A year after Terry Childs case, privileged user problem grows One year after former network administrator Terry Childs made national headlines for locking up access to a crucial San Francisco city network, the issue of how to protect corporate systems against the very people who manage and administer them remains as thorny as ever. Cisco reports earnings Aug. 5 Cisco is set to report earnings on Aug. 5. Wall Street expects another double digit drop in revenue. NANOG46 and Cisco Live had Significant Focus on IPv6 Scott Hogg: I reviewed the presentations from the North American Network Operators' Group meeting in Philadelphia in June and was astounded by the number of IPv6-related presentations. There were some exciting announcements made. Wall Street analyst suggests Cisco may recover lost market share during 1Q10 Brad Reese: In his research note today, RBC Capital Markets Managing Director - Mark Sue believes Cisco has a shot at reclaiming its lost market share. Can Cisco benefit from Avaya/Nortel deal? So Avaya did the expected and made an offer for Nortel's enterprise business. But the "stalking horse" arrangement really initiates an auction for the Nortel asset, with a starting bid of $475 million. Should Cisco offer a bid? Or should it wait and welcome refugee customers with open arms? Does Cisco discriminate against CCIEs by not promoting them to management? Brad Reese: Last month, the worldwide CCIE count passed the historic milestone of 20,000. Nevertheless, only 2 CCIEs appear among the 59 executives listed as members of Cisco's upper management ranks. Alcatel-Lucent follows Juniper with 100G Ethernet; where's Cisco? Alcatel-Lucent has followed Juniper by a few weeks with an announcement of 100Gbps Ethernet capabilities for its carrier routers. ALU plans to add it to its 7750 services edge router while Juniper has it pegged for the T1600 core platform. 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. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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