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	Cisco execs in line for HP CEO slot? Are any Cisco executives in line to take over for disgraced HP CEO Mark Hurd? That's what the Wall Street Journal speculates in a blog posted over the weekend. Read More DOWNLOAD: Brocade 802.11n and Higher Education WLAN Opportunities Discover how Brocade Mobility solutions can help higher education institutions overcoming costly and difficult WLAN technical challenges. Read more! In this Issue My Favorite Wireless LAN NASA's head techie seeks best systems engineers of the future The 3 Most Challenging QoSTopics - Part 1 The CCNA Interview/Self-Assessment Completed The Security Industry Needs to do More Around Web Threats Is there a patch for stupid? Supersize your WAN Are new IETF switching, routing specs needed? RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Vyatta Is your network still stuck in the box? The network is changing and Vyatta's open networking software is the only solution that allows you to connect and secure physical, virtual & cloud architectures with a single network OS. Easily add flexible, high-performance routing, firewall, VPN, IPS and more to x86-based systems and common virtualization platforms. Learn more about Vyatta and Download Free Software My Favorite Wireless LAN A comment to my Hole 196: Lessons Learned entry reminded me that I've never, ever published the name of my favorite wireless LAN product. For the record, the comment, which can be found via the link above, was "i advise you need to have a technical checker before you promote your latest favorite wlan company or believe anyones idiocy" (sic). OK, the part about a technical checker proved unnecessary... Read More NASA's head techie seeks best systems engineers of the future In an open letter to current and future college students, NASA Chief Technologist Dr. Robert Braun wrote this week that "Good systems engineers are not born; they are created over time." Read More WHITE PAPER: HP IT Lessons from Grade School Many of today's schools have a hodgepodge of outdated, nonstandard PCs, servers and printers, and little—if any—on-site IT support. Yet data collection and reporting requirements are driving school districts to upgrade and centralize their IT systems. Read Now The 3 Most Challenging QoSTopics - Part 1 Hey everyone… Thanks for all the great feedback on my 5 Cisco IOS Shortcuts video!I just shot a new video for you. This is the first in a series that I call "The 3 Most Challenging QoS Topics."Please check it out, and let me know what you consider to be to most challenging topics when it comes to quality of service.Kevin Wallace, CCIE#7945, CCSI#20061 Read More The CCNA Interview/Self-Assessment Completed If I interview someone for a job, and they claim CCNA level skills - then I'm going to expect them to know the topics within the scope of CCNA pretty well. When Cisco spins out a question set that you get for the CCNA exam, I imagine they want to assess whether you know the topic to a similar depth/breadth. My theory then is that a job interview that focuses on CCNA level topics is a pretty good tool... Read More WEBCAST: 3Com 3 Steps to Transform Your Data Center Join Robert Whiteley, V.P. and Research Director at Forrester Research, for this Webcast on transforming your data center. Robert will discuss the critical networking trends that will affect the way you build your data center and provide a 3 step transformation formula. View Now. The Security Industry Needs to do More Around Web Threats If you aren't familiar with web threats you should be. A web threat uses the ubiquity of the WWW as a threat vector to propagate malicious exploits and payloads. Web threats lead to infected PCs with keyboard loggers, botnet code, or traditional worms and viruses. Traditional threats like email viruses and automated Internet worms still exist, but the bad guys now find the web more more effective.... Read More Is there a patch for stupid? I was speaking with the security group of a customer the other day and they were complaining about how 80% of their security incident were because of users doing stupid things on the Internet. They kept pointing to reports highlighting how their users generated so much work for them through malware cleanup and downtime. This conversation got me thinking about what those reports were really showing.... Read More Supersize your WAN Six years ago, we tested dual-WAN routers as a way to pump more bandwidth into small businesses that couldn't afford a T1 and were stuck with relatively slow DSL and cable connections. Read More Are new IETF switching, routing specs needed? Two high-profile specifications winding their way through the IETF promise to boost data center switching and service provider routing, but advances from Cisco and Juniper Networks raise questions about how much the specs are even needed. Read More
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