Major enhancements coming for Cisco Catalyst 6500

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	Major enhancements coming for Cisco Catalyst 6500 NEW YORK -- As Cisco wraps up migrating its Catalyst 6500 installed base to either the E-series chassis or the Nexus platform, the company has plenty on tap next year for the venerable core switch. Read More WHITE PAPER: Shoretel Sophisticated Simplicity The key is to build simplicity and ease of use into these solutions from Day 1. This white paper will demonstrate a clear path to UC simplicity, and to overall success of UC deployments. Learn more. In this Issue Cisco acquires virtual network controller maker vCider Cisco takes next steps to blend wired, wireless networks What if Ethernet failed? Cisco names two top execs president Citrix looks up the stack with its SDN strategy Router flaw allowed DNS attack on 4.5 million DSL gateways Who holds IT security power? ShoreTel goes big in hosted VoIP: A Q&A with CEO Blackmore HP finally outlines its SDN strategy 10 Noncertified IT Skills That Pay a Premium WHITE PAPER: BMC Software Forrester Workload Automation Paper commissioned by BMC In "Industrializing IT Workload Automation," Forrester Consulting and BMC Software analyze the results of a comprehensive survey that addressed job scheduling on the ground today. Read Now! Cisco acquires virtual network controller maker vCider Cisco has acquired privately held vCider, a developer of virtual network overlay technology for secure data centers. Read More Cisco takes next steps to blend wired, wireless networks Cisco today revealed new WLAN access points and controllers, along with its latest steps to blend wireless and wired enterprise networks together. Read More What if Ethernet failed? Can you imagine a world where carriers offered Metro FDDI services? Or the IEEE defined a standard for Token Bus in the First Mile? Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processor How Blade Servers Impact Datacenter Management and Agility Get help evaluating your next purchases and accelerate the business value of IT as your datacenter continues to evolve. Download this Technical Adoption Profile on How Blade Servers Impact Datacenter Management and Agility from Forrester Research. Read now! Cisco names two top execs president Cisco Thursday announced that two top executives have assumed the title of president. COO Gary Moore is now president and COO, and Rob Lloyd, executive vice president of Worldwide Operations, is now president of development and sales. Read More Citrix looks up the stack with its SDN strategy Following recent announcements from Juniper and HP, Citrix came out with its software defined networking strategy today that looks to automate applications that run on virtualized networks. Read More Router flaw allowed DNS attack on 4.5 million DSL gateways Details have emerged of an extraordinary attack in which millions of DSL broadband routers in Brazil were hit by a serious software flaw that allowed criminals to gain complete control of all web traffic running through them. Read More WEBCAST: VCE & Xerox Building a Cloud Foundation on IaaS In this exclusive webcast from VCE, you'll learn how IaaS accelerates your business in adaptable approaches, across geographies; and provides granular visibility and access control. Best of all, IaaS assures adoption, productivity and the innovative benefits of truly flexible infrastructure. Learn more. Who holds IT security power? From Apple, to Symantec and Anonymous, lots of people, companies and groups influence the IT security world Read More ShoreTel goes big in hosted VoIP: A Q&A with CEO Blackmore ShoreTel, which made its mark in IP telephony by simplifying unified communications and reducing total cost of ownership, recently broke into the hosted VoIP business with the acquisition of M5. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix caught up with ShoreTel CEO Peter Blackmore to find out how integration of that company is going and where he is taking the company. Read More HP finally outlines its SDN strategy Unless you've been living under a rock, you know there's no single technology trend that has more hype and mania around it than "software defined networks." It's this era's "2.0," or the technology equivalent of Andrew Luck. Lots of hype, plenty of potential, but has yet to produce anything. To date, almost every leading vendor has outlined an SDN strategy, but the one missing vendor... Read More 10 Noncertified IT Skills That Pay a Premium The economic down turn that began in 2008 prompted many companies to rethink their employee-hiring requirements and practices---which largely involve acquiring employees with unique IT skill-sets. Many of these skills and areas of expertise do not require certifications and are more about experience and IT acumen. Read More
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