| IT budgets for 2009 We have just wrapped up two major surveys of organizational decision makers - one with midsized and large organizations and the other with small to midsized businesses. Included in the surveys for both groups were the following questions: Why IT will fare better in this economic downturn In a recent newsletter (2009 trends: Doing more with less) we discussed how we saw IT organizations responding to the current economic challenges. Given the great interest in that topic, we are going to explore it in more detail over the next four newsletters. We'll begin by putting the current economic situation into perspective, as this is not the first time that we have experienced a relatively quick shift from a supportive to a challenging economic condition. Cisco changes its docs to reflect that it does support 3rd party VPNs Recently, some network engineers slammed Cisco for what appeared to be a statement that it would no longer support third-party IPsec VPNs. Cisco has since republished all its documentation to state that it does support non-Cisco VPNs. Cisco adds SSLVPN flex licensing to compete with Juniper’s ICE Flex licensing allows companies to add additional and temporary SSLVPN licenses to their ASAs at a reduced cost. Enforcing regulatory compliance standards with NAC NAC is often used as one tool for enforcing regulatory compliance standards and then proving that the standards were met. Software agents as management tools for NAC The argument goes you can never control network access for a desktop with a software agent because agents can be hacked, and there is no way to know for certain whether one has been compromised. January giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet
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