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Yet Another Reason To Think About Disaster Recovery Strategy

Thoughts about DR after Super Storm Sandy

By Frank Kobuszewski
Nov 27, 2012 3 mins
Cisco Systems Disaster Recovery
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What do Star Trek and software-defined networking have in common?

How a new startup, which is the most open networking vendor I've seen to date, evokes comparisons between software-defined networking and Star Trek.

By Zeus Kerravala
Nov 26, 2012 4 mins
Cisco Systems SDN VMware
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What can be done about WAN packet loss and its impact on WAN application performance?

Multiple approaches are possible, and drastically reducing the number of packets that need to traverse the WAN is one good one

By Andy Gottlieb
Nov 26, 2012 5 mins
Cisco Systems WAN WAN Optimization
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U.S. Government Progress on IPv6 Deployment

Monitoring the country's IPv6-enabled government services.

By Scott Hogg
Nov 26, 2012 9 mins
Cisco Systems IPv6 Internet
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Wireshark Certified Network Analyst: Taking my Wireshark Knowledge to the ‘Next Level’

Wireshark is hands down, bar-none, my absolute favorite tool for network "forensics," troubleshooting, and learning. I used to think I was fairly good at it. But WOW was I living on the "tip of the iceberg!"

By Denise Fishburne
Nov 25, 2012 4 mins
Cisco Systems Computers and Peripherals Network Switches
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Mobile Device Management Spotlight: SOTI MobiControl

SOTI CEO talks about MDM trends and their solution to managing iPhones, iPads and Android devices

By Jamey Heary
Nov 25, 2012 8 mins
Cisco Systems Mobile Device Management Smartphones
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SJSU sidestepped sole source documentation in Cisco deal

Instead evaluated Cisco pricing in other western US contracts to justify not bidding $28M project

By Jim Duffy
Nov 20, 2012 4 mins
Cisco Systems Network Switches Videoconferencing
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What Cisco and Dell’s Cloupia and Gale acquisitions mean to the future of IT

Last week's acquisitions of Cloupia and Gale technologies were a brilliant counter to the increasing power of Microsoft and VMware and provides tremendous insight into the future of IT.

By Art Fewell
Nov 20, 2012 9 mins
Cisco Systems Data Center SDN
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Meraki buy more than cloud Wi-Fi to Cisco

Could be Cisco's basis for broader cloud networking offers

By Jim Duffy
Nov 19, 2012 3 mins
Cisco Systems Mergers and Acquisitions Wi-Fi
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Cisco Buys Meraki: Start of a WLAN Consolidation?

Just what does Cisco have in mind in buying Meraki? Is this an acknowledgement that the market for WLANs is evolving, or are they just keeping some valuable IP out of the hands of the competition?

By Craig Mathias
Nov 19, 2012 4 mins
Cisco Systems Mergers and Acquisitions Mobile Device Management