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How Cisco Deployed Wireless Access Points Worldwide

In 2000, Cisco IT began developing a consistent and supported wireless networking architecture. This case study describes Cisco IT's internal deployment of wireless LANs within the Cisco network, a leading-edge enterprise environment that is one of the largest and most complex in the world. Cisco customers can draw on Cisco...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Access Point, Cisco IT, Wireless

Case studies 2007-12-17

Cisco IT Achieves Sub-Minute Recovery Point Objectives Between Sites 3000 Miles Apart Using Fibre Channel Over IP and EMC SRDF/A

This case study describes Cisco IT's internal use of Fibre Channel over IP FCIP with EMC SRDF Symmetrix Remote Site Data Facility replication within the Cisco network, a leading-edge enterprise environment that is one of the largest and most complex in the world. Cisco customers can draw on Cisco IT's...

Tags: Recovery, Fibre Channel, Information Technology, IP, Cisco Systems Inc., EMC Corp., Cisco IT

Case studies

Cisco VPN Client Brings Flexibility and Cost Reduction to Cisco Remote Access Solution

The Cisco IT remote access group had been testing VPN-based remote access services for several months, and was prepared to migrate its user base from the service provider managed service model to a user managed model. This model requires the user to take ownership of and responsibility for managing their...

Tags: Cost Reduction, Cisco Systems Inc., VPN Client, Cisco IT, Remote Access, Telecommunications

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Cisco SONA

Cisco SONASONA: An Architectural ApproachDan, thanks for your posting. Just to clarify: SONA is not itself a product or series of products, but rather as you state – an approach. More specifically, an architectural approach towards understanding how network-based services can benefit applications – particularly those that are...

Tags: Cisco SONA, Cisco Systems Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

Making money on open source

Making money on open sourceLower expenses, increased profitsThe Comment confirms that open source may be used to reduce expenses while obtaining profits from other products.Quoting:IBM has used Linux to unify its product lines, it has used open source to deliver services, and it has continued to get top dollar for...

Tags: open source

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

Cisco SONA

Cisco caught my attention by asking me if I wanted to see the results of a study indicating how organizations are seeing Web 2.0 and/or Service Oriented Architecture SOA application adoption. Having executed dozens of studies of this nature while I was at IDC, I was interested in the results,...

Tags: Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters capital

Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters capitalRE: Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters caI think it's quite smart personally.foolishJust another CEO desperate to save his bonus. Once you carve up the company, quality goes downhill. The chips will suffer. AMD will be...

Tags: Balance sheets, Asset management, Semiconductors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Asset Smart, manufacturing, balance sheet, chip, asset

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Orion VoIP Monitor (zip)

VoIP Monitor enables you to measure and track performance of voice quality across WAN links. Leveraging Cisco IP SLAs, VoIP Monitor collects and analyzes VoIP performance statistics including MOS, jitter, network latency, packet loss, and other important quality of service QoS metrics. These features enable you to proactively find the...

Tags: Performance, SolarWinds, VoIP Monitor, Telephony, VOIP, Performance Management, Telecommunications, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2008-10-06

IBM launches beta of 'Bluehouse,' eyes Cisco's WebEx

IBM will announce Monday that it is launching a beta of "Bluehouse," a social networking and collaboration service designed to link businesses with various partners. The move, part of a broader effort to define IBM's cloud computing strategy, will put it in direct competition with Cisco's collaboration...

Tags: WebEx Communications Inc., Collaboration, Beta, Cisco Systems Inc., IBM Corp., Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-05

fring lets you make Skype calls from your iPhone, available for free

fring lets you make Skype calls from your iPhone, available for freeI've been waiting for an application like this . . .Great to see that some really useful applications are starting to make their way through the Apple screening process.If you're interested, you can read about my experiences with many...

Tags: VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Apple iPhone, fring, Skype Call, Skype Technologies S.A.

Discussion threads 2008-10-05

I... B... Wha?

I... B... Wha?I. B. AmazedYou have to think though, after the 90's the markets are flooded with consumer products based on technology. People associate with what they are exposed to. However in the 70's and better part of the 80's if you wanted a PC, it had to be "IBM...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Branding, Desktops, Operating systems, Mindshare, IBM Corp., Wha

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

Which IT jobs will survive the credit crunch?

Which IT jobs will survive the credit crunch?And dont forget the virtual worlds industryHands up I am a metaverse evangelist, but I am seeing that the cost pressures on travel, the time pressures and the green pressures are causing more enterprises to re-examine the serious nature of interactions that can...

Tags: Strategy, IT job, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

Nokia ceasing development of its own business mobility solutions, what does this mean?

I was reading a recent post on the Nokia Conversations site about some changes going on at Nokia. The first was the stepping down of Bob Iannucci, CTO of Nokia. And then the big news that Nokia is changing its approach to the enterprise by ceasing to develop or market...

Tags: Nokia Corp., Mobility, OZ Instant-messaging Client, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Instant Messaging, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Internet, Marketing, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-09-30

It's still good to be green, whether it's accidental or not

One of the IT services companies that closely partners with IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems, released an interesting survey earlier this week that confirms what I've believed for some time: IT managers don't really care about being green in the environmental sense as much as they care about saving money....

Tags: IT Manager, Survey, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Marketing Research, Servers, Hardware, Storage, Marketing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-28

Cisco's Stepping Up To Collaboration As Business Transformation

Following on the recent analyses  by my colleague Rob Koplowitz on Cisco's Jabber and PostPath acquisitions, here are some additional things that Information and Knowledge Management Professionals should tune into regarding Cisco as the new collaboration kid on the block: First, Cisco is building a meeting-centric workspace...

Tags: Team, Cisco Systems Inc., B2B, Team Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Ted Schadler

Blog posts 2008-09-25

News to know: Oracle goes hardware; MSFT confirms pre-beta Windows 7; Netbooks or notebooks?

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Oracle enters hardware market; Launches storage server to ride shotgun with database Dana Gardner: HP and Oracle team up on ‘data warehouse appliances' that re-architect...

Tags: Google Inc., Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, MSFT, Microsoft Windows, Business Intelligence, Storage, Notebooks, Databases, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-09-25

Cisco mega patch plugs serious IOS vulnerabilities

Today is a very busy patch day for network administrations managing Cisco gear. The networking giant released a whopping 12 bulletins with fixes for a wide range of security vulnerabilities in IOS, the underlying software that powers routers and network switches. Some of the...

Tags: Cisco IOS, Vulnerability, SNMP, Cisco Systems Inc., Series Device, Network Administration, Networking, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-09-24

Cisco unveils collaboration lineup; Enterprise 2.0 on the move?

Cisco unveils collaboration lineup; Enterprise 2.0 on the move?Where's the enterprise e-mail?To me there's an elephant in the Cisco room: what about e-mail? Cisco's PostPath cannot challenge Exchange 2007 and Cisco has no Outlook equivalent. More analysis here.

Tags: Groupware, Cisco Systems Inc., collaboration lineup, Enterprise 2.0, collaboration

Discussion threads 2008-09-24

Budget season: shiny new collaboration models for 2009!

The large IT vendors have really latched onto the collaboration buzz created by enterprise 2.0 and are rolling out their offerings for the 2009 budgeting season in large enterprises. Oracle's Beehive launched this week at Oracle OpenWorld, and Cisco also launched their new 'collaboration portfolio'....

Tags: Collaboration, Oracle Corp., Financial, Cisco Systems Inc., Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-09-24

Why You Want WebEx Connect or Beehive

First there was Notes and then Exchange. This week the collaboration suite space got a lot more competitive with both Cisco and Oracle introducing new collaboration suites.  This morning Cisco will announce WebEx Connect as part of a broader Unified Communications push that also...

Tags: WebEx Communications Inc., IBM Lotus Notes, BEA Beehive, Cisco Systems Inc., Exchange, WebEx Connect, Groupware, Collaboration, Java Development Tools, Enterprise Software, Software, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-09-24