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	Will Cisco gear become search engine toll collectors? Cisco has filed a patent application on a method that seeds search engine crawlers using intercepted network traffic. Cisco's method includes monitoring data packets exchanged in a computer network over which documents having respective location identifiers are distributed, so as to detect a request to access a given document. A location identifier of the given document is extracted from the request.... Read More SPONSOR: Fluke Networks 3 Tips to Get Out of Firefighting Mode Join Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) for this webcast on how to become more proactive with network and application management. EMA offers guidance on how to pick a pilot project to demonstrate immediate success as well as tips on how to lengthen MTBF and shorten MTTR. Click here to get all the details now! Table of Contents 2010's 25 Geekiest 25th anniversaries Firewall Features that don't SUCK: Zone Based Firewall Policies Why is Cisco So Tight-Lipped About Acquiring Rohati? Nexus One - A Big Mistake? CES: I touched a Nexus One! Eeeeek! Staying a Cisco Channel Partner is a tough choice. Good News on IT, Networking, and Security Spending in 2010 Most Important IT Priorities for 2010 Seven Resolutions for Network Management in 2010 Why did EMC buy Archer? Another firm notes Ethernet switch share gains for Cisco rival Juniper Cisco singled out as key beneficiary of 2010 carrier spending How to absolutely guarantee QoS with network traffic Facebook blocks 'Web 2.0 Suicide Machine' SPONSOR: Unisys The Perfect Storm for Enterprise-Class Clouds Although Cloud computing's original appeal was to small and medium-sized businesses wanting to establish their own web-based commerce without the expenses of a data center, one of the surprising twists is in its appeal to large businesses – finding that the predominant IT delivery model has not kept pace with the rapid responses needed by business. Read Now 2010's 25 Geekiest 25th anniversaries Santa isn't the only one who makes a list and checks it twice as the calendar winds down: This morning marks the posting of my fourth edition of the year's 25 geekiest 25th anniversaries. Read More Firewall Features that don't SUCK: Zone Based Firewall Policies As I stepped out of the Way-Back Machine, I thought of a more common use for zones in networking today; Zone Based Firewall Policies on the ASA. Read More Why is Cisco So Tight-Lipped About Acquiring Rohati? Earlier this week, Network World's Ellen Messmer and other reported that Cisco will acquire Entitlement Management appliance vendor Rohati. It appears that Cisco confirmed this news but hasn't made any other statements or put out a press release to confirm this. Read More Nexus One - A Big Mistake? Don't get me wrong, there's a lot to like in the latest from Google. This is one of the most powerful handsets available, thanks to the Qualcomm SnapDragron processor. Read More SPONSOR: Compuware Perfecting Application Performance The enterprise application scene has become increasingly complicated over the years. Things have changed with the rise of Web services, SOA, Virtualization and cloud computing. This complexity makes app performance management all the more difficult. In this Executive Guide featuring articles from Network World, ComputerWorld and InfoWorld explore how to get the best performance out of today's application environments. Read Now. CES: I touched a Nexus One! Eeeeek! Part of the lure of CES is getting excited over devices that you've never seen before, or seeing something that's truly innovative. Or, in the case of Google's Nexus One smart phone, something that is hyped to the level of Apple status, to the point where just being near one gets you giddy as a school girl. Read More Staying a Cisco Channel Partner is a tough choice. Over the last six months I have been wondering what I should do as a company with our Cisco Partnership. To be honest they are not the easiest company to work with as a partner and that bothers me. I have sent a few emails to people at Cisco and two executives with no reply back other than an SMB Account Manager. Read More Good News on IT, Networking, and Security Spending in 2010 ESG is in the process of analyzing a mountain of data about 2010 IT spending intentions. It's a big job as we surveyed 515 mid-market and enterprise organizations in North America and Western Europe, but the data is starting to paint a good picture of what to expect this year. Read More Most Important IT Priorities for 2010 An ESG survey of 515 IT professionals familiar with their organization's IT spending in 2009 and plans for 2010 were asked to identify their most important IT priorities over the next 12-18 months. Here is a sneak peak at the top of the list. Read More SPONSOR: Zyrion Improve Data Center Monitoring and Management with BSM and ITIL Older generation monitoring products are not able to unify fault/event, performance management and BSM all within one system. This gap forces IT to deploy and integrate multiple systems in order to get an end-to-end view. Read this white paper to learn about a streamlined approach that goes beyond measuring the technical performance of servers and network nodes and provides real-time visibility into the business impact of specific service problems. Learn more! Seven Resolutions for Network Management in 2010 The last few weeks have seen many "top ten lists" for the past year and decade as well as predictions for the coming year. After reading my forty-seventh such list, I'm left feeling a little unfulfilled. Hindsight is 20/20, of course, and predictions invariably come with so many disclaimers that you're left wondering what you can do with them in the first place. Read More Why did EMC buy Archer? Earlier this week, EMC kicked off the new year (and new decade) with an acquisition when it announced that it was buying Archer Technologies. Archer is a provider of Governance, Risk, and Compliance software based in Kansas. Read More Another firm notes Ethernet switch share gains for Cisco rival Juniper Another Juniper watcher expects the Cisco rival to grab some Ethernet switching market share this year as sales of its EX line of switches ramp up. Read More Cisco singled out as key beneficiary of 2010 carrier spending Cisco is expected to be a chief beneficiary of a modest 1.5% hike in carrier spending in 2010, according to a bulletin issued this week by Avian Securities analyst Catharine Trebnick. Avian estimates that carriers will spend $57.8 billion this year to continue their transition to IP and on 3G capacity backhaul upgrades. Read More How to absolutely guarantee QoS with network traffic Network performance measuring vendor - Plixer International, gives the Cisco Subnet its How-To Tutorial on guaranteeing QOS with network traffic. Read More Facebook blocks 'Web 2.0 Suicide Machine' Operators of Web site dedicated to those who seek social-media death with dignity say that Facebook is taking a more Hippocratic approach to the idea of killing one's online identities with a few keystrokes. They say the social-networking giant has killed off their access to Facebook. Read More
	Today from the Subnet communities New giveaways! Win a year's worth of 24/7 video training from ClipTraining. Win books on WS2008 R2, Cisco WAAS and the CCIE. Deadline Jan. 31. Plus: On Cisco Subnet: Cisco buys Rohati Systems; On Microsoft Subnet: Charting out prices for Office 2010; On Google Subnet: Google plans free white spaces database. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are Decade in tech Here is a quiz on the most important or quirkiest tech stories to hit the front pages over the first 10 years of the 2000s. Cool Yule Tools Best picks from this year and a look back at 10 years of tech toys and gadgety gifts. MOST-READ STORIES Amazon to customer: $3B charge may stand as record Google Nexus One vs. Apple iPhone 3GS 10 obsolete technologies to kill in 2010 Microsoft won't fix Windows 7 crash bug next week Large-scale attacks exploit unpatched PDF bug Google Nexus One vs. Top 10 phone security requirements Juniper patches router-crashing bug 2020 vision: Why you won't recognize the 'Net in 10 years Y2K all over again in 2010? CES Preview: Gadgets for the year ahead
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