Choosing the New CCTRS Instead of CCENT? Really?

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	Choosing the New CCTRS Instead of CCENT? Really? Cisco announced their three CCT certs last week, all geared towards technicians. CCT has a clear and obvious good core purpose: to certify techs that Cisco dispatches to customer sites. The question that's not so obvious, and frankly will require some time to pass before any of us can see the real answer, is how useful, appealing, and popular CCT will become as a general Cisco career cert. Read More 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. In this Issue Microsoft bashes VMware at VMworld, again Advocating open source management can be a disaster Disqus, Network World's new commenting platform Do not dismiss that story about Apple's second lost iPhone vShield, Cloud Computing, and the Security Industry WEBCAST: Quest Software Data Protection for Data Growth Today's unprecedented growth in data - and the need to protect it - means you must find an effective, inexpensive to backup and potentially recover your company's data! In this Quest Software on-demand video, learn how to develop and manage a flexible backup and recovery strategy. Watch it today. View Now! Microsoft bashes VMware at VMworld, again In what has become an annual tradition, Microsoft celebrated the start of the VMworld show in Las Vegas this week with more satirical bashing of VMware. Read More WEBCAST: GFI Software GFI MailEssentials Complete Appliance Demonstration View a 20-minute product demo of this comprehensive email protection solution that combines antivirus, anti-spam and attachment filtering in a robust, highly scalable, easy-to-manage platform. View now Advocating open source management can be a disaster In the wake of Hurricane Irene, National Public Radio ran a piece on the challenges of risk management. Government officials, right up to the President, took heat for over blowing the potential danger, whereas surely they'd have been vilified if things had gone the other way and people had died due to insufficient warning. Don't get me started on the riskless society. Read More WHITE PAPER: Kaseya How to Launch a Successful IT Automation Initiative In this paper, we'll look at IT automation from the corporation's perspective, and discuss the steps organizations should take before launching such an initiative. We'll hear from companies that successfully implemented computer automation platforms, what their early steps were and what they would do differently if they could repeat the process. Read now Disqus, Network World's new commenting platform You'll notice a new comment platform live on Network World. This is a big change for us as we had previously not required registration for comments. Read More Do not dismiss that story about Apple's second lost iPhone Yesterday's murmurings that the report of a second lost iPhone prototype was actually an Apple publicity stunt have today turned into a full-throated dismissal of the story that CNET trumpeted as an exclusive. Those dismissals are based primarily on the fact that the San Francisco police have not confirmed that it happened. I believe that it did. Read More vShield, Cloud Computing, and the Security Industry As VMworld winds down today, several security vendors including BitDefender, Catbird, Lumension, McAfee, Sophos and Symantec announced their intentions to work with VMware as a security partner or integrate with VMware vShield APIs. These vendors join Trend Micro -- a company that bet on vShield integration and is clearly benefiting from this decision. Read More
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