Cisco says it's not eating its SAN young; Sprint divesting iDEN Cisco says the drop-off in its Fibre Channel SAN revenue and market share in the first quarter of this year is attributable to three factors: an early stage migration to 8Gbps; a lower-cost migration than rival Brocade; and exposure to financial buyers, which are hard hit by the recession. Last week, Sprint announced its plans for the gradual divestment of its iDEN network in portions of the midwestern United States. (5:36) Twitter spearheads Iranian elections coverage This past weekend, something strange happened in the U.S. media landscape: Twitter helped shape coverage of the Iranian elections protests. IBM rolls out new enterprise cloud services push IBM on Monday rolled out a new cloud-computing strategy aimed at large enterprises, formed around the notion of tying cloud services to specific IT tasks. 'Fear grips Google' ...? ... or, 'How headline writers create news.' You have to hand it to the tabloid headline writers at the New York Post: They know nothing if not how to turn the tiniest spark into a five-alarm conflagration. "Fear grips Google," the Post blared on Saturday. Goodbye, Comcast - or How I Learned to Love the Internet Are you ready for the digital upgrade? Statistics I see in reports and on the news tell me that "Younger, African American and Hispanic homes are disproportionately unready." They forgot to mention another demographic: stubborn nerds who are fed up with how Comcast handles cable's version of the analog-to-digital transition. Why should I care about IPv6 security in my IPv4-only network? While I speak about IPv6 security, I often mention the little known fact that IPv6 is probably already in every large network. How can it be? Simply: because all modern OSes (Vista, Windows 7, Mac OS/X, *ix) have IPv6 enabled by default and IPv6 implementations do not require a completely deployed IPv6 network to start communicating. Turning the tables: A 'Users for Dummies' IT guide Those damned users. They're always whining about how people in IT don't get them, don't know how to communicate, and need to "align" to their interests. As if only IT pros have to do the work in the relationship. Darwin Awards for Disaster Recovery Many of you may already be familiar with the general Darwin Awards, where "The Darwin Awards salute the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally remove themselves from it..." In this fine tradition, Webtorials now has the "Darwin Awards for Disaster Recovery" by Gary Audin, Delphi. Distributed traffic capture optimizes monitoring Visibility can be the critical factor in heading off the increasing number of attacks, outages and data breaches in large-scale distributed networks. But up to now total visibility of Ethernet networks has been infeasible due to the cost of deploying analytical devices throughout the network. Distributed traffic capture is a new approach to network monitoring that can deliver complete, selectable and centralized visibility. Twitter "twitpocalypse" affects iPhone apps The surging popularity of the Twitter messaging service has broken some or all of several Twitter client applications as a part of what is being called "the Twitpocalypse." More on Wi-Fi Wall Plug APs Meraki, who recently introduced their enterprise-class WLAN offering, also has a wall box AP, in this case one that just plugs into an AC outlet a la some AC-powered air fresheners. June Giveaways Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training from Global Knowledge to two lucky readers and 15 copies each of books on IPv6 security, the Cisco Secure Firewall Services Module, and Active Directory Domain Services 2008. Deadline for entries June 30. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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