Tuesday, July 23, 2013

10 competitors Cisco couldn’t kill off

Chambers: Cisco will become the number 1 IT company

Cyber-Jacking Cars, Not in the Future but Now!

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July 23, 2013
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10 competitors Cisco couldn't kill off

Some companies actually thrived while Cisco knocked off most of its competitors.

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Issue highlights

1. Chambers: Cisco will become the number 1 IT company

2. Cyber-Jacking Cars, Not in the Future but Now!

3. Patent firm Eolas loses appeal in Web patents lawsuit

4. We're Network World, not The Country Network

5. Apache OpenOffice now comes with a handy sidebar

6. TwinStrata delivers data to the cloud

7. USA PRISM Plus, the perfect NSA photo-sharing app for those who have nothing to hide

8. Google accounts for 25 percent of all Internet traffic, study finds

9. Spanish crook snags almost $53,000 in sneaky smartphone scam

WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel®

Converged Infrastructure eGuide

In this eGuide, Network World along with sister publications CIO, Computerworld, IDG News Service and Techworld examine the challenges facing CIOs as they attempt to create converged infrastructures. Read Now!

Chambers: Cisco will become the number 1 IT company

Think software-defined networking will change the industry? You're thinking way too small, according to Cisco CEO John Chambers. In Cisco's strategy, SDN is just a single element in a holistic architecture that brings intelligence, programmability and application awareness to every facet of your infrastructure and spans the data center to the cloud. In this installment of the IDG Enterprise CEO Interview Series, Chambers spoke with Chief Content Officer John Gallant about the power of Cisco's Unified Framework and how delivering on that vision could make Cisco the number one IT company overall. No small ambition there. READ MORE

Cyber-Jacking Cars, Not in the Future but Now!

When I see a polished and obviously nutured classic or vintage car I always admire them but after having a couple I never want to own one again. They're usually temperamental and expensive to keep running and, more than anything else, they aren't as comfortable as a modern car. READ MORE

Patent firm Eolas loses appeal in Web patents lawsuit

Patent firm Eolas Technologies lost an appeal against Google, J.C. Penney, Yahoo and Amazon.com in a long-drawn lawsuit involving key Web patents. READ MORE

WHITE PAPER: VCE

Eclipse Aerospace Case Study

Building an Agile, Cost-efficient Business using a Virtualized Data Center. Learn More.

We're Network World, not The Country Network

A public relations professional sends an email and I ponder: "Hi Paul: Our company handles PR for Katie Armiger." That's nice. I have never heard of Katie Armiger. Perhaps she is an entrepreneur, a high-tech exec, the next Marissa Mayer. "Katie will be in town performing at the WKLB Block Party on Sunday, July 28th in Boston." READ MORE

Apache OpenOffice now comes with a handy sidebar

In its first major revision in more than a year, the Apache OpenOffice suite now comes with a sidebar, from which users can launch their favorite tools. READ MORE

TwinStrata delivers data to the cloud

TwinStrata's CloudArray is a brokerage platform between enterprise networks and cloud storage services providers, and we found in testing that it's pretty clever. READ MORE

WHITE PAPER: Netscout Systems Inc.

Good APM Practices Get Results

According to NetForecast's survey, enterprises with application performance management (APM) best practices benchmark scores above six on a ten-point scale experience 75% better results in critical areas. This research paper reveals the survey results as well as discusses the best practices for APM. Learn More.

USA PRISM Plus, the perfect NSA photo-sharing app for those who have nothing to hide

I don't watch much TV, but it just so happens that I did and it included one of my pet peeve phrases "nothing to hide." During a HGTV show in which a couple was moving overseas and house hunting, when shown a house with virtually no privacy, the man said it was a good thing they had "nothing to hide." I' READ MORE

Google accounts for 25 percent of all Internet traffic, study finds

The diversified range of new products being built and provided by Google now make the company accountable for nearly 25 percent of all Internet traffic, up from a mere 6 percent just three years ago, according to a new study. READ MORE

Spanish crook snags almost $53,000 in sneaky smartphone scam

A 23-year-old man was arrested last week in the Spanish region of Murcia for a simple but ingenious scam involving the ultra-popular Whatsapp messaging system that netted him nearly $53,000 over two months. READ MORE

WHITE PAPER: Code 42 Software, Inc.

Five Steps to Worry-Free Endpoint Backup and Data Migration

Many companies still rely on a legacy, platform-specific data backup solution. This outdated approach becomes especially risky when IT faces a data migration initiative. Organizations risk immense data loss and an expensive, intensive disaster recovery undertaking if they launch a data migration effort without first properly securing their data. Learn More.

SLIDESHOWS

12 of the worst data breaches of 2013 so far

The Identity Theft Resource Center, which tracks disclosed data breaches, has recorded 301 for the first half of 2013.

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