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	How vulnerable is Cisco? Cisco has been the dominant vendor of enterprise switches and routers for the last 20 years and that is not likely to change anytime soon. There are, however, some transitions taking place in the overall IT marketplace that indicate that Cisco could be vulnerable to losing at least some market share. We will use the next two newsletters to discuss our thoughts on how vulnerable Cisco is in the enterprise networking market. Read More E-GUIDE: 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. In this Executive Guide explore how to get the best performance out of today's application environments. Read Now. In this Issue An open letter to Dan Hesse, Sprint CEO IPv6 vs Carrier-grade NAT Cisco vs Juniper LTE continues to gain momentum, says GSA Public safety groups press for more spectrum WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Inc. Power Management without Borders See how Cisco Borderless Networks enables you to extend energy management capabilities throughout your organization with the Cisco EnergyWise portfolio. Read More An open letter to Dan Hesse, Sprint CEO Mark Gibbs says goodbye to Mr. Hesse and his company. Read More WHITE PAPER: Novell Intelligent Storage Management at the File Level Many storage management tools for file storage are "dumb." They treat all files the same regardless of business relevance and they lack the ability to automate user-storage management tasks or set policies based on business requirements. Learn how to augment your existing storage management system with intelligence at the file level. Read Now IPv6 vs Carrier-grade NAT The Internet is running out of IPv4 addresses; there's no argument about that. But what is up for debate is whether ISPs will migrate directly to IPv6 to solve this problem, or whether they will embrace alternatives such as carrier-grade network address translation to share the few remaining IPv4 addresses among their new users. Read More WHITE PAPER: Adobe Close the Web 2.0 Communications Gap Web 2.0 tools have yet to reach critical mass and broad user adoption. This Forrester report identifies the key Web 2.0 gaps and offers advice to: Build a framework that extends email, Upgrade document-based data collection, and Improve email and document exchange security. Read More Cisco vs Juniper In the data center, the Cisco vs. Juniper argument will hinge on which company has the more compelling unified data center fabric architecture: Cisco's Unified Computing System or Juniper's single-layer Stratus. Read More LTE continues to gain momentum, says GSA More mobile network operators are placing their bets on the same next-generation mobile networking technology to offer users faster connections, according to a report from the Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GSA). Read More Public safety groups press for more spectrum A coalition of emergency responder groups has launched a campaign to persuade Congress and the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to give them a 10MHz block of spectrum that the FCC wants to auction for commercial mobile broadband purposes. Read More
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