| Virtualization, WLAN, WAN optimization top IT priorities in 2009 A lot of recent market research, such as Gartner's CIO survey predicting major global IT change, indicate that CIO priorities in 2009 will focus on enterprise applications such as ERP and CRM, as well as business intelligence. Our question is how do these CIO priorities affect the rest of the IT organization? Why WLAN/WAN, WAN optimization spending will increase during bad economic times Last time, we discussed which IT initiatives we believed would experience the biggest budget increases in 2009. We based that on our surveys of two separate audiences - one primarily made up of U.S. IT execs and the other of European IT execs. The infrastructure initiative that is likely to experience the greatest increase in funding is virtualization, followed by wireless LAN/WANs and WAN optimization. The driver for growth in WLAN/WAN is mobility and the driver for WAN optimization is cost avoidance. Billion dollar financial fraud revealed within Satyam, a Cisco collaboration partner The chairman of Satyam, which has a global collaboration with Cisco, admits to several financial fraud irregularities in his resignation letter this week. 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. Billion dollar financial fraud revealed within Satyam, a Cisco collaboration partner The chairman of Satyam, which has a global collaboration with Cisco, admits to several financial fraud irregularities in his resignation letter this week. Job Prospects Better for CCxP than CCIE? Blogger Wendell Odom writes: I've heard from various places that the more experienced/skilled - but more expensive - employees are in worse trouble than the medium experience/skill/salary or lower experience/skill/salary. VoIP is dead? - depends on what you define as VoIP Blogger Avner Izhar writes: Was catching up on blogs when I found the Cisco Subnet entry called Is VoIP dead?. Wow, really, am I in a dying specie of IT? did the recession finally got to my back yard? Is it justified to boycott Cisco's open source developer contest? Should open source boycott Cisco's AXP developer contest? That question is getting the open source development community all hot and bothered since it was posed in a ZDNet blog. Cisco mulls adding verbal interview to CCIE exams Cisco is considering introducing a verbal interview portion to its CCIE lab exams across the world. Cisco confirmed that it is running a pilot in its exam lab in Beijing, China that involves candidates taking a 10-minute verbal interview as part of their lab exam. Nortel employees speak out: Hopes of becoming multimillionaires dashed The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has produced a documentary about two Nortel employees in Canada - Mark Lavoie and Paul Arbour - and how the specter of job cuts is looming over their heads and how it is affecting their families. Word of advice for upgrading to the ASR 1000 Is Cisco's ASR 1000 session border controllers up to the task, and is the ASR meant to replace the 7200 family of routers or something else? Fab tool pick: IceSword weeds out rootkits When you get beyond the fact that this tool was written in China, IceSword has a fan in blogger Jimmy Ray Purser, who has used it to circumvent a number of rootkit hiding methods. How to pass Cisco's expert-level network design certification tests Michael Morris, Cisco Subnet blogger and one of three network engineers to be awarded Cisco's CCDE expert-level network design certification shares his secrets to passing the gruelling tests. IPv6 on your cell phone Blogger Scott Hogg writes: You may have IPv6 capabilities on your mobile phone and not even realize it. Turn a thin link into a fat pipe WAN optimization is the key. Our revamped Product Guide can give you the basics on the technologies available and tell you what to look for when you're ready to buy. 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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