Cisco's NAC goes off track, customers taken aback

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	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 WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems How Does Your IT Organization Measure Up? IDG has made it easy for you to benchmark your IT efforts in key areas of performance. Just click below and take a 5-minute assessment using a global benchmark tool that will rank your organization against the best practices and high priorities of some 350 high-performing IT organizations surveyed by IDG Research. Learn More Now In this Issue Your old computer, born again NAC: What went wrong? 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View Now Your old computer, born again Turn your old machines into media servers, e-mail stations and nodes to help with scientific research. 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 Microsoft smacks patch-blocking rootkit second time MSRT has scrubbed mutating Alureon rootkit from more than 360,000 Windows-based PCs since May 11. Read More Bugnets Could Spy on You via Mobile Devices Imagine sitting in a café and discussing the details of a business proposal with a potential client. Neither you nor the client has a laptop; you're just two people having a conversation. But unbeknownst to you, someone half a world away is listening to every word you say. Later, as you leave, you receive a text message referring to the proposal and demanding money in exchange for silence. Read More Self-replicating nanobots One of the scariest issues I can think of with respect to nanotechnology is self-replicating nanobots. Read More WEBCAST: Actuate Solve Data Needs: BIRT Defined This webcast will give you a primer on BIRT including the technology and the community. BIRT can help you overcome the challenge of delivering accurate and meaningful data to users while minimizing IT development efforts. Learn more today! AT&T raises early termination fee on smartphones AT&T's early termination fees on new and renewing smartphone and netbook customers will jump from $175 to $325 on June 1, following similar actions by other carriers, the company said. Read More Be careful using VMotion over the WAN There is no doubt that server virtualization has been one of the hottest topics in IT over the last few years. In addition to the CAPEX and OPEX savings, one of the compelling reasons why IT organizations implement server virtualization is the ability to move virtual machines (VMs) between physical servers. As we will explain in this newsletter, moving VMs between physical machines may not work if the VMs have to traverse the WAN. Read More Layer-0 Page for Network Design Templates The third blog on wrote on Network World's Cisco Subnet was about Network Design Templates. Proper Network Design Templates are one of the pillars of a written network architecture. If you work on a network engineering and architecture team, Network Design Templates should be seen as your product line. Read More FTC won't oppose Google's acquisition of AdMob The U.S. Federal Trade Commission won't block Google's US$750 million acquisition of mobile advertising vendor AdMob because the deal isn't likely to harm competition in the emerging mobile advertising market, the agency said Friday. Read More Rogue Facebook apps launch 'beach babes' attack Another attack using rogue Facebook applications hit users' PCs Saturday in a virtual repeat of last weekend's massive assault, security researchers said. Read More WHITE PAPER: Brocade Deployment Strategies for 802.11n Many organizations are looking to reap the benefits of the new 802.11n standard, but what is the best way to deploy wireless technology while minimizing costs? Learn why understanding the "Three Cs"-context, coverage, and capacity-is critical for choosing an optimal network implementation strategy. Read More! If you have multithreading in Windows Phone 7 do you need multitasking? Microsoft's decision to block multitasking for Windows Phone 7, at least in the initial release, unleashed complaints from some developers and pundits. It was a step backward! The Apple-fication of Windows Mobile and so on. 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 The Other Side of the Symantec/Verisign Deal Regardless of whether you think this is a good or bad deal, Verisign's divestment is just the latest sad chapter for a company that once had a market cap in the tens of billions of dollars. Read More Apple reverses its "No cash for iPad" policy Apple is no stranger to controversy, but this particular tale was especially strange. Earlier this week, a woman named Diane Campbell went into an Apple store to purchase an iPad. Campbell is disabled and lives on a fixed income, and over the course of a few weeks, she dilligently saved up enough money to afford an iPad - $600. Read More NASA: Spacewalking astronauts install battery on solar array Two NASA astronauts attached batteries to the International Space Station's solar array during the third and final spacewalk slated during the 12-day mission of the space shuttle Atlantis. Read More
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