CICSC News and Announcements

• Smartphone showdown: BlackBerry Storm vs. the iPhone
  Examining how the Storm stacks up against the iPhone in terms of call quality, data coverage, price and more.
• Cisco IronPort unveils e-mail security appliances
  Cisco's IronPort Systems unit this week unveiled hardware extensions to its e-mail security appliances (compare messaging security products) that more than double the performance of the company's previous-generation platforms.
• Cisco unveils surveillance camera for SMBs
  Cisco's Linksys unit this week unveiled a wireless Internet surveillance camera for small and midsize businesses.

  

• Top 10 ways collaboration, mobility amplify data leakage dangers: Cisco study
  Numerous behavioral risks taken by employees in increasingly distributed and remote locations can lead to the loss of corporate information, according to a study commissioned by Cisco.
• Cisco buys Jabber
  Cisco's latest acquisition is Jabber, a leading developer of enterprise-grade presence-enablement capabilities. Jabber's offerings include its Extensible Communications Platform, JabberNow (an enterprise instant messaging appliance), and instant messaging clients (a thick client for Windows, a browser-based client and mobile clients). Jabber has, for years, been a leading proponent of the XMPP protocol for presence-enabled applications.
• WLAN management: tools, tips, advice
  Wireless LAN management is clearly a vital element of enterprise WLAN systems and also one of the best vehicles for minimizing total cost of ownership. But even with its long history, challenges remain. These include the user interface, flexibility, ease-of-use, RF spectrum management and a future that demands the unification of wired and wireless management. Wireless industry guru Craig Mathias is here to answer your questions on the topic (or anything else in wireless and mobile that you want to talk about). Craig is one of the best-known analysts in the wireless industry. He is principal of the Farpoint Group and author of Network World's Nearpoints blog.
• UTM devices are making headway
  Customers using unified threat management devices say the appliances represent a more streamlined way to provide multiple security functions and to track down security data, but don’t necessarily meet all gateway security needs adequately.
• Cisco bolsters collaboration lineup, including new WebEx ties
  Cisco this week rolled out a new collaboration product portfolio designed to help companies accelerate business processes and increase productivity, and further mine a $34 billion market for Cisco.

  

• Intrusion-prevention systems still not used full throttle: survey
  Intrusion-prevention systems often aren't used to actually block attack traffic, but instead act more like intrusion-detection systems, according to an Infonetics Research survey of 169 information professionals who offered a detailed look at how IPS equipment really gets used.
• Cisco to acquire Jabber
  Cisco this week announced its intent to acquire privately held Jabber, a provider of presence and messaging software.
• Is your data center ready for tomorrow's applications?
  Click here to see what Gartner, Network World and other experts say about the new data center.