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	Cisco describes its SDN vision: A Q&A with Soni Jiandani Jiandani is Senior Vice President of Cisco's Insieme business unit, the group pushing the company's Software Defined Networking vision. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix caught with Jiandani to get her take on how SDN plays out. Read More WHITE PAPER: McAfee The Significant Threat of Advanced Evasion Techniques Advanced hacking methods, like advanced evasion techniques (AETs) have become more prevalent and harder to detect. Yet many network security vendors have downplayed the threat they pose as purely theoretical. Learn the false sense of security many IT professionals are under View Now In this Issue 25G Ethernet moving fast Cisco enterprise controller going through paces US Social Security Administration spent nearly $300M on IT project 'boondoggle,' lawmakers say FTC takes out "tech support" scammers; $5.1 million in fines, retribution Friday is SysAdmin Appreciation Day: Here's one way to make sure you're appreciated Brandpost: Internet of Overwhelming Things WHITE PAPER: Dell Achieve Deeper Network Security and Application Control Next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) have emerged to revolutionize network security as we once knew it. Yet to safeguard an organization from today's ever-evolving threats, NGFWs must be able to deliver an even deeper level of network security. View Now 25G Ethernet moving fast The second highest server Ethernet port sales and shipments may be 25G over the next five years, according to Dell’Oro Group. First will be 10G, which will account for more than 50% of the $1.7 billion in revenue and 40 million ports by 2018.Twenty-five gigabit Ethernet is taking off fast. A handful of very powerful data center and cloud vendors and suppliers – Google, Microsoft, Broadcom, Arista and Mellanox – formed a consortium three weeks ago to promote and catalyze development of it. Cisco said it too is planning to join this group.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Cisco enterprise controller going through paces APIC Enterprise Module being banged on by DevNet community as it lingers in betas, field trials. Read More WEBCAST: Fujitsu America Network Management Challenges & the Benefits of Outsourcing Virtually every business needs to do more with less, and IT is no exception. At the same time, the network has to meet the growing demands of the business. New research conducted by IDG explores the network management challenges that IT and telecom leaders face and how they are dealing with them. Learn more about the research results. Learn more >> US Social Security Administration spent nearly $300M on IT project 'boondoggle,' lawmakers say The SSA may have also tried to temporarily keep a damaging report on the project secret, a House committee alleges Read More FTC takes out "tech support" scammers; $5.1 million in fines, retribution While a number of these scams still persist, the Federal Trade Commission today said it got a US District court to slap the operators of several international tech support rip-offs to pay more than $5.1 million in fines and retribution on charges they masqueraded as major computer companies, including Dell, Microsoft, McAfee, and Norton, to trick consumers into believing their computers were riddled with malware and then charge them to “fix” the “problems.” The FTC said that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued default judgments against fourteen corporate defendants and fourteen individual defendants that allegedly operated the tech support scams. The operations were mostly based in India and targeted English-speaking consumers in the United States and several other countries, the FTC stated.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: APC by Schneider Electric Containerized Power and Cooling Modules for Data Centers This white paper compares the cost benefits of both Standardized and Containerized data center cooling infrastructures, presents the advantages and disadvantages of each, and identifies which environments can best leverage the facility module approach. Learn More Friday is SysAdmin Appreciation Day: Here's one way to make sure you're appreciated Friday is the 15th annual SysAdmin Appreciation Day. Last year the IT department of the Launch Federal Credit Union, which serves Florida's Cape Canaveral region, did not feel as though they were sufficiently appreciated. This year they're taking no chances. Read More Brandpost: Internet of Overwhelming Things As the era of Internet of Things (IoT) dawned, the fridge got hacked. Well, maybe not. Read More
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