Brocade CEO says Ethernet fabrics will undermine Cisco's dominance

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	Brocade CEO says Ethernet fabrics will undermine Cisco's dominance Brocade swallowed Foundry Networks a few years ago and has been hard at work ever since marrying the best of Brocade's storage network assets with Foundry's high-end Ethernet network tech. The result, says CEO Michael Klayko, is an emerging product line that positions the company perfectly for the demands of the virtualized, cloud-ready data center, and perfectly to steal share from Cisco. Read More WEBCAST: Netop Does Remote Support Jeopardize Compliance? Most enterprises understand the benefits of remote management and support: significant cost savings and making the best use of IT resources. But if you don't take security measures into consideration, you could be risking non-compliance Join us as security experts discuss best practices and advice in adopting remote support solutions Read Now In this Issue Juniper looks to one up Cisco again in core routing Cisco announces virtual desktops for video collaboration Brocade data center switches take on Cisco, Juniper Ex-Apple 'grip of death' exec lands at Cisco Vint Cerf: Give tax credits to UK businesses to act on IPv6 DARPA taps Carnegie Mellon to build "flying car" brains Enterasys rolls out data center manager TSHOOT Bull's Eye Strategy #3 Cisco Apps for the iPhone and iPad Giving Cisco Telepresence its Own QoS Queue is Some Expensive Real Estate RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Vyatta Open Networking Vyatta Network OS – Complete Routing & Security 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, VMware, XenServer and more. Learn more and Download Free Software >> Juniper looks to one up Cisco again in core routing Juniper Networks this week will take its turn claiming innovation leadership in Internet core routing by unveiling its next-generation platform. Read More Cisco announces virtual desktops for video collaboration Cisco today unveiled two virtual desktop devices, more efficient virtualization software and more affordable videoconferencing endpoints, building on its line of video collaboration tools and capabilities for companies. Read More Brocade data center switches take on Cisco, Juniper Brocade this week will introduce switches that will let users build a flat, multipath network for virtualized data center environments. 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Read More Vint Cerf: Give tax credits to UK businesses to act on IPv6 Businesses that act now to prepare for IPv6 should be given "tax credits" to help them with the migration, according to Vint Cerf. Read More DARPA taps Carnegie Mellon to build "flying car" brains DARPA awards $988,000 contract to develop the autonomous flight system for its flying car conceptThe Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a $988,000 contract to the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon to develop the autonomous flight system for its flying car concept. Read More WHITE PAPER: Coyote Point ADCs Take Over Where Load Balancers Leave Off Application Delivery Controllers understand applications and optimize server performance - offloading compute-intensive tasks that prevent servers from quickly delivering applications. Learn how ADCs have taken over where load balancers left off. Read now! Enterasys rolls out data center manager Enterasys Networks this week is unveiling a management system designed to provide visibility, automation and control over physical and virtual data center resources. Read More TSHOOT Bull's Eye Strategy #3 This video presets the third of three TSHOOT exam strategies.In this third of three TSHOOT exam (642-832) strategies, you'll see what I consider to be the most powerful approach yet to tackling the TSHOOT exam. Read More Cisco Apps for the iPhone and iPad Lots of cool apps for your iPhone and iPadCisco has been embracing Apple's mobile devices this year. Cisco has released all sorts of different applications designed to run on the Apple iPhone and iPad. Everything from SSLVPN clients to full featured softphone apps have hit the app store with more sure to come. Here is a quick look at the different apps Cisco is offering, all of which are FREE by the way. Very nice! Read More Giving Cisco Telepresence its Own QoS Queue is Some Expensive Real Estate It's Amazing What You Find in SRNDs QoS is a tricky beast. In fact, while we are in the midst of WAN Transformation, which puts a lot more VoIP on our new MPLS network, it's become clear that QoS design is the trickiest part of the design. Read More
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