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	Cisco, Verizon enlist in 24-hour IPv6 trial Two leading network vendors -- Cisco and Verizon Business -- have enlisted in an upcoming trial-by-fire of IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol called IPv4. Read More WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center In this Issue Gartner slams Cisco's single-vendor network vision Five ways to speed up your home network The never-ending "big vs. managed" pipe battle Cisco: Puppy cams threaten Internet Top 10 tasks for IPv6 application developers Breaking a few eggs: Fedora 15 changes network device naming Digital black market offers cheap botnets for hire SolarWinds blows into virtualization and application performance management Brian Gentile, CEO of Jaspersoft on the open network WHITE PAPER: Quantum Corporation Long-Term Data Protection and Retention IT organizations of all sizes contend with a growing data footprint with more data to manage, protect and preserve for longer periods of time. Read Now Gartner slams Cisco's single-vendor network vision Businesses are better off deploying multivendor networks, no matter what Cisco and other large network vendors may tell you, according to a recent report from Gartner. Read More Five ways to speed up your home network Maybe you're tired of paying the cable company and want to get your movies and other entertainment from the Web. Naturally you'll want to watch those shows on your TV with the aid of a Roku box or similar device. More and more people are doing that, and if you want to join the crowd, you've got to be sure you're home Internet network is up to the challenge. Read More The never-ending "big vs. managed" pipe battle It's been at least 15 years since I participated in my first "should you manage what you've got or just throw more bandwidth at the problem" network strategy discussion. Back then, proponents of ATM largely took the side of "manage" while emerging Ethernet vendors argued that it was cheaper and easier to just throw more bandwidth at the problem. Read More WHITE PAPER: Google Postini Eliminate Email Disk Space Concerns Google Message Discovery is a complete email security and archiving solution that creates a centralized and searchable email repository, secures emails from threats and helps you manage compliance requirements more effectively. Read now! Cisco: Puppy cams threaten Internet Network demand will explode, fueled by unexpected growth in ambient video, like puppy cams and surveillance video, according to reports from the 33rd Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) conference held last week in Hawaii. Read More Top 10 tasks for IPv6 application developers Many IT people who are unfamiliar with IPv6 believe the responsibility for IPv6 deployment falls on the network teams. However, those who are knowledgeable about IPv6 realize the migration to IPv6 will involve any system that uses an IP address. Read More Breaking a few eggs: Fedora 15 changes network device naming The Fedora Project is getting ready to break a lot of networking scripts that depend on the ethX naming convention — by being the first major distro to ship Consistent Network Device Naming. Read More WHITE PAPER: Symantec Enterprise Vault & Microsoft Business Productivity Suite Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) is a set of Microsoft hosted messaging and collaboration services. Companies choose BPOS to migrate Exchange offsite -- to help reduce costs . This whitepaper outlines the integration of offsite email service with an on-premises Archive solution. Read now! Digital black market offers cheap botnets for hire Botnets for hire to launch your own spam campaign and stolen credit card information sold at the rock bottom price of $2 are just two of the commodities easily found on the cyber-crime black market today, according to a report released this month by Panda Security. The report, which was conducted by PandaLabs researchers who posed as cyber criminals, details a vast criminal network selling stolen bank account information in forums and dedicated online stores. Read More SolarWinds blows into virtualization and application performance management The ever-ambitious SolarWinds, a longtime network management fixture, is broadening its reach once again. Read More Brian Gentile, CEO of Jaspersoft on the open network My latest guest on the Open Network podcast is Brian Gentile, CEO of opensource powerhouse Jaspersoft. Jaspersoft is a poster child for the successful open core model. What I didn't know is that Jaspersoft is also finding great success in the cloud too. Read More
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