Cisco says controversial NIST crypto – potential NSA backdoor -- 'not invoked' in products

	Cisco raises Catalyst switch prices by up to 67% | ONF looking northbound
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	Cisco says controversial NIST crypto – potential NSA backdoor -- 'not invoked' in products Controversial crypto technology known as Dual EC DRBG, thought to be a backdoor for the National Security Agency, ended up in some Cisco products as part of their code libraries. But Cisco says they cannot be used because it chose other crypto as an operational default which can't be changed. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks Application Performance in a World of Cloud and Mobility Cloud, mobility, and networking have shifted the dynamics of application performance. As a result, IT is under more pressure than ever to improve application performance. Learn how to ensure that employees and customers can access applications effectively without being forced to expend more resources on network upgrades. Read more >> In this Issue Cisco raises Catalyst switch prices by up to 67% ONF looking northbound How Avaya's Aura CE is impacting the communications-enabled app market SDN Adoption Puts DevOps Pros in High Demand 10 old-school IT principles that still rule World's craziest Halloween coffins The 9 hardest things programmers have to do The unsung women of technology WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Path Selection Infographic Path selection technology provides the ability to re-direct select traffic and application flows through alternate WAN routes based on service metrics, such as path availability and priority. View Now Cisco raises Catalyst switch prices by up to 67% Cisco is raising the price on older generation Catalyst switches in an effort to prod users into buying newer gear. Read More ONF looking northbound The Open Networking Foundation, a user-driven organization defining and promoting OpenFlow-based software-defined networks, has established a working group to define a "northbound" API between SDN controllers and applications. 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. How Avaya's Aura CE is impacting the communications-enabled app market Doesn't it seem like the UC industry has been talking about a world of communications-enabled applications for over a decade now? This is where in-house developers and independent software vendors (ISVs) will drop UC features into business applications to create new business processes and the companies that build them get a significant jump on the competition. Almost everyone I talk to agrees this... Read More SDN Adoption Puts DevOps Pros in High Demand The shift toward network automation and virtualization offered by Software Defined Networks will increase demand for DevOps professionals. If you have both technical expertise and business acumen, you may soon have new IT career options. Read More 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. 10 old-school IT principles that still rule These graybeard IT tenets still reign -- when applied in their modernized guise Read More World's craziest Halloween coffins From KISS caskets to lions and airplanes, a plethora of burial boxes populate the world Read More The 9 hardest things programmers have to do Software developers have all sorts of hard tasks - most of which don't involve writing code Read More The unsung women of technology Sure, you've heard of Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper. But how about Frances Allen, Deborah Estrin or Radia Perlman? Read More
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