New Cisco cloud computing framework pushes management, collaboration

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	New Cisco cloud computing framework pushes management, collaboration Cisco this week unveiled products and packaging options for customers looking to implement public, private and hybrid cloud computing. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Avaya Is your contact center solution a leader? The 2011 Magic Quadrant for Contact Center Infrastructure positions Avaya in the leaders' quadrant. If we're not your contact center solution provider, then you should check to see how your solution stacks up. Because if you need to optimize your customer experience and balancing budgetary needs, Avaya is a superior choice. Read why in Gartner's 2011 Magic Quadrant for Contact Center Infrastructure report. In this Issue Cisco a no show in 40G Ethernet market report Changes to Cisco Jabber and WebEx 6 Hot IT Jobs That Will Pay Well in 2012 DARPA wants smartphone app developers for super sensor program Automated Security Remediation On The Rise Cool Yule Favorites: 20 Techie Gifts We Like Cerf: Internet Governance Critical Issue WEBCAST: Cisco Simplify Network Management and Improve IT Operations Would you like to simplify network management for your wired and wireless networks? Attend this webinar to learn how you can more effectively manage your network and the services it delivers. View Now Cisco a no show in 40G Ethernet market report Market research firm Dell'Oro Group recently began tracking the 40G Ethernet market as 10G takes hold and grows, necessitating 40G uplinks, aggregation switches and core modules. And the market leaders are IBM and Extreme Networks. 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 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 6 Hot IT Jobs That Will Pay Well in 2012 IT professionals looking for new jobs in 2012 are in luck: The job market is robust across the U.S., and IT salaries in a variety of fields are on the rise. Here are the six IT jobs that IT staffing industry executives expect to be in greatest demand in the coming year. The best part? Many of these jobs are also fun. Read More DARPA wants smartphone app developers for super sensor program Scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are looking for a few good smartphone application developers to make programs that will make sensor systems in everything from unmanned aircraft to cameras more sophisticated and intelligent. 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. Automated Security Remediation On The Rise APTs and other types of sophisticated attacks are undoubtedly changing information security processes, technologies, and skills, but ESG found another interesting transition in progress: Given the volume, sophistication, and surreptitious nature of APTs, large organizations are apparently willing to adopt more automated security technologies as a means for attack remediation. Read More Cool Yule Favorites: 20 Techie Gifts We Like This holiday season's top picks have been submitted and tested and "Cool Yule Elf" approved. Read More Cerf: Internet Governance Critical Issue Vint Cerf, widely considered one of the inventors of the Internet, recently said that Internet governance is one of the most important issues in the high-tech world. 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 10 most powerful cloud companies RSA security lapse led to March hack, says researcher Naked ruth: Dell Streak discontinued Microsoft updates Exchange 2010 Gartner predictions for 2012 Cloud computing disrupts the vendor landscape India's censors have asked the impossible of Facebook, Google Microsoft Research: Hunting for HIV vaccine with techniques that fight spam 2011's hottest holiday tech gifts Cracking ND5 ... with Google?!
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