Note to John Chambers: Cut Your Marketing Budget by 25%

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	Note to John Chambers: Cut Your Marketing Budget by 25% With Cisco now actively looking for ways to cut costs, I have a suggestion for CEO John Chambers -- Cut your marketing budgets across the board. I firmly believe that Cisco could cut 25% out of its marketing budget and not miss a beat. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP 10 Things to Know about Deduplication You as an IT manager want simple, cost-effective solutions for your complex IT challenges. HP kept this in mind while designing StoreOnce. New technologies, such as deduplication can be difficult to understand but StoreOnce powered by Intel Xeon® processor 5500 series makes it simple. Read More! In this Issue Can you build profitable public clouds out of enterprise tech? Cloud drives Cisco to open source Julian Assange: Facebook is a "spy machine" for US Intelligence ARIN is A-OK with sales of IPv4 addresses LastPass drops the ball, but looks good doing it Not Your Father's Open Source Car Can social networking save students from failing in school? Question: Will Vendors Open Up About OpenFlow at Interop? WEBCAST: BMC Software Get the Leading ITSM Suite on your Terms BMC Remedy OnDemand offers the power of the industry's leading IT Service Management solution with the flexibility of Software as a Service. And when your needs change, switching between the OnDemand and on-premise BMC Remedy suite is seamless. Watch the demo for a peek inside BMC Remedy OnDemand. View Today! Can you build profitable public clouds out of enterprise tech? If I were to play buzzword bingo today I'd really like to have the words Cloud, Fabric, OpenFlow, API, and Stack lined up - I would be sure to win in any vendor briefing in the first 42 seconds of the meeting. Let's face it, even if a vendor has products that were designed for wiring closets or branch routing they are all trying to find some way of hitching them to the Cloud train. Read More Cloud drives Cisco to open source There's an interesting post on GigaOm this week on how cloud computing is forcing Cisco to embrace open source. It argues that Cisco realizes open source software will be critical to its success in cloud due to the emphasis on application development. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP 6 Key Dedupe Challenges The deduplication market is the fastest segment ofthe storage industry, per IDC. Accordingly, every vendor is telling their version of the deduplication story. With emerging technologies, it is difficult for IT managers to determine what the true IT benefits vs. marketing spin are. Read More Today! Julian Assange: Facebook is a "spy machine" for US Intelligence According to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, "Facebook in particular is the most appalling spy machine that has ever been invented." Read More ARIN is A-OK with sales of IPv4 addresses I spent a delightful lunch last week with Stacy Hughes -- aka the "IP Godess" -- at the Rocky Mountain IPv6 Summit in Denver (pictured). We discussed IPv6 adoption trends, black/gray markets for IPv4 addresses and a fun upcoming contest ARIN has planned. Read More WHITE PAPER: Splice Communications The Benefits of Outsourcing Telecom Management Choosing the right network solutions provider (NSP) will help businesses improve network reliability, service quality, operating efficiency, billing accuracy and better allocation of resources – all reducing the total cost of ownership of your network infrastructure. Many companies have realized the benefits of working with an NSP. Read now! LastPass drops the ball, but looks good doing it So it turns out that LastPass - which touts itself as a provider of "The last password you'll ever need" - actually offers no such thing. Not that anyone should have believed otherwise. Read More Not Your Father's Open Source Car I like probably some of you have seen open source car designs before. They are usually built on top of some sand buggy chassis and rather utilitarian looking. Now a company called Local Motors is looking ot change all that by using an open source community formulate to turn out cars that people actually want. Read More Can social networking save students from failing in school? Carnegie Mellon University educators have created an app inspired by social network sites like Twitter and Facebook that is designed to bring students together to improve learning. Read More Question: Will Vendors Open Up About OpenFlow at Interop? It's the week before Interop so you are likely to face a fortnight of public relations buzz from the networking industry. Read More
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