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	Cisco powers up router, switches for smart grids Cisco this week is unveiling a switch and a router designed to help utilities construct IP-based infrastructures for power delivery, monitoring and control. Read More E-GUIDE: Compuware Perfecting Application Performance The enterprise application scene has become increasingly complicated over the years. Things have changed with the rise of Web services, SOA, Virtualization and cloud computing. In this Executive Guide explore how to get the best performance out of today's application environments. Read Now. In this Issue Cisco's NAC goes off track, customers taken aback NAC: What went wrong? ShoreTel grows up, gets San Francisco Giants Cisco gains share Cisco, Avaya abstain from UC interoperability forum -- for now Cisco takes wraps off home TelePresence ESPN taps Cisco to kick up its World Cup coverage Juniper collapses the data center WHITE PAPER: Novell File Management Suite Better track and understand storage patterns, allocate and manage storage based on its relevance and value to the business, while saving money in the administration and procurement of storage resources. Learn to get a handle on the unchecked proliferation of data. Read Now Cisco's NAC goes off track, customers taken aback As the most important supplier of network infrastructure to enterprises, Cisco's NAC products are a natural point of curiosity for network managers. Unfortunately, though, Cisco's approach to NAC has been riddled with in-fighting, false starts, delayed product releases, and a good dose of chaos and confusion. Read More NAC: What went wrong? After spending four months in the lab testing the 12 leading network access control products, we've come to this conclusion: Five years of hype, buzzwords, white papers, product launches, standards battles and vendor shakeouts have resulted in very little in the way of clarity. Agreement on what NAC really means and the right approach to NAC remain as elusive today as in 2005, when the first NAC products burst on the scene. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Top 10 Software Delivery Secrets Every organization today is looking for ways to do more with less, and only the companies that implement the most effective methods will survive. In this white paper we'll discuss specific secrets of delivering more valuable software to customers despite having fewer resources. Read More ShoreTel grows up, gets San Francisco Giants Posted by Cisco Subnet editor Julie Bort. When ShoreTel won the contract to supply the San Francisco Giants with a VoIP system to replace an aging, expensive Centrex system, it was quite the coup. Not only is the Giant's 10-year-old stadium named AT&T Park, but Cisco has been pounding down the doors of sports outfits nationwide to sell its fancy, but pricey, systems built specifically for stadiums.... Read More Cisco gains share The market for Carrier Ethernet equipment and service provider routers enjoyed healthy growth in the first quarter, climbing 27% from last year to $2.34 billion, according to Synergy Research. Synergy's study covers service provider core, BRAS and multiservice edge routers; and Carrier Ethernet access, aggregation and Ethernet services routers and switches. Read More WHITE PAPER: Novell File Management Suite Better track and understand storage patterns, allocate and manage storage based on its relevance and value to the business, while saving money in the administration and procurement of storage resources. Learn to get a handle on the unchecked proliferation of data. Read Now Cisco, Avaya abstain from UC interoperability forum -- for now Two vendors were noticeably absent from a unified communication interoperability group announced last week. Indeed, the two of the leading vendors of unified communications: Cisco and Avaya. It might be because the Unified Communications Interoperability Forum was founded by a handful of their competitors. Microsoft, Polycom, Juniper and HP are all involved, as is LifeSize, which makes a competing... Read More Cisco takes wraps off home TelePresence Cisco has firmed up plans for TelePresence in the home Read More ESPN taps Cisco to kick up its World Cup coverage There are only 21 days left before the first kick at 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. But as millions of fans from across the globe wait in anticipation for that first goal to be scored, behind the scene host broadcaster ESPN of Bristol, CT., is figuring out new ways of showing the soccer crazed masses those goals as well as the goal scorers. Read More Juniper collapses the data center Juniper Networks this week unveiled new switches, routers, software and services designed to help enterprise IT reduce the cost and complexity of data center networking while also improving application and business performance. Read More
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