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	Cisco unveils dual-role data center Cisco this week opened up a new data center in Research Triangle Park, N.C., with a dual role: application development and disaster recovery (DR) for its production data centers in Texas. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Load Balancing 101: Firewall Sandwiches How to make a ''firewall sandwich''. Read now. Learn More! In this Issue Why FCoE is Dead, But Not Buried Yet Security roundup: Stealing from the military; persistent threats; mammoth security problems; bot armies US Energy Dept. finds myriad challenges to building culture of network security US CTO wants consumers to have instant online access to their energy usage GSA Eases Cloud Computing Procurement Cisco unveils dual role-data center The great data center LAN debate IT Meets Comedy Central FIB No. 1—Factoids from the Future 5 priorities for HP in data center switching WHITE PAPER: Wildpackets Eliminate Packet Loss during 10G Monitoring There are a number of choices for deploying packed-based monitoring and analysis against 10G segments, but as traffic volumes grow, the limitations of many options become problematic. This EMA paper examines the issues surrounding 10G network management and monitoring with emphasis on effective packed-based instrumentation. Read More Why FCoE is Dead, But Not Buried Yet Have you ever watched one of those spy films where someone gets fatally poisoned, but it hasn't hit them yet and they are acting like its any other day and not the last days of their life and you just want to tell them that they should enjoy it while they can? I feel like that for FibreChannel over Ethernet. Basically my assertion is that FCoE is a dead technology, and there are a few vendors who... Read More Security roundup: Stealing from the military; persistent threats; mammoth security problems; bot armies Sometimes the difference between selfless valor and selfish cowardice is stark. On the same week that 21-year-old Marine Sgt. Dakota Meyer is awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in saving his compatriots in Afghanistan, we hear that Rene Quimby, 42, is sentenced to prison for stealing 16,000 identities of U.S. military service members and using that information to steal from 650 victims. Read More US Energy Dept. finds myriad challenges to building culture of network security When it comes to securing the nation's critical energy networks, the Department of Energy says much work remains. Key to that work are the engineers, network administrators, vendors and others behind the security technology -- but they will be leaving the industry in droves in the next five years, according to a Department of Energy security roadmap issued this week. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Adding Visibility to WAN Optimization Too often network professionals find themselves stuck in reaction mode, which can prevent them for strategically planning for positive, long-term benefits. Read this report to learn some best practices for understanding and improving the visibility and performance of mission-critical, networked applications. Read now! US CTO wants consumers to have instant online access to their energy usage The idea sounds simple enough: you can go to your utility's Web site, click a green button and you get information about your household energy use. Develop the technology that makes such a green button possible, is what US Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra told attendees of this week's GridWeek conference and then posted on the White House Science and Technology blog. Read More GSA Eases Cloud Computing Procurement Last week I had the pleasure to co-chair a cloud computing and virtualization event in Washington DC for federal IT professionals. As part of former federal CIO Vivek Kundra's plan, federal agencies have adopted a "cloud-first" policy toward all IT projects. Read More Cisco unveils dual role-data center Cisco this week opened up a new data center in Research Triangle Park, N.C., with a dual role: application development and disaster recovery (DR) for its production data centers in Texas. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Reducing Network Complexity In this white paper you will learn about the challenges associated with conventional switch solutions; the advantages of HP's Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF), and the very real business benefits that can result from installing HP A-series switches that employ this technology. Read now The great data center LAN debate In our last newsletter we began to outline a plan for what networking sessions you should plan on attending at the forthcoming Interop conference. We will use this newsletter to continue that discussion. Read More IT Meets Comedy Central Over the past few weeks, numerous industry contacts have forwarded me links to three different short videos produced by leading IT vendors. First there was EMC's "cloud-in-a-box" video poking fun of Oracle. This one includes a Larry Ellison lookalike: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF2odrnqq9k The next one I saw was produced by Microsoft. To convey the notion that VMware is stuck in the past, Microsoft... Read More FIB No. 1—Factoids from the Future Introducing the FIB Wire blog, Network World's version of The Onion. We know our readers like to smile and so we bring you a blog filled with network industry humor to tickle your funny bone. Welcome to my blog. Factoids From the Future covers networking- and technology-related topics from 2036, the year when Network World turns 50. All articles are delivered weekly using Forward Inverse Backcasting... Read More 5 priorities for HP in data center switching HP and Cisco are currently embroiled in a war of words, market share and revenue in Ethernet switching overall, but can HP really put up much of a fight in the data center? Read More
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