Report: Cisco to kill blade partnership with Dell

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	Report: Cisco to kill blade partnership with Dell Cisco is pulling out of its blade partnership plans with Dell, according to CRN UK. The product was expected to be launched next month as a version of the Cisco's Nexus family of switches placed inside Dell's M1000e blade chassis. But, at the last minute, Cisco has ducked out of the agreement, say CRN editors who claim they have seen copies of internal Dell emails. The story reports: Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed WAN Optimization Can Multiply IT Efficiencies Data center consolidation, regulatory compliance and a more distributed environment are some of the IT initiatives making a comprehensive and robust disaster recovery plan more important than ever before. The Enterprise Strategy Group highlights trends in DR, the role of virtualization and the impact of WAN optimization. Learn more. In this Issue Is Cisco Truly Committed to Security? Prove it! Security experts wrestle with cyberattack scenario Spanning Tree: Long Path Cost Global IP traffic to increase fivefold by 2013, Cisco predicts Best of Mobile World Congress 2010 VoIP troubleshooting – The network or the PBX? 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. Is Cisco Truly Committed to Security? Prove it! Recently, a security analyst blogged about Cisco's security efforts and questioned Cisco's commitment to the market. As you know, I am not only a Cisco Press author, but I also work as a security consulting systems engineer for the company. From my point of view, Cisco is most definitely not taking its eye off the ball in the security market. Read More Security experts wrestle with cyberattack scenario Imagine a scenario in which a downloadable application turns smartphones into network-clogging bots, causing U.S. mobile-phone networks to fail, and eventually spreads to the wired Internet. Read More WEBCAST: Oracle Consolidate Servers and Storage to Lower Costs Hear from Oracle experts on how consolidating your servers and storage onto a grid running Oracle RAC and Automatic Storage Management can help provide continuous uptime and on-demand scalability at lowest cost. Original Live Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at 2:00pm ET/ 11:00am PT Register Today Spanning Tree: Long Path Cost About a week ago I was talking with Jeff Hardee and he brought to my attention the idea of using long Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) path length. He asked me if other enterprises were using the new long STP path cost method due to the increase in link-speeds within data centers. I had never given this much thought so I did some research and this is what I found. Read More Global IP traffic to increase fivefold by 2013, Cisco predicts Our fixed mobile convergence coverage has typically focused more on bringing IP telephony to the mobile device than on the need for mobile data. Perhaps we should reconsider our perspectives. In its February 2010 Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast update, Cisco has predicted a surge in mobile data traffic, with "39-fold global growth from 2009-2014." 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! Best of Mobile World Congress 2010 MWC is the premier global event for the mobile phone industry. Here's the latest in mobile innovations, from Barcelona this week. Read More VoIP troubleshooting – The network or the PBX? Now that VoIP has become the de facto voice solution for most corporations, the hard part has begun. In particular, determining whether a problem is in a local PBX or in the network is much more complicate than it was in the "good old days" of TDM-based voice. Read More
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