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	Cisco doesn't contribute nearly enough to open source Cisco's website proudly proclaims it responsible for a half percent of the contributions to the Linux kernel (0.5%). In reality, Cisco has been a near non-entity as an open source contributor. Read More WHITE PAPER: Iron Mountain Email Archiving Deep Dive Mail servers continue to deal with ballooning message volumes and management challenges. Email archiving software provides a viable solution, particularly when granular government regulations apply. Learn More Now. In this Issue Tier 1 for IPv4 != Tier 1 for IPv6 Internet Speed Isn't Everything Stuff I Learned from My 3 Biggest Network Screw Ups Please Don't Confuse Standards with Open Source Software Fly on the wall says Apple made Newsday kill funny iPad ap ad Why are there no Cisco iPad applications? Cisco's Dividend Announcement and a Little Corporate Finance Shows How Cisco is Changing Malicious code that comes with release notes? Cisco, HP and Juniper don't have what it takes in the data center Networking and Virtualization Vendors Should Join the Open vSwitch Effort The 'Beauty of the Web' in the eye of the beholder Cisco losing steam in data center switching? Does the Linux desktop matter? WEBCAST: NeuStar, Inc. 30 Minutes to Faster Web Pages Join this discussion and learn the importance and nuances of load testing, measuring scalability, setting page performance and transaction response rates, and what to do when things go wrong. You'll even hear performance improvement tips that are quick to implement and free. View Now Tier 1 for IPv4 != Tier 1 for IPv6 With the impending depletion of the global IPv4 address pool, Internet Service Providers are rapidly working on their IPv6 deployment plans. Organizations who are starting their IPv6 transition plans are asking their current ISPs about their IPv6 services. However, organizations that have chosen Tier 1 ISPs for their Internet connectivity may be surprised by these Tier 1 providers' upstream IPv6 connectivity. Read More Internet Speed Isn't Everything Don't get us wrong, speed is important. You have to have an Internet connection fast enough to do what you need and want to do. But let's insert a sense of perspective. Read More Stuff I Learned from My 3 Biggest Network Screw Ups My grandmother used to tell me that while painful, mistakes always make the most interesting stories and teach the best lessons. I certainly, do not go out to an account hoping to trash out someones network so I can learn stuff. If that was the case, the only thing I would learn is resume building 101. Read More Please Don't Confuse Standards with Open Source Software Some people want to merge the idea of free and open source software with standards, and indeed open the discussion into one of "open standards." This confuses two ideas that are very different once you get beyond the idea they both involve collaboration in a technology community. Read More WHITE PAPER: Shoretel Build a RFP for UC Measuring TCO is the best metric for determining the risks and benefits of any technology. This white paper provides guidance on how to effectively measure the TCO for a Unified Communications system and will provide the details you need to build a comprehensive RFP. Read More! Fly on the wall says Apple made Newsday kill funny iPad ap ad Yesterday we were speculating about whether Apple was behind the sudden disappearance from YouTube of a newspaper's funny iPad app ad that depicted a Dad "forgetting" that an iPad is not a rolled up newspaper and using it to swat a fly ... with predictable results; the iPad shatters into a million pieces and we all get a good laugh. Read More Why are there no Cisco iPad applications? I have been wondering for a while why there are no Cisco made iPad applications within iTunes besides WebEx.  Then I started to think about the events over the last year. Read More Cisco's Dividend Announcement and a Little Corporate Finance Shows How Cisco is Changing Cisco has forever marketed itself as a hip, growth oriented, fun networking company. That image still remains, but Cisco's growth and acquisitions over the years have brought it to a size that delivering, financially, like a smaller tech company, is very hard. Read More Malicious code that comes with release notes? I was astonished when Mike Dausin of security provider HP TippingPoint briefed me on a new state of network security report and explained how much more sophisticated writers of malicious code had become. Their code is much cleaner than it had been in years past and that recently, some updated versions of this code had actually come with release notes. Read More WEBCAST: Akamai Technologies Increase Download Completion Rates Join IDC for this live Webcast as new research on Electronic Software Delivery is revealed. Find out how to effectively monitor and deliver small and large downloads to ensure end user success and satisfaction. And because it's live, you can ask the experts questions specific to your environment. Register Today. Cisco, HP and Juniper don't have what it takes in the data center Cisco's coming at the data center from a legacy of building global networks - not from any real pedigree in data center IT. So says the chief marketing officer of Brocade at the analyst conference the company hosted this week. Read More Networking and Virtualization Vendors Should Join the Open vSwitch Effort My colleague Mark Bowker and I are knee-deep in new research data on server virtualization. Within this mountain of data, we are discovering some networking existing and impending networking issues related to network switching. Read More The 'Beauty of the Web' in the eye of the beholder Tomorrow, I'll be in San Francisco for Microsoft's launch event for the beta version of Internet Explorer 9, which is competing with Microsoft's Phone 7 for buzz in the tech world these days. For those of you unable to make the event, you can watch it online. Read More Cisco losing steam in data center switching? Talk about peeing on the campfire: just as Cisco rolls out its new and enhanced switches for the data center, Oppenheimer & Co. issues a report proclaiming share losses in this market for Cisco in 2011.  Read More Does the Linux desktop matter? When it all boils down, does Linux on the desktop really matter? Last week, I touched on the problems counting the number of Linux desktops, but the real question is does it really matter? Read More
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