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	Beefy Alcatel-Lucent switch targets Cisco, Juniper Alcatel-Lucent this week will reawaken its enterprise switching business with a core switch designed to go up against Cisco's Nexus and Juniper's high-end Ethernet box. 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 still haunted by 3-year-old Brazil case Career Watch: 50 hot skills on the rise Cisco-sponsored EEE ratified, ready for interop tests Ethernet Adapts for Data Center Applications – Part 1 Pa. school district laptop spying case settled for $610,000 Cisco bilkers get lengthy prison terms Facebook-Skype Alliance Could Drive Some Serious Video Bandwidth Usage QoS Lab 5 - Class-Based Classification and Marking WHITE PAPER: PC Mall A Powerful Platform for Virtualization Download this HP white paper to learn how the next-generation ProLiant servers can help companies achieve rapid ROI and dramatically lower their operational expenses. Read More Cisco still haunted by 3-year-old Brazil case Assets frozen last month, then thawed on appeal Cisco is still haunted by three-year-old tax evasion allegations in Brazil that prompted authorities there to detain executives and close offices. Bloomberg, citing reports out of Brazil, is reporting this week that Cisco's assets were frozen there during a probe into a suspected import fraud scheme. Read More Career Watch: 50 hot skills on the rise Q&A: Dan Hoffman Read More WEBCAST: Red Hat 5-Step RISC Migration Planning Process In this session, HP and Red Hat speakers will explain how to prepare for and execute an effective migration from SPARC/Solaris OS-based systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on HP ProLiant and BladeSystem servers. View Now! Cisco-sponsored EEE ratified, ready for interop tests Ethernet Alliance plans "closed-door" trials, public demosNow that the IEEE has ratified the 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet standard, it's time for the interoperability plugfests. For its part, Cisco claims to be a "primary sponsor" of 802.3az. Read More Ethernet Adapts for Data Center Applications – Part 1 Many networks need to marry their Fibre Channel SAN protocols to Ethernet. But Ethernet is an easy-going protocol (let's call it West Coast) and Fibre Channel is a structured protocol (East Coast). "Data Center Bridging" will be to these two what the central country is to the Coasts – the means by which the two connect. Read More WEBCAST: Certeon Virtualize Beyond the Data Center Join independent network expert, Jim Metzler, for an in-depth discussion on the nuances among various virtualized network components, the importance of WAN optimization in a virtual data center and an explanation of how WAN optimization virtual appliances can easily integrate into your environment. Learn More Pa. school district laptop spying case settled for $610,000 Lower Merion school district near Philadelphia accused of spying on students through webcamsThe sometimes surreal case of the school district that allegedly spied on students through their laptop computer cameras ended last night as the parties involved came to a $610,000 settlement. Read More Cisco bilkers get lengthy prison terms 12 and 9 years for couple that sold $20 million in parts The couple that defrauded Cisco out of $20 million are getting lengthy prison terms. Mario Easevoli, 33, and his wife Jennifer, 29, were sentence to 12 and 9 years, respectively, for duping Cisco into sending replacement parts for routers and switches, which they then sold. Read More Facebook-Skype Alliance Could Drive Some Serious Video Bandwidth Usage Maybe This is "THE" Video Conferencing Technology A few random thoughts this week... We keep hearing about the "Year of Internet Video" and I'm always excited, but it doesn't materialize (ok, ok, blame the recession a little bit). Nothing seemed to be THE application that drove the video bandwidth demand, not Netflix streaming or (probably not) Cisco Umi. But, then I saw this story last week: Read More QoS Lab 5 - Class-Based Classification and Marking See a video using the 3-step MQC process to perform Class-Based Classification and Marking on a router.In our first lab of the month, we explored the 3-step MQC process, which I suggested might be the most important of all QoS tools. The next three labs delved into the three variants of AutoQoS, which gives us a great initial QoS configuration on a router or switch. This lab, however, begins a series of labs where we configure very specific QoS mechanisms. Cisco recommends that we classify and mark... Read More
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