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	Cisco flying into the clouds So Cisco has made two recent moves to aggressively go after as much cloudshare as it can get. The first was naming CIO Rebecca Jacoby to head up its new Cloud and Systems Management Technology Group, which is an amalgamation of three previously separate business units chartered to increase the company's presence in IaaS, PaaS and SaaS markets. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Get Ahead of the Post PC Era New devices, mobility, video, the cloud - learn how these powerful market forces are transforming business and the IT industry today. Learn More In this Issue Cisco CSO on self-defending networks: The marketing's dead, the goal's alive Picture this: Steve Jobs gets bronzed Social networking, ignorance, and apathy Changes Coming To The CISO Position Changes to Cisco Jabber and WebEx US charges Romanians in multimillion dollar point-of-sale hack scheme Migrating from T1 to fiber WAN 25 top network and IT industry news stories of 2011 2011's Hottest Holiday Tech Gifts 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 Cisco CSO on self-defending networks: The marketing's dead, the goal's alive For a long time, Cisco CEO John Chambers played up his vision of the self-defending network. But we haven't heard much about it in more recent years. Read More Picture this: Steve Jobs gets bronzed Software maker has commissioned a life-size sculpture of Apple's Steve Jobs Read More Social networking, ignorance, and apathy Social networking services really do a bad job with managing our privacy ... and the problem apparently is that we and they don't know and don't care to fix it Read More WHITE PAPER: SonicWALL The Next Generation is the Smart Generation Innovations such as mobility, Web 2.0, social media and cloud computing have dramatically changed the IT landscape and introduced new security threats into the corporate network. This eBook investigates why traditional firewalls are no longer enough, and how application intelligence and control enable network security in the wake of these changes. Read more. Changes Coming To The CISO Position It's that time of year when industry experts of all types look into their crystal balls and make bold predictions for what's coming in 2012. As far as security goes, lots of these predictions will center on threats (i.e. new attacks patterns, malicious code, etc.) and defenses (i.e. security technologies, services, etc.). Allow me to make offer a trend that has nothing to do with either area.... Read More Changes to Cisco Jabber and WebEx It seems Cisco stepped it up again. A few weeks back, Cisco announced that they have invested in the collaboration game with new improvements to Cisco Jabber and WebEx. From what I'm reading, this is cool stuff. It opens up new possibilities for Cisco in the area of business communications and processes. Here are some highlights: Read More US charges Romanians in multimillion dollar point-of-sale hack scheme The US Department of Justice said four Romanian nationals have between indicted for allegedly operating a massive, multimillion dollar point-of-sale hacking scheme. According to the federal indictment, from approximately 2008 until May 2011, the four men conspired to remotely hack into more than 200 US-based merchants' point-of-sale or "checkout" computer systems in order to steal customers' credit,... Read More WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. Akamai Cloud Optimization for Amazon EC2™ The emergence of public cloud platforms and services has IT organizations thinking about which applications they want to keep in-house and which they can build within the cloud. Read more Migrating from T1 to fiber WAN Migrating from multisite MPLS to 100Mbps Ethernet can save you a bundle; here's how Read More 25 top network and IT industry news stories of 2011 2011 will be remembered for Jobs' death, Cisco's refocusing, IPv6's coming out party and more Read More 2011's Hottest Holiday Tech Gifts Looking for the perfect gadget for everyone on your holiday list this year? Whether your budget is big or small and whether your recipients are old or young, here's a list. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS 25 free open source projects IT pros will love We asked SourceForge's new community manager and longtime open source coder, Rich Bowen, to sniff out a few of the cool, lesser-known projects he thinks IT folks will love. What follows are his picks, along with a few of our own. GOODIES FROM MICROSOFT SUBNET Everyone who enters will win free training from Webucator. Grand prize: a SharePoint training class worth $2,375. All who enter will be awarded a self-paced class of their choosing. Enter here: http://www.networkworld.com/community/contests. Enter here. MOST-READ STORIES CNET accused of wrapping malware in Windows installer for Nmap security tool 10 most powerful cloud companies 25 top network and IT industry news stories of 2011 Picture this: Steve Jobs gets bronzed What's really going on with Carrier IQ on your phone FAQ: CNET's "Trojan" installer IPS: Best of breed or integrated solution? New Cisco cloud computing framework pushes management, collaboration Cloud computing disrupts the vendor landscape Microsoft slates Windows 8 beta for late February 2012
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