Archive for June, 2008
June 30th, 2008 by Klemen Stular
Consider the following list of business areas:
Energy and materials
Transportation
Construction and real estate
Financial services
Manufacturing and mining
No, it's not a listing from the local Yellow Pages. It’s Cisco Systems’ list of verticals to explore and invest in, to have technologies ready for the future!
In years to come, ...
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June 27th, 2008 by Ivan Pepelnjak
When I started working with Cisco 15+ years ago, the software was rock solid; we had routers running Cisco software release 9.1 with uptimes of several years. This heaven-on-earth situation didn’t last long, though. Trying to fuel its growth, Cisco focused more on features than on quality or stability, and ...
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June 26th, 2008 by Jan Bervar
If you missed the announcement of VMware’s VMsafe a while ago, go check it out. VMsafe is an open API for vendors to add security services to VMware’s ESX hypervisor. It allows third-party add-ons to control connectivity with virtual networking and execution of guest operating systems or applications. In this ...
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June 24th, 2008 by Mitja Robas
In the contemporary data center that includes storage area networks, security is quite important. But SAN security was (and sometimes still is) lagging behind in performance, speed, and port counts.
Deployments of disaster recovery centers, the introduction of IP SANs utilizing SCSI over Internet (iSCSI) and Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) ...
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June 23rd, 2008 by Marjan Bradesko
At the recent Cisco Partner Summit at Hawaii, the words »infinite possibilities« and »collaboration« were mentioned almost - infinitely. Keith Goodwin, Senior VP, Worldwide Channels, Cisco was referring to the second wave of the Internet, to Web 2.0 and the infinite possibilities for collaboration. Indeed the tools and technologies have ...
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June 20th, 2008 by Mojca Parkelj
NIL, one of the global leaders in networking solutions, renewed the Outdoor Wireless Mesh Advanced Technology Provider (ATP) status from Cisco Systems.
NIL has again met the resource requirements for the ATP - Outdoor Wireless Mesh program and has continued to demonstrate its qualifications to sell, install and support customers with ...
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June 19th, 2008 by Bostjan Sustar
Many people regard Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS) as the ultimate of MPLS features for providing any-to-any connectivity to VPN sites where minimum signaling is required between customer and provider. I agree that this nifty feature can come in handy in some specific situations, but it is important to define ...
Posted in MPLS, Technical, VPLS, VPN | 1 Comment »
June 17th, 2008 by Klemen Stular
One of the basic questions that trouble global companies today is how to achieve as much geographic coverage as possible, while at the same time ensuring consistent, high-quality services and products. Rapid growth demanded by owners makes this problem even more complicated, as it is almost impossible to stay focused ...
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June 13th, 2008 by Marjan Bradesko
I recently sat and discussed the upcoming course development project. One of the stakeholders asked me: »Does your company have ISO 9000?«
»Yes, we do.«
»And 14000?« He was testing my familiarity with standards (ISO 14000 specifies environmental management).
I confidently replied: »No. But we are working on 27000.« (security)
He was looking at ...
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June 13th, 2008 by Bojana Stucin
How to properly position the Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) products in the network for optimizing data center components and network resources? The vision will be clear after visiting this course.
The Designing Cisco Data Center Application Services (DCASD) course teaches how to deploy and configure intelligent network services using the ...
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