Cisco board directors are at the epicenter of the Microsoft and Yahoo! deal

One Cool ISO: Fully Automated Nagios; New features can open up Cisco IOS to hackers Cisco Alert NetworkWorld.com | Update Your Profile Sponsored by IBM NWW Requirements Engineering for Successful Systems Development Learn how unifying the development process through connected requirements management across engineering disciplines and phases in the product development lifecycle will help you reduce the amount of time to bring new products to market while ensuring that they will meet emerging customer and marketplace needs. Spotlight Story Cisco board directors are at the epicenter of the Microsoft and Yahoo! deal The key decision makers behind this week's announcement of the Microsoft - Yahoo! deal are also making the key decisions at Cisco Systems. How so? Well, 2 key members of the 12 member Yahoo! Board of Directors - Carol Bartz and Jerry Yang, are also 2 key members of the 12 member Cisco Board of Directors: Read full story Related News: One Cool ISO: Fully Automated Nagios TV Dinners. Not only is this an ultra cool song by ZZ Top but on the surface of the twenty year turkey in a thirty year old skin it should be a perfect meal for folks on the go. The majority of your food groups are all there, cooked at once on a throw away dish. Perfect right? New features can open up Cisco IOS to hackers New features embedded in Cisco IOS like VoIP and Web services -- which could be enabled by default -- can present an opportunity for hackers, according to this story in SearchSecurity.com. A security researcher at this week's Black Hat conference in Las Vegas delivered a presentation in which he outlined ways hackers can infiltrate Cisco routers through these new IOS features. Detente in Cisco/IBM "war"? Buried at the end of this Marketwatch story on Cisco's upcoming earnings is a quote by a securities analyst to the effect that IBM will continue to sell a significant amount of Cisco product despite the networking giant's invasion of IBM's data center server turf. 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 Black Hat's best How well you remember the Black Hat conference's most notorious incidents? Wireless burning questions How much longer are you going to hang onto that Ethernet cable? And other questions. Lower Costs with IT Automation Tools Increasing demand and shrinking budgets can make systems management across multiple locations a frightening experience. Join us for this important FREE webcast August 18, 2009 and discover how you can efficiently manage hundreds of systems through one interface, saving time, hassle, money and resources. Register now.   August 03, 2009 TOP STORIES | MOST DUGG STORIES iPhone SMS attack to be unleashed at Black Hat Mystery solved: MS emergency patch precedes Black Hat session Clampi Trojan plunders financials for botnet CERT and ISC warn about BIND9 DNS vulnerability 5 technologies Iran is using to censor the Web Microsoft-Yahoo will change cloud computing Cloud computing confusion reigns in U.S. government Black Hat's most notorious incidents What business is Cisco in today? Cisco fixes critical WLAN flaws Understanding VMware and Storage Consumption Don't let storage inefficiencies impact your overall VMware virtualization savings. Without a comprehensive storage capacity management platform in place, you will sacrifice the cost saving benefits that host virtualization promises. Discover an automated storage capacity management system that eliminates over provisioning and optimizes your storage environment. Get all of the details today. Understanding VMware and Storage Consumption Compare products, get advice, and check out tests and reviews from the experts at Network World. Over 70 categories. Visit now   This email was sent to networking.world@gmail.com Complimentary Subscriptions Available for newsletter subscribers. Receive 50 issues of Network World Magazines, in print or electronic format, free of charge. Apply here. Terms of Service/Privacy   Subscription Services Update your profile To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. Unsubscribe Network World, Inc., 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham, MA 01701 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2009 www.networkworld.com