Whirlpool takes Cisco NAC for a spin; Cisco accused of employee discrimination

Cisco News Alert This newsletter is sponsored by Ipanema The need for Application SLAs: A new opportunity for service providers to increase market share, revenues and profits. Offering consistent end-to-end application performance guarantees is the role of Service Level Agreements defined between the service providers and the enterprises. Typical network services SLAs are not directly linked to the performance of business critical applications. Application SLA measurement and enforcement capabilities of Ipanema allow service providers to create a new breed of application-centric services. Network World's Cisco News Alert, 05/14/07 Whirlpool takes Cisco NAC for a spin, 05/14/07:  After a pilot lasting more than three months, Whirlpool is confident that network-access-control technology will not only help keep its global network more secure, but also play a role as the company implements a new generation of Web services applications. Cisco says FTP feature in IOS is a hacker backdoor, 05/11/07:  Cisco says a flaw in the FTP server utility in its IOS router/switch software could be used as a backdoor by attackers. Cisco accused of employee discrimination:  Cisco has been accused by a federal agency of discriminating against minority job candidates, reports the Mecury News. New from Network World: Cisco Subnet - The independent voice of Cisco customers At Cisco Subnet, our editors crawl the Web for Cisco-related news, blogs, discussion groups and security alerts, and present them to you on one page. You can also set up your own Cisco blog and create Cisco groups with fellow users at Cisco Subnet. Click here to check it out! Five more years of Chambers:  John Chambers intends to stay on as Cisco CEO for the next three to five years, according to BusinessWeek's Peter Burrows.

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