Welcome to the November issue of bloxNews™, the official monthly newsletter covering issues in Core Network Services.
 
     
Issue Highlight: Cricket on DNSSEC  
     
    Exclusive bloxTV™ Interview with Cricket Liu
     A three part series on DNSSEC

  Seeking Alpha: Why Cisco and F5 love VMware and Microsoft
  ESG Report: The Core Network Services Disconnect
  F5's DevCentral: Infrastructure 2.0 Must Include Application Intelligence
 
     
Infoblox News:  
     
    IPAM Webinar — December 4th
  University of Minnesota Deploys Infoblox
  Latest Infoblox Events
  Past issues talk about DNS Security and IPAM
 
     
     
 


A three part series of Cricket Liu interviews on DNSSEC by blogger John Furrier.


IT blogger John Furrier continues with his series of interviews with Cricket Liu by this time talking about DNSSEC, the proposed group of extensions to DNS to enhance security.

bloxTV DNSSEC Episode 1 (8 minutes)
 
 
 
  Seeking Alpha

Why Cisco and F5 love VMware and Microsoft

New enterprise initiatives, including virtualization and cloud computing, will create demands for more innovation and automation in network infrastructure. That¡¯s why Cisco and F5 ought to be very interested in the inroads that VMware and Microsoft make in virtualizing data centers. Virtualization requires a more dynamic infrastructure that can keep up with mobile VMs. Infoblox Senior Director Greg Ness and Lorie MacVittie at F5 Networks call this move from static to dynamic networks Infrastructure 2.0.

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Enterprise Strategy Group Research

The Core Networks Services Disconnect

This paper continues to get downloaded as more discover the challenges faced as networks grow. We¡¯ve highlighted this classic ESG report this month because its findings are even more relevant today than when it was published. This 21 page paper contains easy-to-understand graphs, concise quotes from those interviewed and insightful implications from its interviews with more than 200 networking pros at organizations with more than 1000 employees.

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    F5 DevCentral

Infrastructure 2.0 Must Include Application Intelligence

The Infrastructure 2.0 buzz is picking up at F5s trend-setting DevCentral blog, with Lori MacVittie commenting on the importance of the application layer to a dynamic infrastructure:

“But we also need to consider how to enable agility at the application layer, so the feedback loop that drives security and routing and switching and acceleration and delivery configurations in real-time can adapt to conditions within and around the applications we are trying to manage in the first place.”
By Lori MacVittie

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IPAM Webinar

Take Control of Network TCO by Automating IP Address Management

Larger networks are naturally more expensive to manage, but a recent Computerworld survey surprised many by discovering that large enterprises are paying more per IP address for IPAM. This information-packed webinar will discuss IP address management, IPAM needs and requirements and give you an introductory glimpse at Infoblox's award-winning solution. A live question-and-answer period following the presentation [will also answer questions posed by live attendees].

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    Infoblox Win

University of Minnesota Deploys Infoblox

“With Infoblox, the students don¡¯t need to know their own MAC address, nor do they have to leave their dorm rooms,¡± according to Mike LeVoir, network design engineer at The University of Minnesota. “What used to take 30 minutes now takes seconds, and we moved the process from something cumbersome to something much simpler both for students and the IT department.”

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  Latest Events

Network World IT Roadmap
Washington, D.C.
Dec 16, 2008


It's where you'll hear brilliant IT strategies delivered direct to you from Network World editors six months ahead of outsiders even knowing about it. Where you can meet personally, one-on-one, with an IT all-star to discuss how coming technology will reshape your enterprise. Where you can accomplish a year's worth of vendor analysis among more than two dozen solution providers all in one day.

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  Past Issues

Find out more about DNS security and IP address management (IPAM) in recent issues of bloxNews:

  bloxNews October 2008
  bloxNews September 2008

 
 
 
 
 
     
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