Is Cisco losing thought leadership in the networking industry?

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	Is Cisco losing thought leadership in the networking industry? A veritable who's who of tech industry titans are set to converge on Stanford next week for the cloud-led Open Networking summit highlighting the increasing influence of cloud providers, which is particularly notable as no networking manufacturers are in the leadership of the Open Networking Foundation. This begs the question, is Cisco losing influence in the networking industry? Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Performance Metrics and the Cloud Unlike static configuration management databases, which often contain information too outdated for real-time understanding, a dynamic operational service model provides relevant, timely information. Read More In this Issue Google engineer: 'We don't get platforms;' G+ 'pathetic' Do Nearly Half of Americans Really Want a Windows Tablet? Enterprise Or Bust: Huawei Says "En Garde" to Cisco Did FBI tail terror suspect using Wi-Fi called 'FBI Van 1'? Hadoop Makes For Strange Bedfellows, Open Source and Microsoft Oh Siri, you so silly! Apple's Siri – Is the Era of Speech Finally Upon Us? RIM's Pain is Microsoft's Attempted Gain Of Cisco, Citrix, VMware and WAAS WHITE PAPER: HP Gartner Report: Network Infrastructure Segmentation This research looks at how segmenting the network infrastructure into foundational building blocks provides clarity on the networking requirements and the ability to make better vendor choices at each layer of the network. Read now Google engineer: 'We don't get platforms;' G+ 'pathetic' Google engineer Steve Yegge meant for his here's-what's-wrong-with-Google manifesto to be a "little family intervention" read by the 20,000 Googler's present on Google+. Read More Do Nearly Half of Americans Really Want a Windows Tablet? The iPad is the runaway success story of the tablet market. So why did a recent survey found almost half of people polled want a Windows-based tablet? It could be there is a desire for a real alternative. Read More Enterprise Or Bust: Huawei Says "En Garde" to Cisco Most enterprise buyers will likely stay with their incumbent vendors in the short term, but Huawei's massive size and scale make them a long term threat to the status quo. Read More WHITE PAPER: Certeon, Exinda & Cisco Special Digital Edition: Wan Optimization This Network World Spotlight Digital Edition, prepared by Network World editors, provides an in-depth look at the latest WAN optimization developments. Read now Did FBI tail terror suspect using Wi-Fi called 'FBI Van 1'? According to a San Antonio media report, the man accused of planning to assassinate a Saudi diplomat in Washington, D.C., was not the sharpest tool in the box. However, if neighbor accounts are to be taken at face value, the same could be said of the FBI agents tasked with foiling his alleged plot. Read More Hadoop Makes For Strange Bedfellows, Open Source and Microsoft It seems Hadoop makes for strange bedfellows. At the Microsoft PASS Summit 2011 it was announced that the upcoming versions of SQL Server (2012) and Azure, the Microsoft Cloud service will both support Hadoop. Both of these should be available in preview soon with Azure by the end of the year and the new SQL server sometime in early 2012. Read More Oh Siri, you so silly! Featured at Apple's launch of iPhone 4S last week – before we mourned Steve Jobs and then realized the iPhone 4S was headed for a demand tsunami – was a little thing called Siri. As users start playing around with it, they are discovering that Siri has a built-in sense of humor. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP IDC: Transforming the Network The IP network has become business critical for organizations that increasingly rely on it for all forms of communication and business processes. Additionally, the desire for advanced technologies residing on the network rapidly increases the complexity on the network. Read now Apple's Siri – Is the Era of Speech Finally Upon Us? I guess I was less disappointed by the iPhone 4S announcement than many. No matter what you call it, there's a lot to like, and, and I previously noted, sales are indeed brisk. Read More RIM's Pain is Microsoft's Attempted Gain I guess when your market share would make for a really good golf score on a tough hole, you have to do anything to gain ground. In Microsoft's case, it's giving away 25 Windows Phone devices BlackBerry users frustrated with this week's outage. Read More Of Cisco, Citrix, VMware and WAAS Cisco's deepened relationship with Citrix for desktop virtualization demonstrates that Cisco will not put all of its eggs into one basket when it comes to market opportunities like virtualization. Yet, no new virtualization partnership may ever be as deep or strategic as the one it's had for years with VMware. Read More
	SLIDESHOWS 26 helpful open source network management tools Over the last decade or so, open source development has skyrocketed, and network management software has ridden that wave. Many frustrated IT administrators have turned to free tools to monitor, configure and map their networked devices. Here are 26 examples of open source network management software tools to help you do your job. GOODIES FROM MICROSOFT SUBNET We've got books on System Center and Microsoft training of the winner's choice from Webucator.. Enter here.Also: Please take our survey on certifications and your career MOST-READ STORIES Should tech pros get an MBA? 2011 tech industry graveyard Vint Cerf on Google's privacy practices Dennis Ritchie, father of Unix and C programming language, dead at 70 Did FBI tail terror suspect using Wi-Fi called 'FBI Van 1'? Many users complain of broken iOS5 upgrade process 2012 IT budgets, salaries on the rise, survey says Oh Siri, you so silly! Of Cisco, Citrix, VMware and WAAS Computer infected? Blame yourself, Microsoft report concludes
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