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	Cisco flying into the clouds Cisco has made two recent moves to aggressively go after as much cloudshare as it can get. The first was naming CIO Rebecca Jacoby to head up its new Cloud and Systems Management Technology Group, which is an amalgamation of three previously separate business units chartered to increase the company's presence in IaaS, PaaS and SaaS markets. Read More WEBCAST: Cisco Simplify Network Management and Improve IT Operations Would you like to simplify network management for your wired and wireless networks? Attend this webinar to learn how you can more effectively manage your network and the services it delivers. View Now In this Issue Quiz: Are you ready for IPv6? 25 top network and IT industry news stories of 2011 Cisco CSO on self-defending networks: The marketing's dead, the goal's alive Migrating from T1 to fiber WAN Consumer Watchdog calls for investigation of Carrier IQ, carriers CNET accused of wrapping malware in Windows installer for Nmap security tool RSA security lapse led to March hack, says researcher New Cisco cloud computing framework pushes management, collaboration Verizon cites security issue for nixing Google Wallet 9 best practices for successful IT projects WHITE PAPER: MegaPath Today's Network: Make It a Strategic, Future-Proof Asset Today's small and mid-sized organizations support dozens of applications and hundreds of devices and mobile workers. Network congestion has become a risk, as users change offices, work from home and add devices at will. SMBs need simplification in the form of network convergence. And a managed service provider can help. View Now Quiz: Are you ready for IPv6? How do you keep your IPv4 Web site connected to the entire Internet as IPv6 sites pop up? Read More 25 top network and IT industry news stories of 2011 2011 will be remembered for Jobs' death, Cisco's refocusing, IPv6's coming out party and more Read More Cisco CSO on self-defending networks: The marketing's dead, the goal's alive For a long time, Cisco CEO John Chambers played up his vision of the self-defending network. But we haven't heard much about it in more recent years. Read More WHITE PAPER: SonicWALL The Next Generation is the Smart Generation Innovations such as mobility, Web 2.0, social media and cloud computing have dramatically changed the IT landscape and introduced new security threats into the corporate network. This eBook investigates why traditional firewalls are no longer enough, and how application intelligence and control enable network security in the wake of these changes. Read more. Migrating from T1 to fiber WAN Migrating from multisite MPLS to 100Mbps Ethernet can save you a bundle; here's how. (Insider content) Read More Consumer Watchdog calls for investigation of Carrier IQ, carriers Consumer Watchdog has called for a U.S. government investigation of Carrier IQ, the maker of tracking software for mobile phones, and its users. Read More CNET accused of wrapping malware in Windows installer for Nmap security tool Some in the security community are currently ticked, at least disgusted, in regard to the pen-testing network mapping tool Nmap after Gordon Lyon, better known as Fyodor, announced on Seclists that C|Net Download.Com is now bundling Nmap with malware. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive The Ultralight Branch Ultralight branches let the business drive the placement and lifespan of branches while minimizing real estate, infrastructure, operational, and service costs. Read now. RSA security lapse led to March hack, says researcher The attack that hacked RSA Security's network earlier this year succeeded because the company failed to take a basic security precaution, a researcher says. Read More New Cisco cloud computing framework pushes management, collaboration Cisco this week unveiled products and packaging options for customers looking to implement public, private and hybrid cloud computing. Read More Verizon cites security issue for nixing Google Wallet On the surface, it looked like the kind of scenario that net neutrality advocates had long feared: A big incumbent carrier using its network to snuff out apps that compete with its own services. However, Verizon is insisting that this isn't the case. Read More 9 best practices for successful IT projects Most often when the watchdogs at the Government Accountability Office are called into to check out an agency, process or project they are looking for something that has gone wrong. This week, however the group took a look at some government IT projects that have gone right and came up with some best practices other government agencies or in public corporations could emulate to achieve success in their own IT projects. Read More
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