Cisco injects new life into Catalyst 6500 switch

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	Cisco injects new life into Catalyst 6500 switch Cisco Tuesday took dead aim at HP and its own shrinking profit margins by introducing a major refresh to its venerable Catalyst 6500 Ethernet switching platform. Read More WHITE PAPER: Palo Alto Networks The Best Traditional Firewall is a Next-Generation Firewall NSS Labs' test reports are designed to address the challenges faced by IT professionals in selecting and managing security products. The scope of this report is focused on: - Security effectiveness - Performance - Stability - Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Read now In this Issue Cisco will be leaner, faster, more attentive, Chambers pledges Cisco CTO Warrior: We needed better accountability Silver Peak introduces pay-as-you-go WAN optimization Answers on Cisco's Cert Announcements Here at Cisco Live RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn Remote Support for PCs, Macs, Tablets and Smartphones Provide instant, on-demand remote support with LogMeIn Rescue. Without pre-installed software, quickly connect to PCs, Macs and smartphones anywhere in the world. Get in, solve the problem, and be done in a flash. Plus, Rescue's SaaS-based platform means free upgrades and zero maintenance. Try Rescue free, today. Cisco will be leaner, faster, more attentive, Chambers pledges Cisco CEO John Chambers briefly addressed the company's current challenges, restructuring and imminent layoffs during his keynote address at this week's Cisco Live customer conference. Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks Hardware Load Balancing A comprehensive F5 solution readies application infrastructure for a successful implementation of the re-engineered Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Learn More! Cisco CTO Warrior: We needed better accountability Cisco's massive user show, Cisco Live, is going on this week in Las Vegas. Padmasree Warrior, Cisco's senior vice president of engineering and CTO sat down with Cisco Subnet editor and blogger Julie Bort. They discussed Cisco's progress since Warrior took the helm as CTO. Read More WEBCAST: Riverbed Accelerating Your Virtual Environment with WAN Optimization Which applications in your virtual environment do you want to accelerate the most? This Webcast surveys the applications that suffer the most from latency and discusses the 3 root causes of poor wide-area application performance. See how you can realize dramatic improvements in replication in virtual machines. Learn More! Silver Peak introduces pay-as-you-go WAN optimization Silver Peak is pushing to deploy its WAN optimization software on a broad range of network devices such as generic servers, routers and storage devices to save customers on capital outlay. Read More Answers on Cisco's Cert Announcements Here at Cisco Live In the last day or so here at Cisco Live, I've heard John Chambers talk in a couple of settings, and had several conversations with folks who work with Cisco certs. Today I'll toss out a few more thoughts from the show that I think might be of interest. Read More
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