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	Juniper mirrors, foreshadows Cisco's problems Has Juniper caught the Cisco 'flu?' It appears that many of the same issues affecting Cisco are also afflicting Juniper two quarters into 2011. Read More WHITE PAPER: Blue Coat Systems Simplifying BI Deployments for Midsized Companies The Internet is rapidly replacing the WAN for business-critical application delivery. In response, networks will have to adapt to support the proliferation of mobile devices, application virtualization, public and private clouds and video. This Q&A with IDC highlights how WAN optimization can help to meet these demanding network challenges. Read now! In this Issue Why I was banned on Google+ (and how I redeemed myself) What's Next for Virtual Switching? Confusing array of security job titles complicates Pentagon cyber warrior strategy The problem with weak passwords and hijacked Hotmail: 'My friend's been hacked!' IPv6 Deployment Misperception: The network team owns the deployment Imagine if your neighbor built a fake Apple store The Cloud Gets More Open, But Can You Have Too Much Open? I Was Wrong About Self-Encrypting Hard Drives I've got a new MPLS lab. Tell me how to play with it WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Business Value with Network and Application Visibility In this white paper, IDC analyzes the ROI that customers can expect from Riverbed Cascade, based on interviews with Cascade customers. Additionally, IDC lays out the business case for proactively managing network and application performance. Get the visibility you need to achieve your IT objectives. Read Now. Why I was banned on Google+ (and how I redeemed myself) I was as surprised to learn last week that my Google+ account had been banned as I was to learn a few weeks ago that I had a Google+ account. Read More What's Next for Virtual Switching? According to ESG Research, most organizations host 5 to 10 VMs per physical server today. This is likely to increase moving forward as enterprise implement servers with multiple CPU cores, gigabytes of memory, network interconnects, and additional network bandwidth. As this happens, we will also see more direct VM to VM traffic within each physical server. Read More Confusing array of security job titles complicates Pentagon cyber warrior strategy As the US Department of Defense wrangles with cybersecurity and organizes for potential online warfare, it faces a number of big challenges - not the least of which is managing to get the right people in the right jobs. But with the DoD such a task isn't so easy. Read More WEBCAST: Riverbed Eliminate Network Finger-Pointing Cascade Demo: With Cascade, you get visibility into network optimization and analysis, application performance management, IT consolidation, and security. Watch as Jack, the manager of the network team, deals with user complaints about application performance. See how he uses Riverbed Cascade to solve them. Learn more! The problem with weak passwords and hijacked Hotmail: 'My friend's been hacked!' When you think of Microsoft, most folks don't think "sense of humor." Yet the engineers behind Hotmail have combined a bit of humor with security by adding a Mark As drop-down option of "My friend's been hacked!" Read More IPv6 Deployment Misperception: The network team owns the deployment We are over the hump kids. The No. 2 entry in this series has more to do with politics within the enterprise than it does with technical stuff. Read More Imagine if your neighbor built a fake Apple store By now you've probably seen the stories and pictures out of China about the five fake Apple stores. Read More WHITE PAPER: Extreme Networks Networks in Motion Download this whitepaper today and discover how you can cost-effectively optimize your network for the mobile demands of today's business. Examine how IT can provide: * Personalization and intelligence. * Ease of operation. * Seamless quality of user experience. * Secure on-the-go access to public and private networks. Read now! The Cloud Gets More Open, But Can You Have Too Much Open? OK get your scorecards out this could get confusing. Today it was announced that a new open cloud group was launched at OSCON. It is called the Open Cloud Initiative. Read More I Was Wrong About Self-Encrypting Hard Drives A few years ago, the EVP of marketing at EMC gave me some grief about analyst predictions. He said something like, "if I bet on your predictions and you're incorrect, I spend millions of dollars on the wrong stuff and lose my job. All you have to do is change your PowerPoint slides and move on." He was right. Read More I've got a new MPLS lab. Tell me how to play with it I've just had Christmas in July. I've been given a whole list of lab equipment, so big that naming all the SIPs, SPAs, and line cards, would end up blowing my word count limit for one blog. So I'll just keep it at a high level. Read More
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