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robboyd — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:03:42 CDT

"Technology you can use from Geeks you can Trust" - TechWiseTV

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RSA 2009

robboyd — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:05:30 CDT

Jimmy Ray and Robb are taping and presenting for 3 days from the Expo Floor - April 21, 22, 23

Register for both the TechWiseTV live 'pre-show' AND the John Chambers Key Note

TechWiseTV LIVE from RSA 2009, San Francisco
“Collaborate with Confidence”

Join Cisco’s TechWiseTV team LIVE for an engaging romp through the security problems, solutions and expert guests. Every hour on the hour- a new topic will discussed, debated and demonstrated.
Meet Valerie St. John, Robb Boyd and Chief Geek Jimmy Ray Purser from TechWiseTV and a bevy of really smart security geeks.
Don’t miss the Wednesday LIVE Show! (April 22) - STREAM LOCATION TO BE ANNOUNCED

TWTV 45 'Crime Still Pays' which will air on May 21 is being taped LIVE from RSA on April 22 from 1:45 to 2:45. We are the 'opening act' before John Chambers keynote from RSA is streamed on that same channel.

Our current outline:

Segment 1: Is Morality Limiting Your Profit Potential?
Pat Peterson, Cisco Fellow and IronPort security researcher joins us as we discuss the most alarming technical advancements made by bots like Conficker and how the lucrative nature of organized crime in this area if fueling incredible innovation.

Segment 2: The Architectural Approach to Modern Security Issues
The long vaunted and widely appreciated SAFE network documentation has been updated to reflect the architectural realities needed for todays threat. We reveal the latest changes and dive into the Campus Edge module to highlight examples of changes in both technology and philosophy.

Segment 3: Polymorphism and the Failure of Deep Packet Inspection
It is amazing how many professionals don’t fully understand and appreciate just how much the lowly browser has evolved. The hidden interaction with thousands of different processes located all over the world present a streamlined and easy interface the user but hide the true security risk of what is happening on the backside. Kevin Kennedy from IronPort draws it out for us and explains what can be addressed.

Segment 4: Is the Firewall Dead?
The traditional firewall is certainly dead but the role it plays in the network has simply evolved to the new reality. Jimmy Ray dissects some very interesting updates to the Cisco ASA (Adaptive Security Appliance) and provides valuable ‘rules to live by’.

We are also hosting a bevy of security geeks on the Cisco Stage from the show floor for 3 straight days - 16 presentations! Here is the current outline:

Tuesday, April 21, 2009
11:15 AM - Siva Mandalam, Director of Product Management, IOS & Router Security	"Extending the Office Experience"	Do you wish that you could eliminate your commute to the office? Are you looking for ways to improve workforce productivity? Are you doing your part to be a green citizen? As businesses find answers to these questions, remote workers, and associated security risks, are becoming more prevalent. This session discusses the challenges, technologies, and benefits of bringing the office to the home.
12:00 - Martin Pueblas	SAFE v2.0	SAFE is BACK! SAFE v1 rocked the security world with the first end to end architecture illustrating exactly how a proven, tested, 'defense in depth' strategy could be deployed throughout the network. SAFE v2 brings this vital model up to date for dealing with marriage of the latest threats AND the latest technologies for addressing them.
1:00 - Greg Carter	“A Holistic Approach to Information Security Risk and Compliance”	The two most critical and interrelated challenges facing Information Technology decision makers today are how to manage information security risk from rapidly evolving and increasingly sophisticated information security threats, and how to comply with a myriad of compliance obligations, all with limited available resources. The answer for more and more companies is to address Information Security within a comprehensive IT Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (GRC) program. And companies that have implemented IT GRC programs are realizing dramatic business value from them. Using an IT GRC program to address information security allows an IT organization to identify, implement, and audit against a single set of security controls that comprehensively address all of their security and compliance requirements. Not only does this allow companies to maximize their information security risk reduction with available resources, but it can greatly reduce the cost of compliance Learn how Cisco Security Services can assist you in using an IT GRC program to effectively and efficiently address your information security risk and compliance challenges.
2:00 - Kevin Kennedy, Product Manager, IronPort Web Security Appliance	"Today's Web Threats Don't Discriminate"	Yesterday's defenses are no longer effective in the fight against today's sophisticated Web threats. The shift from viruses and worms to exploited legitimate sites, more unique pieces of malware, and the growth of social networking sites are forcing businesses to put up new defenses. These types of attacks do not discriminate and even the smallest IT security organization needs to defend their users. These new threats require more sophisticated, intelligent protection. Traditional signature and list based desktop defenses have migrated to the gateway, along with the latest in Web reputation and Web traffic scanning services. We will discuss: · The Latest Web threats - Botsites and Exploited Legitimate sites · Best practices in Web and data security, malware protection and enforcement of acceptable use policies · How organizations of any size can protect themselves
3:00 - Matt Kaneko and Laure Andrieux	"Secure Remote Access"	The industry's most integrated and versatile remote access/VPN solution. For organizations looking for an advanced VPN appliance that provides a wide range of connectivity options, endpoints, OS, and protocol support, while ensuring in-depth, granular security through posture assessment, data encryption, traffic inspection, and malware protection, Cisco Secure Remote Access offers a high-performance solution that will help companies optimize productivity and collaboration. With strong feature capabilities in security, mobility, and connectivity, Cisco Secure Remote Access is simple to deploy, offers multi-level authentication and access policies, and integrates both clientless and client-based remote access in one solution."
4:00 - Mei Huang, Product Marketing Manager	"Increased Threat Protection for SMB's with IPS Technology"	SMBs need strong security above and beyond a simple firewall. Technologies such as IPS used to be relegated only to large companies with security-savvy administrators. With the introduction of hardware-accelerated IPS on the Cisco ASA 5505, SMBs now can implement IPS in a cost-effective, easy-to-implement solution using the IPS Manager Express. This session will discuss best practices for IPS in SMBs.
5:00 - Nick Edwards	"Email Security"	Hosted, Hybrid-hosted, and Managed Email Security solutions from Cisco IronPort provide customers the ability to choose the solution that is suitable for their business needs based on technology from the industry leader in email security. • Reduce overhead and speed deployment with Cisco IronPort Hosted Email Security • Hybrid Hosted Email Security Divided control, on premise and in the cloud • Managed Email Security: Out tasking Email Security, On premise equipment
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

41 Application Bottleneck

robboyd — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:25:05 CST

Breaking the Application Bottleneck
January 15, 2009

Check out the official show page for more info and registration

Segment 1 - Application Fluency
Cisco has made many acquisitions and rolled out many improvements within the group casually referred to as the Application Delivery Business Unit. With the premiere products being offered in this group as both ACE, the Application Control Engine and WAAS, the Wide Area Application Services product, confusion reigns supreme. Since these are NOT mutually exclusive products, we thought it best to chat a bit about what these technologies offer and how one might use them in a complimentary fashion to improve a great many ills of today's network. As we seek to re-centralize our applications moving them physically further away from the very people that need them most...it is the intelligence these devices offer that will have users thinking they are running them locally.

Segment 2 - WAAS Ease of Deployment
The benefits of application acceleration have often been overshadowed by perceptions of a difficult implementation. Elizabeth McKoin Consulting Engineer from Cisco's Channel Organization walks us through the new WAAS optimization code with a complete soup to nuts installation on both the host and remote ends to illustrate how many improvements have been made to make this an easy to use product set.

Segment 3 - ACE with James Schultz
James Schultz is our engineering guest from Cisco's Data Center Applications group to help us dive deeper on the unique aspects of the Cisco ACE - Application Control Engine. Join us as we discuss and whiteboard the unique aspects of ACE including installation, configuration, and little known benefits of transparent integration, virtualization and no-headache, pay-as-you-go software upgrades.

Three Faces of ACE:
1. Next Generation of server load balancer
2. Application Acceleration through standards based optimization of the HTTP protocol using unique technology from the Fineground acquisition and ported over from what Cisco created with the AVS 3110, AVS 3120.
3. Security - stateful firewalling as a 'last line of defense'

Segment 4 - ACE and WAAS, Lets Meet the New Couple
Gabriel Dixon from Cisco's Enterprise Solutions Engineering Team (DCAP - Data Center Assurance Program for Applications) walks us through the real world applications testing Cisco does with customer specific lab deployments. The results of testing the actual applications that customers will be seeking to improve through Cisco hardware is a benefit that many vendors cannot offer. Technical documentation that illustrates the inside story from both the application and the network perspective is shared so that customers should only have to 'follow the recipe.'
Specfic applications referenced include Microsoft Sharepoint, Microsoft Exchange 2007 and Oracle as just a few examples.

Valerie catches up with David Major from Learning at Cisco to talk about the new Wireless CCIE offering.

www.cisco.com/go/dcap

David Major, Learning at Cisco
Wireless CCIE
cisco.com/go/learnnetspace

Advanced Services Offering
PDIOO Services Available for both ACE and WAAS
cisco.com/go/dcservices

42 EnergyWise

robboyd — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:32:00 CST

Network Energy Efficiency: The New Frontier
Air Date: February 19, 2009

Not Easy Being Green -But it may be essential as spiraling power costs force IT managers to address power consumption

The Greening of the Data Center (eWeek)
10 Simple Steps to a Green Data Center (CIO Insight)
How Green Data Centers Save Money (CIO)
Seven Steps to a Green Data Center (Computerworld)
Data center designers share secrets for going green (Network World)

Great Video on Cisco's Green Initiatives from ZDNet

"Organizations must change the way they build and manage their data centers or they will face a crisis fueled by the increasing divergence between rapid performance gains in server computing and far slower advances in energy advances" writes Eric Chabrow based on warnings by Kenneth Brill of the Uptime Institute.

Overview:

The topic of green can mean so many things to so many different people. Two things we can agree to:
1. We are all tired of hearing about green and have become skeptical of the motivations that drive many of its references.
2. The reality of the costs and potential consequences are all too real and have to be faced across the entire network.

Green remains the quick and easy term to use. We, as an industry, can now start revealing the actual wood behind the arrow. The 'goal oriented' side of the tangible green initiatives that can and should be weighed into your decisions.

"Tough economic times are forcing examination of all cost reduction options"

If financial disaster looms as many predict - how can we:

Simplify the green message
Focus on the actionable things that will truly make a difference
Arm you for the inevitable discussions with your senior stakeholders
Reveal the challenges and the solutions for making 'green based' decisions
What are the missing elements in an average IT department?
Can't we just turn more stuff off? This overly simple solution may work in some situations, but may actually increase waste in others. We tell you what to look for, what to consider.
Reveal incredible new tools that will allow you to visualize your energy expenditures.
Share the actions and results of companies that are trailblazing these paths already.
What can and should you do now?
What should you NOT do now?

Segment 1: Burned out on Green
Robb and Jimmy Ray discuss the over-marketed term of ‘green’ in their sincere hope that you as the viewer will have a full appreciation for the incredible technology being revealed in the following segments. Rob Aldrich, aka ‘Mr. Green’ joins us on set to address the elephant in the room whenever networking folks talk about energy efficiency: the data center. We need to broaden the discussion. Funny thing is, many in the industry have done just the opposite. They seek to attach some 'green wash' to their name through entertaining guerrilla marketing tactics but have so narrowed their focus that they are emphasizing things that don't matter that much isolation and run the real risk of losing sight of the forest, (staring too hard at one or two trees).

Segment 2: Pound Wise But Penny Foolish?
We continue to broaden the discussion around energy by revealing surprising statistics surrounding the actual energy consumed by various devices. We talk about the power of free tools like EEM (Cisco Embedded Event Manager) to automate the seemingly simple act of shutting down unused devices on a regular basis. We then introduce John Parello, one of the original architects of Cisco’s revolutionary EnergyWise software. John illustrates how the power and distribution of IOS can now drive much higher levels of control and finesse for customers both on the network devices themselves and anything that can be attached. We dive into the code and gets hands on with the command line to make sure all this stuff is a reality.

Segment 3: The Big Picture with EnergyWise
John Parello joins us once again to give us a sneak peak at the incredible GUI interface this team has been developing is where things really get exciting. Although some parts of the interface may change by the time we air, innovative views of the energy usage across multiple domains becomes abundantly clear and easier to digest.

Segment 4: Design for Efficiency
John Parello, architect of EnergyWise and our good friend Rob Aldrich join us in our final segment to bring it all together. The new design aspects enabled by EnergyWise are all pulled together here as we can now see how this notion of a “Sustainable Network Framework’ can now work. The not so subtle changes and opportunities for network engineers to continue to differentiate themselves with a solid understanding of how to maximize energy efficiency is also debated.

40 Switching Secrets

robboyd — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:07:34 CST

Switching Secrets for Multimedia
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Air: December 18, 2008

*This episode has set ALL NEW ATTENDANCE records and although specifics cannot be shared in this forum, the team has completely reset expectations for what a corporate, virtual event can do to touch customers. Please share your thoughts about this show (good and bad) by opening a discussion thread at the bottom of this page.

Big Geek Props to:

CMO Network Systems Marketing:

Jennifer Geisler, Berna Devrim, Rob Sloan

On the 'Deeply Technical' side:

Kevin Decato, Faraz Aladin and of course, Carl Solder

Links:
Cisco.com/go/switching
The Video Ready Campus
Cisco Catalyst 6500 Switch Series

Segment 1
"A Switch is just a Switch, Right?"

Introduce the changes switches have undergone
Review/Whiteboard:

GOLD: Generic Online Diagnostics
IP SLA
IP SLA and NetFow - Marriage made in heaven?

What makes a switch TRULY stackable? (Fixed Focus)

Whiteboard
3750E Demo
Stackwise
Smart Multicast

Segment 2
Core Security (Modular Focus)

Introduce Carl Solder
PISA - Programmable Intelligent Services Accelerator

PISA and Netflow
Show and Tell: PISA with SUP 32 Card
Demo: Applying a Policy

Reverse Path Forwarding (Fixed and Modular)
Control Plane Policing

Segment 3
Redundancy

Carl Solder still with us
VSS Virtual Switching System

Whiteboard
Hardware Demo
Virtual Switch Link
Carl's five biggest advantages of VSS in your network

5. Reduced administrative overhead
4. Consolidate Configuration
3. Multi-Chassis Etherchannel
2. Improved Availability and Resilience
1. Eliminate Spanning Tree

EEM - Embedded Event Manager (Carl's handiwork...)

Segment 4:
Switch and Network Design for Rich Media

Carl Solder still with us
Edge/Distro/Core...Fabric

Security
Redundancy
Performance

8 Hardware QOS queues
Delivering 10GB
30W PoE

Cisco Learning Network update from Venita Valencia, Community Manager for Learning at Cisco

Featured Links:

Job board update
CCIE wireless
News & Events page

JANUARY 13, 2009:
INTERACT LIVE WITH CARL AND JIMMY RAY
Attend the Embedded Event Manager (EEM) Workshop: Tap Into a Higher Level of Network Consciousness with EEM.
Interact live with both Jimmy Ray and Carl Solder.

Special Guest, Carl Solder
Carl has been in the I.T. industry for 24 years and currently serves as a Distinguished Technical Marketing Engineer (DTME) with the Campus Switching Systems Technology Group (CSSTG).

Carl has been with Cisco nearly 13 years of which the last 6 years has been with the CSSTG as a TME working predominantly on the Catalyst 6500 platform. Prior to this he worked as a Consulting Systems Engineer with the Asia Pac Core Technology Group in Singapore providing technical marketing support for the Catalyst switching product line for all countries in the Asia Pac region. His initial tenure in Cisco was working as a field Systems Engineer in Australia focusing on Routers Switches, Security and Voice.

Prior to working with Cisco, Carl worked at IBM for 11 years. During this time he worked in a number of areas including applications and systems programming, systems engineering and consulting primarily in the area of Mainframe, LAN communications and storage subsystems..

Carl has a Bachelors degree with a double major in Programming and Systems Analysis from Curtin University in Western Australia. In 1999 Carl was awarded the inaugural "Top SE" for the entire Asia Pac theater. He also completed his CCIE certification within a year of joining Cisco and is currently an active member of the 10 year CCIE club.

Jonas Tichenor

robboyd — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:09:35 CST

Jonas Tichenor, Host of TechWiseTV
Episodes 1 - 35

Jonas joined the Cisco Interaction Network as host of Techwise TV in August of 2006. His experience as anchor for the show comes from an award-winning career in the world of broadcast journalism. Jonas began as a writer and producer for the FOX affiliate in Tampa Bay in 1996. He quickly became an on-air talent and started to climb the ranks and markets of news until being signed as a NBC Network news reporter in the highly desirable San Francisco Bay Area. Jonas is the recipient of several Associated Press awards, two Edward R. Murrow Awards for broadcast excellence, he is an Emmy Award winner and 9 times Emmy Award nominee.

39 Collaboration

robboyd — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:44:16 CST

"Pushing the Boundaries of Collaboration"
Air Date: November 20, 2008 at 1 PM EST/10 AM PST

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Collaboration – people sharing ideas and working together – is as essential to business success as great products and loyal customers. Innovative collaboration technologies, such as Web 2.0 and social networking applications, are transforming the way people communicate. These tools deliver a rich, immediate experience for their users, and often become indispensable parts of daily activity. However, when people go to work these same technologies can represent disruption – or even a threat – to their employers. Increasingly, businesses and their IT organizations struggle to close the gap between meeting users’ high expectations of an ideal communication experience and the business realities of protecting intellectual property and maintaining compliance.

Reconciling the openness and spontaneity of consumer collaboration environments with the business’ need for compliance and security is just one factor driving executives’ focus on collaboration. Businesses must meet this challenge because these new collaboration applications represent a fundamental change in the world’s social fabric – and therefore, in the culture of companies, their customers, partners, and suppliers. Collaboration is not limited to internal activities. It can dramatically improve businesses’ abilities to manage their demand and supply chains. In recent remarks to the industry, Cisco CEO John Chambers pointed out that collaboration will drive the next wave of corporate productivity – ultimately driving incremental gross domestic product growth.

Depending on the specific needs of their businesses, there are now ways to allow the openness and spontaneity that employees have come to expect while preserving the integrity of business operations. This episode of TechWiseTV brings you the best of the best - our top 3 technologies reshaping the world of collaboration:

Segment 1: The Collaboration Imperative - what is driving this change and how should it be dealt with?
Robb & Jimmy Ray debate the state of technology driven collaboration and set up the Top 3 Technologies to Watch in this space

Cisco & Collaboration

Segment 2: Federated Presence - Dissolving Walls
Guest: Dave Lizotte, Solutions Architect for Cisco's Advanced Services Team

Eric Krapf at NoJitter writes about the challenges in true federation
See Dave Lizotte's Blog Entry on Federation

Segment 3: Telepresence Gets Personal, and affordable
Guest: Nathan Shaw, TME with the Telepresence Business Unit

Segment 4: Webex: Not just another Pretty Face
Guest: David Knight, Director of Product Management for Webex
- What about the hidden value of the network running behind the scenes? Turns out Webex has a ton of cool engineering going on...'case study' in building a dedicated multi-media focused network: MediaTone.
- What has happened with Webex Connect lately?

Media Tone Activity - ever wonder what it would look like to see all the 'collaborative' Webex' meetings occurring in real-time?
Webex Connect Overview - very nice job on this one...these are usually boring. I think this one is highly informative and interesting.

Have you checked out the Cisco Learning Network yet? Say Hi to our friend Venita for us...she and the other community managers are there to help you maximize this incredible site for Cisco Geeks.

38 Accel Virtual Machines

robboyd — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:09:41 CST

Episode 38: Accelerating Virtual Machines

Air Date: October 23, 2008

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At a Glance:
Server virtualization can easily be classified as among the most impactful changes to have occured in IT in recent years. Almost every organization of every size has found measurable benefit. New technologies bring new capabilities and new challenges that must be addressed as things mature. The real benefits are present only when one can go from simply virtualizing servers to actually virtualizing the infrastructure. Network virtualization has often been talked about as the most logical place to address current shortcomings but only now has this become a reality. The true benefits of mobility, visibility security, and a re-establishment of control over the network and its resources can now be realized.

Technical Workshop: November 6 @ 10 AM PST

Title: Charge your Application Performance with WAAS

Jimmy Ray dives deeper on WAAS advancements with TechWiseTV engineering favorite, Noam Syrkin

Segmentation:

Segment 1: The Pros and Cons of Virtualization

Top 5 Obstacles slowing down the benefits of Server Virtualization

Segment 2: Virtual Ports Eliminate Roadblocks

Guest: Dan Hersey, TME
More info from Doug Gourlay on the Cisco Data Center Blog - nice little video update from Barcelona
Nice write up from Colin McNamara

Segment 3: Application Acceleration Gets Virtualized

Guest: Noam Syrkin, TME "King of WAAS"
Windows on WAAS - great entry on our Data Center Blog

Segment 4: Virtualization Assessment, Planning, and Design Services

Guest: Dev Patel, Business Development Manager

At a Glance:
Server virtualization can easily be classified as among the most impactful changes to have occured in IT in recent years. Almost every organization of every size has found measurable benefit. New technologies bring new capabilities and new challenges that must be addressed as things mature. The real benefits are present only when one can go from simply virtualizing servers to actually virtualizing the infrastructure. Network virtualization has often been talked about as the most logical place to address current shortcomings but only now has this become a reality. The true benefits of mobility, visibility security, and a re-establishment of control over the network and its resources can now be realized.

In this episode, we will fully define, explore and diagram the:

The benefits of server virtualization
Specific challenges that must be overcome to accelerate those benefits beyond their current limitations
Joint innovation from Cisco and VMware from over and above (as well as inside) the hypervisor layer
Virtualization for application specific acceleration
Acceleration of SSL

37 Redefining the Remote Office

robboyd — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:20:55 CDT

Redefining the Remote Office

Available for Replay NOW

Air Date: October 2, 2008

Show Segmentation:
Segment 1: Technology & Efficiency Options abound for 'The Office'

Great information available on Cisco Virtual Office

Ramesh Bijor covers Energy Efficiency using EEM taped at CiscoLive!

Segment 2:Validated Architectural Design with guest Ivan Oprencak

More info on Branch Office Design/Technology
Access the CVD Design Tools NOW!

Segment 3: Astounding Flexibility for Application Integration with the AXP

Developer Community
Robb & Jimmy Ray talk about AXP

Segment 4: Micro Office without compromise enabled by the ISR 881

Learning@Cisco Segment: Cisco Learning Network Site Demo
CiscoLive interview with Reggie Nolasco on new Cisco Learning Network
(www.cisco.com/go/learnnetspace)

Looking for more security stuff?
Don't miss the Cisco IT Security Forum coming on November 12, 2008
More information: www.cisco.com/go/securityforum

At a Glance:
Today – we drill into the bits and bytes of creative technologies driving change for the remote office – whether that is an office you drive to or walk to.

What can you expect from this show?

• The trends that are driving innovation in the branch and flexibility for our most expensive assets – our people.
• How can we enable employees to spend less time ‘getting to work’ so that more time can be used to ‘do the work.’
• Increased confidence that advanced technologies can be successfully integrated into platforms that are easier to deploy and manage.
• We introduce the incredibly useful Cisco Validated Design Guides and get a personal walk through from the lead engineer for this ambitious project.
• We will explore the incredible openness of Cisco’s AXP – Application Extension Platform that is revolutionizing what can be done with a router.
• Why should the home office lack for any technology of an official branch office? We will demonstrate how you can use the new ISR 881 to create a ‘Virtual Office’ where your commute may be reduced to nothing.

Timely Articles/Links

CIN Technology Workshop

(Deeper, Interactive Dive into some of the featured technology)

Register Now!

October 16, 2008 featuring Jimmy Ray!

"Simplify ISR Deployments with Configuration Professional"

Deploying one ISR is not a problem. How about deploying a 1000 of them? Or rolling out new features and audits to multiple sites? Sounds like you my be a candidate for Cisco Configuration Professional. CCP is the latest GUI management and configuration utility for the Cisco ISR product line. Join TechWiseTV's Robb Boyd and Jimmy Ray Purser as they host Cisco's CCP project manager Vikram Rao for an interactive presentation on this ground breaking product.

Jimmy Ray Purser will be conducting a hands on demo putting CCP though its paces doing:

- One Step Security
- VPN Design Wizard
- Graphical summary of router status
- WAN/VPN troubleshooting

This WebEx session is for network and security administrators and channel partners that are looking to quickly and easily deploy the ISR to take advantage of integrated services such as dynamic routing, WAN access, WLAN, firewall, VPN, SSL VPN, Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), quality of service (QoS) and router-based Unified Communications solutions.

Bonus Material!

Dive deeper into the vertical applications that bring the AXP value to life: RETAIL, GOVERNMENT, HEALTHCARE and FINANCIAL SERVICES. The recordings of a very popular web series can be replayed here.

36 Energy Efficiency in the Data Center

robboyd — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:47:46 CDT

Taping: July 9, 2008 Air Date: August 21, 2008 Watch the Replay Now!	Doug Gourlay, Senior Director of Cisco's Data Center Technology group talks about consolidation in the data center and tools you can use to make your data center more energy efficient.
Links: For the Energy Efficiency Program: www.cisco.com/go/datacenter VMware EMC The Green Grid www.apc.com www.apc.com/campaigns/ee www.datacenteruniversity.com

News:
New York Times: Demand for Data puts Engineers in the Spotlight
New York Times: Telcos Demand Greener Network Equipment
InfoWorld: Under pressure: 10 sources pushing CIOs to go green

Draft Agenda:
Segment 1: Identify and measure the true offenders
Segment 2: Mr. Green, Rob Aldrich Whiteboarding the Innovation
Segment 3: Special guest, EMC illustrates the greener side of storage
Segment 4: VMware serves up new efficiency gains from your servers

Guests:
Rob Aldrich, Senior Manager, Data Center Solutions, Cisco

Rob recently joined Cisco after spending 10 years in facilities design, deployment and management. Rob has architected the power and cooling design for more than 20 enterprise class data centers in North America and the Asia Pacific region. His current role at Cisco involves working with Cisco IT and the Data Center product engineering teams to drive the "Green" agenda at Cisco as part of Cisco's sponsorship of the Clinton Global Initiative.

John Morley, Director of the EMC Executive Briefing Center
Rey Gonzalez, Senior Manager, EMC's IT Operation
Rob Smoot, Group Product Marketing Manager, VMWare

Show Description:
Energy Efficiency in the Data Center
Thursday, August 21, 2008, 10–11 a.m. Pacific Time, 1–2 p.m. Eastern Time

Call it the dirty little secret of the digital age. When it comes to energy waste and greenhouse gas emissions, data centers are among the world’s biggest offenders. Most physical servers run at only about 10% to 15% utilization, yet can consume almost as much energy as at peak usage. Every watt of data center electricity consumption requires an additional watt just for cooling. And right now, the unutilized servers in the U.S. alone emit more carbon dioxide each year than the entire country of Thailand.

Regardless of the environmental impact, saving energy in your data center can provide substantial green benefits in the form significant cost savings. And, with data centers projected to continue expanding and the cost of energy mushrooming, this is becoming a critical priority for today’s IT professionals.

Learn the five practical steps you can take right now to reduce your energy consumption without buying any new hardware. Discover the tools you need to monitor, measure, and manage your data center energy usage more efficiently at the new Cisco Efficiency Assurance Program (EAP) website. Find out how much energy you can actually save with consolidation and virtualization plus the added benefits they provide. This 60-minute video broadcast will also reveal:

• The benefits of power management
• How to make servers more energy-efficient
• The critical importance of your network architecture
• How to address management and security issues when implementing virtualization
• How tiered storage can eliminate redundant data and further reduce costs

WAAS

robboyd — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:58:22 CDT

TechNotes: WAAS - Ease of Installation

Taped July 9, 2008
Guest: Elizabeth McKoin, Consutling Systems Engineer

Links: WAAS at Cisco

From the Data Center Blog

19 Empowering Branch Offices

robboyd — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:04:23 CDT

Original Air Date: June 7, 2007

Cisco Unified Video Advantage (CUVA)
Unified Meeting Place/Meeting Place Express
Unified Personal Communicator (CUPC)
Emerging Technology: Telepresence

31 Web 2.0

robboyd — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:57:11 CDT

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Applying Web 2.0 to your Business Challenges
Air Date: April 3 @ 10 AM PST

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Segment 1 - The Revolution

Multiple forces are creating big change in how business gets done. Don Tapscott author of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything identifies four drivers of change in this new ‘collaborative’ economy.

Segment 2 -Consumer Driven Change & Your Business

Robert Scoble, Managing Director of FastCompany.TV, & author of Naked Conversations

Scobleizer Blog

Jeremiah Owyang, Senior Analyst on Social Computing and Interactive Marketing at Forrester Research

Web Strategy Blog
Watch and listen as they reveal how businesses will use social computing and web strategy to keep up and get ahead.

Segment 3 - WebEx Connect

David Knight, Senior Director of WebEx Connect illustrates incredible NEW Web 2.0 capabilities that are redefining how business can collaborate inside and outside the organization to get things done.

Other Links:
Web 2.0 Defined in Wikipedia
(Video) Cisco Media Solutions Group: The Story behind the Story
Several people have written about how to find 'Dopplr' - its all in the spelling.... www.dopplr.com

Show Overview:
Goal: To educate the technical and business marketplace on how mass collaboration and social networking is fundamentally changing how business is done today.

We are in the middle of a revolution.

Social networking is exploding : MySpace, Facebook, new blogs every second of the day.

Web 2.0 by Michael Wesch

But are these the revolution itself? Or simply the more obvious indicators to something much deeper and more meaningful. As you will soon find out, Traditional mainstays of corporate architecture and business models are fundamentally changing – how wecreate goods and services, how we create wealth and how we innovate. Literally new modes of production where you can either acknowledge and adapt or ignore and potentially perish.

It’s always difficult to tell when you are in the middle of a change. A revolution can sneak up on you even when all the elements are right in front of you. The ‘dots’ are all right there…but it’s not always easy to connect them. There is a tendency to look at the evidence and dismiss it as ‘not applicable’ to me…to my situation, to my business model.

But to dismiss the evidence is to put the firm at risk. Smart companies are encouraging rather than fighting this change as they harness mass collaboration to create real value and enjoy phenomenal success as a result.

This show is about:
- Connecting the dots.
- Providing you with the evidence of profound change to the traditional business model as well as to the very fabric of our economy.
- Seeing past the irrational exuberance that characterized the first wave of innovation on the web to clearly see the fundamental change being wrought not just by new start-ups but by traditional firms as well.
- Truly witness the perfect storm of business needs and technological innovation.
- Not getting distracted by the noise of the early adopters and miss the implications of tools like blogs, wikis, and social websites.
- Go beyond terminology such as ‘peering’, ‘openness,’ ‘collaboration and social networking’ and not just define them but provide evidence and provoke thought for how they can be applied to your business.
- We will hear from Don Tapscott, author of Wikinomics as he identifies four drivers of change in this new ‘collaborative’ economy.
- We will talk to Jeremiah Owyang from Forrester Research who specializes in social computing and web strategy.
- We engage with the always outspoken Robert Scoble, Managing Director of Fast Company.tv and author of Naked Conversations, How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses talk with Customers.
- Tools you can get started with today including a thought provoking conversation with David Knight, VP of Product Development with WebEx connect.

Summary
The possibilities of new business models enabled by the lowered cost of collaboration, peer production and self-organizing platforms herald new opportunities never before imagined. The ‘Not Invented Here’ mantra has been supplanted by a rally cry that brags about doing things in new ways. This is obviously no passing fad. Change runs deep and nobody will be left unaffected. The question now is What do you do about it? Do you steadfastly claim that your situation is unique and therefore ‘does not apply.’ Or do you make moves now to revolutionize before you are cannibalized?

Today we bring in the big guns, the true thought leaders that can help us understand the technology available and the game plans we can employ.

Couple of Nice Comments we Received about the Show - got any others?

"Good Programming - I have a small IT Frim in simi valley. I can see this as a value"
"excellent! I like the new host"
WebEx is great!!!
As I am newer to WebEx, I got great information to add to my talk track.
Great presentation. Ken H
Fantastic show I've learned so much and my global initiative will be so much stronger after seeing this WEBEX! Sincerely Christopher J.
the presentation is great, and love to hear more about the Cisco strategies in addtion to the WebEx. Will Cisco become a stronger player in the future?

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CSA

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AXP

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Cisco's Application Extension Platform

35 Contact Center

robboyd — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:49:19 CDT

Episode 35

Great note from Cliff who works at Cisco partner Forsythe:

Seriously, I can share a couple of ideas on deployments we've done.

1. Customers seem to routinely underestimate the training requirements for their OWN people needed to own and operate an IPCC system. Personally, if they aren't arranging training or purchasing day 2 support from someone, serious consideration should be given to not doing the deal.

2. One of the big requests that is under served by Cisco documentation is statistics display. Traditional Call Centers will have a board showing information about calls in the queue, etc. With the advent of the real time reporting tool, you can use a projector or plasma screen as a workstation display, and set up a report on a 10 second refresh to project this information. It can actually be done cheaper than the purchase of a traditional wallboard. There is code on the Netpro forums for building your own wallboards in this manner that can be used with IPCC Express.

3. We have one customer who has asked us to implement a solution to provide them a way to redirect inbound calls to different numbers based on the number that is initiating the call to a message that says "go away and don't call back". The specific need is a former employee that calls in to senior executives. They have MGCP gateways, and we realized by routing the calls through the IVRs with a in and out (IVR never actually speaks to the caller) that you could do some quick and easy call screening/call redirection based on a database lookup.

Just a few thoughts. Love your work. You're the "Larry the Cable Guy of Cisco"!!!

Cliff McGlamry

179 TrustSec

robboyd — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:13:10 CDT

Podcast Episode 179

Release Date: August 7, 2008

Further Reading: Cisco TrustSec Whitepaper

I don’t have the details on what Cisco has invested over the years to get to this point but we are now starting to see the fruits of their labor become public as the very foundation of how network security is implemented from the ground up. What I am referring to is TrustSec. To fully grasp the enormity of the change being moved on here - lets remind ourselves of how security has been traditionally handled: We had a perimeter whereby everything inside was deemed good and everything outside: bad. simply really. Except for two things: the perimeter has dissolved for all the reasons we are already familiar with AND compliance issues among many others have forced us (quite reasonably of course) to distrust internal users. As an industry we have attempted to solve these new challenges by getting better at examining application flows, implementing policy by looking at traffic...but in general, still fighting the often losing battle of determining role by LOCATION. We fundamentally understand however that a far more accurate determination of role would be by the PERSON of course.

Cisco TrustSec re-factors the problem very creatively. The architecture encompasses these ideas:

1. Make the enterprise network more trustable (increase the confidence about the data that has transited the network);

2. When traffic enters the network tag each packet with an identifier that signifies what is known about it and do so in a way that most directly reflects how that data can be trusted.

3. Filter the data on exit from the network (e.g., at the point the network connects to a server) by acting on the tags.

Simple right? It is an ambitious undertaking as it encompasses technology changes that must be standardized across every device on the network. This is done by making changes to the ethernet packet itself. I told you this was a ground up change. So who better to ask about security and ethernet...than our very own packet monkey, Jimmy Ray.

178 ISC2

robboyd — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:10:06 CDT

Podcasts Episode 178

Release Date: July 31, 2008

Technology Certifications are often one of the only ways we can distinguish ourselves in such a complex industry - at least on paper. Jimmy Ray may have stopped for the free t-shirt but he stayed for the conversation and we got it on tape. Elise Yacobelli outlines some of the bigger changes for re-certs, minimum qualifications and more.

177 VMware Security

robboyd — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:09:04 CDT

Podcast Episode 177

Release Date: July 24, 2008

VMsafe is an interface allowing security vendors to protect virtual machines without having to install agents inside each guest operating system.

While security products like antivirus will still have to install inside a dedicated VM, they will be able to monitor what's happening inside other virtual machines from a completely new perspective: the hypervisor level.

This will allow checking which traffic is entering or leaving a VM, or even which data is being executed inside it (looking at CPU states, memory pages and OS processes list). All done in a transparent way.

When you think about it, this revolutionary approach has two remarkable benefits: first of all it saves precious physical resources and management efforts without duplicating the same security agent inside each guest OS, secondarily it prevents the security agents from being directly attacked and possibly disabled.