| Riding the downturn: Network vendors eye new markets in '09 Today's rough economy hasn't put the breaks on vendor ambition. Microsoft, Cisco, HP, VMware, Juniper and Avaya have big plans for 2009. Podcast: Could Obama stimulus create 1 million tech jobs? Robert Atkinson, founder and president of the nonprofit Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a Washington, DC-based technology policy think tank, discusses how the federal government could create 1 million new jobs by investing $30 billion into America's IT infrastructure. Nearly 1 million jobs could be created by IT stimulus package, think tank says An information technology think tank proposes a $30 billion stimulus plan for the IT industry, saying it would create nearly 1 million jobs. VCs Need to Get Real or Go Home If the only thing to fear is fear itself, then VCs need to snap out of it because they are cowering in their wine cellars. If you haven't already seen it, a slide show called "R.I.P. Good Times" presented this past fall by Sequoia Capital to CEOs of its portfolio companies shows just how morose the mood among VCs has become. The slide 'de resistance' shows a spiral with a skull at its center warning portfolio companies to put themselves in an indefinite state of suspended cash flow animation or die an agonizing death--and the final slide blares GET REAL OR GO HOME. Cisco warns of GSS DNS vulnerability Cisco is warning of a security hole in its Cisco Application Control Engine Global Site Selector (GSS) that could lead to a crash of the engine's DNS service. China CCIE count grows 11 times more than the U.S. The trend from November's update of the Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert numbers continues to show that the growth in CCIEs is coming from outside the United States. Three candidates pass Cisco's network design beta exam; live version to get few tweaks With the pass rate for the CCDE lab beta being 7.7% (lower than the 26% pass rate that has been reported for the CCIE lab), does this signify that the exam was too hard, or is Cisco happy to maintain the high bar for its expert level certification? Plus: Holy crap: I passed the CCDE! Who's a firm believer of FCoE now? Blogger Jimmy Ray Purser explains what got him sold on Fibre Channel over Ethernet as the fabric for enterprise data centers. QoS Type of Service Field Evolution Blogger Dennis Hartmann explains the RFC Type of Service field and how it's used. Control your clients There are lots of tools to help you with client management. Our revamped Product Guide provides a way through the hype, including 5 questions to ask client management vendors. January giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet
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