Cisco, San Fran team on green; 3Com's high-end switch: A fast, green alternative to Cisco

Cisco and the City of San Francisco unveil Urban EcoMap to encourage "responsible" environmental choices Cisco Alert NetworkWorld.com | LANs & WANs Research Center | Update Your Profile Sponsored by Dell Why virtualization? Why now? In this video, our speakers tackle these questions, explaining how virtualization technology has become more mainstream. Businesses are under pressure to ease management and reduce costs, while retaining and enhancing competitive advantages, such as flexibility, reliability, scalability and security. Watch now to see how virtualization can help address these demands. Spotlight Story Cisco, San Fran team on green Cisco and the City of San Francisco this week unveiled Urban EcoMap, an Internet-based tool that enables cities to provide climate change information for their citizens. Urban EcoMap is designed to provide collective results of individual climate change actions and encourage "responsible" environmental choices, while creating competition among neighborhoods to reduce their carbon footprint, Cisco says. Related News: Editor's note: We will be changing how we send out Network World newsletters over the next few weeks. To ensure future delivery of your newsletters, please add nww_newsletters@newsletters.networkworld.com to your e-mail address book or 66.186.127.216 to your white-list file. Thank you. 3Com's high-end switch: A fast, green alternative to Cisco 3Com says it has an alternative for network managers considering high-end switches from Cisco and others. Also: How we tested 3Com's switch IBM/Brocade a non-issue for Cisco? The rumored union between IBM and Brocade will fail to dent Cisco's market share, according to a blog post by David Gross, chief analyst and founder of Freesky Research. The reason is that big users still by direct from manufactuers instead of through OEMs or other distributors, Gross notes. Signs of stabilization from Cisco channel, Juniper guidance Close We may have hit bottom. Those are the signs coming from Cisco's channel and Juniper's Q2 guidance. Customer spending and vendor revenue are showing signs of stabilization, according to updates from the Cisco channel provided to Oppenheimer & Co. analysts. In an April canvassing of 33 Cisco channel partners in the US and Europe, Oppenheimer found that 60% expect sales to grow next quarter, according to a bulletin released by the firm this week. Juniper reports soft Q1; Cisco next On the heels of Juniper's less-than-stellar third-quarter earnings, analysts are expecting Cisco to post a 17% decline in revenue for its April quarter. Day Three RSA 09: SHOWTIME! Any Paul McCartney and Wings fans out there? I really like their music although I think personally Paul McCartney is a real wanker. But man that wank can sure write some... Cloud computing a 'security nightmare,' says Cisco CEO If anyone has the right to be excited about cloud computing, it's John Chambers. But on Wednesday Cisco Systems' Chairman and CEO conceded that the computing industry's move to sell pay-as-you-go computing cycles available as a service on the Internet was also "a security nightmare." Plus: From the blogosphere Cisco's Chambers: painted a less-than-sunny view on cloud computing security at RSA. 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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