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	HP taking aim squarely at Cisco – and its undervalued partners Cisco has a vast partner network (some 60,000 worldwide, including 12,000 high-end Certified Partners) and this network accounts for more than 80 percent of Cisco's product and services revenue ($28B in 2009). Yet when you talk to an average Cisco partner, they will tell you they make almost nothing on the sale of Cisco's own products and services, and all their own money on the professional... Read More WHITE PAPER: Websense Essential Information Protection Successful organizations depend upon their ability to collaborate, communicate, and share information online. This paper explains how Essential Information Protection is designed to help organizations make the most of their IT security investments. Read More In this Issue Wireless Gigabit spec published, gains Cisco support Why Data Center Networks Must Fundamentally Change Millions of dollars of Cisco gear, but unaffiliated with Cisco Feds shred counterfeit Cisco trade Communication Manager 8.x: Cross Cluster Extension Mobility lab attempt - part 1 A Graphical View of My Idea of WAN Acceleration and More Bandwidth Should ISP change their subcribers' contract for IPv6? 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! Wireless Gigabit spec published, gains Cisco support The group developing a super-fast wireless data technology that can transmit data up to 10 times as fast as today's fastest Wi-Fi published its initial specification on Monday and named Cisco as the latest backer of the technology. Read More Why Data Center Networks Must Fundamentally Change 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. The room was seated to capacity,... 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! Millions of dollars of Cisco gear, but unaffiliated with Cisco I am the CEO of Network Hardware Resale, a big Cisco reseller - but unaffiliated with Cisco. I believe we are politely called "the gray market" within the authorized Cisco world, though I've heard many more unsavory terms used as well. The reality is we often compete with Cisco, but also provide a tremendously valuable service to Cisco and the Cisco brand and here's why: Read More Feds shred counterfeit Cisco trade With a new conviction today, the federal action known as Operation Network Raider has resulted in 30 felony convictions and more than 700 seizures of counterfeit Cisco network hardware with an estimated value of more than $143 million. Read More WHITE PAPER: Adobe Close the Web 2.0 Communications Gap Web 2.0 tools have yet to reach critical mass and broad user adoption. This Forrester report identifies the key Web 2.0 gaps and offers advice to: Build a framework that extends email, Upgrade document-based data collection, and Improve email and document exchange security. Read More Communication Manager 8.x: Cross Cluster Extension Mobility lab attempt - part 1 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. To get going I got a hold of the latest Features and Services guide and started to read. It starts... Read More A Graphical View of My Idea of WAN Acceleration and More Bandwidth I wrote in a blog two weeks about that I was dissolusioned 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 Should ISP change their subcribers' contract for IPv6? For once, this article is not about security but rather on IPv6 for residential subscribers and their contract to their ISP. As I see more and more residential ISP moving to IPv6, most of them seem to simply import their IPv4 business model into IPv4. A lot of European ISP have two classes of contracts with their subscribers: a business-type contract where the IPv4 address is statically assigned... Read More
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