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	Cisco at a crossroads? Positive enterprise and data center trends may bode well for Cisco's upcoming Q4 results. Cisco is expected to post a 27% hike in revenue for the quarter and hit $40 billion for the full fiscal year, up 11% from fiscal 2009. 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 among Winners of National Cybersecurity Awareness Challenge Air Force streamlines cybersecurity hiring for 680 open positions WAN optimization – Still a priority 15 summer vacation ideas for geeks WAN optimization and hybrid networking WHITE PAPER: Riverbed 345 IT Executives Interviewed This white paper details extensive research on the challenges associated with application delivery and managing application performance. Analyst and consulting firm, Kubernan, interviewed 345 IT pros. Their responses and Kubernan's analysis will help you to proactively resolve application delivery and performance issues. Read now! Cisco among Winners of National Cybersecurity Awareness Challenge Secretary Napolitano announced the winners of DHS' National Cybersecurity Awareness Challenge July 14th. This contest called on companies to develop creative ways to enhance awareness of the importance of cybersecurity with the goal of safeguarding America's computer systems and networks from attacks. The contest, kicked off last march, received over 80 proposals from both public and private... 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. Air Force streamlines cybersecurity hiring for 680 open positions The Air Force today said its managers hiring civilian federal employees for certain cybersecurity openings can use a streamlined method to rapidly fill more than 680 positions. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed IT Platform to Optimize and Consolidate In this report, Forrester investigates the reasons why you should consider WAN optimization solutions as the best way to gain better IT performance, cost savings, and greater flexibility for your business. And it's also a smart network improvement investment over the long-term. Get the facts about WAN optimization in this study. Read now! WAN optimization – Still a priority Regardless of how much progress we make in lowering WAN costs, this remains a major issue in the overall networking budget. And as we move toward cloud-based computing, the requisite amount of WAN bandwidth will only continue to increase. Read More 15 summer vacation ideas for geeks From Star Trek and Space Camp to baseball minutiae, vintage video games, anime, pirates, Harry Potter and They Might Be Giants, there's a vacation option for any type of geek this summer Read More WAN optimization and hybrid networking In our last newsletter, we shared a portion of a conversation with Thierry Grenot, CTO at Ipanema Technologies, concerning some of the details that one encounters implementing appliances to optimize the use of multiple transport technologies, such as MPLS and Internet-based services. Read More
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