Juniper looks to one up Cisco again in core routing

	Insider: Is there free stuff for online security? Yes! | Cisco, Juniper play years of leapfrog in the Internet core
	Network World Daily News AM				Forward this to a Friend >>>
	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 RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Xerox Are You Ready for Real Business? Companies around the globe know it's better to let Xerox handle their back-office business-process needs so they can focus on what matters most: their real business. Learn more about their new services including finance and accounting outsourcing, human resource services, customer care and IT outsourcing. Get ready for real business> In this Issue Insider: Is there free stuff for online security? Yes! Cisco, Juniper play years of leapfrog in the Internet core Cisco announces virtual desktops for video collaboration Insider: Brocade CEO says Ethernet fabrics will undermine Cisco's dominance Brocade releases Ethernet storage switch family Internet2 racing ahead with 100G Ethernet network Enterasys rolls out data center manager Amazon Web Services takes advantage of GPUs in the cloud Ex-Apple 'grip of death' exec lands at Cisco Cisco Apps for the iPhone and iPad Researchers take down Koobface servers Some top Google executives get 30 percent raises Traveler to TSA: If you touch my junk, I'll have you arrested DARPA taps Carnegie Mellon to build "flying car" brains WHITE PAPER: Logitech The Business Benefits of Desktop Video Collaboration At your desktop: Advances in the quality and simplicity of affordable desktop video equipment allow organizations to tap the power of unified communications, which can significantly cut costs, increase efficiency, improve business performance and foster more collaboration, regardless of location. Read More Insider: Is there free stuff for online security? Yes! Sure a few strings might come attached -- some free anti-virus software and online scanners are strictly for personal use and you might need to put up with vendors regularly enticing you to upgrade for more security bells and whistles. But free and open source tools - from vulnerability assessors to packet analyzers to troubleshooting software -- can be had, and even the hackers trying to break into your network are fond of many of them. Read More Cisco, Juniper play years of leapfrog in the Internet core Juniper and Cisco have been playing "can you top this" in Internet router technology for a decade. Cisco just announced its "forever change the Internet" CRS-3 back in February. Now it's Juniper's turn with the T4000. 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 Insider: 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: Riverbed Faster Recovery for Windows Applications and Data Are your backup & recovery plans up to snuff? Will you be able to restore critical systems & data quickly in the event of an outage? Learn valuable information on how to protect Windows applications & data in a distributed environment. Learn about challenges in protecting & restoring Exchange, SQL, & Windows file server, & more. Learn more! Brocade releases Ethernet storage switch family Brocade announced the release of a new line of Ethernet-based switches that will allow standard server traffic to share networks with data storage traffic, offering administrators a method of reducing network complexity and cost. Read More Internet2 racing ahead with 100G Ethernet network Internet2, an advanced networking consortium led by education and research organizations, says it has started receiving shipments from Juniper Networks to build out a 100G Ethernet network across the United States. Read More 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 Amazon Web Services takes advantage of GPUs in the cloud Amazon Web Services (AWS) now allows users of its cloud computing platform to take advantage of the extra power graphics processing units (GPUs) can give. The company hopes the move will attract high-performance computing applications to its service. Read More WHITE PAPER: NeuStar, Inc. Holiday Readiness Guide for Ecommerce This white paper is all about Internet Gifting Essentials as it is critical that merchants ready their sites from both a performance and selling perspective. Based on the e-tailing group's Annual Mystery Shopping Survey, highlighted Internet gifting essentials were present in three-out-of-four of the 100 websites we surveyed last holiday season. Read More Ex-Apple 'grip of death' exec lands at Cisco The public may know him best as the mastermind (or fall guy) behind the iPhone "grip of death" disaster, but there must be much more to engineering executive Mark Papermaster given that he's worked for three of the industry's biggest names - IBM, Apple and now Cisco - within a span of two years. Read More Cisco Apps for the iPhone and iPad Cisco 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 SSL VPN clients to full-featured softphone apps have hit the app store with more sure to come. Read More Researchers take down Koobface servers Researchers have taken down the command-and-control servers used by the Koobface botnet. Read More Some top Google executives get 30 percent raises The same week that Google reportedly offered all employees 10 percent raises, it boosted pay for some senior executives by 30 percent. Read More Traveler to TSA: If you touch my junk, I'll have you arrested A man has video proof that he was thrown out of an airport after refusing to submit to a security check "groin" pat down and then also threatened with a $10,000 fine and a civil suit if he left the airport. Read More DARPA taps Carnegie Mellon to build "flying car" brains The 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
	Fill out a survey, get rewarded Get a free Starbucks gift card for participating in a Network World survey about application performance management best practices. Research firm NetForecast is surveying enterprises about APM practices for an upcoming Network World article. The first 100 participants will receive a $5 Starbucks gift card. Click here. Goodies from the Subnets We've got SharePoint 2010 training for up to three people from Webucator up for grabs. There's an iPad available, too. Enter to win one! SLIDESHOWS Microsoft Windows after 25 years: A visual history More than nine out of 10 computers run some version of Windows. But no one could have predicted that would be the case when Windows 1.0 launched 25 years ago as a graphical front end for MS-DOS. Here's a look at Windows through the years and some thoughts on what the future might hold. Cool Yule favorites: 15 techie gifts we like Ho Ho Ho, it's time again to get our holiday wish lists together. Here are our 15 favorite products from the 140+ products submitted and tested in this year's Cool Yule Tools holiday gift guide. MOST-READ STORIES FTC appoints cool hacker as first chief technologist Amazon regains senses, pulls pedophile how-to book Microsoft opens new front with cloud-based Windows Server Man loses $20 million after taking laptop for repair Red Hat releases RHEL 6 Apple smashes patch record with gigantic update Virus infecting phones in China costs you $300,000 a day Google, Facebook duke it out over user data Windows 7 upgrades stalled by IE6 holdouts 12 amazing productivity boosters
	Do You Tweet? Follow everything from NetworkWorld.com on Twitter @NetworkWorld. You are currently subscribed to networkworld_daily_news_alert as security.world@gmail.com. Unsubscribe from this newsletter | Manage your subscriptions | Subscribe | Privacy Policy If you are interested in advertising in this newsletter, please contact: bglynn@cxo.com To contact Network World, please send an e-mail to customer_service@nww.com. Copyright (C) 2010 Network World, 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham MA 01701 ** Please do not reply to this message. If you want to contact someone directly, send an e-mail to customer_service@nww.com. **