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Cisco fixes critcal WLAN flaws, warns Microsoft hole puts Cisco Unity at risk

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.

Cisco on Tuesday warned users of its Unity unified communications products that they are at risk from a flaw in Microsoft Internet Explorer that spurred Microsoft into an emergency, out-of-band patch. In addition, Cisco on Monday released a patch to fix multiple flaws in its WLAN controllers that affect a long list of Cisco routers.

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Cisco UCS ships
Cisco Subnet blog: Cisco's Unified Computing System -- which includes the company's controversial blade server -- reportedly underwent first customer shipment last week.

What business is Cisco in today?
Brad Reese: This week in an open letter to Cisco CEO John Chambers, Global CIO Senior VP and Director - Bob Evans asked: What business is Cisco in today? Remarkably, it took Evans 3 long pages to get to that statement.

Time for a Data Center Tune-Up
Douglas Alger: We all know the importance of doing regular, preventative maintenance on our cars. Similar tricks can be used to keep your data center green.

Business travelers need to read before booking great deals.
Larry Chaffin: Starwood's Hotels did a good thing by lowering prices at some 600 of 1000 properties by 50%. But be sure if you are reading everything before you book, the deal requires a pre-pay only with no refund.

Networking in the (Storm) Clouds
Michael Morris: Johna Till Johnson wrote a very good column this week on cloud computing and networking; something that's been on my mind lately as "Cloud Computing" gets more and more buzz not just in the industry, but also at my IT shop.

Cisco retaliation angle played down in IBM/Juniper OEM deal
Cisco Subnet blog: All that banter about IBM retaliating against Cisco's incursion into the blade server market was put down this week when Big Blue rolled out its data center OEM arsenal. Lo and behold, there's Cisco's Nexus 5000 switch on the docket to be resold by IBM for top-of-rack 10G FCoE applications.

Switch QoS: Catalyst 6500
Dennis Hartmann: QoS processing is performed on the Catalyst 6500 series platform using the policy feature card (PFC) and the port application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for layer 2 modules.

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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