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	Why aren't Cisco software updates free? Mike Sheldon: HP, Microsoft, and others are offering free updates to purchased and embedded software... why not Cisco? Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Solution Center NWW PAN IDG 8 Criteria for Server Load Balancing Server load balancers are a simple yet highly effective means to scale an application environment while ensuring its availability. Today's solutions should also address application performance and security. Read about the top eight criteria you should consider when choosing a server load balancer and how Citrix NetScaler meets those requirements. Read now! In this Issue Cisco invests in IT cost management company Cisco software mines social sites A Deeper Look at the CCSP and CCNP Security Co-existence and Transition Technology CEO Council's Lightweight Federal IT Recommendations Cisco No. 7 among green Fortune 500s With GOP gains, what next for net neutrality at FCC? Boost VoIP and Video on Your Network Company taps Cisco to monitor social networks Visit the Cisco Subnet home page for more Cisco news WHITE PAPER: Riverbed An In-Depth Look at ROI In this whitepaper, Riverbed discusses its compelling and powerful return on investment in hard dollars, and a way to leap past the obstacles preventing you from reaching your IT objectives. Read now! Cisco invests in IT cost management company Jim Duffy: Cisco has invested in Apptio, a maker of "technology business management" software. Read More Cisco software mines social sites Jim Duffy: Cisco this week jumped into social media CRM with software that allows companies to mine social media networks for mentions of their companies. Read More A Deeper Look at the CCSP and CCNP Security Co-existence and Transition Wendell Odom: A few weeks ago, Cisco announced the new CCNP Security certification. How does it relate to the still-existent CCSP? Read More WHITE PAPER: Alcatel - Lucent Maximize Bandwidth and Deliver Superior Performance 100G is a leap forward in scaling metro, edge and core networks without performance degradation or the cost and complexity of unnecessary network re-engineering. Alcatel-Lucent is the only supplier to offer deployable 100G solutions in both the IP and optics domains. Read Now. Technology CEO Council's Lightweight Federal IT Recommendations Jon Oltsik: Have you heard of the Technology CEO Council? Neither had I until until recently. The council is made up of a strange mix of tech CEOs. Read More Cisco No. 7 among green Fortune 500s Jim Duffy: Cisco is No. 12 on the national top 50 list from the EPACisco Systems and No. 7 on a list of the leading green companies among the Fortune 500. Read More With GOP gains, what next for net neutrality at FCC? Republican gains in Congress with Tuesday's elections put a controversial and largely partisan debate over proposed network neutrality rules back in the hands of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. Read More WHITE PAPER: Blue Coat Systems Blue Coat Web Security Report With this report you'll get a summary of findings from Blue Coat Labs and gain insight into the current state of Web security. Read More Boost VoIP and Video on Your Network By default, all packets of data traveling across a local-area network (LAN) are created equal. Read More Company taps Cisco to monitor social networks Feeling tapped out on monitoring social media for customer comments, Zone Labs turned to Cisco's SocialMiner, which was released to limited customers on Wednesday. Read More Visit the Cisco Subnet home page for more Cisco news The Cisco Subnet community features industry-expert bloggers, giveaways and all the top news of interest to network professionals. Check out the Cisco Subnet home page. Follow us on Twitter @ciscosubnet Read More
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