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	Cisco acquires Arch Rock Jim Duffy: Skype will have to wait. Cisco made its second smart grid metering move this week by acquiring Arch Rock, a maker of wireless mesh infrastructure gear for smart grid metering applications. Read More WHITE PAPER: Tripwire Where Compliance and Data Protection Overlap Today's CISOs face more challenges than ever, including increased and more sophisticated threats, complex IT environments, decreased budgets, and greater compliance pressures. But these challenges present opportunity. Learn how CISOs can play these challenges to their advantage to meet both data protection and compliance demands. Read More! In this Issue Brocade set to take Cisco, Juniper on in 100G The Secret Life of an Analog Voice Port VMware vShield: A Good Start, but. . . What to Consider After Passing CCNA Cisco bug behind small scale Internet outage Join Network World's group on LinkedIn WHITE PAPER: Aerohive SLA Compliance: Wireless Fidelity Achieved Aerohive delivers the next level in network visibility and reactive response with a new infrastructure-side performance monitoring and response system: SLA Compliance. Read now! Brocade set to take Cisco, Juniper on in 100G Jim Duffy: Brocade is ready to give Cisco and Juniper a run for the money in 100G Ethernet. The company later this month will unveil 100G Ethernet routers and modules. Read More The Secret Life of an Analog Voice Port Kevin Wallace: For September 2010, this blog will discuss the CVOICE exam. This first video discusses the operation and configuration of analog voice ports. Read More WEBCAST: BMC Run Your IT Help Desk in the Cloud BMC brings its award-winning service desk technology to the cloud with BMC ServiceDesk on Force.com. Learn how to boost productivity with a full-featured service desk, help desk, and inventory management solution built on ITIL best practices. Join experts from IDC, BMC, and Force.com for this webinar overview. Learn More VMware vShield: A Good Start, but. . . Jon Oltsik: You've got to hand it to VMware -- it clearly understands the strengths and weaknesses of the ESX environment and is focused on improving the platform. VMware announced the vShield family of security products. Read More What to Consider After Passing CCNA Wendell Odom: Although Cisco positions CCENT as its entry-level certification - the "E" even stands for Entry - the prerequisite cert for all the rest of the Cisco cert world is CCNA. Read More WHITE PAPER: RIM The CIO's Guide to Mobile Unified Communications Unified Communications (UC) integrates multiple communications modalities and adds presence features to allow workers to communicate and collaborate more effectively with co-workers, customers and suppliers. Learn about the cost, productivity and reachability issues. Read Now. Cisco bug behind small scale Internet outage Jim Duffy: Cisco says it has patched a bug in its routers that was behind the outage affecting 1% of the Internet last week. Read More Join Network World's group on LinkedIn Why join Network World's LinkedIn group? You can have interesting discussions with your peers, managed by Network World editors. You can make new contacts in your industry. It looks good on your profile. And of course, it's free. Join today. Read More
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