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	Cisco among most acquisitive in 2010 M&A activity in IT made a strong recovery in 2010, with more 1,900 deals totaling over $200 billion, according to market research firm IDC. Coming off the 2008-2009 recession, the majority of deals were concentrated in application-related areas, including enterprise applications -- 586 deals -- and Internet applications, with 421 deals. There were also 219 deals in the infrastructure segment, with... 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 Cisco acquisition targets corporate cloud services More on a Switch's Layer 2 Interface Status FBI wants public help solving encrypted notes from murder mystery Virtual WLAN Controllers - Yes, the Benefits are Real Get in the ring: US, Europe vow to bash out Internet personal privacy protection Unified Presence - Let's eat some alaphabet soup! Microsoft Hyper-V Is Ready For Tier-1 Application Workloads WHITE PAPER: Palo Alto Networks IPS by Palo Alto Networks: Best-of-Breed Threat Block Rate Read now! Read now. Cisco acquisition targets corporate cloud services Cisco this week announced its intent to acquire privately-held newScale, a provider of software that delivers a self-service portal for IT organizations to select and deploy cloud services within their businesses. Read More More on a Switch's Layer 2 Interface Status Most people learn new technology by learning topics one at a time, and for each new topic, learning how it relates to the topics already learned. However, to pass the final at the end of a course, or to pass most Cisco cert exams at the end of your study, you need think from the opposite direction. For instance, you might have to think about all the things that might cause a certain status code, a... 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! FBI wants public help solving encrypted notes from murder mystery The FBI is seeking the public's help in breaking the encrypted code found in two notes discovered on the body of a murdered man in 1999. Read More Virtual WLAN Controllers - Yes, the Benefits are Real I posted a blog entry last October on what I think is the start of an important trend in WLAN architecture - virtualizing the controller. By this, I mean implementing the controller as software running in a virtual machine. I covered all of this in detail in a White Paper available through the link above, but I've been dying to speak with an IT manager actually using the technique to verify that my... Read More WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks Bring Your Own iPad to Work This paper discusses how an Aruba WLAN can securely scale to support a high density of iPads & other mobile devices. Learn how to optimize your WLAN in anticipation of the mobile device explosion. Read now! Get in the ring: US, Europe vow to bash out Internet personal privacy protection When it comes to protecting personal privacy on the Internet the United States and European Union have often clashed. And it's likely the future won't be much better. But officials from both sides of the ocean say they are now committed to fixing the problems that have kept the two worlds - which some say includes over 700 million users - apart. Read More Unified Presence - Let's eat some alaphabet soup! In the previous post, I used the term presence, and while I'm sure most readers are familiar with the word, and possibly the application in a Unified Communications environment, I wanted to explore the term here in more depth. The concept of presence is generally simple, with the basis being the ability to see a person's or resource's status and availability at any time. Read More Microsoft Hyper-V Is Ready For Tier-1 Application Workloads Large and small organization have embraced server virtualization technology as a way to consolidate workloads like web applications and file/print services but what about Tier-1 application workloads? You know, transactional applications that depend upon high performance and multi-tier application communications? Virtualizing these types of applications is just beginning, even at organizations with... Read More
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