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	Cisco, Gartner story stirs debate Our story on market research firm Gartner's view on single vendor network procurements has sparked quite a debate. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Top 2 Virtualization Challenges Virtualized data centers must become more highly available to ensure timely access to data. This paper examines the trends toward server consolidation and how WAN optimization technology can address application performance and information availability issues. Read now! In this Issue Apple's e-wallet won't replace the one I'm sitting on Saying no to smartphones: most mobile users will buy new 'dumb' phones Security in the Cloud? It's a Matter of Position Egypt: Cisco and Juniper won't go there Do investors have a right to know more about Jobs's health? Palin e-mail snoop got prison because he's too smart? Should Walking While Distracted be a Crime? Open Source FAIL Cisco would welcome this survey's findings So much anger over such a minor matter Are mentors dead? 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Turns out the next mobile device most wireless service subscribers will buy will be yet another "dumb" phone. Read More Security in the Cloud? It's a Matter of Position UCOne of the biggest challenges facing network architects is in crafting a security architecture that protects internal network resources from external attack -- typically in the form of denial of service (DoS) attacks against public-facing servers. These kinds of attacks can range from a nuisance, to one that threatens to disrupt overall business operations. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Application-Aware Network Performance Management According to industry analyst Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), Riverbed® Cascade© stacks up extremely well against the competition. How well? In particular, Cascade outperforms other application-aware network performance management solutions in such important areas as product strength and cost efficiency. Read Now. Egypt: Cisco and Juniper won't go there Cisco and Juniper aren't touching Egypt. Both companies declined comment when asked if they are in communication with their service provider customers there after Egypt threw the "kill switch" on its Internet communications in the wake of political unrest in that country. Read More Do investors have a right to know more about Jobs's health? A week after news of his medical leave became public, the first sentence of a Wall Street Journal story this morning asks: "How sick is Steve Jobs?" The underlying questions are whether Apple investors have a right to know and whether Apple's board has an obligation to tell them. Those questions are being debated anew by investors, corporate directors and regulators. Read More Palin e-mail snoop got prison because he's too smart? So now we know the real reason - or at least the official reason - why the college student who snooped into Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account got sent to prison instead of the halfway house recommended by the judge who oversaw his trial and conviction. It's primarily because he was a college student. Read More WEBCAST: IBM How much network downtime can your business tolerate? Join this IBM broadcast to learn how to manage and improve network configuration activity to keep your networks running, in compliance and generating revenue. View Now Should Walking While Distracted be a Crime? You have been found guilty of texting while walking. That'll be $100, and we're not talking iTunes credit. Read More Open Source FAIL I recently read an interesting blog on Open Source and ERP from Derek Singleton, titled "Can Open Source ERP Succeed?" His blog focused on the ERP segment of the market and why no open source solution has succeeded. Read More Cisco would welcome this survey's findings In the News That Will Please Cisco Dept., most large enterprises are gearing up for technology refreshes in their data centers this year, while a large percentage are prioritizing around data center consolidation. Read More So much anger over such a minor matter Yesterday I was swapping e-mail with a longtime journalist friend and we drifted into the evergreen topic of online incivility. This morning I scan the comments on my post pooh-poohing "e-wallets" as a replacement for the regular kind... and up pops an example of what we'd been talking about. Read More Are mentors dead? IT isn't exactly the friendliest atmosphere for the traditional master/apprentice approach. Or is it America that's the problem? Read More
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