West Virginia auditor blasts Cisco, state for "oversized" router buy

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	West Virginia auditor blasts Cisco, state for "oversized" router buy West Virginia wasted millions in federal grant money when it purchased 1,164 Cisco routers for $24 million in 2010, a state audit concluded. A report issued this month by the West Virginia Legislative Auditor found Cisco "showed a wanton indifference to the interests of the public" in recommending the investment in its model 3945 branch routers, the majority of which were "oversized" for the requirements of the state agencies using them. Read More WHITE PAPER: Salesforce.com Escape Lotus Notes With the Salesforce Platform, you can develop and deploy mobile, secure, scalable apps faster than ever. You'll get real-time reporting, visual work-flow, and with automatic feature upgrades, your apps will always have the latest innovations. Read Now! In this Issue Juniper security products use device-fingerprinting as way to detect, block attacks A new way to sell used IT equipment Small-cell chip, network rollouts point to a diverse future Cisco virtual router targets the cloud How to predict the value of a content delivery network 14 dirty IT tricks, security pros edition A spectre is haunting Europe (and cloud computing everywhere) – the spectre of the 'trombone' effect Six-strikes piracy alert system being rolled out in the US Salesforce.com delivers mobile customer service apps Hortonworks brings Hadoop to Windows WHITE PAPER: AccelOps BYOD Monitoring Strategies solution brief This solution brief highlights how AccelOps' integrated security, performance and availability monitoring software allows you to confidently and securely support mobile device access to sensitive corporate IT resources. Read Now Juniper security products use device-fingerprinting as way to detect, block attacks Juniper Networks today rolled out a battalion of security products and services to protect corporate networks, stating that when it comes to defensive measures, security attacks can be better prevented by determining device-fingerprinting rather than blocking attacks based on IP address. Read More A new way to sell used IT equipment The buying and selling of used IT equipment is not a trivial market, but it doesn't get enormous attention. In many cases, enterprises unload used equipment as a trade-in or at bargain price to a wholesaler because they just want the equipment off the floor. Read More Small-cell chip, network rollouts point to a diverse future In Star Wars terms, the small cells that mobile carriers and vendors will be talking up this week at Mobile World Congress are more like the odd-couple androids R2-D2 and C-3PO than like their foes, the Empire's phalanxes of identical storm troopers. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks The New Application Delivery Firewall Paradigm Learn how you can effectively combat these modern attacks with a new firewall paradigm that protects the datacenters and ensures reliability. Learn More! Cisco virtual router targets the cloud The Cisco CSR 1000V router is designed for enterprise network managers who want to have a little piece of their Cisco infrastructure in the cloud. Read More How to predict the value of a content delivery network Any enterprise with a web audience in multiple locations can benefit from using a CDN, but if your users are likely to download lots of stuff from your website, play media files, and/or watch or listen to live broadcasts, you are likely to benefit most. Read More 14 dirty IT tricks, security pros edition The IT security world is full of charlatans and wannabes. And all of us have been "advised" by at least one of them. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Corporation Microsoft Dynamics CRM solutions from IBM IBM provides consulting, implementation and application management services for Microsoft Dynamics CRM, a comprehensive solution that helps midsize and larger organizations easily create and maintain a 360 view of their customers from first contact through purchase and post-sales. Learn More. A spectre is haunting Europe (and cloud computing everywhere) – the spectre of the 'trombone' effect A spectre is haunting Europe – and North America, and Asia Pacific – in Enterprise IT managers' quest to leverage the power of cloud computing. It is the spectre of the "trombone" effect in enterprise Internet access. Read More Six-strikes piracy alert system being rolled out in the US A system that aims to curb Internet users from sharing copyrighted content is being rolled out in the U.S. after a number of delays. Read More Salesforce.com delivers mobile customer service apps Salesforce.com is planning to add a series of mobile applications to its Service Cloud line of customer service software, in a response to the rampant rise of mobile devices both in the consumer and business worlds. Read More Hortonworks brings Hadoop to Windows Hortonworks is bringing the popular open-source Apache Hadoop data processing platform to Microsoft shops. Read More
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