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Monday, October 04, 2010

Cisco to Release a Virtual Security Appliance for VMWare

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Cisco to Release a Virtual Security Appliance for VMWare
Cisco Nexus 1000v soon to add stateful firewall functionality to its list of virtual service offeringsAs corporations rapidly move to virtualize their datacenters using technology like VMWare, securing those datacenters becomes much harder. Along with virtualizing the servers, corporations are also using virtualized networking/switching technologies. This allows for the Virtual Machine to talk to another virtual machine purely across a virtual network without ever having to touch any physical network... Read More


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Cisco Announces New Borderless Breakthroughs
Join us at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET) on October 5, 2010 for a live special event and be one of the first to preview the new solutions for Cisco Borderless Networks and Data Center/Virtualization architectures. See how these innovations can help you improve IT efficiency, business scalability and workforce effectiveness. Register now.

WHITE PAPER: NetGear

Comprehensive Internet Security Employing A Layered Defense
The threat landscape has experienced growth requiring comprehensive security measures via a layered defense strategy to protect against this wide array of threats. Learn more.

Is your WAN ready for HD video?
The Webtorials Editorial/Analyst Group just released the findings from the "2010 Next Generation Video Conferencing and Collaboration Report," and the results show that perhaps we have finally – after almost 50 years of talking about video – reached the point where it is indeed time for video to become a mainstream part of your network. Read More

Eight hot commercial space projects
NASA budget money to help spark commercial space industry Read More


WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies

Electronic Software Delivery
IDC : Those that are focused on providing an exceptional software acquisition are increasingly utilizing technology that helps create and measure a positive user experience. In this IDC whitepaper, review the benefits and processes of electronic software delivery. Learn the components of a successful solution that is optimal to the end user. Learn more

Make Your Own Ethernet Patch Cables
Why assemble your own ethernet cables? Many online stores sell them for only a couple of dollars each. But certain situations call for using your own custom-wired cables. Maybe you need enough of them to make DIY cables cost-effective; maybe you have unique length requirements; maybe you need to replace broken plugs, or maybe you just want to use up excess cable that you have on hand and would otherwise waste. Read More

Get ready for virtual wireless LANs
Jim lives on an island off the coast of Florida where virtually nobody is interested in information technology. To compensate for that, Jim frequently goes on the road to meet with vendors and enterprise IT organizations. We will use the next set of newsletters to discuss Jim's latest trip and the topics that were on Jim's mind as well as the mind of the people he met with. Read More


WHITE PAPER: NetApp

Unified Windows Storage Consolidation
This report documents the results of ESG Lab hands-on testing of a NetApp Unified Storage Architecture deployed in a VMware virtual server environment with a goal of simplifying, protecting, and consolidating physical servers hosting Microsoft applications. Read More!

We Love Tunnels Too - EoMPLS to Connect Two Data Centers
EoMPLS Proves to Be an Effective Way to Connect Two Data Centers I wrote a blog a couple months back about my changing perception of tunnels, aptly titled "It's Time to Start Loving Tunnels". While I midly joked about tunnels in the past, it was becoming clear that tunnels are becoming a much more common - and proper - network design tool. Read More

QoS Lab 2 – AutoQoS VoIP (Router)
This video demonstrates the configuration of AutoQoS VoIP on a router platform.As we continue in our month-long parade of QoS videos, QoS Lab 2 offers a demonstration of AutoQoS VoIP on a router. As we'll discuss in future videos, there are three primary flavors of AutoQoS: (1) AutoQoS VoIP on a router, (2) AutoQoS Enterprise on a router, and (3) AutoQoS VoIP on a switch. Read More

Is the Security Appliance Going Virtual?
A look at the potential future of the Security Appliance.A few short weeks ago I had the privilege of attending Gestalt ITs Networking Tech Field Day. It became apparent very quickly that the topic of interest to all the vendors was that of Data Center Virtualization. Each vendor that we visited showed off their high end equipment and gave technical presentations on them. You could quickly get a feel for the fact that they all position themselves to take... Read More

Ig Nobel honors world's wackiest researchers: 2010 winners
The 20th annual Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded Thursday night for "achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think." Organized by the same people who produce Annals of Improbable http://improbable.com/ Research, the prizes commemorate the world's funniest research, and sometimes the world's biggest villains (BP is a winner this year). Here's a list of the 2010 prizes, with text from the official award announcements. ART: Read More



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