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	10 things about (the Internet of) things We've all heard about the promise of the Internet of Things, where your alarm clock will start your coffee maker and your refridgerator will tell you when it is time to buy new milk. That future is coming -- many think it will even be here by 2025.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Dummies The Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Dummies Book introduces you to common network performance management (NPM) issues and give you a new way of looking at solving them. This perspective allows you to see your network from your users' point of view, namely, the services and applications they use and their experience with them. Learn More In this Issue Brocade Pitches Open Networking to Cash-Strapped Feds The world's coolest and geekiest mailboxes F5 partners should seek service growth Fifteen new vulnerabilities reported during router hacking contest Adtran lays groundwork for superfast broadband over copper Cisco laying off 6,000; Q4 revenue, profit flat in 'tough environment' Cisco patches traffic snooping flaw in operating systems used by its networking gear WEBCAST: IBM Leveraging Software-Defined Flash to Drive Your Business With end-to-end, tightly integrated functionality and super-fast flash technology, products like IBM FlashSystem V840 Enterprise Performance Solution empower businesses to leverage the efficiency of SDS and the speed of flash storage all at once. Learn More Brocade Pitches Open Networking to Cash-Strapped Feds Brocade is taking aim at the federal government, promising a more efficient, cost-effective networking environment that nurtures innovation with open protocols to support multiple service providers. Read More The world's coolest and geekiest mailboxes "Image by REUTERS/Fred ProuserSnail mail may get the short shrift these days but that doesn’t mean the mail deserves to be delivered to a basic black box with numbers on it. No-siree.  What we have here is a collection of mailboxes – starting with a number from Florida, but including a number from around the world that are pretty cool and geeky. If you have a cool mailbox drop us a picture. As for the others, take a look:To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: Extreme Networks IdentiFi Brochure IdentiFi Wireless is proven to be the most scalable Wireless solution on the market. This didn't happen overnight; IdentiFi Wireless technology has grown and evolved for over a decade with an extensive and diversified customer base. Learn more about the entire IdentiFi Wireless Solution. Learn more F5 partners should seek service growth Last week, I was fortunate enough to present at F5’s Agility Partner Conference. The event was held in New York’s Times Square and had about 1,000 of F5’s reseller partners, all looking to get a handle on what’s next for the fast growing vendor. One of the things I enjoy about partner events is that it gives me an opportunity to interact with many of the resellers and see if what I’m observing aligns with the trends in their business. During my presentation, I talked a lot about the complexity of IT today and the opportunity that it creates in the area of professional services. There’s no doubt that IT is more complicated today that it was a decade or even five years ago.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Fifteen new vulnerabilities reported during router hacking contest Five popular router models were hacked during the SOHOpelessly Broken competition at DefCon 22 Read More WHITE PAPER: Motorola Solutions Inc. The Next Logical Evolution in WLAN Architecture Motorola Solutions has been the driving force behind the creation and evolution of the wireless LAN (WLAN), from its inception through today's third generation architecture. Today, they are Introducing the world's first scalable, virtualized WLAN controller that brings a new level of scalability, cost efficiency and reliability to the WLAN. Learn more Adtran lays groundwork for superfast broadband over copper The first commercial networks are expected next year Read More Cisco laying off 6,000; Q4 revenue, profit flat in 'tough environment' Cisco Systems posted fiscal fourth-quarter revenue and earnings that were roughly flat from a year earlier as the company works through what Chairman and CEO John Chambers called "a tough environment." Read More Cisco patches traffic snooping flaw in operating systems used by its networking gear The vulnerability affects the OSPF routing protocol implementation on Cisco networking equipment Read More
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