Friday, July 10, 2009

Cisco Certified Architect cert reality check; Cisco, VMware, NetApp testing multi-tenant cloud

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Putting Some Realism into the Cisco Certified Architect cert

This is Network World's Cisco Subnet news alert in which we focus on the top items from Cisco Subnet, your daily source for Cisco news, blogs, discussion items, security alerts, giveaways and more.

"The Cisco Certified Architect certification may well be the single biggest addition/change to the Cisco certification space since the introduction of CCNA and CCNP in 1998," writes blogger and trainer Wendell Odom. "In the space of two years, Cisco has taken the pinnacle of the Cisco cert space - the CCIE - and added another cert billed as equivalent for Design issues (CCDE), and then made a new pinnacle to the cert pyramid - the new Cisco Certified Architect." But, Odom asks, will this cert really help your career?

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Cisco, VMware, NetApp testing multi-tenant cloud
Cisco Subnet blog: Cisco, VMware and NetApp are testing an end-to-end secure multi-tenancy platform. A multi-tenancy infrastructure has but one purpose, to allow multiple companies to share an infrastructure.

Why HP ProCurve is dismantling Cisco's market share on a deal-by-deal basis
Brad Reese on Cisco: HP ProCurve is dismantling Cisco's market share on a deal-by-deal basis. If you trade-in your Cisco equipment, HP ProCurve will take 20% off its list price.

Cisco Releases substantial update to its Enterprise Security Management Platform
Jamey Heary, Cisco Security Expert: Last week Cisco posted the 3.3 version of its enterprise class Cisco Security Manager (CSM) product. All sorts of new features were introduced, most especially are performance improvements throughout.

Defining Green Data Centers
Douglas Alger, The Greener Data Center: Data center-specific standards are now being incorporated into two of the most influential environmental building assessment systems – BREEAM and LEED.

Three Better Ways of Doing Networking That We Ain't Doin'
Jimmy Ray Purser, Networking Geek to Geek: Here are three things that we could do and should do to improve security, scalability and the overall network in general. One is ready to go, one that is something to look for in choosing gear and one that is a up-and- comer.

Michael Jackson funeral brings many networks to a crawl thanks to CBS News Feed.
Many networks came to a crawl all thanks to all the people were online watching the final good bye to MJ.

The sudden and unexplained departure of Cisco data center marketing honcho, Douglas Gourlay
Brad Reese on Cisco: Douglas Gourlay is no longer with Cisco. And what makes that perplexing was that Gourlay was just featured in the Cisco Data Center Networks blog.

July Giveaways
Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies each of books on Enterprise Web 2.0 and Building a Greener Data Center; Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons to one lucky reader and 15 copies of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Unleashed. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Deadline for entries July 31.

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July 10, 2009

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  7. Yahoo invents 'chicken coop' data centre design
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