Thursday, January 29, 2009

FCoE: Go or no go? Laid-off Nortel workers lobby for severance; Did Cisco just nix used-gear market?

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Fibre Channel over Ethernet: Go or no go?
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Laid-off Nortel workers lobby for severance
Workers laid off from Nortel are pleading with the company to restore their severance packages. Nortel froze severance packages for laid-off employees when it filed for bankruptcy protection two weeks ago.

Could Cisco EnergyWise kill the thriving used Cisco gear market?
Cisco's EnergyWise, its free IOS software upgrade that will allow Catalyst switches to manage the energy consumption of networked IP devices - and eventually building system assets - will not be available to customers of used or refurbished Cisco switches unless they relicense with Cisco.

Venture investments plummet for seed-phase network startups
Investors gave $27 million to startup and seed companies in the networking space in Q4 2008, a fraction of previous investment levels.

Juniper names ex-Nortel exec CMO
Juniper this week named its third chief marketing officer in as many years with the appointment of former Nortel executive Lauren Flaherty.

3G networks don't deliver speeds users expect, Gartner says
The 3G networks of all four major U.S. wireless carriers deliver slower speeds than customers expect, according to Gartner.

Google launches M-Lab measurement tools
Sevcik and Wetzel: Today Google launched a new public service aimed at testing your ISP's practices and performance. The Internet community has been struggling with the thorny topic of Net neutrality. What has been missing from the heated debate is hard data. Now you can get your own data and let your measurements be added to the common database in the cloud.

Wall Street trims back Cisco Q2 expectations
Tech Trader Daily is reporting that some analysts have trimmed back predictions for Cisco's Q2 earnings, which the company will report on Feb. 4.

3 Reasons IE 8 Won't Close The Door On Firefox or Chrome Microsoft Subnet blogger Mitchell Ashley says the days of IE's dominance are over as IE8 suffers from the same old Web site compatibility problems of earlier releases.

Today on Cisco Subnet
What do you need to hook up Cisco TelePresence at home?; Searching for the digital needle in relational hackstack; Cisco "Big Bang" announcement - YYYAAAWWWN; QoS Application Classes: Streaming video, interactive video, mission-critical data.

Today on Microsoft Subnet
Microsoft folds BPM product PerformancePoint after only 15 months; Microsoft wishes you a Happy Data Privacy Day 2009; U.S. government may explore standardizing on open source.

January giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet
Up for grabs: Two Cisco training courses from Skyline-ATS worth up to $6,990, a Microsoft training course from New Horizons worth up to $2,500, 15 copies each of the hot book titles Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Management and Administration, IPv6 Security and Chained Exploits: Advanced Hacking Attacks. Get all the entry details here.


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01/29/09

Today's most-read stories:

  1. Online privacy tips for teens . . . and the adults who ignore them
  2. FTC slaps Do Not Call violators with $1.2 million in penalties
  3. Fallout 3: Operation Anchorage DLC now available
  4. Cisco sets data center blast
  5. HP readies for Cisco's data center assault
  6. New Data Center: storage
  7. Cisco delivers security, storage, UC for small business
  8. Downadup/Conflicker worm: When will the next shoe fall?
  9. Cisco acquires building systems specialist
  10. New botnet resurrects Storm's Valentine's Day ruse


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