Monday, February 02, 2009

Cisco, HP ratchet up data center battle; Analysts expect a solid Q2 for Cisco

Cisco and HP armed for an impending battle in the data center
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Cisco, HP ratchet up data center battle

Jim Duffy By Jim Duffy
Cisco and HP last week armed themselves for an impending battle in the data center in which each company will invade the other's turf. Read full story

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Analysts expect a solid Q2 for Cisco While some financial analysts are cutting their expectations for Cisco's earnings for the rest of the fiscal year, MarketWatch is reporting that analysts expect Cisco to post solid Q2 results. Wall Street is expecting the networking giant to report an 8% slide in revenue to $9 billion.

Are these the real reasons for Nortel's demise Reese: I am personally fascinated by the following comments that were made to a previous blog story of mine. The authors appear to be former Nortel and Bay Networks employees (keep in mind that none have been verified) offering comments as to the real reasons for the fall of Nortel.

Why you and your CFO speak a different language Doyle: The CFO wants to hear an answer such as, “We are 85% certain that this project will reduce the network risk by 30%, resulting in an annual savings of $175,000 over the next five years.” You’re used to measuring something and deriving a definite number in which you are 100% confident. You can’t put a definite number around “risk reduction.”

Study aids for Cisco CCCENT Asked & Answered: Steve Blass gives insight on online resources for Cisco's CCENT certification.

Cisco adds new online questions module to CCIE lab exam Effective Feb. 1, candidates for the CCIE Routing & Switching lab exam will be required to answer a series of online questions based on material covered on the lab blueprint, Cisco confirmed Friday.

Brad Reese on Cisco: Used Cisco equals gypsies at a flea market I believe that Cisco has been too darn successful at tarnishing the image of the affordable used/refurbished secondary-market for Cisco equipment thereby opening the market for HP ProCurve to provide an affordable alternative.

Cisco in the home: Anonymous or poised for domination? Cisco seems to be making an elaborate multi-course meal out of making home networking easier. While we know some of the ingredients we’re still not quite sure what the final meal will become.

Cisco Security Expert: Jamey Heary: Cisco updatest SSL VPN with performance boost, Windows Mobile support Cisco recently released a new version of its Anyconnect SSLVPN client that adds support for Windows Mobile 6.1, 6.0 and 5.0 touch-screen devices.

Dennis Hartmann on Cisco Unified Communications: QoS application classes: Signalling This blog continues our coverage of the 11 Cisco QoS application classes. The classes are as follows: Routing Voice Interactive Video Streaming Video Mission-Critical Data Call Signalling Transactional Data Network Management Bulk Data Best Effort Scavenger ...

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