How is the Cisco 76% off Nexus sale going over with customers? Not well.

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	How is the Cisco 76% off Nexus sale going over with customers? Not well. Over the last week I have received many emails about a story on the net. The story is all about Cisco giving Purdue University a 76% discount on the Nexus Product line. How they got to that number was a combination of Cisco math (discount, trade in on obsolete Cisco Switches) of which every customer by now is used to. The comments vary a great deal, I have listed them below and removed names. "What... Read More WHITE PAPER: Coyote Point ADCs Take Over Where Load Balancers Leave Off Application Delivery Controllers understand applications and optimize server performance - offloading compute-intensive tasks that prevent servers from quickly delivering applications. Learn how ADCs have taken over where load balancers left off. Read now! In this Issue Electromagnetic interference and 10GBase-T in the data center The data center network transition IT Consumerization Momentum and Implications A conversations with John McAdam of F5 Networks DARPA expands insider threat research DARPA set to blast Falcon Mach 20 test flight WHITE PAPER: Shoretel 5 Important Use Cases for UC Many organizations begin by focusing on using UC to enhance user productivity, but they soon find that both productivity and business processes can be improved by UC. Read now! Electromagnetic interference and 10GBase-T in the data center The majority of data center LAN links use 1000Base-T (Gigabit Ethernet) running on unshielded twisted pair structured cabling (Cat5e, Cat6, Cat6a). While increasing demand for bandwidth is driving a shift to 10G Ethernet, that migration is being slowed by the fact that the 10G links being deployed today are based on optical transceivers or SFP+ Direct Attach copper, neither of which is backward-compatible to Gigabit Ethernet. Read More The data center network transition Up until a couple of years ago, the data center network was somewhat staid. Today, however, it is anything but staid as the majority of IT organizations are trying to determine how they should evolve their data center networks to support the demands brought about by the ongoing adoption of technologies such as server virtualization. Read More WHITE PAPER: Enterasys Networks Humanize the enterprise: Follow your Network Have you seen the future of accessible and secure network management? Meet isaac, the industry's first social media interface that connects your IT network with your social network. Now your network can speak directly to you — in your terms, in your language. Learn more IT Consumerization Momentum and Implications Pick up any tech journal and you still read headlines like, "CIOs must be prepared for IT consumerization." The articles in this genre proceed to warn IT executives that resistance is futile, IT consumerization will eventually impact their organizations. Read More A conversations with John McAdam of F5 Networks I am going to continue my series of conversations with industry CEO's and today we have John McAdam of F5 Networks. 1. So why don't you tell us where you think the markets are at with [application delivery controllers] to start and then, do you still see growth? You can also include your other products. Read More WHITE PAPER: CenturyLink Business Future Proofing Enterprise Networks for Long-Term Success Today's enterprises face a complex networking environment, often with multiple network protocols. Read this IDC Executive Brief to see how multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) facilitates cost-effective and converged wide area networking with a high level of security, management, and flexibility. Read now! DARPA expands insider threat research The ability to detect insider threats and behaviors from a plethora of live data is the goal of an ambitious research program being undertaken by the military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Last week DARPA took a big step toward realizing the potential of the program it calls Anomaly Detection at Multiple Scales (ADAMS) by picking Raytheon to help develop it further. Read More DARPA set to blast Falcon Mach 20 test flight The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is taking to the sky again, this time to run what it say will be the second and final test of its hypersonic Falcon aircraft which is capable if hitting speeds up to Mach 20 or about 13,0 Read More
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