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	Cisco expected to lose switching share in 2011 Oppenheimer says pricing pressure, Q2 guidance and 100M to Gigabit transition will limit revenueOppenheimer & Co. still thinks Cisco's going to lose revenue share in Ethernet switching even though the company's share improved in Q3 on a sequential and annual basis. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Schools Graduate to Enterprise Class Wi-Fi Online multimedia and interactive educational applications are invading the classroom and prompting schools to take a fresh look at what's possible with the latest in wireless LAN technology. Read now! In this Issue Critical Infrastructure Organizations Want Cyber Security Help From the Government CCENT and CCNA Self Assessment Wonderings (Plus an Exercise) New ESG Research Report Points To Security Vulnerabilities In the US Critical Infrastructure Contrasting the LAN and WAN AT&T goes after copper wire thieves Who wants to be a cyber-security warrior? WHITE PAPER: Vyatta Connecting Users with Software-Based Networking The inability to treat networking workloads with the same agility as other parts of the infrastructure has a huge and compounding effect on the effectiveness and efficiency of the entire cloud. Software-based networking is the most effective way to deploy critical networking tasks while meeting the fundamental business requirements of a cloud. Read now! Critical Infrastructure Organizations Want Cyber Security Help From the Government Nearly three-quarters of ESG survey respondents want more federal cyber security activityESG Recently Published a new Research Report titled, "Cyber Supply Chain Security Vulnerabilities Within The U.S. Critical Infrastructure." The report can be downloaded from the ESG web site: http://www.enterprisestrategygroup.com Read More CCENT and CCNA Self Assessment Wonderings (Plus an Exercise) An Exercise to Test Some Self-Assessment ExercisesIt took a bit of a mental journey just to converge on today's topic. The end result is a blog post about how to help answer the question, "Am I ready to take my first Cisco exam - either the ICND1 (640-822) or CCNA (640-802) exam?" But ya'll collectively got me started down this trail when I looked back at a 15-month-old blog post that keeps showing up in the top 10 of my blog stats. Today I'll start... 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! New ESG Research Report Points To Security Vulnerabilities In the US Critical Infrastructure Cyber supply chain security weaknesses aboundIn 1998, then President Bill Clinton recognized that the United States was especially vulnerable to a cyber attack to its critical infrastructure. Clinton addressed Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) by issuing Presidential Directive 63 (PDD-63). Soon after PDD-63, Deputy Defense Secretary John Harme cautioned the US Congress about the importance of CIP by warning of a potential "cyber Pearl... Read More Contrasting the LAN and WAN As recently as a year and a half ago we both regarded cloud computing as more of a media event than anything that was real and that would impact mainstream IT organizations. That is no longer the case. As we head into 2011 we see the majority of IT organizations adopting one or more forms of cloud computing. Because of this broad interest in cloud computing, we are going to use the next few newsletters to discuss cloud networking. Read More WEBCAST: Websense, Inc. Securing the Social Web Organizations around the world are racing to take advantage of social networking and media like Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube. Along with these new resources, comes new risk as user-generated content circumvents traditional security technologies such as antivirus and URL filtering. View Now AT&T goes after copper wire thieves Copper thefts on rise as value increasesCopper thieves targeting Atlanta are now being targeted themselves by AT&T which is now offering $3,000 for information leading to their arrest. Read More Who wants to be a cyber-security warrior? National Science Foundation program looks to increase cyber security specialistsThe National Science Foundation is again trying to increase the amount of well-educated people willing to work for the government to secure online resources. Read More
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