Cisco Defends the CCNP Wireless Announcement Blogger Brandon Carroll writes, "A few days back I posted an article about a Cisco Learning Partner that released the CCNP Wireless Courses to the public before Cisco announced it. I received an e-mail from a Cisco Program Manager that stated: Your article is totally wrong and you should check your facts. Cisco announced the CCNP Wireless Track in December 2008 at Barcelona ... I disagree." Cisco capitulates to the Free Software Foundation Yesterday, the Free Software Foundation announced that it has settled its grievance with Cisco. After previously pegging Cisco as an open source leech, Cisco has positioned itself as an open source champion. The company agreed to appoint a director to ensure that its Linksys products comply with the terms of free software licenses, and in return the Free Software Foundation will dismiss the copyright infringement lawsuit it filed in December. What's New in Cisco ASA Firewall Release 8.2? From the Core Networking and Security blog by Scott Hogg: "Recently, Cisco released its latest version of Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) 5500 software release 8.2. This new version has some new features that include IPv6 support for ASDM and transparent firewall, Botnet Traffic Filter, SNMPv3, IPv6 IPS 6.2 support, among others." Best of Interop 2009 Winners Announced, any surprise winners? From the Putting Realism Into Your Network blog by Larry Chaffin: Here is the list of the winners in eight categories. Cisco took home two awards. One in the Data Center & Storage category for its Unified Computing System and one in a special Green Award EnergyWise. Data Visualization with Treemaps - A hands-on Tutorial From the Security Visualization blog by Raffael Marty: Have you tried using the Information Visualization Process with some of your data? Have you applied the process with some of the Tools that I introduced? Or any other visualization tool? Today's topic is about generating treemaps. I use treemaps for a lot of different analysis purposes. Cisco janitors plan protest at Stanford From the Cisco Subnet blog: Those following the saga of the 75 janitors laid off from Cisco might want to keep the date of May 21 in mind. That's when hundreds of janitors and their supporters will stage a protest at Stanford during the school's "Socially Responsible Supply Chain" conference at which two Cisco executives will speak. Beware Cisco of how the mighty fall From Brad Reese On Cisco: "The press adores Cisco and for good reason. Cisco just oozes the image of success. Heck just this week, Cisco announced its new pursuit of building out smart grid utility networks, a $100 billion opportunity according to Cisco. Earlier this month, Business Week published a book excerpt written by author Jim Collins: How the Mighty Fall: A Primer on the Warning Signs. I'm thoroughly convinced that Cisco has entered the five stages of How the Mighty Fall." Cisco IOS Dial Peers: Translation Profile Example From the Cisco Unified Communications blog by Dennis Hartmann: "In the last couple of blogs, we covered translation rule logic. In this blog, we will apply this logic to a gateway router configuration." How to Prep for CCIE R/S Troubleshooting? From the Cisco Cert Zone by Wendell Odom: "Our survey about the new CCIE R/S troubleshooting section revealed some interesting facts. First, more than 1/3 of us said that their chances of passing went down with the addition of the new troubleshooting section on the lab. Second, the overwhelming majority thinks that adding troubleshooting make the exam more realistic to what's required of a CCIE doing their normal job. So it got me thinking - how do you prep for the troubleshooting part of the exam?" Applying Accounting Measures to Data Networking Financial Performance From the From the Field blog by Michael Morris: "As I mentioned last year, I moved (officially) into management and started my MBA at NC State University. While I still do a ton of technical work, the MBA is opening my eyes to other ways to measure the network." May Giveaways Cisco Subnet, Microsoft Subnet and Google Subnet are collectively giving away books on Google Apps Deciphered, the CCNA Security exam, an awesome SQL Server 2005/2008 training video and the grand prize, a Microsoft training course from New Horizons worth up to $2,500. Deadline for entries May 31. |
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