Monday, January 23, 2012

$21.7 million and he can't afford a financial planner?

Google Fiber Falters in Kansas City | Another reason for Cisco to pound its chest

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$21.7 million and he can't afford a financial planner?
Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs last year earned $21.7 million in total compensation, up 23% over the paltry $17.6 million he took home in 2010. And as part of that handsome pay package, Jacobs received a specified sum -- $25,000 -- for "financial planning." Don't ask me why. Read More


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Google Fiber Falters in Kansas City
Almost two years since Google announced plans to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in trial locations throughout the US, the project seems to be hung up — on wires. Read More

Another reason for Cisco to pound its chest
Never one to pass up an opportunity to toot its own horn, Cisco is celebrating a milestone... and not in its traditional stronghold of switching and routing. In just over two years, Cisco has landed over 10,000 customers for its Unified Computing System (UCS) blade server platform, the controversial product that alienated longtime partners HP and IBM. Read More


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Why Managing VMs is So Complex
Because virtual servers coexist with nonvirtualized ones, it effectively doubles the tools and efforts relevant to data center administration. Discover how a unified, out-of-band approach that aggregates management tools into a single, consolidated platform, renders the virtual and physical layers transparent from an IT management perspective. Read now!

The Future of Firewall Policies
The majority of today's firewalls have only IPv4 source and destination address objects in their policies. However, many of our firewalls are IPv6-capable and allow security administrators to configure either IPv4 or IPv6 policies. Over time, maintaining two firewall policies will become burdensome. Read More

Firesheep moment for SCADA: Hacking critical infrastructure systems now as easy as pushing a button?
Remember Firesheep . . . the addon that was so easy to use that even the clueless could successfully hack Facebook and Twitter accounts via Wi-Fi? Read More


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Understanding Web Application Security
This paper examines current trends in Web application security, assessing the present threat environment as well as limitations in existing approaches to protection. Learn more

Measuring Open Source Success
Open Source blogger Alan Shimel points to Red Hat as the most obvious success story coming out of open source in reaching the billion-dollar mark. But he notes that there are other smaller companies having success as well. Read More

Data Center Networking Discontinuity Impacts Network Security
Data center consolidation and server virtualization are creating data centers of massive scale, and thus radically changing the data center environment. Unfortunately, legacy data center networking equipment was not designed for this type of scale and dynamic use case. ESG calls this state data center networking discontinuity. Read More



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