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66.186.127.216 to your white-list file. Thank you. Cisco Unifed Computing System: The video Check out Cisco's unified communications platform as if you were there at the launch event. At the bottom of this page, you'll see a video player that showcases our latest Cisco videos, including a news report on the UC launch event. Sometimes a picture, or in this case a video, is worth a thousand words. Cisco's hitchhiker's guide to Earth's atmosphere, otherwise known as a cloud As Cisco releases ever more details about its dive into the data center, here's an interesting tidbit that helps with the big picture. This is a slideshow created by Cisco's Krishna Sankar with the cute title of A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Inter-Cloud. It provides a quick overview of how Cisco views the cloud and its role in it, including ideas such as how virtualization fits in, how the cloud should handle workload migrations and workload federation. It discusses cloud computing and identity management and a long list of other technologies. Instead of R&D, partnerships with universities Cisco's use of partnerships with schools and governmental agencies to get the R&D it needs is an unusual model for a company it's size. But it certainly is a model that others should consider. Whereas the Microsoft's and IBMs of this world spend billions developing technology, projects like this show that you don't have to do it all yourself. Cisco against 'Buy America' provisions of the $7.2B broadband stimulus fund Reese: According to e-mail sent only hours ago by Cisco Systems to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Cisco is against the "Buy America" provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program. April giveaways galore
Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training courses from Global Knowledge, valued at $2,995 and $3,495, and have copies of three hot books up for grabs: CCVP CIPT2 Quick Reference by Anthony Sequeira, Microsoft Voice Unified Communications by Joe Schurman and Microsoft Office 2007 On Demand by Steve Johnson. Deadline for entries April 30. Network World on Twitter Get our tweets and stay plugged in to networking news. | 
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