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April 18, 2013 Leave a Comment

Application Experience at CA World 2013 Las Vegas

Last month, Cisco announced ISR-AX. This new application delivery platform provides granular application visibility, control and optimization, integrated in a single box. ISR-AX helps customers enhance end-user productivity, lower WAN bandwidth costs and simplify IT.

In discussing this new role of the router, application performance management becomes a key component. ISR-AX and AVC (Application Visibility and Control) offers an open platform where we share the network intelligence gathered by Cisco routers with third party tools. CA Technologies and Cisco have been working together towards supporting our mutual customers’ needs for Application and Network Performance Management (APM and NPM) and ensure that users get the highest quality of application experience from anywhere. Continue reading “Application Experience at CA World 2013 Las Vegas”

Allison Park

Product Marketing Manager

Enterprise Networks

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Keeping up with Demand

Adrian den Hartog

How time flies: Cisco and Intel are celebrating their one-year partnership anniversary of Unleashing IT with the launch of the all new, Spring 2013 edition. Available online and in print, this latest installment is once again packed with thought-leadership content and company profiles.

Over the past year, Unleashing IT has uncovered and shared many IT best practices. The industries represented through the company profiles featured are extremely diverse, as are their solutions and deployment strategies.

But there is a common thread – they are all are leveraging data center technology to advance, accelerate and streamline their business, enter new markets, all while achieving substantial cost savings. From education to healthcare to utility companies, innovation in the data center is driving their success – and allowing them to keep up with demands of the business.

Perhaps you will find inspiration from these profiles, sparking new ideas – and allowing you unleash the full potential of IT for your business.

To get full access to Unleashing IT, subscribe or log in here.

Adrian den Hartog

Senior Marketing Manager

Field Marketing US Commercial

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Yesterday Boston, Today Waco, Tomorrow Malware

Craig Williams

At 10:30 UTC one of the botnet spam campaigns we discussed yesterday took a shift to focus on the recent explosion in Texas. The miscreants responded to the tragic events in Texas almost immediately. The volume of the attack is similar to what we witnessed yesterday with the maximum volume peaking above 50% of all spam sent. We’ve seen 23 unique sites hosting the malware. This is an attempt to grow the botnet.

Continue reading “Yesterday Boston, Today Waco, Tomorrow Malware”

Craig Williams

Director

Talos Outreach

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K-12 School Enables Online Learning with Cisco BYOD Solutions

Rahul Chohan

Innovate education and provide differentiated curriculums utilizing BYOD with Cisco BYOD Solutions for K12 Education.

With 19 schools, 11,700 students, and an unreliable wireless infrastructure, Chapel Hill- Carrboro City Schools, , faced challenges in attempting to embrace BYOD. Without a pervasive wireless infrastructure, the school could not rise to meet the BYOD trend, much less create an enriched learning environment leveraging technology.

The Chapel Hill school district took its first steps into an enterprise wireless solution leveraging Cisco BYOD Solutions for K12 Education. With a pervasive, scalable and reliable wireless network, the school can now employ laptop carts for students to access information on the fly. Teachers can now leverage online resources directly from the classroom, and faculty can access district networks with their own devices.

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Rahul Chohan

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Cisco continues to invest in SAP providing amazing results

Rick Speyer

Cisco Unified Computing Systems (UCS) server platform continues to make significant strides in becoming a major player in the mission-critical application space, in this case SAP. UCS just claimed a fantastic benchmark using the UCS B200 on SAP Sybase ASE.

Since UCS was built from the ground up for virtualization, not only will its virtues lend itself to speed as evidenced by the SAP SD benchmark , UCS will also significantly lower operating costs in the process as evidenced by an external case study with TUI Travel or HotelsBeds out of Spain. Read and downlaod here the case study

Cisco has also been running a comprehensive set of world-wide SAP HANA Roadshows. They have consisted of 11 road shows in the US, 6 road shows in EMEAR, 3 road shows in Canada, and 1 in APJC. As a result, the demand for SAP HANA on the Cisco UCS Server Platform has dramatically increased.

Cisco now has over 50 customers running SAP HANA on Cisco UCS Servers. Some of these customers vary from very large service provider companies, medical device firms, large international food companies, and world wide travel companies. The size of the server used for these customers vary from small rack mount servers (Cisco UCS C260), to medium configurations (Cisco C460) to larger installs that take advantage of the Cisco Blade Server Technology (Cisco B440). All of these servers are certified for SAP HANA and are currently available on the SAP Product Availability Matrix (PAM).

You can see this investment in the Cisco booth #1412 at SAP Sapphire from May 14-16 in Orlando, Florida. Look forward to seeing you there

For more information on the Cisco SAP partnership , visit also our website .

Rick Speyer

No Longer with Cisco

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Welcome to the Next Generation of the Internet

Stuart Taylor

No one could have imagined the fundamental impact the Internet would have on both society and the economy—changing our lives forever. The Internet has already transformed the way we work, live, play, and learn. And, this is only the beginning.

The extraordinary growth and transformation of the Internet is unprecedented, but what does the future of technology hold, and where is the Internet heading? Business executives, technologists, and policymakers are not only asking these questions—they also are looking for a map of the future that will help them assess changes in the Internet, and possible out-comes and implications of those changes for business, national policy, and regulation.

Recent research by Cisco IBSG has identified 10 major technology trends that we believe are shaping the direction of the Internet today and, most certainly, will change its direction in the future.

A World Gone Mobile Continue reading “Welcome to the Next Generation of the Internet”

Stuart Taylor

Director

Service Provider Transformation Group

April 17, 2013 Leave a Comment

Getting Social with the Cisco Global Events Mobile App

Cecelia Taylor

The Cisco “Social Media for Savvy Marketers” event starts tomorrow! The event will be held on the Cisco San Jose campus this Thursday & Friday (4/18 – 4/19/13). We are looking forward to dynamic sessions, with more than 33 speakers and panelists, representing digital and social marketing professionals from 29 different organizations.

Registration is closed for the in-person event, but you can still register for the LIVE webcast: http://cs.co/SMEventWebcast.

This event will feature our Cisco Global Events Mobile App. Download the app to your phone or tablet and access discussion questions for the sessions, review the speaker profiles, evaluate sessions and network with your fellow digital and social media colleagues! You can also use the app within your browser by selecting the “HTML5” version.

Visit: http://ddut.ch/savvy. If you already have downloaded the app, make sure that you are running the most recent version.

Here are discussion questions already loaded into the app to get the conversation started before the sessions begin:

Cecelia Taylor

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Massive Spam and Malware Campaign Following the Boston Tragedy

Craig Williams

Summary

On April 16th at 11:00pm GMT, the first of two botnets began a massive spam campaign to take advantage of the recent Boston tragedy. The spam messages claim to contain news concerning the Boston Marathon bombing. The spam messages contain a link to a site that claims to have videos of explosions from the attack. Simultaneously, links to these sites were posted as comments to various blogs.

The link directs users to a webpage that includes iframes that load content from several YouTube videos plus content from an attacker-controlled site. Reports indicate the attacker-controlled sites host malicious .jar files that can compromise vulnerable machines.

On April 17th, a second botnet began using a similar spam campaign. Instead of simply providing a link, the spam messages contained graphical HTML content claiming to be breaking news alerts from CNN.

Cisco Intrusion Prevention System devices, Cloud Web Security, Email Security Appliances, and Web Security Appliances have blocked this campaign from the start.

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Application Experience at CA World 2013 Las Vegas

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