Thursday, September 13, 2007

Cisco, VMware demo data center integration; Why can't CIOs and CSOs just get along?

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CISCO, VMWARE DEMO DATA CENTER INTEGRATION
Cisco this week expanded its Data Center 3.0 vision by announcing the integration of its VFrame Data Center virtualization appliance with VMware Virtual Infrastructure.

WHY CAN'T CIOs AND CSOs JUST GET ALONG?
A CIO and CSO spoke at the Security Standard conference to discuss why technology chiefs and security officers don’t always see eye-to-eye on IT priorities.

HP SERVER-STORAGE APPLIANCE TARGETS SMBs
HP Wednesday unveiled a new blade enclosure into which modularized and a combination of server or storage components can be installed. The product is targeted at small to midsize businesses, a market vigorously pursued by IBM, Dell, Sun and others.

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FCC DETAILS E911 LOCATION ACCURACY REQUIREMENTS
The FCC laid out a series of benchmarks yesterday in an effort to ensure that wireless carriers meet E911 location accuracy requirements within five years.

CISCO USERS GAIN CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT HELP FROM OPSWARE
Opsware Network Automation System 7 includes Cisco operating system and software information to help network managers ensure device configurations and software updates don't conflict.

SUN NOW A WINDOWS OEM
All Sun server hardware offerings available with Windows Server 2003 in the next 90 days as vendors strike partnership that includes interop work on virtualization.

ASSESSING THE COUNTLESS CORPORATE SECURITY THREATS
Speakers and attendees at the Security Standard conference weigh in on today’s biggest security threats.

VIDEO

DIAGNOSE CAR PROBLEMS ON YOUR OWN
The check engine light is on and it could be anything from a loose gas cap to a fouled up cylinder. Keith shows you how to find out the severity of the problem before bringing the car to the shop.

LIVE CHAT

ENTERPRISE MESSAGING DEMYSTIFIED WITH MICHAEL OSTERMAN
2 p.m. - 3 p.m. EDT, Wed., Sept. 19. Text chat live with this popular newsletter columnist and consultant who will answer your questions on e-mail, enterprise search, instant messaging and unified communications, and anything else you want to ask.

BLOGS

BUZZBLOG: 'HELLO, YOU HAVE REACHED MY IPHONE'
You might think no one could possibly be so enamored of their iPhone -- not to mention so pretentious and/or oblivious to the potential snickers -- as to drop the name of the world's most famous tech toy into their answering machine message. Meet AT&T’s self-described “uber geek” Bill Cheswick.

TODAY ON CISCO SUBNET
Test your knowledge of Cisco by answering this CCENT exam question and time how long it took you to answer. Joe Burton, Cisco unified communications CTO says now is the time for unified communications. Read a sneak peek of a chapter from Designing Content Switching Solutions by Haroon Khan and Zeeshan Naseh, and published by Cisco Press.

TODAY ON MICROSOFT SUBNET
Microsoft’s, Google’s bid for unlicensed spectrum will be vilified in ads. Sun will offer Windows on x64 servers. Should off-shore tech support be moved back to North America?

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6. AT&T going orange? Color me puzzled
7. Analysts: Apple network doesn't make sense
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10. Boston College's big data breach recovery

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