Cisco's video network for Winter Olympics will be all-HD, all-IP

Cisco's video network for Winter Olympics will be all-HD, all-IP The Olympic Winter Games are coming soon, and NBC will be using Cisco's gear to bring it to your living room in high definition. Read More WHITE PAPER: WatchGuard When Pressing the Send Button Results In Compliance Violations Protecting confidential data is serious business. Failure may result in fat fines and even jail time - not to mention damage to your brand. WatchGuard's easy-to-use, all-inclusive email and web secure content and threat prevention appliances offer a complete data protection solution. Click here. In this Issue Cisco's on to Something with Borderless Networking 10Gbps Routing + Security for under $5k, and it's not from Cisco or Juniper Cisco appears to have missed the newest market transition: Don't be evil Lawmakers call for Cisco, others to review China The case for virtualized WAN optimization controllers Emerging IEEE Ethernet standards could soothe data center headaches WEBCAST: HP Shifting Role of Network Managers Webcast - More and more network managers are tasked with ensuring optimal application performance 24/7. No one wants to be in a position where end users are the first to notice application degradation. This webcast addresses the shifting role of network managers and provides best practices on fault and performance management. View today! Cisco's on to Something with Borderless Networking You might say I'm a bit late to commenting on Cisco's new Borderless Network Architecture, but when Cisco initially launched the campaign I wasn't ready to comment. Most of my focus was on the ISR G2 launch which accompanied the Borderless Networking launch. Read More 10Gbps Routing + Security for under $5k, and it's not from Cisco or Juniper Vyatta has been out for some time and has been doing a good job at providing open source routing and switching to the masses. They have been besting Cisco in the branch/data center space with a better product and price, now they have brought that to the enterprise and service provider space with the release of the 3500 Series Router/Firewall. In this blog we are going to take a look at a comparison... Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Inc. Case Study: Dramatically Reduce Branch Office Costs Sony Ericsson is saving over 1.5 million annually after adopting Wide Area Application Services (WAAS). The mobile phone manufacturer is accelerating mission-critical product life cycle management applications, improving IT agility and reducing IT operation costs at all of its branch sites. Learn More Cisco appears to have missed the newest market transition: Don't be evil Earlier this week Cisco announced it would further embrace China, then the very next day, heroically and gallantly in my opinion, Google announced it would fight cyber attacks that originated in China by potentially closing its operations there while also refusing to censor its future search results that had long been mandated by China. Finally today in Forbes, Cisco (the largest information security... Read More Lawmakers call for Cisco, others to review China CNN carried a Dow Jones story today on how some in Congress are calling for other US IT titans to follow Google's lead and review, even perhaps exit the Chinese market - the largest Internet market in terms of number of users. Read More WHITE PAPER: Radware Rethinking Application Security Hacker motivation has changed from gaining fame to financial gain. Cyber crime activities now employ a new level of network attacks, which go undetected by standard network-security tools. This paper discusses the changing threat landscape and how you can protect your business from emerging threats. Read More The case for virtualized WAN optimization controllers In a recent newsletter we introduced the concept of Application Delivery 2.0, a major component of which is virtualization. This is the sixth in a series of newsletters that discusses how we think that virtualization will dramatically shape 2010 and beyond. Whereas previous newsletters discussed virtualized servers and virtualized desktops, this newsletter will discuss virtualized WAN optimization controllers (WOC). Read More Emerging IEEE Ethernet standards could soothe data center headaches Cisco, HP and others are waging an epic battle to gain control of the data center, but at the same time they are joining forces to push through new IEEE Ethernet standards that could greatly ease management of those increasingly virtualized IT nerve centers. Read More