Opinion

Application acceleration: Divide and conquer

Wireless LANs turned inside out; 10G Ethernet storage appliance unveiled

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Incorporating business smarts into network operations

* Acquisition positions Radware to add more business intelligence to its network optimization technologies

ConSentry’s new NAC access switch

* ConSentry's CS-4024 switch, and Universal Endpoint Interoperability

Analysts expect good news from Cisco’s earnings report Tuesday

Not Microsoft buying Yahoo but Cisco?

It takes you HOW LONG to get to work?

Microsoft-Yahoo: Maybe, maybe not

Carbonite raises $15 million

Sprint Nextel vs. 41 non-profits: Corporate bullying or good network citizenship?

Robot targets broken hearts

Journalists to sue HP for spying on them

Governance, risk management and compliance and what it means to you

* GRC: governance, risk management and compliance

Blogging for people with a short attention span

* Twitter, ultra-hypersocial networking

Fischer targets identity services at service providers

* Providing identity as a service

Letters: There’s no free (open source) lunch

Performance key for disk-based backup

* Disk-based backup can be an attractive alternative to tape-based backup

Management and security: Still separate but equal?

* Why it makes sense to use certain technologies to manage and secure your network

Beware jumping the gun with 802.11n

* Enterprise-class Draft N products: Do you need them yet?

Up close and personal with TelePresence

* Larry checks out Cisco’s TelePresence

Improving wireless security

Data leakage prevention: The dangers of port dependence

Securing a RADIUS server

Lucky 7 patches from Microsoft this week

* Patches from Microsoft, Ubuntu, Mandriva, others * Trojan impersonates Windows activation to snatch data * New bug-a-day project targets Microsoft's ActiveX, and other interesting reading

Learning functional programming; Improving wireless security

IBM rumored to lay off 150,000 by year-end

The ‘hate’ and ‘love’ Apple stories; IT reorgs and you; new Cisco blogger and more

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Zero Touch Linux provides kitchen sink Linux server packages

* The latest version of Zero Touch Linux

Cisco security products open to attack; Biotech firm goes Cisco

Court rejects Vonage request for retrial; Ring 2 does conference calls from BlackBerries