. Learn more. In this Issue Cisco shipping 160G Ethernet card for ASR 9000 Why I'll Miss Sun Microsystems Another analyst sees Cisco UCS deployment delays Cisco Security Quick Tip of the Week Whatever happened to our WAN Optimization throw down from two years ago? Domain-Name Jail is Not Fun IPv4 Space is Getting Low - Really Low Juniper, Polycom to test Cisco/Tandberg Windows 7 Onslaught Pineapple ratings get dished out to Cisco blogs that rock for 2010 WHITE PAPER: HP 4 Key Principles of Storage Virtualization Applying the concept of virtual resource pools to storage can transform the virtualized storage infrastructure. Read this ESG report to learn best practices on; storage virtualization, application integration, capacity and power optimization, and storage & server convergence. Read Now! Cisco shipping 160G Ethernet card for ASR 9000 The Cisco Subnet blog: Cisco is now shipping the 160G Ethernet card - 16x10G - it announced last summer for the ASR 9000. Word of this comes as EZchip this week announced that it is now sampling its NP-4 100G Ethernet processor. Read More Why I'll Miss Sun Microsystems Jon Oltsik: An old friend sent me a link to Scott McNealy's email titled, "Thanks for a Great 28 Years," yesterday. Scott didn't really reflect on old memories in detail, but reading his words got me thinking. Read More Another analyst sees Cisco UCS deployment delays The Cisco Subnet blog: One of the reasons Cisco's Unified Computing System may be generating little sales is that customers are divided on whether to replace current HP servers. Internal bickering among some Fortune 100 customers may be delaying their UCS deployments. Read More WHITE PAPER: Server Technology Reduce Data Center Power Consumption Power consumption has become the largest IT operational expense. There are new approaches to power distribution that reduces consumption and increase end-to-end efficiency by bringing 415VAC to the cabinet level. Read Now Cisco Security Quick Tip of the Week Jamey Heary: Did you know that Cisco switches come with the ability to perform Web authentication at each switch port? This feature exists in Cisco IOS and is my Security Tip of the Week. Read More Whatever happened to our WAN Optimization throw down from two years ago? Larry Chaffin: Do you remember back in April of 2008 when I put a challenge out to Cisco, Blue Coat, Riverbed and Juniper for an old fashion throw-down at Interop? I am still hopeful that it will happen one day. Read More Domain-Name Jail is Not Fun Scott Hogg: Take it from me that being in Internet domain-name jail is not enjoyable and should be avoided. Read More WHITE PAPER: Compuware Addressing Java/.NET Performance Challenges Dramatically improve IT efficiency with a comprehensive approach to application performance management in your Java and .NET environments. Specific best practices are explained in this whitepaper. Ensure your application performance is improving business performance. Read now. IPv4 Space is Getting Low - Really Low Michael Morris: Something happened this month that probably didn't get much attention, but I always felt would be an unofficial sign that IPv4 space was getting terribly low. IANA, the organization that coordinates global IP addressing, allocated the previously unallocated, and distinctive, 1.0.0.0/8 block to APNIC. Read More Juniper, Polycom to test Cisco/Tandberg The Cisco Subnet blog: Juniper and Polycom were already hatching their deepened partnership when Cisco announced intentions to acquire Polycom rival Tandberg. Read More Windows 7 Onslaught For the last few years, I used Windows Vista on my laptop PC and felt like it was pretty good. I guess I was part of a small minority. ESG Research indicates we'll have a major desktop OS transition in 2010. Read More Pineapple ratings get dished out to Cisco blogs that rock for 2010 Brad Reese: This month, the Thinking Problem Management blog dished out its famous pineapple ratings. Guess what I scored? Read More
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