Monday, May 24, 2010

After quiet few months, Cisco strikes

CISCO1921 to replace the very popular 1841 | FTC greenlights Google-AdMob deal

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After quiet few months, Cisco strikes
The first four months of the year were quiet on the M&A front as far as Cisco was concerned. Then the giant struck this week, nabbing not one but two companies in a matter of days.First on the docket was MOTO Development Group - not to be confused with that bigger, more familiar Moto in Schaumburg, IL. MOTO Development Group is a consumer product design and development consultancy that had a hand in... Read More


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

WHITE PAPER: Riverbed

Overcome Two Key Challenges with Virtualization
How do you accelerate virtualization for your enterprise - and take IT flexibility and cost savings to the next level? Start by downloading this whitepaper from Riverbed. WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises in order to address the challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN. Click here!

CISCO1921 to replace the very popular 1841
The new CISCO1921 is a replacement for the very popular 1841 .  New licensing and software, (probably) better performance, support for new modules  – it dominates the 1841 and previous generations of branch office routers.  The current standard, the CISCO1841 Read More

FTC greenlights Google-AdMob deal
The Federal Trade Commission today said it closed the investigation of the proposed  $750 million Google acquisition of mobile advertising network company AdMob.  Read More


WHITE PAPER: Splunk

Make IT Data a Strategic Asset
This paper outlines the struggles organizations face managing silos of IT data and how, using Splunk, users are changing the way they do their jobs and elevating the role of IT in their organizations. Learn More!

My first month using the iPad for business: it's still lacking
I have been using my new iPad as a business tool since Interop. While it has been good in some areas, it has also been annoying in others. I love the iPad's flexibility. I can check Web sites, Twitter, LinkedIn and files site at the touch of a button. It is nice to be able to do that when at a conference or at a customer site. I find myself using it more around the office also just to check email... Read More

The Future of Endpoint Security
If you do some research on endpoint security you'll quickly read one analyst or another's claim that antivirus software is dead and that there is a pressing need for some new model like cloud security services, white listing, black listing, virtual desktops, etc. Antivirus is dead? Hmm, I wonder if these analysts have been following the financial results of Kaspersky, McAfee, Symantec, Trend... Read More


WEBCAST: ShoreTel

A Lower Cost Approach to UC
Learn about a switch-based architecture that provides the industry's lowest total cost of ownership while exploiting the full power of IP. See why this system beats the market leaders and has over 1 million users like Big Brothers/Big Sisters who candidly discuss their selection process, goals and ultimate success in moving to UC. Learn More!

NetFlow Top Talkers
In the last post, we discussed some of the basic ideas behind NetFlow, which is sort of like the Swiss Army Knife of network visibility tools. In this post, keeping with the spirit of "quick-and-easy" ways to improve your productivity, we'll look at some of the CLI tools for use with NetFlow. Read More

The Best Router for CCNP Prep in 2010
So you're building a lab for CCNP prep. Or maybe for CCNA, hoping to move on to CCNP soon after. Is one model of used router clearly the best today? What is your model of choice? What other cards do you need to buy with it? And why? Today I'll continue this year's CCNP lab series and give you one set of opinions - and ask you to give me your opinions and reasons. Read More

Symantec + Verisign = Cloud Security
When Symantec bought Veritas, a lot of people didn't get it. After all, what did server backup have to do with PC antivirus software? In fact storage and security work hand-in-hand in something the feds call Information Assurance. Symantec saw this synergy before most of the market. Fast forward to yesterday's news of Symantec acquiring Verisign's security business. Yes, SSL certificate sales... Read More



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