From the monthly archives: March 2009

Can Cisco sell ‘unified’ vision to a tough server crowd?

By On March 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Cisco’s biggest challenge in gaining market acceptance for its new Unified Computing System is to convince data center managers to buy blade servers from the router giant instead of from traditional, incumbent suppliers.

“Server buyers don’t have a relationships with Cisco,” says James Staten of Forrester Research. “It will be tough to convince them of [...]

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Cisco buying Flip video camera maker for $590 million

By On March 19, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Cisco Thursday announced its intent to acquire privately held Pure Digital Technologies, creator of the Flip video camcorder for consumers, for $590 million in stock.

Pure Digital is a “pioneer” in developing consumer-friendly video with mass-market appeal, Cisco says. The acquisition of Pure Digital is key to Cisco’s strategy to expand momentum in the media-enabled [...]

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Cisco: How to achieve network redundancy with 2 interfaces

By On March 19, 2009 · 1 Comment

Sometime ago, during my preparation for Cisco CCIE certification, I encountered a task that I had to admit made me think a little bit, even I should see the solution from the first minute. The idea, at least as I see it, is that as much as you learn for some certification you start to [...]

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Cisco’s UCS: A closer look

By On March 18, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Cisco is claiming its new Unified Computing architecture will save IT departments 20% cheaper on their hardware costs and 30% on IT running costs, compared with traditional systems.Launched on Monday, March 16, the Unified Computing System unites computing, network, storage access, and visualization resources in a single energy efficient system, the company said. This puts [...]

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CeBIT 2009: End-of-show report

By On March 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment

CeBIT 2009 got off to a powerful start and ended on a successful note, boosting optimism in the world ICT industry. A majority of the 4,300 companies from 69 countries drew fresh optimism from being here at CeBIT. A huge number of exhibitors and visitors are now leaving Hannover with a renewed [...]

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Sharp turns like Cisco’s have a long history

By On March 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment

If Cisco announces its first blade servers on Monday, as expected, the news may well herald a major expansion of the dominant networking company’s business. But even though it’s the most hotly anticipated move in a long time for an IT vendor, this isn’t the first case of a company taking a big gamble on [...]

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Authentication with a twist

By On March 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment

People mistrust fingerprint devices, mostly because they associate fingerprinting with criminal activity. The average citizen thinks that the fingerprint registration could be stolen and used to implicate them in a crime. It can’t, of course, but that doesn’t change their perception. The same problem faces facial scanning/recognition software which has been used (unsuccessfully) to identify [...]

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The stateful LAN: Layer 7 visibility and control

By On March 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Enterprises have seen an explosion of new applications, devices and classes of users on their LANs, which makes it harder than ever for IT to ensure network performance, secure corporate assets and comply with regulations. In response, next-generation intelligent LAN switches are emerging that are designed to provide stateful, deep-packet inspection up through Layer 7, [...]

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Cisco Hosts Customer Webcast: Cisco Transforms the Data Center

By On March 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Cisco will host a webcast presentation to discuss its strategy for transforming the data center.

Join John Chambers, chairman and chief executive officer, Cisco; Sue Bostrom, executive vice president and chief marketing officer; Rob Lloyd, executive vice president-designate of Worldwide Operations, and other Cisco executives for this online Internet event.

Date: Monday, March [...]

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Cisco IronPort Security Management Appliance

By On March 15, 2009 · 1 Comment

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