Cisco's new WAAS 4.2: Breakthrough innovations or just fixing bugs?

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	Cisco's new WAAS 4.2: Breakthrough innovations or just fixing bugs? Larry Chaffin: I have been asked many times for my thoughts on the new release of Cisco WAAS 4.2. I have held off writing about this until now, after I had a chance to read over the release notes, talk to people and watch some videos on the subject. You won't be surprised to learn that I don't fully share Cisco views on the new release, but it was good marketing. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T AT&T Designing Tomorrow's Ethernet-Based Metropolitan Area Networks Click to continue In this Issue Cisco's TRILL drill: FabricPath beats IETF standard to market Thin client requires a brawny, agile WAN Netezza in bid to speed up analytics Beyond the petaflop: DARPA wants quintillion-speed computers Microsoft testing guide Heartland ramps up first end-to-end encryption Speeding up Web performance (part one) Speeding up Web performance (part two) Speeds in hotspots catch up to latest smartphones Cisco energy management can now span enterprise VIDEO: Radware All-in-One APSolute Attack Prevention The new threat landscape shows us that effective security requires IPS, DoS, and NBA for protection against emerging attacks. Find out why having all three in the same appliance with advanced monitoring and reporting can keep you ahead of the attack curve while giving you peace of mind and wallet. Read More Cisco's TRILL drill: FabricPath beats IETF standard to market Cisco this week expanded its data center arsenal with software, switches, modules and services all designed to scale the infrastructure to meet the demanding needs of virtualization, application complexity and cloud computing. Read More Thin client requires a brawny, agile WAN Today's thin client approach to computing is analogous to the dumb terminals and 3270 terminals of the previous mainframe era. This newsletter will describe how the WAN that supports the emerging era of mainframe computing is totally different than the WAN that supported the previous era. Read More Netezza in bid to speed up analytics Netezza has launched a new software feature to improve database analytics. Read More WHITE PAPER: Radware Fighting Cybercrime Hacker motivation has changed from gaining fame to financial gain. Cyber crime activities now employ a new level of network attacks, which go undetected by standard network-security tools. This paper discusses the changing threat landscape and how you can protect your business from emerging threats. Read More Beyond the petaflop: DARPA wants quintillion-speed computers Not known for taking the demure route, researchers at DARPA this week announced a program aimed at building computers that exceed current peta-scale computers to achieve the mind-altering speed of one quintillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000) calculations per second. Read More Microsoft testing guide We packaged up our recent tests on some of Microsoft's leading products. Download a copy today. Read More Heartland ramps up first end-to-end encryption Heartland Payment Systems, the victim last year of a massive data breach of sensitive card data, vowed after that devastating event to develop new security gear based on end-to-end encryption between itself and its merchants to prevent such a breach from occurring again. That's now taking shape, but slowly. Read More VIDEO: Polycom Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith Deploys IP UC Solutions LBBS has begun using the Polycom® VVX® 1500 D, the industry's first simultaneous dual-stack (H.323 and SIP) media phone to combine advanced telephony, one-touch video, and integrated business applications. Learn more. Speeding up Web performance (part one) Strangeloop Networks President Joshua Bixby talks about the problem of today's Web performance, and how new technologies can speed up your Web site. Read More Speeding up Web performance (part two) Joshua Bixby from Strangeloop Networks continues his whiteboard discussion of Web performance problems and new technologies that can speed up sites. Read More Speeds in hotspots catch up to latest smartphones Many hotspots in Europe still use older Wi-Fi standards, but that is slowly changing, good news for owners of the growing number of smartphones and laptops that can access the Web using 802.11n. Read More Cisco energy management can now span enterprise Cisco Systems announced the Cisco Network Building Mediator Manager 6300, a platform to manage all the systems in an enterprise that consume energy, across all the organization's facilities. Read More
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