Modeling Cisco's Fall

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	Modeling Cisco's Fall Trefis, a modeling tool developed by MIT engineers and Wall Street analysts to gauge the impact of products on a company's stock price, calculated the impact of sliding edge router market share on Cisco. It states that there could be a 2% negative impact to Cisco's stock if it continues losing edge router market share to Alcatel-Lucent, which has been gaining share at the expense of both Cisco and... Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Business Agility Strategies For Midsize Organizations Midsize businesses have enormous IT pressures: building an infrastructure that is flexible, designed to accommodate rapid growth and meets compliance challenges with resources nowhere near larger enterprises. This video whitepaper explains how Oracle is delivering applications specifically for midsize businesses. Learn More In this Issue Cisco adds smarts to grid team 10 hot energy projects that could electrify the world Hybrid networking: Hedging your bets intelligently InfoWorld review: Riverbed Steelhead rules the WAN WHITE PAPER: PC Mall Server Virtualization: Breaking Performance Barriers Server virtualization reduces cost, increases availability and enhances business agility. But for many companies, a focus only on cost reduction can become a problem. Download this HP white paper to learn how to reap virtualization's additional benefits, including built-in, cost-effective high availability & disaster recovery. Learn More Cisco adds smarts to grid team Cisco named two officials to help oversee its Smart Grid initiative. Paul De Martini jumps to Cisco from Southern California Edison (SCE) to be the chief technology officer the company's Smart Grid team, while Jeff Taft joined the Cisco from Accenture to be Global Smart Grid Architect. 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! 10 hot energy projects that could electrify the world There are thousands of projects underway to change the way the U.S. and the world produces and uses energy. Start-ups are looking to harness the world's ocean waves and build advanced fuel cell that produce data center-class electricity. 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 Hybrid networking: Hedging your bets intelligently In a couple of recent newsletters focusing on net neutrality, we focused some attention on the fact that using an Internet-based VPN may not be the "safe" bet that it has in the past. (By way of definition, we continue to refer to a network where "generic" Internet services are used for fundamental transport with added layers of security for corporate network use.) Read More InfoWorld review: Riverbed Steelhead rules the WAN Riverbed's RiOS 6 continues the tradition of WAN performance gains while improving flexibility, ease, and application support Read More
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