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	Confused by 10GbE optics modules? Over the years of 10 gigabit Ethernet's existence, there have been numerous different form factors and optics types introduced. The oldest, XENPAKS, remain very popular as the install base is large, while the newest SFP+ offer a much smaller form factor and the ability to offer 1G/10G combo ports on hardware for the first time. 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 In this Issue Cisco Quad set to ship before November US Coast Guard calls for high-tech help in BP oil disaster Top 6 IT skills employers are looking for VCs: Net neutrality rules needed to encourage Web investment Cisco vs. HP in the networking market Targeting Cisco, Juniper, Brocade unveils unified data center strategy Cisco turns SMB storage into multipurpose platform Cisco's Quad takes social networking to the enterprise RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T AT&T Designing Tomorrow's Ethernet-Based Metropolitan Area Networks Click to continue Cisco Quad set to ship before November Cisco Systems said today that its social collaboration platform aimed at the enterprise, Cisco Quad, will be released in the next four to five months. Read More US Coast Guard calls for high-tech help in BP oil disaster The US Coast Guard has issued a call for better specialized technology to help it better respond to the ever-widening BP Deepwater oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Read More 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! Top 6 IT skills employers are looking for Last month Dark Reading posted an article by Kelly Higgins on Six Hot and Sought-After IT Security Skills. Based on interviews with hiring managers from recruitment firms, the IT security job market is booming and here are the top six skills employers are looking for: 1. Incident-handling/response 2. Compliance know-how 3. Risk management 4. Business acumen 5. Government security clearance 6.... Read More VCs: Net neutrality rules needed to encourage Web investment The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should move ahead with plans to create formal network neutrality rules in order to encourage investment and innovation in Web applications and content, three venture capitalists said Friday. 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. Cisco vs. HP in the networking market In our last newsletter we pointed out that Cisco has been the dominant vendor of enterprise switches and routers for the last 20 years and that that situation is not likely to change anytime soon. We also pointed out that there is some indication that Cisco is vulnerable to losing some market share. We will use this newsletter to discuss how we see HP positioned in the enterprise networking market and whether or not we think that HP will take significant market share away from Cisco. Read More Targeting Cisco, Juniper, Brocade unveils unified data center strategy Brocade this week unveiled its converged data center architecture, and a raft of new products to support it. Read More Cisco turns SMB storage into multipurpose platform Cisco Systems is turning its small-business storage platforms into multipurpose devices with several features that might make easy additions to an IT architecture on a budget. Read More Cisco's Quad takes social networking to the enterprise Cisco Systems is looking to take popular social networking tools and tricks and bend and meld them into a platform that's focused on business. Read More
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