Juniper takes more shots at Cisco in the data center

	Juniper's New Network Gains Traction | Why Data Centers Must Fundamentally Change -- Part 2.1
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	Juniper takes more shots at Cisco in the data center Juniper's data center announcement this week is another shot across the bow at Cisco, with direct hits on Cisco's Nexus switches and indirect jabs at the company's legacy in data center networking. But it's also yet another place setter for Juniper's upcoming Stratus launch, which was unveiled in early 2009 but is still another eight to 12 months away. 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 In this Issue Juniper's New Network Gains Traction Why Data Centers Must Fundamentally Change -- Part 2.1 Nexus 5000 Only Supports 16 EtherChannels Future-Net Debrief Cisco reseller lists top five lead time replacements Verizon tops in enterprise VoIP market, says Infonetics 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! Juniper's New Network Gains Traction Yesterday, Juniper Networks made a series of announcements. The company is introducing technologies to flatten and secure the data center network and change the economic model. Juniper will offer multiple new homegrown and third-party applications built on top of Junos (aka the Junos Space initiative). Juniper is also changing its support model for enterprise customers and offering its support in... Read More Why Data Centers Must Fundamentally Change -- Part 2.1 I started writing this section, and when John Peach from the UK commented to me, "Doug, this isn't a blog, it is a dissertation" I felt I needed to shorten it a bit to make it more consumer-friendly. Well, I didn't want to shorten it too much, in case I lose something important, so it got much easier to break it up into chapters- a relatively easy way out. 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 Nexus 5000 Only Supports 16 EtherChannels An interesting, and most likely uncritical, factoid popped up this week while our operations team was configuring a set of Nexus 5000 switches for 10GbE connections to blade servers in our DC. Read More Future-Net Debrief This week I attended and presented at the Future-Net conference in Boston. This conference isn't one of the biggest conferences but this intimate event provides some great presentations and the opportunity to meet and share ideas with a lot of great people. I attended this conference last year and provided a review of what I saw. I wanted to share with you some of what I learned this year and discuss... Read More WHITE PAPER: Fluke Networks Troubleshooting Application Problems This comprehensive 94 page guide is a how-to resource handbook for network engineers. Learn the fundamentals of how applications work, how they flow, where applications fail and best practices and methodologies for troubleshooting network and application problems. Click here! Cisco reseller lists top five lead time replacements Cisco has been plagued by long product lead times for the past few quarters. Some products took several months to deliver. Read More Verizon tops in enterprise VoIP market, says Infonetics A combination of a large subscriber base and financial stability has put Verizon Business on top of Infonetics Research's rankings of enterprise VoIP providers. Read More
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