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	Avaya stares down Microsoft, Cisco After years of hanging around the top of the IP telephony market, the company is poised to take over unified communications, but Cisco and Microsoft stand in the way. Read More WEBCAST: Oracle Getting Started with Identity Compliance The Burton Group's, Kevin Kampman, provides an overview of the latest technology for identity management. He'll help you sift through key, mandatory requirements and features and functionality that can wait. Kevin offers guidance on how you can get a 360-degree view of users' access and behavior, best practices and a real-world implementation. View Now. In this Issue Cisco Content Delivery System open to attack Cisco best positioned for business tablet computing? Avaya CEO on Cisco, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter and how to win over Nortel customers NAC decisions you need to make now US awards $122M for new lab that will spin sunlight into fuel Peer-to-Peer Security Hosted UC Solutions and You IPv6 Enabled Web Browsers It's Time to Start Loving Tunnels WHITE PAPER: Novell Efficiently Delivering Enterprise-Class File-Based Storage IDC: Read about the exponential growth in file-based storage. Learn how having intelligence on data stored can help storage managers make smarter decisions about data storage, protection, archiving, retention, and disposition. Read Now. Cisco Content Delivery System open to attack Cisco this week issued another security advisory, this time on its Content Delivery System. The product's Internet Streamer application has a vulnerability that could allow an attacker to read files arbitrarily on the device. An unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to access password files and system logs, the advisory states. Read More Cisco best positioned for business tablet computing? If tablet computing takes off in the enterprise, is Cisco best positioned to capitalize on it? That's the assertion posed by Motley Fool in this piece entitled "The Titan of Tablets: Apple or Cisco?" Read More Avaya CEO on Cisco, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter and how to win over Nortel customers Avaya CEO Kevin Kennedy recently sat down at his office in Basking Ridge, N.J., with Network World Senior Editor Tim Greene to discuss the company's progress integrating Nortel enterprise assets into the company, the changing nature of the business communications market, the effects of Facebook and Twitter on corporate networks, the impact of Skype, the competition Avaya faces from Cisco and Microsoft and the promise of cloud computing. What follows is an edited transcript of that conversation. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Implementing Tiered Storage: IDC: Enterprises that are investigating deploying a tiered storage architecture should consider using an external services provider to assist with the migration. Of critical importance is the ability to offer a range of services from the initial planning all the way through to ongoing support and management. Read Now NAC decisions you need to make now One important piece of a multilevel security defense for companies of almost any size is network access control (NAC), which lets you enforce policies for end-user machines. Read More US awards $122M for new lab that will spin sunlight into fuel Making clean fuel out of sunlight is the idea behind a $122 million US Department of Energy award to a team of California researchers. Read More Peer-to-Peer Security Traditional security solutions are sort of like client/server computing. Security vendors take the role of the server, hosting the master software, adding new anti-malware signatures, and distributing them to all of the clients. This model was adequate in the past but it is no longer good enough. Why? Malware volume stresses the system and all too common zero-day attacks have free and clear access... Read More WHITE PAPER: MessageLabs Employee Web Use and Misuse: This white paper examines a Web security solution that gives companies the ability to monitor and enforce their Internet usage policies, bringing site monitoring and URL filtering together while insuring security with anti-virus and anti-spyware protection. Read Now Hosted UC Solutions and You The market is literally abuzz about the various hosted offerings, both new and existing.  It seems that one can't turn around without seeing some kind of hosted this or hosted that.  With that in mind, I thought I'd jump on the Hosted UC bandwagon. Read More IPv6 Enabled Web Browsers One way to get your browser to navigate to an IPv6-capable web site is to simply enter the IPv6 address of the web server into the browser's address bar. IETF RFC 2732, Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's, which is updated by IETF RFC 3986, Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax, defines the syntax that should be used when entering an IPv6 address directly. The format typically... Read More It's Time to Start Loving Tunnels I wrote a blog two years ago about how I could fix anything with a tunnel. Yes, it was a tad tongue in cheek, but it also had some truth to it. Tunnels are a weapon to use when faced with a difficult network design issue. However, as with any weapon, there can be collateral damage. Tunnels have proven to sometimes cost more than they are worth when they introduce sub-optimal routing, MTU issues,... Read More
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