Cisco posts solid third quarter; The Branch Office Form Factor Debate

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	Cisco can't buy a break Cisco Subnet blog: Cisco's solid third quarter of fiscal 2010 was tempered somewhat by the company's outlook for the fourth quarter. Investors were a bit disappointed that Cisco did not forecast a July quarter that, in their eyes, would show a significant uptick in sequential sales. Read More 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! In this Issue CCIE Lab Changes, Deep vs. Wide 2010, and Other Shorts Why Data Center Networks Must Fundamentally Change The Branch Office Form Factor Debate Finding IP Addresses Cisco PGW softswitch susceptible to crash, DoS Cisco rival Brocade stabilizing its Ethernet biz Another Security "Must Read" Lead times continue to plague Cisco A Graphical View of My Idea of WAN Acceleration and More Bandwidth Communication Manager 8.x: Cross Cluster Extension Mobility lab attempt - part 1 Comcast IPv6 Adoption Monitor 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! CCIE Lab Changes, Deep vs. Wide 2010, and Other Shorts Wendell Odom: Today, a ramble about CCIE lab changes, the broad vs. deep discussion, some cool IOS CLI tips, and more. Read More Why Data Center Networks Must Fundamentally Change Douglas Gourlay: At Interop I was on a panel hosted by the inimitable Jim Metzler titled, "Why Networks Must Fundamentally Change." Now, just judging the attendance alone I must say that there certainly seemed to be enough interest in this topic to warrant a belief that there must be some pressures on IT and the Networking team that are making them wonder how the network will change. Read More The Branch Office Form Factor Debate Jon Oltsik: ESG Research points out that branch office servers and applications are moving to the data center and this move is driving more investment in WAN optimization technologies from Blue Coat, Cisco, Citrix, and Riverbed. At the same time, cheap bandwidth and cloud services are changing the equation. Read More WHITE PAPER: MainSoft Drive SharePoint Adoption in Lotus Notes Shops The paper details best practices for measuring the impact that email integration with SharePoint has on user adoption, and reviews IT options for Lotus Notes shops that want to integrate email with SharePoint - including a migration to Outlook and Exchange and a Notes-SharePoint coexistence strategy. Learn More Finding IP Addresses Jerold Swan: One of my favorite writers in the IT world in general, and in the security world in particular, is Richard Bejtlich of Taosecurity and General Electric. One of the main points that Richard makes again and again in his books and blog posts is that visibility is (or should be) one of the key factors in any type of security design. Read More Cisco PGW softswitch susceptible to crash, DoS Cisco Subnet blog: Cisco's PGW 2200 softswitch line is susceptible to multiple vulnerabilities, including system crash and denial of service. The vulnerabilities were disclosed in a Cisco security advisory this week. Read More Cisco rival Brocade stabilizing its Ethernet biz Cisco Subnet blog: Brocade's IP/Ethernet business appears to be stabilizing in its second quarter, according to a bulletin issued this week by investment firm Oppenheimer & Co. Read More WEBCAST: Meraki Cloud-Managed WiFi Learn how cloud-managed wireless access points can be self-configured and centrally managed over the web, provide secured access for employees and guests, be scalable for networks of all sizes, and provide a cost savings of up to 50% over traditional solutions. Click here. Another Security "Must Read" Jon Oltsik: After finishing Joseph Menn's book, "Fatal System Error," a few months ago, I blogged about the book's value. This is a no-nonsense profile of the world of cybercrime that anyone associated with cybersecurity policy or practice should read. Read More Lead times continue to plague Cisco Mike Sheldon: There is no real end in sight for Cisco's supply chain problems. Customers have been waiting months for some of their most common products. Read More A Graphical View of My Idea of WAN Acceleration and More Bandwidth Michael Morris: I wrote in a blog two weeks about that I was disillusioned by WAN Acceleration. It just hadn't made the incredible difference I was expecting, given our current bandwidth sizes. However, at the end of the blog, I mentioned a situation where I felt WAN acceleration would be prudent. Read More Communication Manager 8.x: Cross Cluster Extension Mobility lab attempt - part 1 Avner Izhar: As one of the new features in CUCM 8.x, it seems like a good candidate to lab. This will not be the first time this topic is mentioned on the Cisco Subnet, readers are encouraged to look at Dennis Hartmann's post on the subject, still I think it's going to be beneficial to others if I share my lab notes. Read More Comcast IPv6 Adoption Monitor Scott Hogg: Many of you are already familiar with how Comcast is leading the way with their IPv6 trials and moving forward with their deployment. I am anxiously awaiting the results of this trial and find out how much more native IPv6 traffic will result from having IPv6-capable broadband Internet access. Read More
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