Cisco has acquired PostPath for $215M in an attempt to add email and calendaring features to its WebEx. The acquisition shouldn’t come as a surprise: John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems, recently said: “We believe we are entering the next phase of the Internet as growth and productivity will center on collaboration enabled by networked Web 2.0 technologies.” We at Workstreamer see this as further proof that the online collaboration space is about to undergo ...

Cisco is getting into the Web e-mail game with a $215 million purchase of five-year-old PostPath. PostWho? The company sells a Linux-based e-mail service to enterprises somewhat like Zimbra (which Yahoo bought for $350 million last year). PostPath is a fully functional in-browser Ajax client, and on the back-end it is trying to take on Microsoft Exchange. The software also works on mobile phones, including the iPhone. Cisco will add PostPath’s functionality to its WebEx ...

Cisco on Wednesday bought email and calendar software maker PostPath for $215 million in a move that may signal bigger plans for WebEx. Simply put, Cisco and Microsoft are increasingly on a software collision course. Cisco said its latest acquisition will be used to “enhance the existing email and calendaring capabilities of Cisco’s WebEx Connect collaboration [...]

先看一段引用: 8月27日，思科将在中国北京的CCIE R$S考场引入“领导者” “领导者”将额外加入10分钟的面试来评估候选人的能力是否达到满足专家级的网络技能和知识用于解决工作中遇到的问题。 在LAB考试结束后，一个由三名专家组成的小组将会对每一个考生进行一个口头上的面试，询问一系列专家级别的网络问题（提问和回答讲使用英语） 正确回答这些问题的能力将会影响到考试的成绩。 完成了面试后，考生将有完整的8小时时间完成lab部分的考试。 这些成绩将被计算并综合成一个总成绩来决定考生pass还是fail。 这封email的目的在于让你知道，你的考试时间将要在原先的基础上增加大约1小时。 这额外的1小时将增加在原先的考试日之后。我们希望面试的过程能够让你获得启示并有助于我们继续为了全世界CCIE的标准而努力。 这条消息今日发布后,如晴天霹雳在圈子里炸开了锅.很显然,近期已经在备考的,会折戬沉沙,落马一片.先不发表任何的评论.且看一组统计数据: 截止时间 CCIE总人数 中国CCIE人数 2008.3.25 16355 2582 2007.8.2 15062 2598 2007.4.2 14387 2475 2007.1.1 14116 2416 2006.12.1 14141 2424 2006.11.1 14056 2424 2006.6.1 13417 2233 2005.5.1 12121 1739 2005.12.1 12792 1991 截至2008年3月25日，全球CCIE总人数16355名（不包括已经失效的CCIE） 中国CCIE总数： 2582 全球CCIE路由交换: 14764 全球CCIE安全: 1402 全球CCIE服务提供商: 735 全球CCIE存储: 111 全球CCIE语音: 689 全球拥有多个CCIE: 1232 全球路由交换与安全2CCIE: 517 全球路由交换与服务提供商2CCIE: 300 全球路由交换与存储2CCIE: 23 全球路由交换与语音2CCIE: 182 全球3CCIE或超过3CCIE： 210 *******************Cisco对中国CCIE认证下重手了********************* 让我们打开google或者baidu搜索一下CCIE这个关键词吧.看看中文的结果有多少.看看有多少人在讨论CCIE认证的必要性,看看有多少人在质疑CCIE在中国的技术地位…… 相信大家都很清晰的记得,当年MCSE在中国的火爆.很多早期从事IT行业的朋友一定目睹了MCSE在中国迅速发展又迅速消融的过程.而CISCO就是在那个时候,几乎是取代了MCSE曾经辉煌的位置.于是一家家培训中心跟陈士美一样的把MCSE当做糟糠之妻一脚踢开,迎娶了年轻貌美的小妾:Cisco. 无论是培训中心还是社会发展现状所导致的这种现象,我们没必要去过多的争论.但是有一点,我们肯定是有共识的!—国际认证中国本土化推广,培训中心居功至伟! 培训中心就像电影公司,迅速的捧红了一个又一个小姐(噢.不好意思,这里说错了,应该是捧红了一个又一个认证).他们永远是认证市场的导向. 认证本身有错吗?没有!那些推出自己认证的厂商,哪一个不是站在业界顶端,去制订着整个业界的规范,规则的.他们推出自己的认证,无非两点: 1.通过认证来推广自己的产品.他们的认证人员,无非就类似于散布在世界各地的厂商的设备支持大军,一高效的支持团队. 2.认证太赚钱了!太赚了…… 各大厂商的欲拒还迎睁只眼闭只眼的态度,深深的刺激了全世界各地的培训机构.一时间,纷纷高潮…认证的热潮自2002年开始疯狂喷涌.一直井喷到现在,未发现一点疲软的迹象,反而愈演愈烈,一个个认证被培训中心玩的死去活来. ...

Many people are familiar with the coffee shop’s Wi-Fi, while others even know how to set up a simple home network. Pretty much everyone, however, knows that Wi-Fi is what makes it all possible. That ubiquity is what many venture firms are counting on as they invest in a group of startups putting Wi-Fi into cameras, televisions and even keyboards and mice. The number of Wi-Fi chips sold is expected to top 1 billion this ...

Unless you’re actively seeding torrent files or dream of one day having HD content streamed from the web to your TV, the debate over managing networks can seem hopelessly abstract. To help the rest of us understand why fast networks with a lot of capacity are so important, I asked networking giant Cisco for what it considers to be the top five bandwidth-hungry applications. Cisco mined the data it gathered for its visual networking index ...

Cisco Systems (CSCO) reported its fiscal fourth-quarter 2008 financials last week, but while the San Jose, Calif.-based networking giant beat Wall Street estimates, thanks to the hurdle posed by the law of large numbers, it forecast more modest growth going forward. “The market is clearly in transition, and we will use this time as an opportunity to expand our share of customer spend and to aggressively move into market adjacencies,” CEO John Chambers said in ...

While configuring SRST and testing different scenarios, I came across an issue where I couldn’t make conference calls. Specific task asked to allow a maximum of 2 conference calls during SRST. Here is what my configuration looked like: call-manager-fallback secondary-dialtone 9 max-conferences 2 gain -6 transfer-system full-consult timeouts interdigit 3 timeouts busy 3 ip source-address 10.200.200.2 port 2000 max-ephones 5 max-dn [...]

With a variety of rumors flying around about an EMC acquisition by Cisco, I thought I'd pose a question. Why isn't Cisco doing more in the cloud infrastructure space?Cloud computing can be simply defined as a form of network computing. That being said, Cisco is arguably one of the more technically advanced in the networking space, and EMC in storage & infrastructure. Cisco + EMC would seem to be a match made in heaven.Douglas Gourlay ...

So today I get a new report from the Tolly Group stating that the ShoreTel Unified Communications system is significantly more energy efficient than the Cisco Unified Communications Manager. ShoreTel apparently topped Cisco in using less energy to drive VoIP communications in specific large, medium and small enterprise-class scenarios. This energy usage comparison reminded me of Nortel's "The 'Nortel' Tax Relief Plan", which aims to "stop paying the 'Cisco Energy Tax' and save up to ...

Most of the 300,000 privately owned IP PBX systems throughout the U.S. are "wide open" to anyone that wants to hack them, says ChannelWeb. Compounding matters are a lack of regulatory interest and failure of vendors to disclose vulnerabilities. With VoIP systems being implemented on data LANs and blended with other software for unified communications solutions, the potential for mischief can get very large very quickly. VoIPshield has been posting and demonstrating publicly documented (i.e. ...

We hear Steve Wozniak — he's the Apple cofounder who doesn't rain expletives on reporters — is speaking at Cisco at 11:30. We're curious what he has to say. Update: A reader sent in the photo above, and another eyewitness wisecracked: "It's like they transferred all the fat from Jobs to Woz." Ouch! Even former Woz flame Kathy Griffin wasn't that harsh. Any other Cisco tipsters care to send more? Below, a clip from another ...

Every day the promise of the mobile web moves closer to being realized, and every day we move one step closer to Mobilize, our one-day conference dedicated to examining the implications — and identifying the opportunities — in this coming revolution. We are thrilled to report that we have confirmed two of the industry’s best and brightest as our keynote speakers: Rich Miner, co-founder of Google’s Android, and Padmasree Warrior, chief technology officer at Cisco ...

Earlier this morning Franco-American telecom giant, Alcatel-Lucent, gave CEO Pat Russo and Chairman Serge Tchuruk the proverbial boot after the company reported a disastrous quarter, missing its earnings and revenue targets. The company says they resigned – which is utter rubbish because in this day and age, no one gives up megamillion-euro pay packages just because they’re feeling pious. Much of the blame was put on macroeconomic factors and the wireless industry’s transition from CDMA ...

Avete presente quella notizia di qualche mese fa di una vulnerabilità insita nelle specifiche del DNS (Domain Name System), scoperta da Dan Kaminsky, che permetteva di alterare il funzionamento del DNS stesso in modo da fornire agli utenti delle “traduzioni” sbagliate e quindi far credere agli utenti di stare visitando un sito fidato? Questa falla [...]

Two studies came out today touting the conclusion that the multiple types of home networking technologies will not compete with one another, but will happily co-exist within the home. I, on the other hand, am beginning to think that Wi-Fi will take the lion’s share of the market and edge all others into one-trick pony status, à la Bluetooth for headsets. Cisco’s investment yesterday into WiFi-based wireless video transfer company Celeno Communications just drives this ...

When a company builds a web site in the real world, they assemble servers, routers, switches, load balancers and firewalls, wire them up, configure them and go live. But when that application moves into a cloud environment, things change. In a cloud model, the customer isn’t dealing with physical equipment. So who handles all the wiring? And more importantly, how do networking vendors get paid? Many operational clouds still require their customers to corral their ...

An interesting example of how consumer-driven innovation and Enterprise Edge strategies are inspiring new ways to connect with markets, networks and communities of users can be seen in the latest move by Cisco's enterprise edge strategy to use "brandstreaming" for marketing campaigns. Here, RWW describes what Brandstreaming is and who is doing it. The example that caught my eye was Cisco's approach to Brandstreaming. Cisco worked with Pheedo to apply the consumer oriented life-streaming social ...

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Motorola has divided itself into three units, rather than two. In March Motorola said it would spin off its handset business in the wake of poor performance. Now, according to WSJ, it has further split its units into: a set-top-box and home-networking business, a networking gear business, and the handset business. Analysts view the move as a precursor to selling those divisions, although the company denied this in ...

Seedcamp, la iniciativa para promover el espíritu empresarial en Europa promovida por Saul Klein de Skype, ha anunciado nuevos asesores. Seedcamp culmina con una semana de trabajo y creación de redes sociales a la que se invita a 20 compañías que preferiblemente no hayan recibido financiación aún. Los nuevos asesores anunciados son: Michael Birch de Bebo, Kevin Cornils de Buy.at, Jyri Engeström de Jaiku, Martin Stiksel de Last.fm, Brent Hoberman de Lastminute.com, Marten Mickos de ...