Is Cisco 'Too Big To Fail'?

	Cisco releases semiannual security advisories | First look into Call Manager 8.x
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	Is Cisco 'Too Big To Fail'?  Is Cisco 'Too Big To Fail'? Companies come and go all the time, due to lots of factors. Economic, political, legislative, all reasons why a vendor is here today, and gone before close of business tomorrow. What impact would Cisco's failure have from a technology standpoint? Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Register for Cisco's latest data center innovations! April 6th at 10:00 a.m. PT (1:00 p.m. ET) We will outline new technology advancements developed by Cisco, in cooperation with key partners. Customers will highlight how they are leveraging these new innovations within their data centers to evolve their business models, pioneering change within their respective industries. Register Today In this Issue Cisco releases semiannual security advisories First look into Call Manager 8.x Getting to Interoperable Video Conferencing Google Fiber Candidates: Top 5 Desperate Cities Spin the wheel on Cisco's next announcement WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center Cisco releases semiannual security advisories Cisco this week published its semiannual IOS software security advisory, which actually includes seven advisories on 11 vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities could result in remote code execution or a denial of service, Cisco says.Cisco says it also issued software releases that correct all 11 vulnerabilities. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks Network Rightsizing Best Practices Guide Network Rightsizing is an evolutionary approach to network design that significantly reduces costs while simultaneously increasing mobility for campus and enterprise users. This guide provides a methodology to enable IT to break away from the status quo of port-based network architectures, allowing an unprecedented reduction in cost and complexity. Read More! First look into Call Manager 8.x Call Manger 8.x has been announced and will begin shipping in April 2010; here are some new features that I can see an immediate benefit in: It can be virtualized on top of VMware ESXi 4.0 running on Cisco's UCS. Not every hypervisor, not every version of VMware and not on every hardware. The official reason is that it will be impossible to support all hardware or hypervisors, next thing you know someone... 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! Getting to Interoperable Video Conferencing While there were lots of interesting announcements at last week's VoiceCon event, I found a great deal of attendee and vendor focus on interoperability, especially around video conferencing. Vendors including Cisco, Polycom, Tandberg, and Vidtel delivered announcements around their ability to interoperate with competitive or partner systems, and/or new options for cross-company video interoperability... Read More Google Fiber Candidates: Top 5 Desperate Cities What's more entertaining than the sight of civic leaders fawning all over Google for a little high-speed action? In recent weeks, cities across the U.S. have staged some fairly bizarre antics to convince Google to build its proposed 1-gigabit fiber-optic network in their area. The search giant will make its decision by the end of 2010. Read More Spin the wheel on Cisco's next announcement Cisco has a data center announcement coming the week of April 5 that involves UCS, Nexus and the MDS FibreChannel SAN switch. Time once again for our guessing game...For UCS, our guess is servers based on Intel's new Xeon 5600, or "Westmere," processors; Read More
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