BJ’s SHIFTS TO MPLS NETWORK
BJ’s signs a multi-year, multimillion-dollar agreement to have Qwest iQ Networking services installed in its 175 retail locations.
CISCO OFFERS GLIMPSE AT THE RISKY BUSINESS OF ACQUISITIONS
Cisco has made 16 acquisitions in the past two years (that makes 122 tech buys since 1993), and statistically speaking it’s likely anywhere from one to four of them will fail. “Approximately a quarter of our acquisitions don’t work,” Cisco’s senior vice president Howard Charney, told attendees of the company’s Networkers show in Australia this week.
CISCO FLESHES OUT MICROSOFT COOPERATION ON UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS
Cisco’s highly publicized cooperation with Microsoft on unified communications will focus on sharing presence information as well as on voice mail, Web conferencing and other areas, a Cisco executive said Tuesday.
INTERNET PIPES NOT READY TO BURST, RESEARCHER SAYS
New Web site monitors Internet traffic growth and finds growth rate is slowing despite influx of video and other traffic
SALARY OFFERS UP FOR 2007 TECH GRADS
Class of 2007 computer science grads’ average starting salary offer is up by 4.5% to $53,051 this year, according to a new survey.
TREND MICRO SECURITY GURUS LOOK FOR BETTER WAYS TO CLASSIFY MALWARE
Two senior security veterans from Trend Micro are trying to get the industry to change how it classifies malicious software.
Q&A: EXEC MCDOWELL FORECASTS NOKIA ENTERPRISE DIRECTION
Mary McDowell is executive vice president and general manager of Nokia’s enterprise solutions, a division that deals with products from …
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CHAT WITH AMAZON.COM’S CTO
If ever there were a man that knew how to eek out capacity and secure a data center, it would be Werner Vogels, vice president & CTO of Amazon.com. Join him for a live chat on Monday Oct. 1 from 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. EDT.
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SECURITY BUZZ: WHAT THE EXPERTS THINK
Speakers at The Security Standard conference weigh in on what they feel is the biggest security threat today. Featuring: Whitfield Diffie (Sun), Steve Hanna (Juniper), Scott Weiss (IronPort) and Richard Palmer (Cisco).
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TODAY ON CISCO SUBNETworking with the secretive Microsoft is not so easy. We delve into Cisco’s recent 10-K filing for what the company considers are its risks and rewards. Cisco trainer Wendell Odom has the answer to the sample CCNA exam question he posed Tuesday and says there are many ways to attack a technical question. Plus: Cisco tops potential options overhang dilution ranking on Motley Fool.
Despite the recent Ballmer-Chambers love-in, Cisco is finding that in reality
TODAY ON MICROSOFT SUBNETXP still rules, but why?). When it arrives, Microsoft hypervisor will outshine VMware. Microsoft recently and very quietly launched MSN Sideguide, a live search tool.
Corporations rushing to Vista – NOT (
BUZZBLOG: HOW MUCH DOES THE STORE OWE THIS PC BUYER?
Gone for good is seven years worth of correspondence between three generations of the buyer’s family, as well as 2,000 e-mail addresses and all the administrative files for a fledgling news site. The stuff was on a drive that the store tossed out instead of copying over to a new PC it sold a colleague. … Your assignment here is to help determine proper compensation for this loss.
TODAY ON LAYER 8, WHERE WE ARE WAY BETTER ABOUT DEADLINES THAN MOST GOVERNMENT AGENCIES:
U.S. veterans’ personal data and health information remain at risk of identity theft because the Veterans Affairs Department has only implemented 20 of the 22 security requirements the federal Inspector General made in 2006, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Wednesday.
