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	Cisco reorgs again, folds net management into new cloud group Even though it completed the bulk of a major restructuring earlier this year, Cisco continues to tweak its internal organizational structure, combining its network management group into a larger cloud and systems management technology group, according to an internal Cisco memo. Read More WHITE PAPER: MegaPath Today's Network: Make It a Strategic, Future-Proof Asset Today's small and mid-sized organizations support dozens of applications and hundreds of devices and mobile workers. Network congestion has become a risk, as users change offices, work from home and add devices at will. SMBs need simplification in the form of network convergence. And a managed service provider can help. View Now In this Issue Cisco WAAS shows pizzazz DARPA to banish "geeky, formal" way code defects are eradicated Cisco how-to guides for firewalls, IPv6, contact centers and taking that security exam 2011 Gift Guide: Indiana Shaw and the Office of Doom Nine successful, effective IT project tips How Green are Your Switches? Maybe 802.11ad Will Dominate After All Measuring IPv6 Growth Come see me, Jeff Doyle, Scott Hogg, ARIN's John Curran at Network World's IPv6 event in New York Best tech videos of the week: Banana phones, iPads-turned-snowboards & weighing $1M with your mind InfoWorld's top 10 emerging enterprise technologies Celebrating the birthplace of the Internet in pictures WHITE PAPER: Avaya Critical Capabilities for Contact Center Infrastructure This research aids the comprehensive evaluation of contact center vendor solutions. It outlines key industry use cases, provides important functions to evaluate and rates proprietary vendor solutions based on Gartner's specific contact center capability criteria for each use case. Learn More Cisco WAAS shows pizzazz The latest release of Cisco's WAN optimization product line -- Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) 4.4 -- proves that the company famous for routing packets can also shape, optimize and accelerate them. Read More DARPA to banish "geeky, formal" way code defects are eradicated For every 1,000 lines of code, one to five bugs are introduced. And getting those bugs out of the millions of lines of software code that run today's complex systems is costly and only performed by highly specialized researchers with deep knowledge of software and mathematical theorem-proving techniques. Read More Cisco how-to guides for firewalls, IPv6, contact centers and taking that security exam If you're ready for a technical deep dive in a book, the Cisco Networking Technology Series provides that in its collection of volumes on topics that include Cisco firewalls, Cisco Unity Connection voice-messaging platform, Cisco Contact Center, IPv6 and more. Here's a quick review of the books published in this series by Cisco Press this year. Read More 2011 Gift Guide: Indiana Shaw and the Office of Doom 2011 Gift Guide: Indiana Shaw and the Office of Doom As part of the Network World holiday gift guide (2011 Cool Yule Tools), we present the adventures of Keith "Indiana" Shaw as he searches for hidden Tech Treasures in the Office of Doom. From: networkworld Views: 1 0 ratings Time: 05:04 More in Science & Technology Read More WEBCAST: Aerohive Wi-Fi Management Moves to the Cloud Once you've enabled your people to work from virtually anywhere, anytime, and on any device, you need to maintain essential security and control under the constant pressure to drive down cost, while increasing productivity and growth. Enter the Cloud. Learn more. Nine successful, effective IT project tips Most often when the watchdogs at the Government Accountability Office are called into to check out an agency, process or project they are looking for something that has gone wrong. This week, however the group took a look at some government IT projects that have gone right and came up with some best practices other government agencies or in public corporations could emulate to achieve success in... Read More How Green are Your Switches? The Green Initiative has certainly caught on. Pens made of cardboard, the short-lived paper straws at McDonald's, and even bamboo paneled laptops. There have been a number of ideas, both good and bad, on how to save the environment. Some of these ideas come direct from network manufacturers. We can all agree that creating less waste and being more efficient is a good thing, but not every plan survives... Read More Maybe 802.11ad Will Dominate After All My last posting on the subject of 60 GHz. WLANs and 802.11ad was a bit cautionary in nature. Following a briefing with the folks at the Wireless Gigabit Alliance (WiGig), I was surprised that I heard a lot about wireless docking, video streaming, and applications essentially WPAN in nature, but relatively little about the 802.11ad WLAN opportunity. I think all constituencies concerned with 60 GHz.... Read More Measuring IPv6 Growth People have debated the rate of adoption of IPv6 for years. Many people estimate the worldwide use of IPv6 through their own knot-hole view of the Internet. It is difficult to determine the amount of IPv6 traffic on the Internet because it depends on where you measure. The estimates and measurements have varied widely, but one thing is consistent; the amount of IPv6 Internet traffic is increasing. IPv6... Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Visualization of an Intricate Network The Depository Trust & Clearing House required enhanced network visibility to support their custody and asset servicing valued at $40 trillion. See how Riverbed provided: • End-to-end visibility of encrypted traffic • Lower MTTR • Application and network activity analysis without requiring probes on every WAN link Learn more! Come see me, Jeff Doyle, Scott Hogg, ARIN's John Curran at Network World's IPv6 event in New York Please mark your calendars for December 13 in New York for an awesome Network World event lead by world-class experts Jeff Doyle and Scott Hogg. I'll be there, too. Plus, we've lined up other big names in the IPv6 world including John Curran, President and CEO of ARIN and John Brzozowski, Chief Architect, IPv6, and Distinguished Engineer of Comcast. As always, this Network World event is free for qualified... Read More Best tech videos of the week: Banana phones, iPads-turned-snowboards & weighing $1M with your mind University of Tokyo researchers working in the area of "invoked computing" are turning everday objects into communications and computing devices, such as converting bananas into phones and pizza boxes into laptop PCs. One researcher says they are trying to turn the idea that you need to learn yoru device on its head, and enable devices to learn what you want to do. High-speed cameras, parametric speaker... Read More InfoWorld's top 10 emerging enterprise technologies Which of today's newest shipping technologies will triumph over the long haul? Here are our best guesses Read More Celebrating the birthplace of the Internet in pictures Nov. 21 is the 42nd anniversary of the first permanent ARPANET link; the Internet's beginning Read More
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