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	Cisco: Customers drove us to block Microsoft/Skype Cisco's appeal of the European Commission's approval of the $8.5 billion Microsoft/Skype union is customer driven, Cisco CEO John Chambers said this week. Read More WHITE PAPER: APC Quick Fixes for Messy Racks and Cable Sprawl Data center professionals can rid themselves of messy racks, sub-standard under floor air distribution, and cable sprawl with a minimum of heartache and expense. This paper outlines several innovative approaches for dealing with the symptoms of chaos and for eliminating the root causes of disorder. Learn More In this Issue OK Cisco, we get it Gone Fishin' at RSA Conference World's most massive supercomputer needed for colossal space telescope Ultimate Man vs. Computer: Garry Kasparov, Deep Blue and the Internet Data Center Network Security: Will Anyone Discuss This at RSA? Looking at Best Practices for Cloud Deployments in State and Local Government can Aid all Organizations Cisco's Nexus switches open to DoS attacks Products of the week 2,20,12 WEBCAST: VMware Automating Infrastructure and Operations Management Attend this webcast to learn how the new VMware vCenter™ Operations Management Suite allows IT to: - Dramatically simplify services - Automate service delivery and management View Now! OK Cisco, we get it There is such a thing as over-marketing. And over-marketing can be dangerous. Anyone who cries "Wolf!" over and over again, or who repeatedly claims he or she is not something or other is likely to be eventually disbelieved and tuned out altogether. Read More Gone Fishin' at RSA Conference I apologize that I have not posted as many articles as I usually do this past month. For me this is like the accountants tax season, its RSA Conference time. The RSA Conference and its satellite conferences start this Monday. For anyone in the security industry, RSA is like making the pilgrimage to Mecca. Read More WHITE PAPER: APC How Data Center Management Software Improves Planning Business executives are challenging their IT staffs to convert data centers from cost centers into producers of business value. Data centers can make a significant impact to the bottom line by enabling the business to respond more quickly to market demands. Learn More World's most massive supercomputer needed for colossal space telescope The world's biggest planned radio telescope will need the world's most massive supercomputer to crunch its data - think more than 15 million iPods worth of power and storage according to one of the group's developing systems for the ambitious project. Read More Ultimate Man vs. Computer: Garry Kasparov, Deep Blue and the Internet Garry Kasparov battled IBM's Deep Blue 16 years ago in February, but that was just the beginning Read More WHITE PAPER: PC Mall Networking and Cloud: An Era of Change As you deploy cloud infrastructure and operating models in your organization, the role that networking plays and the impact of these models on your networks may not always be clear. This document discusses the importance of the network to cloud computing, why the network must change, and what Cisco is doing to lead these changes. Learn More! Data Center Network Security: Will Anyone Discuss This at RSA? Less than a week before the RSA Conference in San Francisco and my telephones are ringing off the hook. People want to discuss a variety of topics including APTs, mobile security, cloud security, big data analytics, and so on. Read More Looking at Best Practices for Cloud Deployments in State and Local Government can Aid all Organizations Read More Cisco's Nexus switches open to DoS attacks Cisco this week issued a security advisory for a vulnerability in its NX-OS operating system, the software driving its Nexus data center switches. The vulnerability could leave the switches open to denial of service (DoS) attacks, the advisory states. Read More Products of the week 2,20,12 Our round-up of intriguing new products from HP, Norton, Symantec among others. Read More
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