CCIE turns 20: How Cisco transformed itself and the IT world

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	CCIE turns 20: How Cisco transformed itself and the IT world Let's roll back the clock 20 years and remember what was happening. Mark Zuckerberg was nine years old and learning to code on an Atari computer. Incidentally, I was a big Atari buff, but didn't monetize it quite like the future Facebook founder. Whitney Houston held the No. 1 spot on the Billboard music charts with "I will always love you," and Schindler's List won the Oscar for best picture.... Read More WHITE PAPER: Motorola Solutions Inc. What You Need to Know About 802.11AC The first standard wireless LANs emerged at 1Mbps and 2Mbps to serve niche applications such as warehouse picking, inventory scanning and, in office buildings where mobility wasn't a requirement, cordless PC connections aimed at lowering cabling costs. Fast forward through several WLAN generations to today, and the story has completely changed. Learn more. In this Issue Orb Networks to shut down, suffocated by the cloud 10 Software Defined Networking Startups to Watch Coca-Cola cloud chief reveals VMware wish list Ahead of VMworld, Arista finds a DANZ partner in ExtraHop Cisco patches serious vulnerabilities in Unified Communications Manager 7 classic Steve Ballmer videos $6B DHS cybersecurity contract sets off race to supply real-time monitoring to feds WHITE PAPER: HP Unleash the full potential of BYOD with confidence Growing numbers of smartphones and tablets are pushing enterprise networks to the limit and creating security and management challenges for IT organizations. This white paper reviews BYOD administration, performance, and security implications, and describes how the HP BYOD solution lets you realize all the benefits of BYOD, with confidence. Learn more. Orb Networks to shut down, suffocated by the cloud Streaming media company Orb Networks said Thursday that it will shut down, having been acquired by an anonymous third-party company that will absorb its media platform technology. Read More 10 Software Defined Networking Startups to Watch As the software-defined data center evolves from dream to reality, many Software Defined Networking (SDN) startups are being snatched up by established networking vendors. Here are nine SDN startups (and an important new standards body) that intend to push SDN into the mainstream. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks 10 Steps to Improving the Mobile User Experience This paper will outline the essential network infrastructure and support best practices necessary to deliver an optimized mobile end-user experience, and offer 10 recommended steps that lead to higher end-user satisfaction. Learn more. Coca-Cola cloud chief reveals VMware wish list Mariano Maluf is president of the VMware User Group (VMUG), which counts about 80,000 individual members with technical interests related to VMware's virtual-machine software (the group includes local chapters, lots of free education and special interest groups). In his job as cloud ecosystem architecture lead at the Coca-Cola Co., Maluf has firsthand knowledge of deploying VMware products. Here's what's on his mind heading into next week's annual VMworld conference in San Francisco. Read More Ahead of VMworld, Arista finds a DANZ partner in ExtraHop It's the end of August, which means "Tis the season." What season is that? It's now the end of the summer, which means back to school for our kids. It's also NFL preseason, so all of us going through football withdrawal are close to getting some real football soon – time for Tebow mania, the football equivalent of SDNs. But, for those of us in tech, the end of August means VMworld time.... Read More WHITE PAPER: Xirrus Optimize Your Wi-Fi Network Driven by the rapid evolution of mobile devices, the move to cloud-based applications and data, and the continued development of new wireless technologies, Wi-Fi has become the network of choice for connectivity. Most new devices no longer have wired connectivity. IT managers now count Wi-Fi as an essential business facility. Learn more. Cisco patches serious vulnerabilities in Unified Communications Manager Cisco Systems has released new security patches for several versions of Unified Communications Manager (UCM) to address vulnerabilities that could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands, modify system data or disrupt services. Read More 7 classic Steve Ballmer videos Retiring Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is one heck of a character Read More $6B DHS cybersecurity contract sets off race to supply real-time monitoring to feds The Department of Homeland Security's $6 billion cybersecurity award last week to a slew of contractors and vendors sets in motion a contest among them to sell federal agencies on new network monitoring, vulnerability assessment and mitigation technologies. The underlying goal of this massive "Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation" (CDM) contract is to spur federal civilian agencies to move away from static approaches to network-security compliance reporting in favor of real-time monitoring. Read More
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