Cisco Ethernet switches make big leap to 40/100G

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	Cisco Ethernet switches make big leap to 40/100G Cisco this week unveiled significant extensions to both of its major switching lines with the addition of 40/100G Ethernet capabilities. Read More WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. A New Look at Payment Security Akamai Edge Tokenization takes much of the cost and complexity out of eCommerce. By tokenizing critical payment data before it reaches your PCI-regulated infrastructure, Akamai relieves your organization from what experts consider the most important and challenging PCI requirement. Read more In this Issue F5 Shakes Up the Firewall Market End-of-Life Cisco Hardware - What Are Your Options? Communities will lead the next wave of competitive advantage in networking Riverbed's Granite speeds up WAN storage to drive consolidation RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CloudPassage CloudPassage Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is one of the fastest-growing cloud computing sectors. However, cloud providers usage agreements make the user responsible for protecting servers, applications and data. CloudPassage Halo is the award winning cloud server security platform that has everything you need to secure your cloud servers. Get Free Halo Basic Today! F5 Shakes Up the Firewall Market The high-end of the firewall market has really been dominated by two companies: Crossbeam Systems (with Check Point Software) and Juniper Networks. Over the past few years, these two firms won most of the high revenue/high margin enterprise and service provider deals. Read More WHITE PAPER: Shoretel Comparison of Avaya and ShoreTel UC Solutions Whether you need to build a business case for a UC system, or are ready to select a new solution, this white paper offers a thorough, side-by-side comparison of ShoreTel and Avaya offerings to help you make informed decisions. Read now! End-of-Life Cisco Hardware - What Are Your Options? Has this ever happened to you? Your IT life is good. Your network is running smoothly. Then something or someone jostles something in your gray matter and you realize that some of your Cisco switches and routers are going end-of-life (EOL). It's definitely one of those "uh-oh" moments. Read More WEBCAST: HP, Microsoft & Intel Appliance video The first appliance in the industry which consolidates and manages thousands of databases, integrates hardware, software and support and is scalable to meet your changing business needs. Learn more Communities will lead the next wave of competitive advantage in networking Competitive advantage for network technologies will be determined by a vendor's ability to allow its customers to create custom features through a programmable front end and then share these ideas with a broader community. The community will become a self feeding ecosystem that will create a higher level of stickiness with network technologies. Read More Riverbed's Granite speeds up WAN storage to drive consolidation Riverbed Technology plans to make enterprise data centers look like local storage at branch offices with Granite, a new accelerator technology the company is announcing on Wednesday. Read More
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