We look at the top blog posts and news stories and offer ideas for a great 2010.
Posted by Cisco Subnet editor Julie Bort: The editors and bloggers that make up the Cisco Subnet community wish you and your loved ones a happy holiday season and best wishes for a great 2010. We’ll be taking a short hiatus from December 25 through January 3. We’ll be back on January 4 bringing you more news, blogs, podcasts, opinion and discussions about Cisco. As has become a holiday tradition, I have assembled a quirky list of Holiday 2009 resources for your reading pleasure.
Top 2009 blog posts from Cisco Subnet
- Top 10 YouTube hacking videos
- Largest Coordinated ATM Rip-off Ever Nets $9+ Million in 30 Minutes
- 2009 Top Urban Legends in IT Security
- Account Password Reset Procedures a Joke
- The Cisco Cert Zone
- New HP Networking boss took $17.2M from EMC, but sues to void his non-compete agreement
- Port 666
- Jeff Doyle on IP Routing
Top Cisco news stories from Network World
- Cisco quietly downsizing through outsourcing
- Do HP, 3Com value claims trump Cisco?
- Cisco sends employees home to work
- Cisco’s data center guru talks direction, strategy
- Cisco lays off hundreds in San Jose
- Cisco announces its highest level certification ever
- Cisco reveals aggressive pricing for blade server system
- Cisco busts out beyond blade servers with Unified Computing System
Feel good stories during the season of goodwill-toward-others
- Santa Says Hello to Child Patients via Cisco Video Link
- Cisco has many public service initiatives, including matching funds for employee donationas/volunteerism. It is difficult to get a tally on the total number of dollars Cisco has given to charity in 2009, but here’s just one list. It names the SF Bay Area non-profits that recieved a grant from the Cisco Foundation.
Celebrating the New Year
- How to create guilt-free New Year’s resolutions that will actually work for you.
- The Top 30 business New Year’s resolutions (there’s something in there for everyone … such as my personal favorite, “I will not let e-mail rule my day.”)
- Ten career-related New Year’s resolutions
- Countdown to the Rose Bowl Parade (which starts January 1 at 8 a.m. PT).
- and last, but not at all least, the post-season college football bowl schedule which runs throughout December and the first week in January.




