Figuring out the data center fabric maze

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	Figuring out the data center fabric maze Despite vendor pledges to support existing or developing industry standards, users are expected to deploy single-vendor data center and cloud switching fabrics from their primary suppliers. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Rocky Mountain IPv6 Task Force 2012 North American IPv6 Summit Become a certified IPv6 Engineer! Nephos6, in collaboration with the IPv6 Forum is hosting IPv6 certification testing. 2012 NA IPv6 Summit attendees can test for IPv6 certification during the conference. Save $50 off conference registration with this code: SPON700. Register Now In this Issue U.S. accuses AT&T of making millions off IP Relay scammers Products of the week 3.19.12 What Happened to the Windows 8 Critic? Biggest threat to corporate nets in 2011? Hactivists, not cybercriminals eBay CISO receiving security industry lifetime achievement award IBM: Internet security progress made but nasty exploits grow Anticipating the Open Network Summit AWS partners with open-source private cloud provider Eucalyptus Cyber-espionage botnet tied to country of Georgia website remains a mystery The Pros and Cons of Using Virtual Desktop Infrastructure RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Microsoft Try Microsoft Office 365, free Collaborate in the cloud with Office, Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync videoconferencing. Access, edit, and share documents. Starting at $8/user/month. Try it free. U.S. accuses AT&T of making millions off IP Relay scammers The federal government today issued a complaint against AT&T that essentially accuses the telecom giant of bilking U.S. customers out of millions of dollars by knowingly and willfully failing to effectively address rampant abuse of a system designed to help the hearing impaired. AT&T's response: We can't fix what we can't fix. From a Department of Justice press release: Read More Products of the week 3.19.12 Our roundup of intriguing new products from KinectCloud, CloudLock, Solarwinds, among others. Read More What Happened to the Windows 8 Critic? Last week, a number of news outlets ran a story on a blog called Fixing Windows 8, a Tumblr site run by user interface designer and former Microsoft employee Michael Bibik. One week later, and the HTML page for fixingwindows8.com is blank except for one character, a period. If you view the source, it's also just one character, a period. Bibik did not respond to an email request for comment. His Twitter... Read More WHITE PAPER: Tripwire Security-In-Depth Using Integrated Risk-Conscious Controls Today's attacks on IT infrastructure are becoming more frequent, targeted and sophisticated. They range from well-funded, state-sponsored attacks to attacks from trusted employees and consultants. Learn More! Biggest threat to corporate nets in 2011? Hactivists, not cybercriminals Hactivists - not cybercriminals - were responsible for the majority of personal data stolen from corporate and government networks during 2011, according to a new report from Verizon. Read More eBay CISO receiving security industry lifetime achievement award Dave Cullinane, chief information security officer at eBay, will be honored on March 28 in Boston with the SecureWorld Lifetime Achievement Award "for his outstanding contributions to the advancement of the information security community." Read More IBM: Internet security progress made but nasty exploits grow IBM said it found surprising improvements in Internet security such as a reduction in application security vulnerabilities, exploit code and spam but it also noted that those improvements come with a price: Attackers have been forced to rethink their tactics. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cyrus One Consolidating Data Center Support This paper explores issues that arise when an enterprise that leverages collocated data-center support requires substantial growth in information technology infrastructure. Learn More! Anticipating the Open Network Summit We are a few weeks away from the Open Network Summit (www.opennetsummit.org) which will be held in Santa Clara April 16 through 18. Read More AWS partners with open-source private cloud provider Eucalyptus Amazon Web Services, which offers a series of public cloud compute services, has signed an agreement with open-source private cloud vendor Eucalyptus Systems as a way to help customers ease hybrid cloud deployments. Read More Cyber-espionage botnet tied to country of Georgia website remains a mystery A security firm in Slovakia is asserting that a website operated by the country of Georgia has been used as part of a botnet to conduct cyber-espionage against that country's residents. Read More The Pros and Cons of Using Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Many organizations continue to run Windows XP on many or all of their desktop PCs, either because migration typically requires costly hardware upgrades, time-consuming transfers of settings, and user retraining, or because there's simply no compelling reason to move users to a new OS and the new application software that goes along with it. In some cases, both justifications apply. Read More
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