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	Cisco, Juniper push new mobility-focused products The two biggest router companies are focusing their attention on mobility this week with products to address operator needs for rich 4G multimedia services. Read More VIRTUAL EVENT: IBM NWW Making the Planet Smarter Hear from technology leaders, clients and business partners on today's enterprise data management challenges and how leveraging IBM's data management portfolio can deliver better business outcomes, at lower cost, while providing capabilities that scale across enterprise applications, databases and platforms. Register Today! In this Issue Cisco comes under more data center fire The New ROUTE exam: More Difficult than the Old BSCI? Cisco picks up where Starent left off Cisco, others take heed: Cloud not taking hold... yet 61 CCIEs dropped out of Cisco's highly coveted cert program over the last 30 days Cisco IP phones praised in email to then Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and First Dude, Todd Palin New markets for Cisco not generating revenue, Chambers says Funny bloopers made by John Chambers during Cisco's earnings call? How is the CCDE Coming Along? Brief announcement: 10 winners in the free CCIE R/S Written Cert Guide book giveaway People May Be the Weakest Link in the Server Virtualization Chain WHITE PAPER: Ipswitch The Value of Network Monitoring Even the most knowledgeable and capable network administrator is only as good as the network information that is visible, and that he or she can manage and act on. Administrators need to know what's happening on their networks at all times, and as this paper explains, that's where network monitoring comes in. Read now. Cisco comes under more data center fire More shots are being fired at Cisco in the data center. BLADE Network Technologies, perhaps Cisco's closest competitor in data center switching, this week unveiled its Unified Fabric Architecture, which stresses the company's sole focus on the data center and its partnerships with server vendors. Read More The New ROUTE exam: More Difficult than the Old BSCI? If you've watched this blog in the last few days, you will have already seen that the CCNP cert appears to have fewer topics than the old CCNP. In fact, the ROUTE exam itself even looks a little narrower at first glance - quite a trick if you consider that it's moved from a 5 day BSCI course to a 5 day ROUTE course plus 7.5 hours of e-learning. Today I'll look specifically at the new ROUTE exam, to... Read More Cisco picks up where Starent left off Cisco on Tuesday will show just how serious it is about mobile data with the introduction of its first product derived from its Starent acquisition, the ASR 5000. Read More WHITE PAPER: Virtela Overcoming Single Provider MPLS Limitations Frost & Sullivan review the limitations associated with a single-provider approach to MPLS networks and its impact on the enterprise. They then examine Virtela's Global Service Fabric - a multi-carrier network approach that provides a best-of-breed global MPLS network solution. Read More! Cisco, others take heed: Cloud not taking hold... yet The majority of enterprises surveyed recently by Infonetics Research have no firm plans to use cloud-based data center services. As a data center investment driver, cloud gets trumped by security, virtualization and an increasing number of gigabit ports. Read More 61 CCIEs dropped out of Cisco's highly coveted cert program over the last 30 days According to Dual CCIE #18532 R&S/Security - George Morton: "Over the last 30 days we have seen CCIEs drop their highly coveted certifications at a much greater rate than net new CCIEs. "61 CCIEs dropped out of Cisco's prestigious certification program during the month of January 2010 alone. "For further clarification, let's do the math together: Read More Cisco IP phones praised in email to then Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and First Dude, Todd Palin In collaboration with MSNBC.com, Crivella West Incorporated - a knowledge discovery company, digitized, analyzed and arranged this e-mail collection of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, First Dude Todd Palin and 7 members of Palin's staff. In the following internal email dated May 7, 2007 addressed to then Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (email address: govpalin@gov.state.ak.us) and First Dude Todd... Read More WHITE PAPER: Actuate Selecting the Right Reporting Technology Today, dynamic reports have emerged as the most visual, widely used and impactful part of enterprise applications. In order to increase the usability and value of applications, ISVs must embed a technology into their products to add rich, interactive, Web 2.0 reporting and analytics to attract and retain customers. Learn more! New markets for Cisco not generating revenue, Chambers says I've got to admit that I've been "kind of harsh" when blogging about Cisco CEO John Chambers lately. So thought I'd loosen up this time and blog about interesting statements made by Chambers. Racking my brain, I kept thinking about John Chambers and his duck quacking! How in the heck could I find something as interesting as that to blog about? Well, I think I've found it. Interesting... Read More Funny bloopers made by John Chambers during Cisco's earnings call? I've got to admit that I've been "kind of harsh" when blogging about Cisco CEO John Chambers lately. So thought I'd loosen up this time and blog about something very funny and/or humorous as it relates to Chambers. Racking my brain, I kept thinking about John Chambers and his very funny duck quacking! How in the heck could I find something as funny as that to blog about? Well, I think I've... Read More How is the CCDE Coming Along? It's been a tad over a year now since I found out I passed the CCDE as part of the first beta group. A couple weeks ago I got an interesting e-mail about the Cisco Certified Architect Certification. It said all Cisco Certified Architect Board Exam slots for February have already been filled. Read More Brief announcement: 10 winners in the free CCIE R/S Written Cert Guide book giveaway We did a book giveaway in January for 10 copies of the CCIE Routing and Switching Exam Certification Guide (4th Edition). This post lists the winners. I hope to get to the post office today to mail them out. I'll get the next CCNP series post out in a day or so. Read More People May Be the Weakest Link in the Server Virtualization Chain I participated in a webinar on virtualization last week, along with Extreme Networks and Microsoft. During the session, 113 audience members were asked two polling questions. Here are the questions and the results: 1. In your opinion, which of the following factors is holding your organization back from using server virtualization more prominently throughout the enterprise? 1. Lack of virtualization... Read More
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