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	White House program targets IT jobs for service members | DARPA wants huge Holy Grail of mobile ad hoc networks
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	Cisco launches first apprenticeship Cisco training programme for companies Cisco has created its first apprenticeship programme, delivered in partnership with QA Apprenticeships. The programme aims to "develop a qualified, motivated workforce of Cisco practitioners around the UK", said Cisco. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco The Cisco Unified Workspace Trends such as mobility, virtualization, video, collaboration, knowledge management, and cloud have come to the forefront as companies struggle with how to integrate iPads, tablets, and smartphones into their business and IT models. In response, the Cisco Unified Workspace provides a solution for creating an organization-wide mobility strategy. Learn More. In this Issue White House program targets IT jobs for service members DARPA wants huge Holy Grail of mobile ad hoc networks Network Security Trumps Server Security in the Enterprise (Part 2) Carnegie Mellon develops wee QWERTY texting technology for impossibly tiny devices Which wireless LAN company's CEO made $8.9M last year? HP Networking finally rolls out a data center switch WHITE PAPER: Wildpackets Essential Reference for Monitoring Your IT Infrastructure How do you choose a network monitoring solution – SNMP monitoring, flow-based monitoring, or packet analysis – that is right for your IT infrastructure? This ebook your crash course in network monitoring for analysis and learn to use multi-segment analysis to diagnose performance problems with distributed application architectures. Download this ebook White House program targets IT jobs for service members The Obama administration this week teamed with Cisco, Microsoft, HP and others to roll out what it called an "IT Training and Certification Partnership" designed to get thousands of service members into the information technology world. Read More DARPA wants huge Holy Grail of mobile ad hoc networks Even the often far-reaching researchers at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) seems to think this one is a stretch: Develop what's known as mobile ad-hoc wireless technology that lets 1000- 5000 nodes connect simultaneously and securely connect in the field. Read More WEBCAST: Meru Networks Advanced WLAN Architectures for BYOD and Beyond Join industry - expert Craig Mathias and Robert Crisp from Meru Networks as they discuss today's key IT challenges View Now Network Security Trumps Server Security in the Enterprise (Part 2) I posted a blog at the end of March describing that network security processes, skills, and technical controls are often more thorough than server security processes, skills, and technical controls at enterprise organizations. As a review, recent ESG research revealed that: • 19% of enterprises say that network security processes, skills, and technical controls are "much more thorough" than... Read More Carnegie Mellon develops wee QWERTY texting technology for impossibly tiny devices If smartwatches and other ultra-small devices are to become the text generators of the future, their diminutive keyboards are going to have to be way more useful for, um, big fingered typists. Carnegie Mellon researchers may have the answer to that problem. Called ZoomBoard, the text entry technique is based on the iconic QWERTY keyboard layout. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks Tackling Peak Traffic Demands in Today's Data Center As demands on data center infrastructure increase, both IT professionals and their tools will need to adapt. Learn how application delivery controllers (ADCs) can accommodate enterprise needs for performance and scalability while providing a unified platform for application services. Download the report today. Download Now Which wireless LAN company's CEO made $8.9M last year? Median pay for tech CEOs in 2012 was $10.7 million, according to Network World's analysis of CEO compensation in the tech industry. Read More HP Networking finally rolls out a data center switch The data center is where all the action has been in networking over the past few years. We saw the introduction of the network fabric, the rise of software defined networks (SDN), a number of startups emerge, and we've seen a fair bit of M&A activity as well. Because of the rapid evolution, we've seen almost every major network vendor – Cisco, Brocade, Juniper, Extreme, Avaya, Alcatel-Lucent... Read More
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