WAN Optimization: Maximizing a Global Investment For a $5.5 billion agricultural cooperative whose 42,000 farmers work cohesively across 19 countries to supply food and farming services, Lantmännen's IT infrastructure was surprisingly unwieldy. Will virtualization impact Cisco and other network hardware vendors? An interesting post from Gregory Ness, a senior director at Infoblox, posits that virtualization could neutralize the network and network equipment vendors. Cable connecting China and India goes live China Telecom and India-based telco Reliance Communications recently announced the opening of the first direct terrestrial cable link between China and India Cisco NetFlow is a must have for managing virtual applications in the cloud Last month readers may recall, I did the first Cisco NetFlow Q & A with Xangati founder and CTO Jagan Jagannathan and so for readers who will be attending next week's VMworld, the Q & A followup below might be of interest too. The Importance of Reading RFC's Recently I taught the Network+ class. It's one I teach rarely, and that's too bad because it's one of my favorites; molding new minds and all that. I was reminded of the basics of networking: TCP/IP and its standard behavior, the three-way handshake and all that jazz. How does one learn the inner workings of protocols? You learn them by reading RFC's. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons and 15 copies of Windows Server 2008 How-To. Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies of Interconnecting Data Centers Using VPLS. Google Subnet is hosting many new bloggers (watch for giveaway information soon.) Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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